Make an Impact on the Life of a Senior
Our mission is to deliver essential services that promote the independence of seniors so they may remain in the comfort of their own homes.
Volunteers are critical to our ability to do so, whether it's helping our production team prepare meals, playing bingo at one of our partnering senior centers or making phone calls to our homebound clients to have friendly conversations.
Our volunteers include nearly 4,700 individuals, students, civic and community organizations, corporate groups, families, church groups and more—all committed to helping us make an impact on the lives of seniors. We can also customize a volunteer experience for you and your group! Contact Volunteer Engagement Manager Tammy Hitchcock at 513-244-0668 or thitchcock@muchmorethanameal.org to learn how.
Together, we can deliver essential services to 10,000 seniors throughout 13 counties every year.
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Ways to Volunteer
Assembling Snack Boxes
Every senior who receives home-delivered meals also receives a week's worth of snacks to enjoy nutritious bites between meals. This is our biggest need, as we serve hundreds of snack boxes each week. It's also our most popular volunteer activity. Most groups turn on some music, create an assembly line and fill the boxes with cookies, fruit, crackers and other items.
Packing Pet Food
For seniors who receive home-delivered meals from us and who also care for a dog or cat, we deliver a week's worth of pet food as part of their regular meal delivery. Volunteers help us scoop, weigh and package dry food in preparation for delivery.
Super Saturdays for Superheroes
Is it difficult to find time in your weekday schedule to volunteer? No problem. On the second Saturday of every month from 10 a.m. to noon, volunteers come to our production facility to lend an extra hand in our production needs. We can accommodate volunteers are young as 5 years old, making this a great family activity.
Birthday Bonanza
We love to celebrate our seniors' birthdays! Our volunteers experience just as much joy as seniors do when we recognize their special day and deliver gifts to their door. Volunteers help us decorate birthday bags with colorful artwork and fill the bags, or boxes, with a birthday card and some daily essentials like handheld brain games and toiletries. They then deliver the bag right to seniors' doors, which is the best part, as seniors absolutely love being surprised and celebrated.
Decorating birthday bags is a great corporate activity. Teams can decorate bags at their office, fill it with special items from our designated list and then deliver them to seniors.
Preparing Meals
We prepare meals in our restaurant-grade kitchen in our production facility. Preparation includes packaging food into single-serve containers, labeling them accordingly and readying them for distribution. Volunteers assist in the kitchen and in our distribution area.
Friendly Callers Club
Many of our clients are homebound seniors and face challenges with transportation and loneliness. Friendly Callers Club volunteers engage in weekly phone chats with the same seniors, paving the way for social engagement and friendship-building. These regular check-ins provide personable points of connection that go a long way!
The Friendly Callers Club is a program managed by our Health & Wellness team. To learn about volunteering for this program, contact Program Manager Bre Williams at 513-244-5492 or bwilliams@muchmorethanameal.org.
Ready to make an impact?
We're grateful to count students, families, corporate teams, community organizations and anyone with a desire to serve seniors as part of our growing volunteer community. View our current volunteer needs here. To learn about bringing in your corporate team or to see how we can customize an experience for you, contact our Volunteer Engagement Manager Tammy Hitchcock at 513-244-0668 or thitchcock@muchmorethanameal.org.