Interesting in volunteering? There are lots of ways to get involved. The organizations below can use your help!
Anthony Bowen YMCA Culinary Studio
Our culinary studio at YMCA Anthony Bowen is the home of inspired cooking – from special interest to seasonal to basic cuisines! Whether you’re looking for a unique date night, girl’s night out, a better understanding of nutrition or more freedom and confidence in the kitchen, our cooking classes are just the answer.
Anthony Bowen YMCA Culinary Studio
Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food and Agriculture
Arcadia is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a more equitable and sustainable local food system in the Washington, DC area. Based on the historic grounds of Woodlawn Estate in Alexandria, VA, Arcadia manages four distinct program areas which include Arcadia Farm, Farm to School, Mobile Market, and Food Hub.
Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food and Agriculture
Arlington Food Assistance Center
Arlington Food Assistance Center (AFAC) is a community-based non-profit that provides supplemental groceries to residents of Arlington in need. AFAC remains dedicated to its simple but critical mission of obtaining and distributing groceries, directly and free of charge, to people living in Arlington who cannot afford to purchase enough food to meet their basic needs.
Arlington Food Assistance Center
Arlington Food Assistance Center - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Bethesda Cares
Bethesda Cares Is a Community Outreach Program for the Homeless. Our mission is to respond with compassion and creativity to help the homeless and persons in need in the community and to help prevent impending homelessness in Montgomery County.
Bethesda Cares - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Brainfood
Brainfood is a non-profit youth development organization in Washington, DC. Using food as a tool, Brainfood builds life skills and promotes healthy living in a fun and safe environment.
Bread for the City
The mission of Bread for the City is to provide vulnerable residents of Washington, DC with comprehensive services, including food, clothing, medical care, and legal and social services, in an atmosphere of dignity and respect.
Bread for the City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Bread for the City – City Orchard
City Orchard is our brand new 2.75 acre organic fruit orchard in nearby Beltsville, MD. This orchard contains more than 2,500 trees and bushes, including apple, Asian pear, blueberry, blackberry and strawberry. These plants will yield upwards of 45,000 lbs. of fresh fruit — all of which will be distributed to DC residents in need through Bread for the City’s two food pantry locations.
Bread for the City – City Orchard
Bread for the City – City Orchard - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Capital Area Food Bank
The Capital Area Food Bank is the largest organization in the Washington metro area working to solve hunger and its companion problems: chronic undernutrition, heart disease, and obesity. By partnering with 444 community organizations in DC, MD, and VA, as well as delivering food directly into hard to reach areas, the CAFB is helping 540,000 people each year get access to good, healthy food.
Capital Area Food Bank - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
CentroNía
CentroNía is a nationally recognized, award-winning educational organization that provides affordable, high quality education, professional development and family support services in a bilingual, multicultural environment to more than 1500 children.
Chesapeake Herb Gathering
The Chesapeake Herb Gathering is an annual event organized by Centro Ashé bringing together inter-generational herbal, land-based, and healing communities to celebrate our stories, our knowledge, our culture and traditions.
City Blossoms
City Blossoms is a nonprofit dedicated to fostering healthy communities by developing creative, kid-driven green spaces and innovative resources, approaches, and techniques.
City Blossoms - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Common Good City Farm
Common Good City Farm’s programs provide hands-on training in food production, healthy eating and environmental sustainability. The Farm itself serves as a demonstration site to individuals, organizations and government agencies in the DC Metro area. The site and our programs integrate people of all ages, classes and races to create vibrant and safe communities.
Common Good City Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Common Threads
Founded by Chef Art Smith and artist Jesus Salgueiro in 2003, Common Threads grew out of the belief that family and food have the power to nurture and strengthen us, to connect us to culture and community, and to teach and excite us about our world. Through our hands-on cooking programs and nutrition education, Common Threads provides a preventative health program solution in urban schools.
Common Threads - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Community Food Rescue
Community Food Rescue is the coordinated food recovery system of Montgomery County, Maryland. This system enhances the good work of businesses, individuals, and organizations that already recover and redistribute perfectly good food to people experiencing hunger. Community Good Rescue only provides food recovery in Montgomery County and is seeking volunteer food runners 18+ with vehicles to transport donated food according to your schedule. Please visit https://communityfoodrescue.org/our-mission/volunteer-food-runners/ to learn more and to sign up.
Community Food Rescue - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Community Foodworks
Creating market opportunities for local farmers and food producers in the mid-Atlantic region while increasing access to good, healthy, local food. Through its markets and staff, Community Foodworks works to maintain a strong presence in the communities we serve. We’ve forged strong partnerships with local schools, health clinics, WIC centers, and community groups to project a sense of welcome across the community and introduce families to local food as well as our financial support programs.
Community Foodworks - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Cooking Matters
Cooking Matters helps families to shop for and cook healthy meals on a budget, as part of Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign.
Creative Community Builders, LLC
Creative Community Builders is a Civic & Social organization facilitating community engagement and creative strategic planning. We are rooted in supporting the development of sustainable communities through creative relationship building and mindful resource connections. We aim to build a network of communities that co-create thriving, sustainable support systems through community-led initiatives, sustainable practices and intentional community building practices.
Creative Community Builders, LLC
Cultivate the City
Cultivate the City is urban farmers working to feed families & communities with pesticide-free, locally-grown food by growing vertically. It was created to inspire healthy and sustainable living by empowering communities with tools and training for urban agriculture.
Cultivate the City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC Central Kitchen
DC Central Kitchen is America’s leader in reducing hunger with recycled food, training unemployed adults for culinary careers, serving healthy school meals, and rebuilding urban food systems through social enterprise.
DC Central Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC Food Recovery Working Group
The DC Food Recovery Working Group was created in early 2016 to support overall food recovery efforts in DC and surrounding areas.
DC Food Recovery Working Group
DC Greens
DC Greens uses the power of partnerships to support food education, food access, and food policy in the nation’s capital. It works toward a city where food education is on the menu in every classroom; where doctors write prescriptions for fresh fruits and vegetables as a matter of course; where urban agriculture is a valued element of our cityscape; and where zipcode does not determine life expectancy.
DC State Fair
The DC State Fair is a free showcase of the region’s agricultural and artistic talents.
DC State Fair - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC UrbanGreens, Inc.
DC UrbanGreens’ mission is to feed bodies and nourish minds by increasing accessibility of affordable healthy foods to residents of food desert neighborhoods. A non-profit organization east of the Anacostia River in DC’s Ward 7 and Ward 8, DC UrbanGreens produces chemical-free fruits and vegetables on under-utilitized urban land. The organization employs innovative and scalable methods, techniques and business models to implement small-scale urban agriculture in a fiscally and environmentally sustainable way.
DC UrbanGreens, Inc. - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DPR Urban Garden Division
DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Garden Division works with communities across the District to establish urban Ag projects (currently 31 community gardens and 5 non profit production farms) and urban ag support systems such as a urban garden education program offering over a 100 free classes, a citywide critter proof community compost cooperative iniitiative, a garden toolshare, a greenhouse coop, tree planting intiatives and an urban bee program.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. is a nonprofit social enterprise whose mission is to create economic opportunity within marginalized communities through creating a healthy, equitable food system. We are rebuilding urban, community-based food systems through social enterprise, helping to increase access to healthy food and improve community health, develop low-income entrepreneurs and cooperatives, and train at-risk adult residents for sustainable, family-supporting wages.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
ECO City Farms
ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.
ECO City Farms - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
EcoHermanas
EcoHermanas is a community of women that weaves and reconnects communities to Mother Earth. Together we create a bold sisterhood culture of awareness, energy, and flow around place-based environmental issues, cultivating community and contributing to the greater co-fulfillment of our potential as a whole. We value a deep respect for the Rights of Mother Earth and engage in projects that promote:
Farm To Freezer
Farm to Freezer is a new brand of delicious, healthy, and locally-produced foods from vegetables that are frozen at the peak of ripeness. Your purchase of Farm to Freezer products allows us to provide this nutrient-rich food at deep discount to local hunger relief agencies for those in need.
Farm To Freezer - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Feeding America
The Feeding America network of food banks works with agencies to provide food through pantry and meal programs, which help families, students and seniors facing hunger and poverty make ends meet.
Food and Friends
The mission of Food & Friends is to foster a community caring for men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses by preparing and delivering specialized meals and groceries in conjunction with nutrition counseling.
Food and Friends - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food For All DC
Food for All DC is a non-profit charity that strives to provide food to low income home-bound residents in real need. Our clients are generally elderly citizens, handicapped, or single mothers with young children. The operation is entirely volunteer operated, with the assistance of federal and other agency grants.
Food For All DC - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food Recovery Network
Food Recovery Network unites students on college campuses to fight food waste and hunger by recovering perishable food that would otherwise go to waste from their campuses and communities and donating it to people in need.
Food Recovery Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
FRESHFARM Markets
FreshFarm Markets strive to build and strengthen the local-food movement in the Chesapeake Bay region, using farmers markets to create vibrant urban and community places, providing economic opportunities for farmers and artisanal food producers and showcasing our region’s agricultural bounty. FRESHFARM Markets operates 11 producer-only farmers markets with more than 110 farmers and producers from 5 states who farm more than 9,000 acres.
FRESHFARM Markets - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Green Scheme
The Green Scheme is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization promoting environmental sustainability, health awareness, and social justice. We are improving the trajectory of health, educational and economic outcomes in at-risk communities through training and awareness of environmental issues.
Green Scheme - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Iona’s Senior Services
In Washington DC, Iona Senior Services has a Farm-to-Table program that partners with farmers markets. They glean leftober produce at DC farmers market. The food is sorted, weighed and then distributed at a free market that is set-up and run every week at their congregate meal site. In addition, they hold cooking demonstrations, recipe distribution, and nutrition counseling on site. In addition every Saturday morning, Iona volunteers deliver meals to homebound older adults in northwest DC who are unable to prepare their own meals.
Kid Power
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Little Red Bird Botanicals
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
Manna Food Center
Manna Food Center works to end chronic hunger in Montgomery County, MD.
Manna Food Center - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Martha’s Table
For over 35 years, Martha’s Table has worked to build a better future for children, their families, and neighbors in Washington, DC by increasing access to education, food, and opportunity. Martha’s table programs are divided into three initiatives: healthy start, healthy eating, and healthy connections.
Martha’s Table - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Maryland Food Bank
The Maryland Food Bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization, leading the movement to end hunger throughout Maryland. – See more at: https://mdfoodbank.org/#sthash.RiXk3XDp.dpuf
Maryland Food Bank - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network
The Gleaning Network links farmers who have crops that are edible but not marketable with those who distribute food to the needy through the work of volunteer gleaners. Their staff organizes teams of people to go to local farms to harvest fresh nutritious fruits and vegetables to be given to low income individuals, families, as well as agencies or communities that serve the hungry.
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Miriam’s Kitchen
Miriam’s Kitchen is a nonprofit working to end chronic homelessness in Washington, DC through a variety of programs.
Miriam’s Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Our mission is to bring together a diverse representation of stakeholders in a public and private partnership to improve the environmental, economic, social and nutritional health of Montgomery County, Maryland through the creation of a robust, local, sustainable food system. Our vision is to cultivate a vibrant food system in Montgomery County that consciously produces, distributes, and recycles food, making it accessible to all residents while promoting the health of the local food economy, its consumers, and the environment.
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
N Street Village
N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. With comprehensive services addressing both emergency and long-term needs, we help women achieve stability and make meaningful gains in their housing, income, employment, mental health, physical health, and addiction recovery.
N Street Village - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Real Food for Kids
A group of concerned parents in Fairfax County, Virginia who want to improve FCPS school lunches, to include local and organic foods and farm-to-school programs, and, to educate the school community, students, administrators and parents.
Real Food for Kids - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SHARE Food Network
SHARE Food Network provides nutritious food for everyone in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area. Our food packages are available at prices 40-50% under supermarket prices, making healthy food more affordable. SHARE distributes food through a network of 320 partnering host organizations: churches, tenant associations, senior and day care centers, schools and other community agencies. SHARE depends on these relationships with collaborating organizations to carry out its mission. SHARE is accepting applications for new food sites.
SHARE Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Slow Food DC
Slow Food DC is the DC chapter of Slow Food USA. Slow Food is an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production.
Soilful City
Soilful is a space dedicated to connecting humans to nature through information, ideas, and people in urban environments. Creating Leadership through the wisdom of nature.
Soilful City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SOME (So Others Might Eat)
SOME is an interfaith, community-based organization that exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation’s capital. Each day, SOME is restoring hope and dignity one person at a time. We invite you to join us.
SOME (So Others Might Eat) - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Crossroads Community Food Network is working to improve community health through local food access programs and education for at-risk populations in Maryland’s Takoma/Langley Crossroads area and beyond. Some of CCFN programs include a Farmers Market, healthy eating program, and a microenterprise training program.
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The ECAC builds on the strengths of the community by providing informal and formal gathering space, capturing neighborhood history, engaging new and old residents in civic discourse, and reconnecting the generations of residents.
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The Emergence Community Arts Collective - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
Three Part Harmony Farm
Three Part Harmony Farm is part of a community that grows, sells and eats healthy food. An urban farm on a 2-acre parcel in Northeast Washington, DC, most of its produce is sold through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, and at area stores and restaurants.
Three Part Harmony Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Thrive DC
Thrive DC works to end and prevent homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Our culinary studio at YMCA Anthony Bowen is the home of inspired cooking – from special interest to seasonal to basic cuisines! Whether you’re looking for a unique date night, girl’s night out, a better understanding of nutrition or more freedom and confidence in the kitchen, our cooking classes are just the answer.
Anthony Bowen YMCA Culinary Studio
Arcadia is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a more equitable and sustainable local food system in the Washington, DC area. Based on the historic grounds of Woodlawn Estate in Alexandria, VA, Arcadia manages four distinct program areas which include Arcadia Farm, Farm to School, Mobile Market, and Food Hub.
Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food and Agriculture
Arlington Food Assistance Center
Arlington Food Assistance Center (AFAC) is a community-based non-profit that provides supplemental groceries to residents of Arlington in need. AFAC remains dedicated to its simple but critical mission of obtaining and distributing groceries, directly and free of charge, to people living in Arlington who cannot afford to purchase enough food to meet their basic needs.
Arlington Food Assistance Center
Arlington Food Assistance Center - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Bethesda Cares
Bethesda Cares Is a Community Outreach Program for the Homeless. Our mission is to respond with compassion and creativity to help the homeless and persons in need in the community and to help prevent impending homelessness in Montgomery County.
Bethesda Cares - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Brainfood
Brainfood is a non-profit youth development organization in Washington, DC. Using food as a tool, Brainfood builds life skills and promotes healthy living in a fun and safe environment.
Bread for the City
The mission of Bread for the City is to provide vulnerable residents of Washington, DC with comprehensive services, including food, clothing, medical care, and legal and social services, in an atmosphere of dignity and respect.
Bread for the City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Bread for the City – City Orchard
City Orchard is our brand new 2.75 acre organic fruit orchard in nearby Beltsville, MD. This orchard contains more than 2,500 trees and bushes, including apple, Asian pear, blueberry, blackberry and strawberry. These plants will yield upwards of 45,000 lbs. of fresh fruit — all of which will be distributed to DC residents in need through Bread for the City’s two food pantry locations.
Bread for the City – City Orchard
Bread for the City – City Orchard - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Capital Area Food Bank
The Capital Area Food Bank is the largest organization in the Washington metro area working to solve hunger and its companion problems: chronic undernutrition, heart disease, and obesity. By partnering with 444 community organizations in DC, MD, and VA, as well as delivering food directly into hard to reach areas, the CAFB is helping 540,000 people each year get access to good, healthy food.
Capital Area Food Bank - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
CentroNía
CentroNía is a nationally recognized, award-winning educational organization that provides affordable, high quality education, professional development and family support services in a bilingual, multicultural environment to more than 1500 children.
