Volunteering

Volunteers play a key role in CFA’s mission to end hunger in our neighborhoods. Every year hundreds of CFA volunteers donate their time and energy to improving the lives of local individuals and families who are in need. 

Organize a Food Drive: CFA relies upon the community to host food drives that will provide the needed groceries to fill our emergency food packages. This job is vital to our ability to provide food to those in need.

Weekend Snack Pack Program:  This is a new CFA program with several volunteer opportunities. Individual volunteers and groups are needed to help with collecting and packing snack pack food items, raising funds that allow CFA to purchase the snack pack food items for your group to package, or to be given to other groups to package, and program information distribution.  Some volunteer project suggestions are to commit to provide a months worth of weekend snack packs to one child, several children, a class or the entire school.  Adminstrative support is also need for this program.

Administrative Support: Computer literate volunteers are needed for various duties including fundraising, making phone calls, filing, mailings, record keeping, and public outreach.

Pantry & Warehouse Work: Volunteers are needed to sort donated food, stock the pantry and warehouse shelves, and prepare the emergency food packages that are given to our clients. 

Special Events: Volunteers are needed at special CFA events. We typically have shifts needed before, during and after each event.

All site and warehouse volunteers must be at least 16 years old to volunteer without parent supervision. Younger volunteers, with parent supervision, can help by organizing a food drive.

For more information, please email Jrothman@cfanj.org or call 201-569-1804 x28.