Vonlunteer Information
- Call the Soup Kitchen office at (973) 267-0709 to arrange to volunteer on a weekday from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. preparing food, serving, and cleaning up. Unfortunately, we rarely have serving opportunities on weekends. You must be 12 years old or older to serve at the Soup Kitchen.
- Make cookies, brownies, cakes, pies, or some other kind of dessert to be served to our guests.
- Make sack lunches for our guests to take away for dinner (i.e. ham and cheese sandwiches, apples, and chips)
- Bake casseroles for the Soup Kitchen to have on hand in case of emergencies.
- Conduct a canned food drive, a juice drive, a paper products drive, or a toiletry drive.
- Collect sleeping bags, blankets, warm coats, mittens, scarves, and new socks.
- Assemble cutlery packets (supplies available through the Soup Kitchen.)
- Donate money to the Soup Kitchen or make a donation of someone else's name (gift certificates are available through the Soup Kitchen office).
- Alert the Soup Kitchen about job opportunities for guests.
- Volunteer special talents such as skilled carpentry, computer technology, ect.
- Specify the Soup Kitchen as a designated recipient of your United Way donation.
- Sign up to be an emergency back up volunteer.
- Organize a work party to come in and clean the kitchen.
- If you have a truck, help us collect food from the Community Food Bank.