Chesapeake Herb Gathering
The Chesapeake Herb Gathering is an annual event organized by Centro Ashé bringing together inter-generational herbal, land-based, and healing communities to celebrate our stories, our knowledge, our culture and traditions.
City Blossoms
City Blossoms is a nonprofit dedicated to fostering healthy communities by developing creative, kid-driven green spaces and innovative resources, approaches, and techniques.
City Blossoms - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Common Good City Farm
Common Good City Farm’s programs provide hands-on training in food production, healthy eating and environmental sustainability. The Farm itself serves as a demonstration site to individuals, organizations and government agencies in the DC Metro area. The site and our programs integrate people of all ages, classes and races to create vibrant and safe communities.
Common Good City Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Common Threads
Founded by Chef Art Smith and artist Jesus Salgueiro in 2003, Common Threads grew out of the belief that family and food have the power to nurture and strengthen us, to connect us to culture and community, and to teach and excite us about our world. Through our hands-on cooking programs and nutrition education, Common Threads provides a preventative health program solution in urban schools.
Common Threads - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Community Food Rescue
Community Food Rescue is the coordinated food recovery system of Montgomery County, Maryland. This system enhances the good work of businesses, individuals, and organizations that already recover and redistribute perfectly good food to people experiencing hunger. Community Good Rescue only provides food recovery in Montgomery County and is seeking volunteer food runners 18+ with vehicles to transport donated food according to your schedule. Please visit https://communityfoodrescue.org/our-mission/volunteer-food-runners/ to learn more and to sign up.
Community Food Rescue - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Community Foodworks
Creating market opportunities for local farmers and food producers in the mid-Atlantic region while increasing access to good, healthy, local food. Through its markets and staff, Community Foodworks works to maintain a strong presence in the communities we serve. We’ve forged strong partnerships with local schools, health clinics, WIC centers, and community groups to project a sense of welcome across the community and introduce families to local food as well as our financial support programs.
Community Foodworks - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Cooking Matters
Cooking Matters helps families to shop for and cook healthy meals on a budget, as part of Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign.
Creative Community Builders, LLC
Creative Community Builders is a Civic & Social organization facilitating community engagement and creative strategic planning. We are rooted in supporting the development of sustainable communities through creative relationship building and mindful resource connections. We aim to build a network of communities that co-create thriving, sustainable support systems through community-led initiatives, sustainable practices and intentional community building practices.
Creative Community Builders, LLC
Cultivate the City
Cultivate the City is urban farmers working to feed families & communities with pesticide-free, locally-grown food by growing vertically. It was created to inspire healthy and sustainable living by empowering communities with tools and training for urban agriculture.
Cultivate the City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC Central Kitchen
DC Central Kitchen is America’s leader in reducing hunger with recycled food, training unemployed adults for culinary careers, serving healthy school meals, and rebuilding urban food systems through social enterprise.
DC Central Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC Food Recovery Working Group
The DC Food Recovery Working Group was created in early 2016 to support overall food recovery efforts in DC and surrounding areas.
DC Food Recovery Working Group
DC Greens
DC Greens uses the power of partnerships to support food education, food access, and food policy in the nation’s capital. It works toward a city where food education is on the menu in every classroom; where doctors write prescriptions for fresh fruits and vegetables as a matter of course; where urban agriculture is a valued element of our cityscape; and where zipcode does not determine life expectancy.
DC State Fair
The DC State Fair is a free showcase of the region’s agricultural and artistic talents.
DC State Fair - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC UrbanGreens, Inc.
DC UrbanGreens’ mission is to feed bodies and nourish minds by increasing accessibility of affordable healthy foods to residents of food desert neighborhoods. A non-profit organization east of the Anacostia River in DC’s Ward 7 and Ward 8, DC UrbanGreens produces chemical-free fruits and vegetables on under-utilitized urban land. The organization employs innovative and scalable methods, techniques and business models to implement small-scale urban agriculture in a fiscally and environmentally sustainable way.
DC UrbanGreens, Inc. - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DPR Urban Garden Division
DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Garden Division works with communities across the District to establish urban Ag projects (currently 31 community gardens and 5 non profit production farms) and urban ag support systems such as a urban garden education program offering over a 100 free classes, a citywide critter proof community compost cooperative iniitiative, a garden toolshare, a greenhouse coop, tree planting intiatives and an urban bee program.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. is a nonprofit social enterprise whose mission is to create economic opportunity within marginalized communities through creating a healthy, equitable food system. We are rebuilding urban, community-based food systems through social enterprise, helping to increase access to healthy food and improve community health, develop low-income entrepreneurs and cooperatives, and train at-risk adult residents for sustainable, family-supporting wages.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
ECO City Farms
ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.
ECO City Farms - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
EcoHermanas
EcoHermanas is a community of women that weaves and reconnects communities to Mother Earth. Together we create a bold sisterhood culture of awareness, energy, and flow around place-based environmental issues, cultivating community and contributing to the greater co-fulfillment of our potential as a whole. We value a deep respect for the Rights of Mother Earth and engage in projects that promote:
Farm To Freezer
Farm to Freezer is a new brand of delicious, healthy, and locally-produced foods from vegetables that are frozen at the peak of ripeness. Your purchase of Farm to Freezer products allows us to provide this nutrient-rich food at deep discount to local hunger relief agencies for those in need.
Farm To Freezer - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Feeding America
The Feeding America network of food banks works with agencies to provide food through pantry and meal programs, which help families, students and seniors facing hunger and poverty make ends meet.
Food and Friends
The mission of Food & Friends is to foster a community caring for men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses by preparing and delivering specialized meals and groceries in conjunction with nutrition counseling.
Food and Friends - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food For All DC
Food for All DC is a non-profit charity that strives to provide food to low income home-bound residents in real need. Our clients are generally elderly citizens, handicapped, or single mothers with young children. The operation is entirely volunteer operated, with the assistance of federal and other agency grants.
Food For All DC - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food Recovery Network
Food Recovery Network unites students on college campuses to fight food waste and hunger by recovering perishable food that would otherwise go to waste from their campuses and communities and donating it to people in need.
Food Recovery Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
FRESHFARM Markets
FreshFarm Markets strive to build and strengthen the local-food movement in the Chesapeake Bay region, using farmers markets to create vibrant urban and community places, providing economic opportunities for farmers and artisanal food producers and showcasing our region’s agricultural bounty. FRESHFARM Markets operates 11 producer-only farmers markets with more than 110 farmers and producers from 5 states who farm more than 9,000 acres.
FRESHFARM Markets - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Green Scheme
The Green Scheme is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization promoting environmental sustainability, health awareness, and social justice. We are improving the trajectory of health, educational and economic outcomes in at-risk communities through training and awareness of environmental issues.
Green Scheme - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Iona’s Senior Services
In Washington DC, Iona Senior Services has a Farm-to-Table program that partners with farmers markets. They glean leftober produce at DC farmers market. The food is sorted, weighed and then distributed at a free market that is set-up and run every week at their congregate meal site. In addition, they hold cooking demonstrations, recipe distribution, and nutrition counseling on site. In addition every Saturday morning, Iona volunteers deliver meals to homebound older adults in northwest DC who are unable to prepare their own meals.
Kid Power
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Little Red Bird Botanicals
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
Manna Food Center
Manna Food Center works to end chronic hunger in Montgomery County, MD.
Manna Food Center - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Martha’s Table
For over 35 years, Martha’s Table has worked to build a better future for children, their families, and neighbors in Washington, DC by increasing access to education, food, and opportunity. Martha’s table programs are divided into three initiatives: healthy start, healthy eating, and healthy connections.
Martha’s Table - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Maryland Food Bank
The Maryland Food Bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization, leading the movement to end hunger throughout Maryland. – See more at: https://mdfoodbank.org/#sthash.RiXk3XDp.dpuf
Maryland Food Bank - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network
The Gleaning Network links farmers who have crops that are edible but not marketable with those who distribute food to the needy through the work of volunteer gleaners. Their staff organizes teams of people to go to local farms to harvest fresh nutritious fruits and vegetables to be given to low income individuals, families, as well as agencies or communities that serve the hungry.
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Miriam’s Kitchen
Miriam’s Kitchen is a nonprofit working to end chronic homelessness in Washington, DC through a variety of programs.
Miriam’s Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Our mission is to bring together a diverse representation of stakeholders in a public and private partnership to improve the environmental, economic, social and nutritional health of Montgomery County, Maryland through the creation of a robust, local, sustainable food system. Our vision is to cultivate a vibrant food system in Montgomery County that consciously produces, distributes, and recycles food, making it accessible to all residents while promoting the health of the local food economy, its consumers, and the environment.
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
N Street Village
N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. With comprehensive services addressing both emergency and long-term needs, we help women achieve stability and make meaningful gains in their housing, income, employment, mental health, physical health, and addiction recovery.
N Street Village - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Real Food for Kids
A group of concerned parents in Fairfax County, Virginia who want to improve FCPS school lunches, to include local and organic foods and farm-to-school programs, and, to educate the school community, students, administrators and parents.
Real Food for Kids - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SHARE Food Network
SHARE Food Network provides nutritious food for everyone in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area. Our food packages are available at prices 40-50% under supermarket prices, making healthy food more affordable. SHARE distributes food through a network of 320 partnering host organizations: churches, tenant associations, senior and day care centers, schools and other community agencies. SHARE depends on these relationships with collaborating organizations to carry out its mission. SHARE is accepting applications for new food sites.
SHARE Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Slow Food DC
Slow Food DC is the DC chapter of Slow Food USA. Slow Food is an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production.
Soilful City
Soilful is a space dedicated to connecting humans to nature through information, ideas, and people in urban environments. Creating Leadership through the wisdom of nature.
Soilful City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SOME (So Others Might Eat)
SOME is an interfaith, community-based organization that exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation’s capital. Each day, SOME is restoring hope and dignity one person at a time. We invite you to join us.
SOME (So Others Might Eat) - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Crossroads Community Food Network is working to improve community health through local food access programs and education for at-risk populations in Maryland’s Takoma/Langley Crossroads area and beyond. Some of CCFN programs include a Farmers Market, healthy eating program, and a microenterprise training program.
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The ECAC builds on the strengths of the community by providing informal and formal gathering space, capturing neighborhood history, engaging new and old residents in civic discourse, and reconnecting the generations of residents.
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The Emergence Community Arts Collective - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
Three Part Harmony Farm
Three Part Harmony Farm is part of a community that grows, sells and eats healthy food. An urban farm on a 2-acre parcel in Northeast Washington, DC, most of its produce is sold through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, and at area stores and restaurants.
Three Part Harmony Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Thrive DC
Thrive DC works to end and prevent homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Arlington Food Assistance Center (AFAC) is a community-based non-profit that provides supplemental groceries to residents of Arlington in need. AFAC remains dedicated to its simple but critical mission of obtaining and distributing groceries, directly and free of charge, to people living in Arlington who cannot afford to purchase enough food to meet their basic needs.
Arlington Food Assistance Center
Arlington Food Assistance Center - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Bethesda Cares Is a Community Outreach Program for the Homeless. Our mission is to respond with compassion and creativity to help the homeless and persons in need in the community and to help prevent impending homelessness in Montgomery County.
Bethesda Cares - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Brainfood
Brainfood is a non-profit youth development organization in Washington, DC. Using food as a tool, Brainfood builds life skills and promotes healthy living in a fun and safe environment.
Bread for the City
The mission of Bread for the City is to provide vulnerable residents of Washington, DC with comprehensive services, including food, clothing, medical care, and legal and social services, in an atmosphere of dignity and respect.
Bread for the City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Bread for the City – City Orchard
City Orchard is our brand new 2.75 acre organic fruit orchard in nearby Beltsville, MD. This orchard contains more than 2,500 trees and bushes, including apple, Asian pear, blueberry, blackberry and strawberry. These plants will yield upwards of 45,000 lbs. of fresh fruit — all of which will be distributed to DC residents in need through Bread for the City’s two food pantry locations.
Bread for the City – City Orchard
Bread for the City – City Orchard - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Capital Area Food Bank
The Capital Area Food Bank is the largest organization in the Washington metro area working to solve hunger and its companion problems: chronic undernutrition, heart disease, and obesity. By partnering with 444 community organizations in DC, MD, and VA, as well as delivering food directly into hard to reach areas, the CAFB is helping 540,000 people each year get access to good, healthy food.
Capital Area Food Bank - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
CentroNía
CentroNía is a nationally recognized, award-winning educational organization that provides affordable, high quality education, professional development and family support services in a bilingual, multicultural environment to more than 1500 children.
Chesapeake Herb Gathering
The Chesapeake Herb Gathering is an annual event organized by Centro Ashé bringing together inter-generational herbal, land-based, and healing communities to celebrate our stories, our knowledge, our culture and traditions.
City Blossoms
City Blossoms is a nonprofit dedicated to fostering healthy communities by developing creative, kid-driven green spaces and innovative resources, approaches, and techniques.
City Blossoms - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Common Good City Farm
Common Good City Farm’s programs provide hands-on training in food production, healthy eating and environmental sustainability. The Farm itself serves as a demonstration site to individuals, organizations and government agencies in the DC Metro area. The site and our programs integrate people of all ages, classes and races to create vibrant and safe communities.
Common Good City Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Common Threads
Founded by Chef Art Smith and artist Jesus Salgueiro in 2003, Common Threads grew out of the belief that family and food have the power to nurture and strengthen us, to connect us to culture and community, and to teach and excite us about our world. Through our hands-on cooking programs and nutrition education, Common Threads provides a preventative health program solution in urban schools.
Common Threads - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Community Food Rescue
Community Food Rescue is the coordinated food recovery system of Montgomery County, Maryland. This system enhances the good work of businesses, individuals, and organizations that already recover and redistribute perfectly good food to people experiencing hunger. Community Good Rescue only provides food recovery in Montgomery County and is seeking volunteer food runners 18+ with vehicles to transport donated food according to your schedule. Please visit https://communityfoodrescue.org/our-mission/volunteer-food-runners/ to learn more and to sign up.
Community Food Rescue - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Community Foodworks
Creating market opportunities for local farmers and food producers in the mid-Atlantic region while increasing access to good, healthy, local food. Through its markets and staff, Community Foodworks works to maintain a strong presence in the communities we serve. We’ve forged strong partnerships with local schools, health clinics, WIC centers, and community groups to project a sense of welcome across the community and introduce families to local food as well as our financial support programs.
Community Foodworks - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Cooking Matters
Cooking Matters helps families to shop for and cook healthy meals on a budget, as part of Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign.
Creative Community Builders, LLC
Creative Community Builders is a Civic & Social organization facilitating community engagement and creative strategic planning. We are rooted in supporting the development of sustainable communities through creative relationship building and mindful resource connections. We aim to build a network of communities that co-create thriving, sustainable support systems through community-led initiatives, sustainable practices and intentional community building practices.
Creative Community Builders, LLC
Cultivate the City
Cultivate the City is urban farmers working to feed families & communities with pesticide-free, locally-grown food by growing vertically. It was created to inspire healthy and sustainable living by empowering communities with tools and training for urban agriculture.
Cultivate the City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC Central Kitchen
DC Central Kitchen is America’s leader in reducing hunger with recycled food, training unemployed adults for culinary careers, serving healthy school meals, and rebuilding urban food systems through social enterprise.
DC Central Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC Food Recovery Working Group
The DC Food Recovery Working Group was created in early 2016 to support overall food recovery efforts in DC and surrounding areas.
DC Food Recovery Working Group
DC Greens
DC Greens uses the power of partnerships to support food education, food access, and food policy in the nation’s capital. It works toward a city where food education is on the menu in every classroom; where doctors write prescriptions for fresh fruits and vegetables as a matter of course; where urban agriculture is a valued element of our cityscape; and where zipcode does not determine life expectancy.
DC State Fair
The DC State Fair is a free showcase of the region’s agricultural and artistic talents.
DC State Fair - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC UrbanGreens, Inc.
