We would love to have you come in for a volunteer shift at our Distribution Center in Mansfield or our Kitchen Headquarters in Jamaica Plain (Boston). Both locations are set up to accommodate groups of all sizes and provide a meaningful service activity. Ages 13+ are welcome to volunteer!
In February of 2024, we expanded our Boston-based medically tailored meals operation to a 23,000-square-foot distribution center at 170 Forbes Boulevard in Mansfield, Massachusetts. This year, we are on track to provide over 1.2 million meals to more than 6,800 clients with HIV/AIDS, cancer, kidney and heart disease, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses.
At Community Servings, we actively engage the community to provide scratch-made medically tailored meals to individuals and their families experiencing critical or chronic illness and nutrition insecurity. Our new Mansfield facility will help us serve more clients living outside our regional delivery footprint.
In Jamaica Plain, volunteers assist our kitchen team in our commercial kitchen where we prepare and package all of our medically tailored client meals from scratch. We start the shift with a brief orientation, get everyone suited up in hairnets, aprons, and gloves, and then head to the kitchen to help out with chopping, peeling, packing, baking, etc.
At the Mansfield Distribution Center, volunteers supply operational support by sorting and stacking meals, adding dietary components like fresh fruit, yogurt, milk, and health snacks to packages, and organizing weekly meal deliveries according to diet type, route, delivery method, and date. We start the shift with a brief orientation, get everyone suited up in hairnets then head into the packaging kitchen. We have a very large space which allows us to spread staff and volunteers out in a safe and comfortable way.
We currently have daily weekday shifts. To sign up for your first shift as an individual, please see our two online calendars linked below. Select the shift that you would like and click “sign up.” For groups, the number of “available” slots shown for each shift is the maximum size we can book for that shift. Then, just let me know what date/shift you want, and I’ll sign the group up as a whole and confirm for you all. No need to sign up one at a time as individuals.
· Jamaica Plain: https://www.servings.org/volunteer_calendar/
o Morning Shift: 9am-12pm (max group size of 20 volunteers)
o Afternoon Shift: 1-4pm (max group size of 20 volunteers)
o Evening Shift: 4-7pm (max group size of 8 volunteers)
· Mansfield: https://www.servings.org/mansfield-volunteer-calendar/
o Morning Shift: 9am-12pm (max group size of 8 volunteers)
o Afternoon Shift: 1-4pm (max group size of 8 volunteers)
I am also happy to set up a call or tour to chat more about our volunteer program.
Thank so much for your time! We hope to work with you soon! Please let me know if you have any questions.
