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Dinner volunteers provide our guests with a hot meal in an atmosphere of hospitality. 

• Dinner must arrive ready to serve at 6:30 pm. There is no cooking on-site; however, you may use the warming cabinets. 

• The meal must be hearty with large portions as this meal keeps our guests full throughout the night.

• Entrée, side dishes, drinks, and dessert need to be provided.

 • Please bring plates, silverware, napkins, cups, and whatever you need to serve the dinner.  

• Dinner volunteers will serve/plate the meal for our guests and will help to clean up after dinner. 

• Providing a complete meal for 25 is a significant task, and not one that should be undertaken by a single person. Please partner with others to make the cost and the labor more manageable. 

• Minimum number of volunteers is two and the maximum is five. (Having a large volunteer group present makes our guests uncomfortable, so please abide by this rule).

• Protein is critical for our guests’ diet, so please make sure that any meatless entree contains an alternate form of protein. 

• Firm fruits or vegetables may be hard on teeth that receive little or no dental care.

Check-in volunteers prepare the space by laying out mats and pulling bins.

• They provide welcome when guests arrive.

• These volunteers locate guests’ bins and exchange their personal effects for bedding.

• Check-in volunteers must be fully mobile and able to lift 25 lbs.

• Volunteers with physical limitations are invited to sign-up for hos

Hospitality volunteers staff our hospitality room, which houses pajamas, toiletries, medications, etc, providing our guests with what they need in a welcoming manner.

• They will dispense over-the-counter medications to guests and log who has received how much and which medication.

• These volunteers will sort and put away any donations left at the shelter. 

• We encourage volunteers to join our guests during dinner (if there is enough food, please feel free to grab a plate). 

• These positions do not require lifting.

• To-go bag volunteers provide meal replacement “to-go” bags for guests to take with them as they leave in the morning.  

• Please write the date the bags were created on each individual bag with permanent marker.

• Contents should include any required utensils and be packed in gallon plastic bag or brown paper bag.  

• Suggestions: dry sandwiches with meat and cheese, hard-boiled eggs, yogurt cups, soft fruits, chewy granola bars, cheese crackers, applesauce or fruit cups, bottle of water. 

• These bags are designed to get our guests through a full day, so providing at least five items, especially a protein, is imperative.

• Please avoid any hard foods (such as apples, crunchy granola bars, etc) as many of our guests have dental problems. 

• Please bring 25 to-go bags to Drake Hall kitchen between 6:15 and 7:15 pm.  

• Bags should be delivered the day they are signed up for to be given out the following morning. For example: If you sign up for December 1, please bring the bags the night of December 1 to be given out on December 2.