DC UrbanGreens’ mission is to feed bodies and nourish minds by increasing accessibility of affordable healthy foods to residents of food desert neighborhoods. A non-profit organization east of the Anacostia River in DC’s Ward 7 and Ward 8, DC UrbanGreens produces chemical-free fruits and vegetables on under-utilitized urban land. The organization employs innovative and scalable methods, techniques and business models to implement small-scale urban agriculture in a fiscally and environmentally sustainable way.
DC UrbanGreens, Inc. - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DPR Urban Garden Division
DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Garden Division works with communities across the District to establish urban Ag projects (currently 31 community gardens and 5 non profit production farms) and urban ag support systems such as a urban garden education program offering over a 100 free classes, a citywide critter proof community compost cooperative iniitiative, a garden toolshare, a greenhouse coop, tree planting intiatives and an urban bee program.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. is a nonprofit social enterprise whose mission is to create economic opportunity within marginalized communities through creating a healthy, equitable food system. We are rebuilding urban, community-based food systems through social enterprise, helping to increase access to healthy food and improve community health, develop low-income entrepreneurs and cooperatives, and train at-risk adult residents for sustainable, family-supporting wages.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
ECO City Farms
ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.
ECO City Farms - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
EcoHermanas
EcoHermanas is a community of women that weaves and reconnects communities to Mother Earth. Together we create a bold sisterhood culture of awareness, energy, and flow around place-based environmental issues, cultivating community and contributing to the greater co-fulfillment of our potential as a whole. We value a deep respect for the Rights of Mother Earth and engage in projects that promote:
Farm To Freezer
Farm to Freezer is a new brand of delicious, healthy, and locally-produced foods from vegetables that are frozen at the peak of ripeness. Your purchase of Farm to Freezer products allows us to provide this nutrient-rich food at deep discount to local hunger relief agencies for those in need.
Farm To Freezer - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Feeding America
The Feeding America network of food banks works with agencies to provide food through pantry and meal programs, which help families, students and seniors facing hunger and poverty make ends meet.
Food and Friends
The mission of Food & Friends is to foster a community caring for men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses by preparing and delivering specialized meals and groceries in conjunction with nutrition counseling.
Food and Friends - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food For All DC
Food for All DC is a non-profit charity that strives to provide food to low income home-bound residents in real need. Our clients are generally elderly citizens, handicapped, or single mothers with young children. The operation is entirely volunteer operated, with the assistance of federal and other agency grants.
Food For All DC - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food Recovery Network
Food Recovery Network unites students on college campuses to fight food waste and hunger by recovering perishable food that would otherwise go to waste from their campuses and communities and donating it to people in need.
Food Recovery Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
FRESHFARM Markets
FreshFarm Markets strive to build and strengthen the local-food movement in the Chesapeake Bay region, using farmers markets to create vibrant urban and community places, providing economic opportunities for farmers and artisanal food producers and showcasing our region’s agricultural bounty. FRESHFARM Markets operates 11 producer-only farmers markets with more than 110 farmers and producers from 5 states who farm more than 9,000 acres.
FRESHFARM Markets - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Green Scheme
The Green Scheme is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization promoting environmental sustainability, health awareness, and social justice. We are improving the trajectory of health, educational and economic outcomes in at-risk communities through training and awareness of environmental issues.
Green Scheme - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Iona’s Senior Services
In Washington DC, Iona Senior Services has a Farm-to-Table program that partners with farmers markets. They glean leftober produce at DC farmers market. The food is sorted, weighed and then distributed at a free market that is set-up and run every week at their congregate meal site. In addition, they hold cooking demonstrations, recipe distribution, and nutrition counseling on site. In addition every Saturday morning, Iona volunteers deliver meals to homebound older adults in northwest DC who are unable to prepare their own meals.
Kid Power
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Little Red Bird Botanicals
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
Manna Food Center
Manna Food Center works to end chronic hunger in Montgomery County, MD.
Manna Food Center - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Martha’s Table
For over 35 years, Martha’s Table has worked to build a better future for children, their families, and neighbors in Washington, DC by increasing access to education, food, and opportunity. Martha’s table programs are divided into three initiatives: healthy start, healthy eating, and healthy connections.
Martha’s Table - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Maryland Food Bank
The Maryland Food Bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization, leading the movement to end hunger throughout Maryland. – See more at: https://mdfoodbank.org/#sthash.RiXk3XDp.dpuf
Maryland Food Bank - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network
The Gleaning Network links farmers who have crops that are edible but not marketable with those who distribute food to the needy through the work of volunteer gleaners. Their staff organizes teams of people to go to local farms to harvest fresh nutritious fruits and vegetables to be given to low income individuals, families, as well as agencies or communities that serve the hungry.
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Miriam’s Kitchen
Miriam’s Kitchen is a nonprofit working to end chronic homelessness in Washington, DC through a variety of programs.
Miriam’s Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Our mission is to bring together a diverse representation of stakeholders in a public and private partnership to improve the environmental, economic, social and nutritional health of Montgomery County, Maryland through the creation of a robust, local, sustainable food system. Our vision is to cultivate a vibrant food system in Montgomery County that consciously produces, distributes, and recycles food, making it accessible to all residents while promoting the health of the local food economy, its consumers, and the environment.
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
N Street Village
N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. With comprehensive services addressing both emergency and long-term needs, we help women achieve stability and make meaningful gains in their housing, income, employment, mental health, physical health, and addiction recovery.
N Street Village - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Real Food for Kids
A group of concerned parents in Fairfax County, Virginia who want to improve FCPS school lunches, to include local and organic foods and farm-to-school programs, and, to educate the school community, students, administrators and parents.
Real Food for Kids - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SHARE Food Network
SHARE Food Network provides nutritious food for everyone in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area. Our food packages are available at prices 40-50% under supermarket prices, making healthy food more affordable. SHARE distributes food through a network of 320 partnering host organizations: churches, tenant associations, senior and day care centers, schools and other community agencies. SHARE depends on these relationships with collaborating organizations to carry out its mission. SHARE is accepting applications for new food sites.
SHARE Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Slow Food DC
Slow Food DC is the DC chapter of Slow Food USA. Slow Food is an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production.
Soilful City
Soilful is a space dedicated to connecting humans to nature through information, ideas, and people in urban environments. Creating Leadership through the wisdom of nature.
Soilful City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SOME (So Others Might Eat)
SOME is an interfaith, community-based organization that exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation’s capital. Each day, SOME is restoring hope and dignity one person at a time. We invite you to join us.
SOME (So Others Might Eat) - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Crossroads Community Food Network is working to improve community health through local food access programs and education for at-risk populations in Maryland’s Takoma/Langley Crossroads area and beyond. Some of CCFN programs include a Farmers Market, healthy eating program, and a microenterprise training program.
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The ECAC builds on the strengths of the community by providing informal and formal gathering space, capturing neighborhood history, engaging new and old residents in civic discourse, and reconnecting the generations of residents.
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The Emergence Community Arts Collective - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
Three Part Harmony Farm
Three Part Harmony Farm is part of a community that grows, sells and eats healthy food. An urban farm on a 2-acre parcel in Northeast Washington, DC, most of its produce is sold through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, and at area stores and restaurants.
Three Part Harmony Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Thrive DC
Thrive DC works to end and prevent homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Brainfood is a non-profit youth development organization in Washington, DC. Using food as a tool, Brainfood builds life skills and promotes healthy living in a fun and safe environment.
The mission of Bread for the City is to provide vulnerable residents of Washington, DC with comprehensive services, including food, clothing, medical care, and legal and social services, in an atmosphere of dignity and respect.
Bread for the City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Bread for the City – City Orchard
City Orchard is our brand new 2.75 acre organic fruit orchard in nearby Beltsville, MD. This orchard contains more than 2,500 trees and bushes, including apple, Asian pear, blueberry, blackberry and strawberry. These plants will yield upwards of 45,000 lbs. of fresh fruit — all of which will be distributed to DC residents in need through Bread for the City’s two food pantry locations.
Bread for the City – City Orchard
Bread for the City – City Orchard - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Capital Area Food Bank
The Capital Area Food Bank is the largest organization in the Washington metro area working to solve hunger and its companion problems: chronic undernutrition, heart disease, and obesity. By partnering with 444 community organizations in DC, MD, and VA, as well as delivering food directly into hard to reach areas, the CAFB is helping 540,000 people each year get access to good, healthy food.
Capital Area Food Bank - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
CentroNía
CentroNía is a nationally recognized, award-winning educational organization that provides affordable, high quality education, professional development and family support services in a bilingual, multicultural environment to more than 1500 children.
Chesapeake Herb Gathering
The Chesapeake Herb Gathering is an annual event organized by Centro Ashé bringing together inter-generational herbal, land-based, and healing communities to celebrate our stories, our knowledge, our culture and traditions.
City Blossoms
City Blossoms is a nonprofit dedicated to fostering healthy communities by developing creative, kid-driven green spaces and innovative resources, approaches, and techniques.
City Blossoms - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Common Good City Farm
Common Good City Farm’s programs provide hands-on training in food production, healthy eating and environmental sustainability. The Farm itself serves as a demonstration site to individuals, organizations and government agencies in the DC Metro area. The site and our programs integrate people of all ages, classes and races to create vibrant and safe communities.
Common Good City Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Common Threads
Founded by Chef Art Smith and artist Jesus Salgueiro in 2003, Common Threads grew out of the belief that family and food have the power to nurture and strengthen us, to connect us to culture and community, and to teach and excite us about our world. Through our hands-on cooking programs and nutrition education, Common Threads provides a preventative health program solution in urban schools.
Common Threads - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Community Food Rescue
Community Food Rescue is the coordinated food recovery system of Montgomery County, Maryland. This system enhances the good work of businesses, individuals, and organizations that already recover and redistribute perfectly good food to people experiencing hunger. Community Good Rescue only provides food recovery in Montgomery County and is seeking volunteer food runners 18+ with vehicles to transport donated food according to your schedule. Please visit https://communityfoodrescue.org/our-mission/volunteer-food-runners/ to learn more and to sign up.
Community Food Rescue - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Community Foodworks
Creating market opportunities for local farmers and food producers in the mid-Atlantic region while increasing access to good, healthy, local food. Through its markets and staff, Community Foodworks works to maintain a strong presence in the communities we serve. We’ve forged strong partnerships with local schools, health clinics, WIC centers, and community groups to project a sense of welcome across the community and introduce families to local food as well as our financial support programs.
Community Foodworks - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Cooking Matters
Cooking Matters helps families to shop for and cook healthy meals on a budget, as part of Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign.
Creative Community Builders, LLC
Creative Community Builders is a Civic & Social organization facilitating community engagement and creative strategic planning. We are rooted in supporting the development of sustainable communities through creative relationship building and mindful resource connections. We aim to build a network of communities that co-create thriving, sustainable support systems through community-led initiatives, sustainable practices and intentional community building practices.
Creative Community Builders, LLC
Cultivate the City
Cultivate the City is urban farmers working to feed families & communities with pesticide-free, locally-grown food by growing vertically. It was created to inspire healthy and sustainable living by empowering communities with tools and training for urban agriculture.
Cultivate the City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC Central Kitchen
DC Central Kitchen is America’s leader in reducing hunger with recycled food, training unemployed adults for culinary careers, serving healthy school meals, and rebuilding urban food systems through social enterprise.
DC Central Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC Food Recovery Working Group
The DC Food Recovery Working Group was created in early 2016 to support overall food recovery efforts in DC and surrounding areas.
DC Food Recovery Working Group
DC Greens
DC Greens uses the power of partnerships to support food education, food access, and food policy in the nation’s capital. It works toward a city where food education is on the menu in every classroom; where doctors write prescriptions for fresh fruits and vegetables as a matter of course; where urban agriculture is a valued element of our cityscape; and where zipcode does not determine life expectancy.
DC State Fair
The DC State Fair is a free showcase of the region’s agricultural and artistic talents.
DC State Fair - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC UrbanGreens, Inc.
DC UrbanGreens’ mission is to feed bodies and nourish minds by increasing accessibility of affordable healthy foods to residents of food desert neighborhoods. A non-profit organization east of the Anacostia River in DC’s Ward 7 and Ward 8, DC UrbanGreens produces chemical-free fruits and vegetables on under-utilitized urban land. The organization employs innovative and scalable methods, techniques and business models to implement small-scale urban agriculture in a fiscally and environmentally sustainable way.
DC UrbanGreens, Inc. - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DPR Urban Garden Division
DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Garden Division works with communities across the District to establish urban Ag projects (currently 31 community gardens and 5 non profit production farms) and urban ag support systems such as a urban garden education program offering over a 100 free classes, a citywide critter proof community compost cooperative iniitiative, a garden toolshare, a greenhouse coop, tree planting intiatives and an urban bee program.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. is a nonprofit social enterprise whose mission is to create economic opportunity within marginalized communities through creating a healthy, equitable food system. We are rebuilding urban, community-based food systems through social enterprise, helping to increase access to healthy food and improve community health, develop low-income entrepreneurs and cooperatives, and train at-risk adult residents for sustainable, family-supporting wages.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
ECO City Farms
ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.
ECO City Farms - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
EcoHermanas
EcoHermanas is a community of women that weaves and reconnects communities to Mother Earth. Together we create a bold sisterhood culture of awareness, energy, and flow around place-based environmental issues, cultivating community and contributing to the greater co-fulfillment of our potential as a whole. We value a deep respect for the Rights of Mother Earth and engage in projects that promote:
Farm To Freezer
Farm to Freezer is a new brand of delicious, healthy, and locally-produced foods from vegetables that are frozen at the peak of ripeness. Your purchase of Farm to Freezer products allows us to provide this nutrient-rich food at deep discount to local hunger relief agencies for those in need.
Farm To Freezer - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Feeding America
The Feeding America network of food banks works with agencies to provide food through pantry and meal programs, which help families, students and seniors facing hunger and poverty make ends meet.
Food and Friends
The mission of Food & Friends is to foster a community caring for men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses by preparing and delivering specialized meals and groceries in conjunction with nutrition counseling.
Food and Friends - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food For All DC
Food for All DC is a non-profit charity that strives to provide food to low income home-bound residents in real need. Our clients are generally elderly citizens, handicapped, or single mothers with young children. The operation is entirely volunteer operated, with the assistance of federal and other agency grants.
Food For All DC - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food Recovery Network
Food Recovery Network unites students on college campuses to fight food waste and hunger by recovering perishable food that would otherwise go to waste from their campuses and communities and donating it to people in need.
Food Recovery Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
FRESHFARM Markets
FreshFarm Markets strive to build and strengthen the local-food movement in the Chesapeake Bay region, using farmers markets to create vibrant urban and community places, providing economic opportunities for farmers and artisanal food producers and showcasing our region’s agricultural bounty. FRESHFARM Markets operates 11 producer-only farmers markets with more than 110 farmers and producers from 5 states who farm more than 9,000 acres.
FRESHFARM Markets - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Green Scheme
The Green Scheme is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization promoting environmental sustainability, health awareness, and social justice. We are improving the trajectory of health, educational and economic outcomes in at-risk communities through training and awareness of environmental issues.
Green Scheme - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Iona’s Senior Services
In Washington DC, Iona Senior Services has a Farm-to-Table program that partners with farmers markets. They glean leftober produce at DC farmers market. The food is sorted, weighed and then distributed at a free market that is set-up and run every week at their congregate meal site. In addition, they hold cooking demonstrations, recipe distribution, and nutrition counseling on site. In addition every Saturday morning, Iona volunteers deliver meals to homebound older adults in northwest DC who are unable to prepare their own meals.
Kid Power
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Little Red Bird Botanicals
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
Manna Food Center
Manna Food Center works to end chronic hunger in Montgomery County, MD.
Manna Food Center - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Martha’s Table
For over 35 years, Martha’s Table has worked to build a better future for children, their families, and neighbors in Washington, DC by increasing access to education, food, and opportunity. Martha’s table programs are divided into three initiatives: healthy start, healthy eating, and healthy connections.
