Do you love to shop at Costco or Smart and Final? Does the sight of thousands of pounds of food make your heart flutter? The Excelsior Community Food Pantry is looking for some Friday food shoppers, Saturday pantry volunteers, and steering team members who are interested in joining a team of folks who will help with the food-obtaining-operation end of the food pantry.

Friday food shoppers

Must attend a one-hour shopper training and orientation at the SF Food Bank in Potrero Hill to be authorized as a shopper. Shopping dates are every Friday. Shopping takes about one hour (often less). Shoppers need to be able to lift and move boxes with maximum weights equal to approximately 24 cans. (Food packages are placed on rolling carts, so shoppers do not need to carry packages very far or for very long.) We recommend that two people shop together to assist with lifting the occasional 50-lb. bag and with food selection decisions.

Email the food pantry to sign up, or for more info! If you’re not ready to commit quite yet, please talk to us about shopping with one of our authorized shoppers next month to see what it’s like!

Saturday pantry volunteers
Volunteers set up food pantry, hand out food, and clean up afterwards. It’s easy and fun! We need volunteers from 10 am to about 12:30 pm. Please email us or RSVP on Facebook if you are interested. We welcome volunteer groups. Please email us to set up a date.

Help drive a pantry
ECFP is forming a steering team of people who want to help shape the vision of this ongoing community-building mission. We will meet once a month to talk about the immediate and long-term growth needs of the pantry and each steering team member informally helps find information, organize volunteers, contact pantry support partners, etc. Please email ECFP if you would like to join the steering team!