VOLUNTEER STEPS
Step 1: Fill out an Application
STEP 2: Wait for a call
Once we receive your application a site manager will contact you in 24-48 hours for scheduling and to answer any questions. Anyone under the age of 18 must have an adult volunteering with them. Everyone 18 years and older must fill out an application. You must be at least 18 to drive meals. Please note that we do not accept volunteering to fulfill community service hours of any kind.
Step 3: Read handbook and watch training video
Step 4: Download the app
Please download our Mobile Meals app prior to your arrival. The site manager will run you through an orientation so you know the process of your volunteer opportunity and where everything is.
Upcoming Volunteer Shifts
Volunteer Opportunities
Home Delivered Meals
Volunteers are needed to help pack meals for our clients Monday-Friday at select sites. 1-3 people can form an assembly line to place milks, fruit and bread inside plastic bags for distribution. Packing starts at 9:30am and lasts about 30 minutes.
Volunteer drivers are needed to deliver lunch and smiles to our senior and disabled clients Monday-Friday. Meal delivery takes about 60 to 90 minutes. Please arrive between 10 and 11am. You will be given complete turn by turn directions via our app or printed directions. If you don't want to return coolers to the site when your route is done, bring two medium sized coolers of your own to transport the food. Volunteers can commit daily, weekly, monthly or annually.
What to bring: Smart Phone (optional) and 2 medium sized coolers (optional).
Want to give back but can't make it a regular event? Are you sometimes free for an hour Monday-Friday starting between 10-11:30am? Be a backup driver for Wake County Meals On Wheels! Meals On Wheels will contact you and see if you're free for any routes that don't have a driver.
Meal delivery takes about 60 to 90 minutes. You will be given complete turn by turn directions via our app or printed directions. If you don't want to return coolers to the site when your route is done, bring two medium sized coolers of your own to transport the food. What to bring: Smart Phone (optional) and 2 medium sized coolers (optional).
Friendship Cafe
Friendship Cafes are a place for any senior age 60 and older to come for a meal and an activity. Volunteer opportunities for the Cafes are limited but could include help in the kitchen, assisting clients to sign into the kiosk, or running activities.
Groups and Organizations
Organizations can adopt a route! Organizations would coordinate a rotation of employees to drive meals on a regular basis Monday-Friday. For example the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month you will send out one employee to cover a route. Each designated Thursday a different employee will be sent to complete the route. Please make sure to fill out a group application. What to bring: Smart Phone (optional) and 2 medium sized coolers (optional).
If your office can’t commit to a regular schedule but would possibly have someone to cover a 60-90 minute route Monday-Friday between 10am and 1:30pm? Then be an organization on a list our site managers can call if they require last minute coverage. Please make sure to fill out a group application.
What to bring: Smart Phone (optional) and 2 medium sized coolers (optional).