Martha’s Table - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Maryland Food Bank
The Maryland Food Bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization, leading the movement to end hunger throughout Maryland. – See more at: https://mdfoodbank.org/#sthash.RiXk3XDp.dpuf
Maryland Food Bank - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network
The Gleaning Network links farmers who have crops that are edible but not marketable with those who distribute food to the needy through the work of volunteer gleaners. Their staff organizes teams of people to go to local farms to harvest fresh nutritious fruits and vegetables to be given to low income individuals, families, as well as agencies or communities that serve the hungry.
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Miriam’s Kitchen
Miriam’s Kitchen is a nonprofit working to end chronic homelessness in Washington, DC through a variety of programs.
Miriam’s Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Our mission is to bring together a diverse representation of stakeholders in a public and private partnership to improve the environmental, economic, social and nutritional health of Montgomery County, Maryland through the creation of a robust, local, sustainable food system. Our vision is to cultivate a vibrant food system in Montgomery County that consciously produces, distributes, and recycles food, making it accessible to all residents while promoting the health of the local food economy, its consumers, and the environment.
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
N Street Village
N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. With comprehensive services addressing both emergency and long-term needs, we help women achieve stability and make meaningful gains in their housing, income, employment, mental health, physical health, and addiction recovery.
N Street Village - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Real Food for Kids
A group of concerned parents in Fairfax County, Virginia who want to improve FCPS school lunches, to include local and organic foods and farm-to-school programs, and, to educate the school community, students, administrators and parents.
Real Food for Kids - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SHARE Food Network
SHARE Food Network provides nutritious food for everyone in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area. Our food packages are available at prices 40-50% under supermarket prices, making healthy food more affordable. SHARE distributes food through a network of 320 partnering host organizations: churches, tenant associations, senior and day care centers, schools and other community agencies. SHARE depends on these relationships with collaborating organizations to carry out its mission. SHARE is accepting applications for new food sites.
SHARE Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Slow Food DC
Slow Food DC is the DC chapter of Slow Food USA. Slow Food is an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production.
Soilful City
Soilful is a space dedicated to connecting humans to nature through information, ideas, and people in urban environments. Creating Leadership through the wisdom of nature.
Soilful City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SOME (So Others Might Eat)
SOME is an interfaith, community-based organization that exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation’s capital. Each day, SOME is restoring hope and dignity one person at a time. We invite you to join us.
SOME (So Others Might Eat) - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Crossroads Community Food Network is working to improve community health through local food access programs and education for at-risk populations in Maryland’s Takoma/Langley Crossroads area and beyond. Some of CCFN programs include a Farmers Market, healthy eating program, and a microenterprise training program.
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The ECAC builds on the strengths of the community by providing informal and formal gathering space, capturing neighborhood history, engaging new and old residents in civic discourse, and reconnecting the generations of residents.
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The Emergence Community Arts Collective - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
Three Part Harmony Farm
Three Part Harmony Farm is part of a community that grows, sells and eats healthy food. An urban farm on a 2-acre parcel in Northeast Washington, DC, most of its produce is sold through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, and at area stores and restaurants.
Three Part Harmony Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Thrive DC
Thrive DC works to end and prevent homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
City Orchard is our brand new 2.75 acre organic fruit orchard in nearby Beltsville, MD. This orchard contains more than 2,500 trees and bushes, including apple, Asian pear, blueberry, blackberry and strawberry. These plants will yield upwards of 45,000 lbs. of fresh fruit — all of which will be distributed to DC residents in need through Bread for the City’s two food pantry locations.
Bread for the City – City Orchard
Bread for the City – City Orchard - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The Capital Area Food Bank is the largest organization in the Washington metro area working to solve hunger and its companion problems: chronic undernutrition, heart disease, and obesity. By partnering with 444 community organizations in DC, MD, and VA, as well as delivering food directly into hard to reach areas, the CAFB is helping 540,000 people each year get access to good, healthy food.
Capital Area Food Bank - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
CentroNía
CentroNía is a nationally recognized, award-winning educational organization that provides affordable, high quality education, professional development and family support services in a bilingual, multicultural environment to more than 1500 children.
Chesapeake Herb Gathering
The Chesapeake Herb Gathering is an annual event organized by Centro Ashé bringing together inter-generational herbal, land-based, and healing communities to celebrate our stories, our knowledge, our culture and traditions.
City Blossoms
City Blossoms is a nonprofit dedicated to fostering healthy communities by developing creative, kid-driven green spaces and innovative resources, approaches, and techniques.
City Blossoms - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Common Good City Farm
Common Good City Farm’s programs provide hands-on training in food production, healthy eating and environmental sustainability. The Farm itself serves as a demonstration site to individuals, organizations and government agencies in the DC Metro area. The site and our programs integrate people of all ages, classes and races to create vibrant and safe communities.
Common Good City Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Common Threads
Founded by Chef Art Smith and artist Jesus Salgueiro in 2003, Common Threads grew out of the belief that family and food have the power to nurture and strengthen us, to connect us to culture and community, and to teach and excite us about our world. Through our hands-on cooking programs and nutrition education, Common Threads provides a preventative health program solution in urban schools.
Common Threads - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Community Food Rescue
Community Food Rescue is the coordinated food recovery system of Montgomery County, Maryland. This system enhances the good work of businesses, individuals, and organizations that already recover and redistribute perfectly good food to people experiencing hunger. Community Good Rescue only provides food recovery in Montgomery County and is seeking volunteer food runners 18+ with vehicles to transport donated food according to your schedule. Please visit https://communityfoodrescue.org/our-mission/volunteer-food-runners/ to learn more and to sign up.
Community Food Rescue - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Community Foodworks
Creating market opportunities for local farmers and food producers in the mid-Atlantic region while increasing access to good, healthy, local food. Through its markets and staff, Community Foodworks works to maintain a strong presence in the communities we serve. We’ve forged strong partnerships with local schools, health clinics, WIC centers, and community groups to project a sense of welcome across the community and introduce families to local food as well as our financial support programs.
Community Foodworks - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Cooking Matters
Cooking Matters helps families to shop for and cook healthy meals on a budget, as part of Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign.
Creative Community Builders, LLC
Creative Community Builders is a Civic & Social organization facilitating community engagement and creative strategic planning. We are rooted in supporting the development of sustainable communities through creative relationship building and mindful resource connections. We aim to build a network of communities that co-create thriving, sustainable support systems through community-led initiatives, sustainable practices and intentional community building practices.
Creative Community Builders, LLC
Cultivate the City
Cultivate the City is urban farmers working to feed families & communities with pesticide-free, locally-grown food by growing vertically. It was created to inspire healthy and sustainable living by empowering communities with tools and training for urban agriculture.
Cultivate the City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC Central Kitchen
DC Central Kitchen is America’s leader in reducing hunger with recycled food, training unemployed adults for culinary careers, serving healthy school meals, and rebuilding urban food systems through social enterprise.
DC Central Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC Food Recovery Working Group
The DC Food Recovery Working Group was created in early 2016 to support overall food recovery efforts in DC and surrounding areas.
DC Food Recovery Working Group
DC Greens
DC Greens uses the power of partnerships to support food education, food access, and food policy in the nation’s capital. It works toward a city where food education is on the menu in every classroom; where doctors write prescriptions for fresh fruits and vegetables as a matter of course; where urban agriculture is a valued element of our cityscape; and where zipcode does not determine life expectancy.
DC State Fair
The DC State Fair is a free showcase of the region’s agricultural and artistic talents.
DC State Fair - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC UrbanGreens, Inc.
DC UrbanGreens’ mission is to feed bodies and nourish minds by increasing accessibility of affordable healthy foods to residents of food desert neighborhoods. A non-profit organization east of the Anacostia River in DC’s Ward 7 and Ward 8, DC UrbanGreens produces chemical-free fruits and vegetables on under-utilitized urban land. The organization employs innovative and scalable methods, techniques and business models to implement small-scale urban agriculture in a fiscally and environmentally sustainable way.
DC UrbanGreens, Inc. - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DPR Urban Garden Division
DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Garden Division works with communities across the District to establish urban Ag projects (currently 31 community gardens and 5 non profit production farms) and urban ag support systems such as a urban garden education program offering over a 100 free classes, a citywide critter proof community compost cooperative iniitiative, a garden toolshare, a greenhouse coop, tree planting intiatives and an urban bee program.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. is a nonprofit social enterprise whose mission is to create economic opportunity within marginalized communities through creating a healthy, equitable food system. We are rebuilding urban, community-based food systems through social enterprise, helping to increase access to healthy food and improve community health, develop low-income entrepreneurs and cooperatives, and train at-risk adult residents for sustainable, family-supporting wages.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
ECO City Farms
ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.
ECO City Farms - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
EcoHermanas
EcoHermanas is a community of women that weaves and reconnects communities to Mother Earth. Together we create a bold sisterhood culture of awareness, energy, and flow around place-based environmental issues, cultivating community and contributing to the greater co-fulfillment of our potential as a whole. We value a deep respect for the Rights of Mother Earth and engage in projects that promote:
Farm To Freezer
Farm to Freezer is a new brand of delicious, healthy, and locally-produced foods from vegetables that are frozen at the peak of ripeness. Your purchase of Farm to Freezer products allows us to provide this nutrient-rich food at deep discount to local hunger relief agencies for those in need.
Farm To Freezer - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Feeding America
The Feeding America network of food banks works with agencies to provide food through pantry and meal programs, which help families, students and seniors facing hunger and poverty make ends meet.
Food and Friends
The mission of Food & Friends is to foster a community caring for men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses by preparing and delivering specialized meals and groceries in conjunction with nutrition counseling.
Food and Friends - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food For All DC
Food for All DC is a non-profit charity that strives to provide food to low income home-bound residents in real need. Our clients are generally elderly citizens, handicapped, or single mothers with young children. The operation is entirely volunteer operated, with the assistance of federal and other agency grants.
Food For All DC - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food Recovery Network
Food Recovery Network unites students on college campuses to fight food waste and hunger by recovering perishable food that would otherwise go to waste from their campuses and communities and donating it to people in need.
Food Recovery Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
FRESHFARM Markets
FreshFarm Markets strive to build and strengthen the local-food movement in the Chesapeake Bay region, using farmers markets to create vibrant urban and community places, providing economic opportunities for farmers and artisanal food producers and showcasing our region’s agricultural bounty. FRESHFARM Markets operates 11 producer-only farmers markets with more than 110 farmers and producers from 5 states who farm more than 9,000 acres.
FRESHFARM Markets - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Green Scheme
The Green Scheme is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization promoting environmental sustainability, health awareness, and social justice. We are improving the trajectory of health, educational and economic outcomes in at-risk communities through training and awareness of environmental issues.
Green Scheme - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Iona’s Senior Services
In Washington DC, Iona Senior Services has a Farm-to-Table program that partners with farmers markets. They glean leftober produce at DC farmers market. The food is sorted, weighed and then distributed at a free market that is set-up and run every week at their congregate meal site. In addition, they hold cooking demonstrations, recipe distribution, and nutrition counseling on site. In addition every Saturday morning, Iona volunteers deliver meals to homebound older adults in northwest DC who are unable to prepare their own meals.
Kid Power
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Little Red Bird Botanicals
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
Manna Food Center
Manna Food Center works to end chronic hunger in Montgomery County, MD.
Manna Food Center - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Martha’s Table
For over 35 years, Martha’s Table has worked to build a better future for children, their families, and neighbors in Washington, DC by increasing access to education, food, and opportunity. Martha’s table programs are divided into three initiatives: healthy start, healthy eating, and healthy connections.
Martha’s Table - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Maryland Food Bank
The Maryland Food Bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization, leading the movement to end hunger throughout Maryland. – See more at: https://mdfoodbank.org/#sthash.RiXk3XDp.dpuf
Maryland Food Bank - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network
The Gleaning Network links farmers who have crops that are edible but not marketable with those who distribute food to the needy through the work of volunteer gleaners. Their staff organizes teams of people to go to local farms to harvest fresh nutritious fruits and vegetables to be given to low income individuals, families, as well as agencies or communities that serve the hungry.
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Miriam’s Kitchen
Miriam’s Kitchen is a nonprofit working to end chronic homelessness in Washington, DC through a variety of programs.
Miriam’s Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Our mission is to bring together a diverse representation of stakeholders in a public and private partnership to improve the environmental, economic, social and nutritional health of Montgomery County, Maryland through the creation of a robust, local, sustainable food system. Our vision is to cultivate a vibrant food system in Montgomery County that consciously produces, distributes, and recycles food, making it accessible to all residents while promoting the health of the local food economy, its consumers, and the environment.
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
N Street Village
N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. With comprehensive services addressing both emergency and long-term needs, we help women achieve stability and make meaningful gains in their housing, income, employment, mental health, physical health, and addiction recovery.
N Street Village - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Real Food for Kids
A group of concerned parents in Fairfax County, Virginia who want to improve FCPS school lunches, to include local and organic foods and farm-to-school programs, and, to educate the school community, students, administrators and parents.
Real Food for Kids - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SHARE Food Network
SHARE Food Network provides nutritious food for everyone in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area. Our food packages are available at prices 40-50% under supermarket prices, making healthy food more affordable. SHARE distributes food through a network of 320 partnering host organizations: churches, tenant associations, senior and day care centers, schools and other community agencies. SHARE depends on these relationships with collaborating organizations to carry out its mission. SHARE is accepting applications for new food sites.
SHARE Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Slow Food DC
Slow Food DC is the DC chapter of Slow Food USA. Slow Food is an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production.
Soilful City
Soilful is a space dedicated to connecting humans to nature through information, ideas, and people in urban environments. Creating Leadership through the wisdom of nature.
Soilful City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SOME (So Others Might Eat)
SOME is an interfaith, community-based organization that exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation’s capital. Each day, SOME is restoring hope and dignity one person at a time. We invite you to join us.
SOME (So Others Might Eat) - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Crossroads Community Food Network is working to improve community health through local food access programs and education for at-risk populations in Maryland’s Takoma/Langley Crossroads area and beyond. Some of CCFN programs include a Farmers Market, healthy eating program, and a microenterprise training program.
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The ECAC builds on the strengths of the community by providing informal and formal gathering space, capturing neighborhood history, engaging new and old residents in civic discourse, and reconnecting the generations of residents.
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The Emergence Community Arts Collective - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
Three Part Harmony Farm
Three Part Harmony Farm is part of a community that grows, sells and eats healthy food. An urban farm on a 2-acre parcel in Northeast Washington, DC, most of its produce is sold through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, and at area stores and restaurants.
Three Part Harmony Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Thrive DC
Thrive DC works to end and prevent homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
CentroNía is a nationally recognized, award-winning educational organization that provides affordable, high quality education, professional development and family support services in a bilingual, multicultural environment to more than 1500 children.
The Chesapeake Herb Gathering is an annual event organized by Centro Ashé bringing together inter-generational herbal, land-based, and healing communities to celebrate our stories, our knowledge, our culture and traditions.
City Blossoms
City Blossoms is a nonprofit dedicated to fostering healthy communities by developing creative, kid-driven green spaces and innovative resources, approaches, and techniques.
City Blossoms - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Common Good City Farm
Common Good City Farm’s programs provide hands-on training in food production, healthy eating and environmental sustainability. The Farm itself serves as a demonstration site to individuals, organizations and government agencies in the DC Metro area. The site and our programs integrate people of all ages, classes and races to create vibrant and safe communities.
Common Good City Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Common Threads
Founded by Chef Art Smith and artist Jesus Salgueiro in 2003, Common Threads grew out of the belief that family and food have the power to nurture and strengthen us, to connect us to culture and community, and to teach and excite us about our world. Through our hands-on cooking programs and nutrition education, Common Threads provides a preventative health program solution in urban schools.
