Organization
The Salem Pantry
Organization Overview
The Salem Pantry distributes free food throughout the Northshore. They serve approximately 3,500 individual families a month and have approximately 10,000 visits to their markets. The Salem Pantry operates a warehouse and serves as a cross dock for the Greater Boston Food Banks, serving 19 other pantries and service organizations across the North Shore. To distribute food to the community, the organization has a storefront that is open 20 hours a week, Tuesday through Saturday, and a Mobile Pantry Truck that operates 16 markets a week in Salem and the surrounding communities. Finally, Salem Pantry provides groceries directly to the doors of a number of homebound residents in Salem.
Program is CORI-friendly?
Yes
Languages Accomodated
Spanish, English
Volunteer Activity
Warehouse operations including packing bags of groceries, building pallets, and general cleaning, market storefront operations including greeting guests, guest registration, stocking, checkout, and cleaning, some office work and telephone calls, delivering groceries to home bound guests, mobile market operations including stocking greeting guests, and registering guests.
Volunteer Schedule
Monday through Saturday generally from 7 am to 4 pm, with options to 7:30 pm on Wednesdays.
Other Volunteer Information
A variety of volunteer positions are available, and some may require additional skills. Bilingual language skills are always welcome. 978-552-3954 ext. 104