Common Threads - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Community Food Rescue
Community Food Rescue is the coordinated food recovery system of Montgomery County, Maryland. This system enhances the good work of businesses, individuals, and organizations that already recover and redistribute perfectly good food to people experiencing hunger. Community Good Rescue only provides food recovery in Montgomery County and is seeking volunteer food runners 18+ with vehicles to transport donated food according to your schedule. Please visit https://communityfoodrescue.org/our-mission/volunteer-food-runners/ to learn more and to sign up.
Community Food Rescue - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Community Foodworks
Creating market opportunities for local farmers and food producers in the mid-Atlantic region while increasing access to good, healthy, local food. Through its markets and staff, Community Foodworks works to maintain a strong presence in the communities we serve. We’ve forged strong partnerships with local schools, health clinics, WIC centers, and community groups to project a sense of welcome across the community and introduce families to local food as well as our financial support programs.
Community Foodworks - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Cooking Matters
Cooking Matters helps families to shop for and cook healthy meals on a budget, as part of Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign.
Creative Community Builders, LLC
Creative Community Builders is a Civic & Social organization facilitating community engagement and creative strategic planning. We are rooted in supporting the development of sustainable communities through creative relationship building and mindful resource connections. We aim to build a network of communities that co-create thriving, sustainable support systems through community-led initiatives, sustainable practices and intentional community building practices.
Creative Community Builders, LLC
Cultivate the City
Cultivate the City is urban farmers working to feed families & communities with pesticide-free, locally-grown food by growing vertically. It was created to inspire healthy and sustainable living by empowering communities with tools and training for urban agriculture.
Cultivate the City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC Central Kitchen
DC Central Kitchen is America’s leader in reducing hunger with recycled food, training unemployed adults for culinary careers, serving healthy school meals, and rebuilding urban food systems through social enterprise.
DC Central Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC Food Recovery Working Group
The DC Food Recovery Working Group was created in early 2016 to support overall food recovery efforts in DC and surrounding areas.
DC Food Recovery Working Group
DC Greens
DC Greens uses the power of partnerships to support food education, food access, and food policy in the nation’s capital. It works toward a city where food education is on the menu in every classroom; where doctors write prescriptions for fresh fruits and vegetables as a matter of course; where urban agriculture is a valued element of our cityscape; and where zipcode does not determine life expectancy.
DC State Fair
The DC State Fair is a free showcase of the region’s agricultural and artistic talents.
DC State Fair - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC UrbanGreens, Inc.
DC UrbanGreens’ mission is to feed bodies and nourish minds by increasing accessibility of affordable healthy foods to residents of food desert neighborhoods. A non-profit organization east of the Anacostia River in DC’s Ward 7 and Ward 8, DC UrbanGreens produces chemical-free fruits and vegetables on under-utilitized urban land. The organization employs innovative and scalable methods, techniques and business models to implement small-scale urban agriculture in a fiscally and environmentally sustainable way.
DC UrbanGreens, Inc. - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DPR Urban Garden Division
DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Garden Division works with communities across the District to establish urban Ag projects (currently 31 community gardens and 5 non profit production farms) and urban ag support systems such as a urban garden education program offering over a 100 free classes, a citywide critter proof community compost cooperative iniitiative, a garden toolshare, a greenhouse coop, tree planting intiatives and an urban bee program.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. is a nonprofit social enterprise whose mission is to create economic opportunity within marginalized communities through creating a healthy, equitable food system. We are rebuilding urban, community-based food systems through social enterprise, helping to increase access to healthy food and improve community health, develop low-income entrepreneurs and cooperatives, and train at-risk adult residents for sustainable, family-supporting wages.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
ECO City Farms
ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.
ECO City Farms - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
EcoHermanas
EcoHermanas is a community of women that weaves and reconnects communities to Mother Earth. Together we create a bold sisterhood culture of awareness, energy, and flow around place-based environmental issues, cultivating community and contributing to the greater co-fulfillment of our potential as a whole. We value a deep respect for the Rights of Mother Earth and engage in projects that promote:
Farm To Freezer
Farm to Freezer is a new brand of delicious, healthy, and locally-produced foods from vegetables that are frozen at the peak of ripeness. Your purchase of Farm to Freezer products allows us to provide this nutrient-rich food at deep discount to local hunger relief agencies for those in need.
Farm To Freezer - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Feeding America
The Feeding America network of food banks works with agencies to provide food through pantry and meal programs, which help families, students and seniors facing hunger and poverty make ends meet.
Food and Friends
The mission of Food & Friends is to foster a community caring for men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses by preparing and delivering specialized meals and groceries in conjunction with nutrition counseling.
Food and Friends - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food For All DC
Food for All DC is a non-profit charity that strives to provide food to low income home-bound residents in real need. Our clients are generally elderly citizens, handicapped, or single mothers with young children. The operation is entirely volunteer operated, with the assistance of federal and other agency grants.
Food For All DC - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food Recovery Network
Food Recovery Network unites students on college campuses to fight food waste and hunger by recovering perishable food that would otherwise go to waste from their campuses and communities and donating it to people in need.
Food Recovery Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
FRESHFARM Markets
FreshFarm Markets strive to build and strengthen the local-food movement in the Chesapeake Bay region, using farmers markets to create vibrant urban and community places, providing economic opportunities for farmers and artisanal food producers and showcasing our region’s agricultural bounty. FRESHFARM Markets operates 11 producer-only farmers markets with more than 110 farmers and producers from 5 states who farm more than 9,000 acres.
FRESHFARM Markets - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Green Scheme
The Green Scheme is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization promoting environmental sustainability, health awareness, and social justice. We are improving the trajectory of health, educational and economic outcomes in at-risk communities through training and awareness of environmental issues.
Green Scheme - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Iona’s Senior Services
In Washington DC, Iona Senior Services has a Farm-to-Table program that partners with farmers markets. They glean leftober produce at DC farmers market. The food is sorted, weighed and then distributed at a free market that is set-up and run every week at their congregate meal site. In addition, they hold cooking demonstrations, recipe distribution, and nutrition counseling on site. In addition every Saturday morning, Iona volunteers deliver meals to homebound older adults in northwest DC who are unable to prepare their own meals.
Kid Power
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Little Red Bird Botanicals
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
Manna Food Center
Manna Food Center works to end chronic hunger in Montgomery County, MD.
Manna Food Center - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Martha’s Table
For over 35 years, Martha’s Table has worked to build a better future for children, their families, and neighbors in Washington, DC by increasing access to education, food, and opportunity. Martha’s table programs are divided into three initiatives: healthy start, healthy eating, and healthy connections.
Martha’s Table - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Maryland Food Bank
The Maryland Food Bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization, leading the movement to end hunger throughout Maryland. – See more at: https://mdfoodbank.org/#sthash.RiXk3XDp.dpuf
Maryland Food Bank - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network
The Gleaning Network links farmers who have crops that are edible but not marketable with those who distribute food to the needy through the work of volunteer gleaners. Their staff organizes teams of people to go to local farms to harvest fresh nutritious fruits and vegetables to be given to low income individuals, families, as well as agencies or communities that serve the hungry.
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Miriam’s Kitchen
Miriam’s Kitchen is a nonprofit working to end chronic homelessness in Washington, DC through a variety of programs.
Miriam’s Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Our mission is to bring together a diverse representation of stakeholders in a public and private partnership to improve the environmental, economic, social and nutritional health of Montgomery County, Maryland through the creation of a robust, local, sustainable food system. Our vision is to cultivate a vibrant food system in Montgomery County that consciously produces, distributes, and recycles food, making it accessible to all residents while promoting the health of the local food economy, its consumers, and the environment.
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
N Street Village
N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. With comprehensive services addressing both emergency and long-term needs, we help women achieve stability and make meaningful gains in their housing, income, employment, mental health, physical health, and addiction recovery.
N Street Village - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Real Food for Kids
A group of concerned parents in Fairfax County, Virginia who want to improve FCPS school lunches, to include local and organic foods and farm-to-school programs, and, to educate the school community, students, administrators and parents.
Real Food for Kids - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SHARE Food Network
SHARE Food Network provides nutritious food for everyone in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area. Our food packages are available at prices 40-50% under supermarket prices, making healthy food more affordable. SHARE distributes food through a network of 320 partnering host organizations: churches, tenant associations, senior and day care centers, schools and other community agencies. SHARE depends on these relationships with collaborating organizations to carry out its mission. SHARE is accepting applications for new food sites.
SHARE Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Slow Food DC
Slow Food DC is the DC chapter of Slow Food USA. Slow Food is an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production.
Soilful City
Soilful is a space dedicated to connecting humans to nature through information, ideas, and people in urban environments. Creating Leadership through the wisdom of nature.
Soilful City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SOME (So Others Might Eat)
SOME is an interfaith, community-based organization that exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation’s capital. Each day, SOME is restoring hope and dignity one person at a time. We invite you to join us.
SOME (So Others Might Eat) - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Crossroads Community Food Network is working to improve community health through local food access programs and education for at-risk populations in Maryland’s Takoma/Langley Crossroads area and beyond. Some of CCFN programs include a Farmers Market, healthy eating program, and a microenterprise training program.
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The ECAC builds on the strengths of the community by providing informal and formal gathering space, capturing neighborhood history, engaging new and old residents in civic discourse, and reconnecting the generations of residents.
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The Emergence Community Arts Collective - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
Three Part Harmony Farm
Three Part Harmony Farm is part of a community that grows, sells and eats healthy food. An urban farm on a 2-acre parcel in Northeast Washington, DC, most of its produce is sold through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, and at area stores and restaurants.
Three Part Harmony Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Thrive DC
Thrive DC works to end and prevent homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
City Blossoms is a nonprofit dedicated to fostering healthy communities by developing creative, kid-driven green spaces and innovative resources, approaches, and techniques.
City Blossoms - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Common Good City Farm’s programs provide hands-on training in food production, healthy eating and environmental sustainability. The Farm itself serves as a demonstration site to individuals, organizations and government agencies in the DC Metro area. The site and our programs integrate people of all ages, classes and races to create vibrant and safe communities.
Common Good City Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Common Threads
Founded by Chef Art Smith and artist Jesus Salgueiro in 2003, Common Threads grew out of the belief that family and food have the power to nurture and strengthen us, to connect us to culture and community, and to teach and excite us about our world. Through our hands-on cooking programs and nutrition education, Common Threads provides a preventative health program solution in urban schools.
Common Threads - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Community Food Rescue
Community Food Rescue is the coordinated food recovery system of Montgomery County, Maryland. This system enhances the good work of businesses, individuals, and organizations that already recover and redistribute perfectly good food to people experiencing hunger. Community Good Rescue only provides food recovery in Montgomery County and is seeking volunteer food runners 18+ with vehicles to transport donated food according to your schedule. Please visit https://communityfoodrescue.org/our-mission/volunteer-food-runners/ to learn more and to sign up.
Community Food Rescue - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Community Foodworks
Creating market opportunities for local farmers and food producers in the mid-Atlantic region while increasing access to good, healthy, local food. Through its markets and staff, Community Foodworks works to maintain a strong presence in the communities we serve. We’ve forged strong partnerships with local schools, health clinics, WIC centers, and community groups to project a sense of welcome across the community and introduce families to local food as well as our financial support programs.
Community Foodworks - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Cooking Matters
Cooking Matters helps families to shop for and cook healthy meals on a budget, as part of Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign.
Creative Community Builders, LLC
Creative Community Builders is a Civic & Social organization facilitating community engagement and creative strategic planning. We are rooted in supporting the development of sustainable communities through creative relationship building and mindful resource connections. We aim to build a network of communities that co-create thriving, sustainable support systems through community-led initiatives, sustainable practices and intentional community building practices.
Creative Community Builders, LLC
Cultivate the City
Cultivate the City is urban farmers working to feed families & communities with pesticide-free, locally-grown food by growing vertically. It was created to inspire healthy and sustainable living by empowering communities with tools and training for urban agriculture.
Cultivate the City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC Central Kitchen
DC Central Kitchen is America’s leader in reducing hunger with recycled food, training unemployed adults for culinary careers, serving healthy school meals, and rebuilding urban food systems through social enterprise.
DC Central Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC Food Recovery Working Group
The DC Food Recovery Working Group was created in early 2016 to support overall food recovery efforts in DC and surrounding areas.
DC Food Recovery Working Group
DC Greens
DC Greens uses the power of partnerships to support food education, food access, and food policy in the nation’s capital. It works toward a city where food education is on the menu in every classroom; where doctors write prescriptions for fresh fruits and vegetables as a matter of course; where urban agriculture is a valued element of our cityscape; and where zipcode does not determine life expectancy.
DC State Fair
The DC State Fair is a free showcase of the region’s agricultural and artistic talents.
DC State Fair - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC UrbanGreens, Inc.
DC UrbanGreens’ mission is to feed bodies and nourish minds by increasing accessibility of affordable healthy foods to residents of food desert neighborhoods. A non-profit organization east of the Anacostia River in DC’s Ward 7 and Ward 8, DC UrbanGreens produces chemical-free fruits and vegetables on under-utilitized urban land. The organization employs innovative and scalable methods, techniques and business models to implement small-scale urban agriculture in a fiscally and environmentally sustainable way.
DC UrbanGreens, Inc. - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DPR Urban Garden Division
DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Garden Division works with communities across the District to establish urban Ag projects (currently 31 community gardens and 5 non profit production farms) and urban ag support systems such as a urban garden education program offering over a 100 free classes, a citywide critter proof community compost cooperative iniitiative, a garden toolshare, a greenhouse coop, tree planting intiatives and an urban bee program.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. is a nonprofit social enterprise whose mission is to create economic opportunity within marginalized communities through creating a healthy, equitable food system. We are rebuilding urban, community-based food systems through social enterprise, helping to increase access to healthy food and improve community health, develop low-income entrepreneurs and cooperatives, and train at-risk adult residents for sustainable, family-supporting wages.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
ECO City Farms
ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.
ECO City Farms - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
EcoHermanas
EcoHermanas is a community of women that weaves and reconnects communities to Mother Earth. Together we create a bold sisterhood culture of awareness, energy, and flow around place-based environmental issues, cultivating community and contributing to the greater co-fulfillment of our potential as a whole. We value a deep respect for the Rights of Mother Earth and engage in projects that promote:
Farm To Freezer
Farm to Freezer is a new brand of delicious, healthy, and locally-produced foods from vegetables that are frozen at the peak of ripeness. Your purchase of Farm to Freezer products allows us to provide this nutrient-rich food at deep discount to local hunger relief agencies for those in need.
Farm To Freezer - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Feeding America
The Feeding America network of food banks works with agencies to provide food through pantry and meal programs, which help families, students and seniors facing hunger and poverty make ends meet.
Food and Friends
The mission of Food & Friends is to foster a community caring for men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses by preparing and delivering specialized meals and groceries in conjunction with nutrition counseling.
Food and Friends - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food For All DC
Food for All DC is a non-profit charity that strives to provide food to low income home-bound residents in real need. Our clients are generally elderly citizens, handicapped, or single mothers with young children. The operation is entirely volunteer operated, with the assistance of federal and other agency grants.
Food For All DC - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food Recovery Network
Food Recovery Network unites students on college campuses to fight food waste and hunger by recovering perishable food that would otherwise go to waste from their campuses and communities and donating it to people in need.
Food Recovery Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
FRESHFARM Markets
FreshFarm Markets strive to build and strengthen the local-food movement in the Chesapeake Bay region, using farmers markets to create vibrant urban and community places, providing economic opportunities for farmers and artisanal food producers and showcasing our region’s agricultural bounty. FRESHFARM Markets operates 11 producer-only farmers markets with more than 110 farmers and producers from 5 states who farm more than 9,000 acres.
FRESHFARM Markets - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Green Scheme
The Green Scheme is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization promoting environmental sustainability, health awareness, and social justice. We are improving the trajectory of health, educational and economic outcomes in at-risk communities through training and awareness of environmental issues.
Green Scheme - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Iona’s Senior Services
In Washington DC, Iona Senior Services has a Farm-to-Table program that partners with farmers markets. They glean leftober produce at DC farmers market. The food is sorted, weighed and then distributed at a free market that is set-up and run every week at their congregate meal site. In addition, they hold cooking demonstrations, recipe distribution, and nutrition counseling on site. In addition every Saturday morning, Iona volunteers deliver meals to homebound older adults in northwest DC who are unable to prepare their own meals.
Kid Power
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Little Red Bird Botanicals
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
Manna Food Center
Manna Food Center works to end chronic hunger in Montgomery County, MD.
Manna Food Center - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Martha’s Table
For over 35 years, Martha’s Table has worked to build a better future for children, their families, and neighbors in Washington, DC by increasing access to education, food, and opportunity. Martha’s table programs are divided into three initiatives: healthy start, healthy eating, and healthy connections.
Martha’s Table - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Maryland Food Bank
The Maryland Food Bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization, leading the movement to end hunger throughout Maryland. – See more at: https://mdfoodbank.org/#sthash.RiXk3XDp.dpuf
Maryland Food Bank - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network
The Gleaning Network links farmers who have crops that are edible but not marketable with those who distribute food to the needy through the work of volunteer gleaners. Their staff organizes teams of people to go to local farms to harvest fresh nutritious fruits and vegetables to be given to low income individuals, families, as well as agencies or communities that serve the hungry.
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Miriam’s Kitchen
Miriam’s Kitchen is a nonprofit working to end chronic homelessness in Washington, DC through a variety of programs.
Miriam’s Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Our mission is to bring together a diverse representation of stakeholders in a public and private partnership to improve the environmental, economic, social and nutritional health of Montgomery County, Maryland through the creation of a robust, local, sustainable food system. Our vision is to cultivate a vibrant food system in Montgomery County that consciously produces, distributes, and recycles food, making it accessible to all residents while promoting the health of the local food economy, its consumers, and the environment.
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
N Street Village
N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. With comprehensive services addressing both emergency and long-term needs, we help women achieve stability and make meaningful gains in their housing, income, employment, mental health, physical health, and addiction recovery.
N Street Village - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Real Food for Kids
A group of concerned parents in Fairfax County, Virginia who want to improve FCPS school lunches, to include local and organic foods and farm-to-school programs, and, to educate the school community, students, administrators and parents.
Real Food for Kids - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SHARE Food Network
SHARE Food Network provides nutritious food for everyone in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area. Our food packages are available at prices 40-50% under supermarket prices, making healthy food more affordable. SHARE distributes food through a network of 320 partnering host organizations: churches, tenant associations, senior and day care centers, schools and other community agencies. SHARE depends on these relationships with collaborating organizations to carry out its mission. SHARE is accepting applications for new food sites.
SHARE Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Slow Food DC
Slow Food DC is the DC chapter of Slow Food USA. Slow Food is an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production.
Soilful City
Soilful is a space dedicated to connecting humans to nature through information, ideas, and people in urban environments. Creating Leadership through the wisdom of nature.
Soilful City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SOME (So Others Might Eat)
SOME is an interfaith, community-based organization that exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation’s capital. Each day, SOME is restoring hope and dignity one person at a time. We invite you to join us.
SOME (So Others Might Eat) - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Crossroads Community Food Network is working to improve community health through local food access programs and education for at-risk populations in Maryland’s Takoma/Langley Crossroads area and beyond. Some of CCFN programs include a Farmers Market, healthy eating program, and a microenterprise training program.
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The ECAC builds on the strengths of the community by providing informal and formal gathering space, capturing neighborhood history, engaging new and old residents in civic discourse, and reconnecting the generations of residents.
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The Emergence Community Arts Collective - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
Three Part Harmony Farm
Three Part Harmony Farm is part of a community that grows, sells and eats healthy food. An urban farm on a 2-acre parcel in Northeast Washington, DC, most of its produce is sold through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, and at area stores and restaurants.
Three Part Harmony Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Thrive DC
Thrive DC works to end and prevent homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Founded by Chef Art Smith and artist Jesus Salgueiro in 2003, Common Threads grew out of the belief that family and food have the power to nurture and strengthen us, to connect us to culture and community, and to teach and excite us about our world. Through our hands-on cooking programs and nutrition education, Common Threads provides a preventative health program solution in urban schools.
Common Threads - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Community Food Rescue is the coordinated food recovery system of Montgomery County, Maryland. This system enhances the good work of businesses, individuals, and organizations that already recover and redistribute perfectly good food to people experiencing hunger. Community Good Rescue only provides food recovery in Montgomery County and is seeking volunteer food runners 18+ with vehicles to transport donated food according to your schedule. Please visit https://communityfoodrescue.org/our-mission/volunteer-food-runners/ to learn more and to sign up.
Community Food Rescue - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Community Foodworks
Creating market opportunities for local farmers and food producers in the mid-Atlantic region while increasing access to good, healthy, local food. Through its markets and staff, Community Foodworks works to maintain a strong presence in the communities we serve. We’ve forged strong partnerships with local schools, health clinics, WIC centers, and community groups to project a sense of welcome across the community and introduce families to local food as well as our financial support programs.
Community Foodworks - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Cooking Matters
Cooking Matters helps families to shop for and cook healthy meals on a budget, as part of Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign.
Creative Community Builders, LLC
Creative Community Builders is a Civic & Social organization facilitating community engagement and creative strategic planning. We are rooted in supporting the development of sustainable communities through creative relationship building and mindful resource connections. We aim to build a network of communities that co-create thriving, sustainable support systems through community-led initiatives, sustainable practices and intentional community building practices.
Creative Community Builders, LLC
Cultivate the City
Cultivate the City is urban farmers working to feed families & communities with pesticide-free, locally-grown food by growing vertically. It was created to inspire healthy and sustainable living by empowering communities with tools and training for urban agriculture.
Cultivate the City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC Central Kitchen
DC Central Kitchen is America’s leader in reducing hunger with recycled food, training unemployed adults for culinary careers, serving healthy school meals, and rebuilding urban food systems through social enterprise.
DC Central Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC Food Recovery Working Group
The DC Food Recovery Working Group was created in early 2016 to support overall food recovery efforts in DC and surrounding areas.
DC Food Recovery Working Group
DC Greens
DC Greens uses the power of partnerships to support food education, food access, and food policy in the nation’s capital. It works toward a city where food education is on the menu in every classroom; where doctors write prescriptions for fresh fruits and vegetables as a matter of course; where urban agriculture is a valued element of our cityscape; and where zipcode does not determine life expectancy.
DC State Fair
The DC State Fair is a free showcase of the region’s agricultural and artistic talents.
DC State Fair - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC UrbanGreens, Inc.
DC UrbanGreens’ mission is to feed bodies and nourish minds by increasing accessibility of affordable healthy foods to residents of food desert neighborhoods. A non-profit organization east of the Anacostia River in DC’s Ward 7 and Ward 8, DC UrbanGreens produces chemical-free fruits and vegetables on under-utilitized urban land. The organization employs innovative and scalable methods, techniques and business models to implement small-scale urban agriculture in a fiscally and environmentally sustainable way.
DC UrbanGreens, Inc. - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DPR Urban Garden Division
DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Garden Division works with communities across the District to establish urban Ag projects (currently 31 community gardens and 5 non profit production farms) and urban ag support systems such as a urban garden education program offering over a 100 free classes, a citywide critter proof community compost cooperative iniitiative, a garden toolshare, a greenhouse coop, tree planting intiatives and an urban bee program.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. is a nonprofit social enterprise whose mission is to create economic opportunity within marginalized communities through creating a healthy, equitable food system. We are rebuilding urban, community-based food systems through social enterprise, helping to increase access to healthy food and improve community health, develop low-income entrepreneurs and cooperatives, and train at-risk adult residents for sustainable, family-supporting wages.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
ECO City Farms
ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.
ECO City Farms - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
EcoHermanas
EcoHermanas is a community of women that weaves and reconnects communities to Mother Earth. Together we create a bold sisterhood culture of awareness, energy, and flow around place-based environmental issues, cultivating community and contributing to the greater co-fulfillment of our potential as a whole. We value a deep respect for the Rights of Mother Earth and engage in projects that promote:
Farm To Freezer
Farm to Freezer is a new brand of delicious, healthy, and locally-produced foods from vegetables that are frozen at the peak of ripeness. Your purchase of Farm to Freezer products allows us to provide this nutrient-rich food at deep discount to local hunger relief agencies for those in need.
Farm To Freezer - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Feeding America
The Feeding America network of food banks works with agencies to provide food through pantry and meal programs, which help families, students and seniors facing hunger and poverty make ends meet.
Food and Friends
The mission of Food & Friends is to foster a community caring for men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses by preparing and delivering specialized meals and groceries in conjunction with nutrition counseling.
Food and Friends - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food For All DC
Food for All DC is a non-profit charity that strives to provide food to low income home-bound residents in real need. Our clients are generally elderly citizens, handicapped, or single mothers with young children. The operation is entirely volunteer operated, with the assistance of federal and other agency grants.
Food For All DC - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food Recovery Network
Food Recovery Network unites students on college campuses to fight food waste and hunger by recovering perishable food that would otherwise go to waste from their campuses and communities and donating it to people in need.
Food Recovery Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
FRESHFARM Markets
FreshFarm Markets strive to build and strengthen the local-food movement in the Chesapeake Bay region, using farmers markets to create vibrant urban and community places, providing economic opportunities for farmers and artisanal food producers and showcasing our region’s agricultural bounty. FRESHFARM Markets operates 11 producer-only farmers markets with more than 110 farmers and producers from 5 states who farm more than 9,000 acres.
FRESHFARM Markets - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Green Scheme
The Green Scheme is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization promoting environmental sustainability, health awareness, and social justice. We are improving the trajectory of health, educational and economic outcomes in at-risk communities through training and awareness of environmental issues.
Green Scheme - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Iona’s Senior Services
In Washington DC, Iona Senior Services has a Farm-to-Table program that partners with farmers markets. They glean leftober produce at DC farmers market. The food is sorted, weighed and then distributed at a free market that is set-up and run every week at their congregate meal site. In addition, they hold cooking demonstrations, recipe distribution, and nutrition counseling on site. In addition every Saturday morning, Iona volunteers deliver meals to homebound older adults in northwest DC who are unable to prepare their own meals.
Kid Power
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Little Red Bird Botanicals
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
Manna Food Center
Manna Food Center works to end chronic hunger in Montgomery County, MD.
Manna Food Center - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Martha’s Table
For over 35 years, Martha’s Table has worked to build a better future for children, their families, and neighbors in Washington, DC by increasing access to education, food, and opportunity. Martha’s table programs are divided into three initiatives: healthy start, healthy eating, and healthy connections.
Martha’s Table - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Maryland Food Bank
The Maryland Food Bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization, leading the movement to end hunger throughout Maryland. – See more at: https://mdfoodbank.org/#sthash.RiXk3XDp.dpuf
Maryland Food Bank - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network
The Gleaning Network links farmers who have crops that are edible but not marketable with those who distribute food to the needy through the work of volunteer gleaners. Their staff organizes teams of people to go to local farms to harvest fresh nutritious fruits and vegetables to be given to low income individuals, families, as well as agencies or communities that serve the hungry.
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Miriam’s Kitchen
Miriam’s Kitchen is a nonprofit working to end chronic homelessness in Washington, DC through a variety of programs.
Miriam’s Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Our mission is to bring together a diverse representation of stakeholders in a public and private partnership to improve the environmental, economic, social and nutritional health of Montgomery County, Maryland through the creation of a robust, local, sustainable food system. Our vision is to cultivate a vibrant food system in Montgomery County that consciously produces, distributes, and recycles food, making it accessible to all residents while promoting the health of the local food economy, its consumers, and the environment.
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
N Street Village
N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. With comprehensive services addressing both emergency and long-term needs, we help women achieve stability and make meaningful gains in their housing, income, employment, mental health, physical health, and addiction recovery.
N Street Village - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Real Food for Kids
A group of concerned parents in Fairfax County, Virginia who want to improve FCPS school lunches, to include local and organic foods and farm-to-school programs, and, to educate the school community, students, administrators and parents.
Real Food for Kids - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SHARE Food Network
SHARE Food Network provides nutritious food for everyone in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area. Our food packages are available at prices 40-50% under supermarket prices, making healthy food more affordable. SHARE distributes food through a network of 320 partnering host organizations: churches, tenant associations, senior and day care centers, schools and other community agencies. SHARE depends on these relationships with collaborating organizations to carry out its mission. SHARE is accepting applications for new food sites.
SHARE Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Slow Food DC
Slow Food DC is the DC chapter of Slow Food USA. Slow Food is an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production.
Soilful City
Soilful is a space dedicated to connecting humans to nature through information, ideas, and people in urban environments. Creating Leadership through the wisdom of nature.
Soilful City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SOME (So Others Might Eat)
SOME is an interfaith, community-based organization that exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation’s capital. Each day, SOME is restoring hope and dignity one person at a time. We invite you to join us.
SOME (So Others Might Eat) - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Crossroads Community Food Network is working to improve community health through local food access programs and education for at-risk populations in Maryland’s Takoma/Langley Crossroads area and beyond. Some of CCFN programs include a Farmers Market, healthy eating program, and a microenterprise training program.
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The ECAC builds on the strengths of the community by providing informal and formal gathering space, capturing neighborhood history, engaging new and old residents in civic discourse, and reconnecting the generations of residents.
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The Emergence Community Arts Collective - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
Three Part Harmony Farm
Three Part Harmony Farm is part of a community that grows, sells and eats healthy food. An urban farm on a 2-acre parcel in Northeast Washington, DC, most of its produce is sold through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, and at area stores and restaurants.
Three Part Harmony Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Thrive DC
Thrive DC works to end and prevent homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Creating market opportunities for local farmers and food producers in the mid-Atlantic region while increasing access to good, healthy, local food. Through its markets and staff, Community Foodworks works to maintain a strong presence in the communities we serve. We’ve forged strong partnerships with local schools, health clinics, WIC centers, and community groups to project a sense of welcome across the community and introduce families to local food as well as our financial support programs.
Community Foodworks - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Cooking Matters helps families to shop for and cook healthy meals on a budget, as part of Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign.
Creative Community Builders, LLC
Creative Community Builders is a Civic & Social organization facilitating community engagement and creative strategic planning. We are rooted in supporting the development of sustainable communities through creative relationship building and mindful resource connections. We aim to build a network of communities that co-create thriving, sustainable support systems through community-led initiatives, sustainable practices and intentional community building practices.
Creative Community Builders, LLC
Cultivate the City
Cultivate the City is urban farmers working to feed families & communities with pesticide-free, locally-grown food by growing vertically. It was created to inspire healthy and sustainable living by empowering communities with tools and training for urban agriculture.
Cultivate the City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC Central Kitchen
DC Central Kitchen is America’s leader in reducing hunger with recycled food, training unemployed adults for culinary careers, serving healthy school meals, and rebuilding urban food systems through social enterprise.
DC Central Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC Food Recovery Working Group
The DC Food Recovery Working Group was created in early 2016 to support overall food recovery efforts in DC and surrounding areas.
DC Food Recovery Working Group
DC Greens
DC Greens uses the power of partnerships to support food education, food access, and food policy in the nation’s capital. It works toward a city where food education is on the menu in every classroom; where doctors write prescriptions for fresh fruits and vegetables as a matter of course; where urban agriculture is a valued element of our cityscape; and where zipcode does not determine life expectancy.
DC State Fair
The DC State Fair is a free showcase of the region’s agricultural and artistic talents.
DC State Fair - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC UrbanGreens, Inc.
DC UrbanGreens’ mission is to feed bodies and nourish minds by increasing accessibility of affordable healthy foods to residents of food desert neighborhoods. A non-profit organization east of the Anacostia River in DC’s Ward 7 and Ward 8, DC UrbanGreens produces chemical-free fruits and vegetables on under-utilitized urban land. The organization employs innovative and scalable methods, techniques and business models to implement small-scale urban agriculture in a fiscally and environmentally sustainable way.
DC UrbanGreens, Inc. - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DPR Urban Garden Division
DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Garden Division works with communities across the District to establish urban Ag projects (currently 31 community gardens and 5 non profit production farms) and urban ag support systems such as a urban garden education program offering over a 100 free classes, a citywide critter proof community compost cooperative iniitiative, a garden toolshare, a greenhouse coop, tree planting intiatives and an urban bee program.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. is a nonprofit social enterprise whose mission is to create economic opportunity within marginalized communities through creating a healthy, equitable food system. We are rebuilding urban, community-based food systems through social enterprise, helping to increase access to healthy food and improve community health, develop low-income entrepreneurs and cooperatives, and train at-risk adult residents for sustainable, family-supporting wages.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
ECO City Farms
ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.
ECO City Farms - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
EcoHermanas
EcoHermanas is a community of women that weaves and reconnects communities to Mother Earth. Together we create a bold sisterhood culture of awareness, energy, and flow around place-based environmental issues, cultivating community and contributing to the greater co-fulfillment of our potential as a whole. We value a deep respect for the Rights of Mother Earth and engage in projects that promote:
Farm To Freezer
Farm to Freezer is a new brand of delicious, healthy, and locally-produced foods from vegetables that are frozen at the peak of ripeness. Your purchase of Farm to Freezer products allows us to provide this nutrient-rich food at deep discount to local hunger relief agencies for those in need.
Farm To Freezer - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Feeding America
The Feeding America network of food banks works with agencies to provide food through pantry and meal programs, which help families, students and seniors facing hunger and poverty make ends meet.
Food and Friends
The mission of Food & Friends is to foster a community caring for men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses by preparing and delivering specialized meals and groceries in conjunction with nutrition counseling.
Food and Friends - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food For All DC
Food for All DC is a non-profit charity that strives to provide food to low income home-bound residents in real need. Our clients are generally elderly citizens, handicapped, or single mothers with young children. The operation is entirely volunteer operated, with the assistance of federal and other agency grants.
Food For All DC - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food Recovery Network
Food Recovery Network unites students on college campuses to fight food waste and hunger by recovering perishable food that would otherwise go to waste from their campuses and communities and donating it to people in need.
Food Recovery Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
FRESHFARM Markets
FreshFarm Markets strive to build and strengthen the local-food movement in the Chesapeake Bay region, using farmers markets to create vibrant urban and community places, providing economic opportunities for farmers and artisanal food producers and showcasing our region’s agricultural bounty. FRESHFARM Markets operates 11 producer-only farmers markets with more than 110 farmers and producers from 5 states who farm more than 9,000 acres.
FRESHFARM Markets - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Green Scheme
The Green Scheme is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization promoting environmental sustainability, health awareness, and social justice. We are improving the trajectory of health, educational and economic outcomes in at-risk communities through training and awareness of environmental issues.
Green Scheme - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Iona’s Senior Services
In Washington DC, Iona Senior Services has a Farm-to-Table program that partners with farmers markets. They glean leftober produce at DC farmers market. The food is sorted, weighed and then distributed at a free market that is set-up and run every week at their congregate meal site. In addition, they hold cooking demonstrations, recipe distribution, and nutrition counseling on site. In addition every Saturday morning, Iona volunteers deliver meals to homebound older adults in northwest DC who are unable to prepare their own meals.
Kid Power
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Little Red Bird Botanicals
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
Manna Food Center
Manna Food Center works to end chronic hunger in Montgomery County, MD.
Manna Food Center - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Martha’s Table
For over 35 years, Martha’s Table has worked to build a better future for children, their families, and neighbors in Washington, DC by increasing access to education, food, and opportunity. Martha’s table programs are divided into three initiatives: healthy start, healthy eating, and healthy connections.
Martha’s Table - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Maryland Food Bank
The Maryland Food Bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization, leading the movement to end hunger throughout Maryland. – See more at: https://mdfoodbank.org/#sthash.RiXk3XDp.dpuf
Maryland Food Bank - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network
The Gleaning Network links farmers who have crops that are edible but not marketable with those who distribute food to the needy through the work of volunteer gleaners. Their staff organizes teams of people to go to local farms to harvest fresh nutritious fruits and vegetables to be given to low income individuals, families, as well as agencies or communities that serve the hungry.
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Miriam’s Kitchen
Miriam’s Kitchen is a nonprofit working to end chronic homelessness in Washington, DC through a variety of programs.
Miriam’s Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Our mission is to bring together a diverse representation of stakeholders in a public and private partnership to improve the environmental, economic, social and nutritional health of Montgomery County, Maryland through the creation of a robust, local, sustainable food system. Our vision is to cultivate a vibrant food system in Montgomery County that consciously produces, distributes, and recycles food, making it accessible to all residents while promoting the health of the local food economy, its consumers, and the environment.
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
N Street Village
N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. With comprehensive services addressing both emergency and long-term needs, we help women achieve stability and make meaningful gains in their housing, income, employment, mental health, physical health, and addiction recovery.
N Street Village - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Real Food for Kids
A group of concerned parents in Fairfax County, Virginia who want to improve FCPS school lunches, to include local and organic foods and farm-to-school programs, and, to educate the school community, students, administrators and parents.
Real Food for Kids - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SHARE Food Network
SHARE Food Network provides nutritious food for everyone in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area. Our food packages are available at prices 40-50% under supermarket prices, making healthy food more affordable. SHARE distributes food through a network of 320 partnering host organizations: churches, tenant associations, senior and day care centers, schools and other community agencies. SHARE depends on these relationships with collaborating organizations to carry out its mission. SHARE is accepting applications for new food sites.
SHARE Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Slow Food DC
Slow Food DC is the DC chapter of Slow Food USA. Slow Food is an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production.
Soilful City
Soilful is a space dedicated to connecting humans to nature through information, ideas, and people in urban environments. Creating Leadership through the wisdom of nature.
Soilful City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SOME (So Others Might Eat)
SOME is an interfaith, community-based organization that exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation’s capital. Each day, SOME is restoring hope and dignity one person at a time. We invite you to join us.
SOME (So Others Might Eat) - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Crossroads Community Food Network is working to improve community health through local food access programs and education for at-risk populations in Maryland’s Takoma/Langley Crossroads area and beyond. Some of CCFN programs include a Farmers Market, healthy eating program, and a microenterprise training program.
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The ECAC builds on the strengths of the community by providing informal and formal gathering space, capturing neighborhood history, engaging new and old residents in civic discourse, and reconnecting the generations of residents.
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The Emergence Community Arts Collective - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
Three Part Harmony Farm
Three Part Harmony Farm is part of a community that grows, sells and eats healthy food. An urban farm on a 2-acre parcel in Northeast Washington, DC, most of its produce is sold through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, and at area stores and restaurants.
Three Part Harmony Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Thrive DC
Thrive DC works to end and prevent homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Creative Community Builders is a Civic & Social organization facilitating community engagement and creative strategic planning. We are rooted in supporting the development of sustainable communities through creative relationship building and mindful resource connections. We aim to build a network of communities that co-create thriving, sustainable support systems through community-led initiatives, sustainable practices and intentional community building practices.
Creative Community Builders, LLC
Cultivate the City is urban farmers working to feed families & communities with pesticide-free, locally-grown food by growing vertically. It was created to inspire healthy and sustainable living by empowering communities with tools and training for urban agriculture.
Cultivate the City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC Central Kitchen
DC Central Kitchen is America’s leader in reducing hunger with recycled food, training unemployed adults for culinary careers, serving healthy school meals, and rebuilding urban food systems through social enterprise.
DC Central Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC Food Recovery Working Group
The DC Food Recovery Working Group was created in early 2016 to support overall food recovery efforts in DC and surrounding areas.
DC Food Recovery Working Group
DC Greens
DC Greens uses the power of partnerships to support food education, food access, and food policy in the nation’s capital. It works toward a city where food education is on the menu in every classroom; where doctors write prescriptions for fresh fruits and vegetables as a matter of course; where urban agriculture is a valued element of our cityscape; and where zipcode does not determine life expectancy.
DC State Fair
The DC State Fair is a free showcase of the region’s agricultural and artistic talents.
DC State Fair - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC UrbanGreens, Inc.
DC UrbanGreens’ mission is to feed bodies and nourish minds by increasing accessibility of affordable healthy foods to residents of food desert neighborhoods. A non-profit organization east of the Anacostia River in DC’s Ward 7 and Ward 8, DC UrbanGreens produces chemical-free fruits and vegetables on under-utilitized urban land. The organization employs innovative and scalable methods, techniques and business models to implement small-scale urban agriculture in a fiscally and environmentally sustainable way.
DC UrbanGreens, Inc. - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DPR Urban Garden Division
DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Garden Division works with communities across the District to establish urban Ag projects (currently 31 community gardens and 5 non profit production farms) and urban ag support systems such as a urban garden education program offering over a 100 free classes, a citywide critter proof community compost cooperative iniitiative, a garden toolshare, a greenhouse coop, tree planting intiatives and an urban bee program.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. is a nonprofit social enterprise whose mission is to create economic opportunity within marginalized communities through creating a healthy, equitable food system. We are rebuilding urban, community-based food systems through social enterprise, helping to increase access to healthy food and improve community health, develop low-income entrepreneurs and cooperatives, and train at-risk adult residents for sustainable, family-supporting wages.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
ECO City Farms
ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.
ECO City Farms - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
EcoHermanas
EcoHermanas is a community of women that weaves and reconnects communities to Mother Earth. Together we create a bold sisterhood culture of awareness, energy, and flow around place-based environmental issues, cultivating community and contributing to the greater co-fulfillment of our potential as a whole. We value a deep respect for the Rights of Mother Earth and engage in projects that promote:
Farm To Freezer
Farm to Freezer is a new brand of delicious, healthy, and locally-produced foods from vegetables that are frozen at the peak of ripeness. Your purchase of Farm to Freezer products allows us to provide this nutrient-rich food at deep discount to local hunger relief agencies for those in need.
Farm To Freezer - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Feeding America
The Feeding America network of food banks works with agencies to provide food through pantry and meal programs, which help families, students and seniors facing hunger and poverty make ends meet.
Food and Friends
The mission of Food & Friends is to foster a community caring for men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses by preparing and delivering specialized meals and groceries in conjunction with nutrition counseling.
Food and Friends - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food For All DC
Food for All DC is a non-profit charity that strives to provide food to low income home-bound residents in real need. Our clients are generally elderly citizens, handicapped, or single mothers with young children. The operation is entirely volunteer operated, with the assistance of federal and other agency grants.
Food For All DC - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food Recovery Network
Food Recovery Network unites students on college campuses to fight food waste and hunger by recovering perishable food that would otherwise go to waste from their campuses and communities and donating it to people in need.
Food Recovery Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
FRESHFARM Markets
FreshFarm Markets strive to build and strengthen the local-food movement in the Chesapeake Bay region, using farmers markets to create vibrant urban and community places, providing economic opportunities for farmers and artisanal food producers and showcasing our region’s agricultural bounty. FRESHFARM Markets operates 11 producer-only farmers markets with more than 110 farmers and producers from 5 states who farm more than 9,000 acres.
FRESHFARM Markets - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Green Scheme
The Green Scheme is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization promoting environmental sustainability, health awareness, and social justice. We are improving the trajectory of health, educational and economic outcomes in at-risk communities through training and awareness of environmental issues.
Green Scheme - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Iona’s Senior Services
In Washington DC, Iona Senior Services has a Farm-to-Table program that partners with farmers markets. They glean leftober produce at DC farmers market. The food is sorted, weighed and then distributed at a free market that is set-up and run every week at their congregate meal site. In addition, they hold cooking demonstrations, recipe distribution, and nutrition counseling on site. In addition every Saturday morning, Iona volunteers deliver meals to homebound older adults in northwest DC who are unable to prepare their own meals.
Kid Power
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Little Red Bird Botanicals
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
Manna Food Center
Manna Food Center works to end chronic hunger in Montgomery County, MD.
Manna Food Center - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Martha’s Table
For over 35 years, Martha’s Table has worked to build a better future for children, their families, and neighbors in Washington, DC by increasing access to education, food, and opportunity. Martha’s table programs are divided into three initiatives: healthy start, healthy eating, and healthy connections.
Martha’s Table - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Maryland Food Bank
The Maryland Food Bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization, leading the movement to end hunger throughout Maryland. – See more at: https://mdfoodbank.org/#sthash.RiXk3XDp.dpuf
Maryland Food Bank - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network
The Gleaning Network links farmers who have crops that are edible but not marketable with those who distribute food to the needy through the work of volunteer gleaners. Their staff organizes teams of people to go to local farms to harvest fresh nutritious fruits and vegetables to be given to low income individuals, families, as well as agencies or communities that serve the hungry.
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Miriam’s Kitchen
Miriam’s Kitchen is a nonprofit working to end chronic homelessness in Washington, DC through a variety of programs.
Miriam’s Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Our mission is to bring together a diverse representation of stakeholders in a public and private partnership to improve the environmental, economic, social and nutritional health of Montgomery County, Maryland through the creation of a robust, local, sustainable food system. Our vision is to cultivate a vibrant food system in Montgomery County that consciously produces, distributes, and recycles food, making it accessible to all residents while promoting the health of the local food economy, its consumers, and the environment.
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
N Street Village
N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. With comprehensive services addressing both emergency and long-term needs, we help women achieve stability and make meaningful gains in their housing, income, employment, mental health, physical health, and addiction recovery.
N Street Village - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Real Food for Kids
A group of concerned parents in Fairfax County, Virginia who want to improve FCPS school lunches, to include local and organic foods and farm-to-school programs, and, to educate the school community, students, administrators and parents.
Real Food for Kids - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SHARE Food Network
SHARE Food Network provides nutritious food for everyone in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area. Our food packages are available at prices 40-50% under supermarket prices, making healthy food more affordable. SHARE distributes food through a network of 320 partnering host organizations: churches, tenant associations, senior and day care centers, schools and other community agencies. SHARE depends on these relationships with collaborating organizations to carry out its mission. SHARE is accepting applications for new food sites.
SHARE Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Slow Food DC
Slow Food DC is the DC chapter of Slow Food USA. Slow Food is an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production.
Soilful City
Soilful is a space dedicated to connecting humans to nature through information, ideas, and people in urban environments. Creating Leadership through the wisdom of nature.
Soilful City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SOME (So Others Might Eat)
SOME is an interfaith, community-based organization that exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation’s capital. Each day, SOME is restoring hope and dignity one person at a time. We invite you to join us.
SOME (So Others Might Eat) - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Crossroads Community Food Network is working to improve community health through local food access programs and education for at-risk populations in Maryland’s Takoma/Langley Crossroads area and beyond. Some of CCFN programs include a Farmers Market, healthy eating program, and a microenterprise training program.
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The ECAC builds on the strengths of the community by providing informal and formal gathering space, capturing neighborhood history, engaging new and old residents in civic discourse, and reconnecting the generations of residents.
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The Emergence Community Arts Collective - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
Three Part Harmony Farm
Three Part Harmony Farm is part of a community that grows, sells and eats healthy food. An urban farm on a 2-acre parcel in Northeast Washington, DC, most of its produce is sold through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, and at area stores and restaurants.
Three Part Harmony Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Thrive DC
Thrive DC works to end and prevent homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC Central Kitchen is America’s leader in reducing hunger with recycled food, training unemployed adults for culinary careers, serving healthy school meals, and rebuilding urban food systems through social enterprise.
DC Central Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The DC Food Recovery Working Group was created in early 2016 to support overall food recovery efforts in DC and surrounding areas.
DC Food Recovery Working Group
DC Greens
DC Greens uses the power of partnerships to support food education, food access, and food policy in the nation’s capital. It works toward a city where food education is on the menu in every classroom; where doctors write prescriptions for fresh fruits and vegetables as a matter of course; where urban agriculture is a valued element of our cityscape; and where zipcode does not determine life expectancy.
DC State Fair
The DC State Fair is a free showcase of the region’s agricultural and artistic talents.
DC State Fair - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC UrbanGreens, Inc.
DC UrbanGreens’ mission is to feed bodies and nourish minds by increasing accessibility of affordable healthy foods to residents of food desert neighborhoods. A non-profit organization east of the Anacostia River in DC’s Ward 7 and Ward 8, DC UrbanGreens produces chemical-free fruits and vegetables on under-utilitized urban land. The organization employs innovative and scalable methods, techniques and business models to implement small-scale urban agriculture in a fiscally and environmentally sustainable way.
DC UrbanGreens, Inc. - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DPR Urban Garden Division
DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Garden Division works with communities across the District to establish urban Ag projects (currently 31 community gardens and 5 non profit production farms) and urban ag support systems such as a urban garden education program offering over a 100 free classes, a citywide critter proof community compost cooperative iniitiative, a garden toolshare, a greenhouse coop, tree planting intiatives and an urban bee program.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. is a nonprofit social enterprise whose mission is to create economic opportunity within marginalized communities through creating a healthy, equitable food system. We are rebuilding urban, community-based food systems through social enterprise, helping to increase access to healthy food and improve community health, develop low-income entrepreneurs and cooperatives, and train at-risk adult residents for sustainable, family-supporting wages.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
ECO City Farms
ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.
ECO City Farms - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
EcoHermanas
EcoHermanas is a community of women that weaves and reconnects communities to Mother Earth. Together we create a bold sisterhood culture of awareness, energy, and flow around place-based environmental issues, cultivating community and contributing to the greater co-fulfillment of our potential as a whole. We value a deep respect for the Rights of Mother Earth and engage in projects that promote:
Farm To Freezer
Farm to Freezer is a new brand of delicious, healthy, and locally-produced foods from vegetables that are frozen at the peak of ripeness. Your purchase of Farm to Freezer products allows us to provide this nutrient-rich food at deep discount to local hunger relief agencies for those in need.
Farm To Freezer - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Feeding America
The Feeding America network of food banks works with agencies to provide food through pantry and meal programs, which help families, students and seniors facing hunger and poverty make ends meet.
Food and Friends
The mission of Food & Friends is to foster a community caring for men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses by preparing and delivering specialized meals and groceries in conjunction with nutrition counseling.
Food and Friends - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food For All DC
Food for All DC is a non-profit charity that strives to provide food to low income home-bound residents in real need. Our clients are generally elderly citizens, handicapped, or single mothers with young children. The operation is entirely volunteer operated, with the assistance of federal and other agency grants.
Food For All DC - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food Recovery Network
Food Recovery Network unites students on college campuses to fight food waste and hunger by recovering perishable food that would otherwise go to waste from their campuses and communities and donating it to people in need.
Food Recovery Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
FRESHFARM Markets
FreshFarm Markets strive to build and strengthen the local-food movement in the Chesapeake Bay region, using farmers markets to create vibrant urban and community places, providing economic opportunities for farmers and artisanal food producers and showcasing our region’s agricultural bounty. FRESHFARM Markets operates 11 producer-only farmers markets with more than 110 farmers and producers from 5 states who farm more than 9,000 acres.
FRESHFARM Markets - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Green Scheme
The Green Scheme is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization promoting environmental sustainability, health awareness, and social justice. We are improving the trajectory of health, educational and economic outcomes in at-risk communities through training and awareness of environmental issues.
Green Scheme - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Iona’s Senior Services
In Washington DC, Iona Senior Services has a Farm-to-Table program that partners with farmers markets. They glean leftober produce at DC farmers market. The food is sorted, weighed and then distributed at a free market that is set-up and run every week at their congregate meal site. In addition, they hold cooking demonstrations, recipe distribution, and nutrition counseling on site. In addition every Saturday morning, Iona volunteers deliver meals to homebound older adults in northwest DC who are unable to prepare their own meals.
Kid Power
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Little Red Bird Botanicals
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
Manna Food Center
Manna Food Center works to end chronic hunger in Montgomery County, MD.
Manna Food Center - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Martha’s Table
For over 35 years, Martha’s Table has worked to build a better future for children, their families, and neighbors in Washington, DC by increasing access to education, food, and opportunity. Martha’s table programs are divided into three initiatives: healthy start, healthy eating, and healthy connections.
Martha’s Table - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Maryland Food Bank
The Maryland Food Bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization, leading the movement to end hunger throughout Maryland. – See more at: https://mdfoodbank.org/#sthash.RiXk3XDp.dpuf
Maryland Food Bank - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network
The Gleaning Network links farmers who have crops that are edible but not marketable with those who distribute food to the needy through the work of volunteer gleaners. Their staff organizes teams of people to go to local farms to harvest fresh nutritious fruits and vegetables to be given to low income individuals, families, as well as agencies or communities that serve the hungry.
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Miriam’s Kitchen
Miriam’s Kitchen is a nonprofit working to end chronic homelessness in Washington, DC through a variety of programs.
Miriam’s Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Our mission is to bring together a diverse representation of stakeholders in a public and private partnership to improve the environmental, economic, social and nutritional health of Montgomery County, Maryland through the creation of a robust, local, sustainable food system. Our vision is to cultivate a vibrant food system in Montgomery County that consciously produces, distributes, and recycles food, making it accessible to all residents while promoting the health of the local food economy, its consumers, and the environment.
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
N Street Village
N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. With comprehensive services addressing both emergency and long-term needs, we help women achieve stability and make meaningful gains in their housing, income, employment, mental health, physical health, and addiction recovery.
N Street Village - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Real Food for Kids
A group of concerned parents in Fairfax County, Virginia who want to improve FCPS school lunches, to include local and organic foods and farm-to-school programs, and, to educate the school community, students, administrators and parents.
Real Food for Kids - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SHARE Food Network
SHARE Food Network provides nutritious food for everyone in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area. Our food packages are available at prices 40-50% under supermarket prices, making healthy food more affordable. SHARE distributes food through a network of 320 partnering host organizations: churches, tenant associations, senior and day care centers, schools and other community agencies. SHARE depends on these relationships with collaborating organizations to carry out its mission. SHARE is accepting applications for new food sites.
SHARE Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Slow Food DC
Slow Food DC is the DC chapter of Slow Food USA. Slow Food is an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production.
Soilful City
Soilful is a space dedicated to connecting humans to nature through information, ideas, and people in urban environments. Creating Leadership through the wisdom of nature.
Soilful City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SOME (So Others Might Eat)
SOME is an interfaith, community-based organization that exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation’s capital. Each day, SOME is restoring hope and dignity one person at a time. We invite you to join us.
SOME (So Others Might Eat) - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Crossroads Community Food Network is working to improve community health through local food access programs and education for at-risk populations in Maryland’s Takoma/Langley Crossroads area and beyond. Some of CCFN programs include a Farmers Market, healthy eating program, and a microenterprise training program.
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The ECAC builds on the strengths of the community by providing informal and formal gathering space, capturing neighborhood history, engaging new and old residents in civic discourse, and reconnecting the generations of residents.
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The Emergence Community Arts Collective - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
Three Part Harmony Farm
Three Part Harmony Farm is part of a community that grows, sells and eats healthy food. An urban farm on a 2-acre parcel in Northeast Washington, DC, most of its produce is sold through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, and at area stores and restaurants.
Three Part Harmony Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Thrive DC
Thrive DC works to end and prevent homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC Greens uses the power of partnerships to support food education, food access, and food policy in the nation’s capital. It works toward a city where food education is on the menu in every classroom; where doctors write prescriptions for fresh fruits and vegetables as a matter of course; where urban agriculture is a valued element of our cityscape; and where zipcode does not determine life expectancy.
The DC State Fair is a free showcase of the region’s agricultural and artistic talents.
DC State Fair - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC UrbanGreens, Inc.
DC UrbanGreens’ mission is to feed bodies and nourish minds by increasing accessibility of affordable healthy foods to residents of food desert neighborhoods. A non-profit organization east of the Anacostia River in DC’s Ward 7 and Ward 8, DC UrbanGreens produces chemical-free fruits and vegetables on under-utilitized urban land. The organization employs innovative and scalable methods, techniques and business models to implement small-scale urban agriculture in a fiscally and environmentally sustainable way.
DC UrbanGreens, Inc. - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DPR Urban Garden Division
DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Garden Division works with communities across the District to establish urban Ag projects (currently 31 community gardens and 5 non profit production farms) and urban ag support systems such as a urban garden education program offering over a 100 free classes, a citywide critter proof community compost cooperative iniitiative, a garden toolshare, a greenhouse coop, tree planting intiatives and an urban bee program.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. is a nonprofit social enterprise whose mission is to create economic opportunity within marginalized communities through creating a healthy, equitable food system. We are rebuilding urban, community-based food systems through social enterprise, helping to increase access to healthy food and improve community health, develop low-income entrepreneurs and cooperatives, and train at-risk adult residents for sustainable, family-supporting wages.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
ECO City Farms
ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.
ECO City Farms - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
EcoHermanas
EcoHermanas is a community of women that weaves and reconnects communities to Mother Earth. Together we create a bold sisterhood culture of awareness, energy, and flow around place-based environmental issues, cultivating community and contributing to the greater co-fulfillment of our potential as a whole. We value a deep respect for the Rights of Mother Earth and engage in projects that promote:
Farm To Freezer
Farm to Freezer is a new brand of delicious, healthy, and locally-produced foods from vegetables that are frozen at the peak of ripeness. Your purchase of Farm to Freezer products allows us to provide this nutrient-rich food at deep discount to local hunger relief agencies for those in need.
Farm To Freezer - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Feeding America
The Feeding America network of food banks works with agencies to provide food through pantry and meal programs, which help families, students and seniors facing hunger and poverty make ends meet.
Food and Friends
The mission of Food & Friends is to foster a community caring for men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses by preparing and delivering specialized meals and groceries in conjunction with nutrition counseling.
Food and Friends - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food For All DC
Food for All DC is a non-profit charity that strives to provide food to low income home-bound residents in real need. Our clients are generally elderly citizens, handicapped, or single mothers with young children. The operation is entirely volunteer operated, with the assistance of federal and other agency grants.
Food For All DC - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food Recovery Network
Food Recovery Network unites students on college campuses to fight food waste and hunger by recovering perishable food that would otherwise go to waste from their campuses and communities and donating it to people in need.
Food Recovery Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
FRESHFARM Markets
FreshFarm Markets strive to build and strengthen the local-food movement in the Chesapeake Bay region, using farmers markets to create vibrant urban and community places, providing economic opportunities for farmers and artisanal food producers and showcasing our region’s agricultural bounty. FRESHFARM Markets operates 11 producer-only farmers markets with more than 110 farmers and producers from 5 states who farm more than 9,000 acres.
FRESHFARM Markets - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Green Scheme
The Green Scheme is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization promoting environmental sustainability, health awareness, and social justice. We are improving the trajectory of health, educational and economic outcomes in at-risk communities through training and awareness of environmental issues.
Green Scheme - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Iona’s Senior Services
In Washington DC, Iona Senior Services has a Farm-to-Table program that partners with farmers markets. They glean leftober produce at DC farmers market. The food is sorted, weighed and then distributed at a free market that is set-up and run every week at their congregate meal site. In addition, they hold cooking demonstrations, recipe distribution, and nutrition counseling on site. In addition every Saturday morning, Iona volunteers deliver meals to homebound older adults in northwest DC who are unable to prepare their own meals.
Kid Power
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Little Red Bird Botanicals
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
Manna Food Center
Manna Food Center works to end chronic hunger in Montgomery County, MD.
Manna Food Center - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Martha’s Table
For over 35 years, Martha’s Table has worked to build a better future for children, their families, and neighbors in Washington, DC by increasing access to education, food, and opportunity. Martha’s table programs are divided into three initiatives: healthy start, healthy eating, and healthy connections.
Martha’s Table - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Maryland Food Bank
The Maryland Food Bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization, leading the movement to end hunger throughout Maryland. – See more at: https://mdfoodbank.org/#sthash.RiXk3XDp.dpuf
Maryland Food Bank - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network
The Gleaning Network links farmers who have crops that are edible but not marketable with those who distribute food to the needy through the work of volunteer gleaners. Their staff organizes teams of people to go to local farms to harvest fresh nutritious fruits and vegetables to be given to low income individuals, families, as well as agencies or communities that serve the hungry.
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Miriam’s Kitchen
Miriam’s Kitchen is a nonprofit working to end chronic homelessness in Washington, DC through a variety of programs.
Miriam’s Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Our mission is to bring together a diverse representation of stakeholders in a public and private partnership to improve the environmental, economic, social and nutritional health of Montgomery County, Maryland through the creation of a robust, local, sustainable food system. Our vision is to cultivate a vibrant food system in Montgomery County that consciously produces, distributes, and recycles food, making it accessible to all residents while promoting the health of the local food economy, its consumers, and the environment.
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
N Street Village
N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. With comprehensive services addressing both emergency and long-term needs, we help women achieve stability and make meaningful gains in their housing, income, employment, mental health, physical health, and addiction recovery.
N Street Village - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Real Food for Kids
A group of concerned parents in Fairfax County, Virginia who want to improve FCPS school lunches, to include local and organic foods and farm-to-school programs, and, to educate the school community, students, administrators and parents.
Real Food for Kids - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SHARE Food Network
SHARE Food Network provides nutritious food for everyone in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area. Our food packages are available at prices 40-50% under supermarket prices, making healthy food more affordable. SHARE distributes food through a network of 320 partnering host organizations: churches, tenant associations, senior and day care centers, schools and other community agencies. SHARE depends on these relationships with collaborating organizations to carry out its mission. SHARE is accepting applications for new food sites.
SHARE Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Slow Food DC
Slow Food DC is the DC chapter of Slow Food USA. Slow Food is an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production.
Soilful City
Soilful is a space dedicated to connecting humans to nature through information, ideas, and people in urban environments. Creating Leadership through the wisdom of nature.
Soilful City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SOME (So Others Might Eat)
SOME is an interfaith, community-based organization that exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation’s capital. Each day, SOME is restoring hope and dignity one person at a time. We invite you to join us.
SOME (So Others Might Eat) - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Crossroads Community Food Network is working to improve community health through local food access programs and education for at-risk populations in Maryland’s Takoma/Langley Crossroads area and beyond. Some of CCFN programs include a Farmers Market, healthy eating program, and a microenterprise training program.
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The ECAC builds on the strengths of the community by providing informal and formal gathering space, capturing neighborhood history, engaging new and old residents in civic discourse, and reconnecting the generations of residents.
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The Emergence Community Arts Collective - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
Three Part Harmony Farm
Three Part Harmony Farm is part of a community that grows, sells and eats healthy food. An urban farm on a 2-acre parcel in Northeast Washington, DC, most of its produce is sold through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, and at area stores and restaurants.
Three Part Harmony Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Thrive DC
Thrive DC works to end and prevent homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC UrbanGreens’ mission is to feed bodies and nourish minds by increasing accessibility of affordable healthy foods to residents of food desert neighborhoods. A non-profit organization east of the Anacostia River in DC’s Ward 7 and Ward 8, DC UrbanGreens produces chemical-free fruits and vegetables on under-utilitized urban land. The organization employs innovative and scalable methods, techniques and business models to implement small-scale urban agriculture in a fiscally and environmentally sustainable way.
DC UrbanGreens, Inc. - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Garden Division works with communities across the District to establish urban Ag projects (currently 31 community gardens and 5 non profit production farms) and urban ag support systems such as a urban garden education program offering over a 100 free classes, a citywide critter proof community compost cooperative iniitiative, a garden toolshare, a greenhouse coop, tree planting intiatives and an urban bee program.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. is a nonprofit social enterprise whose mission is to create economic opportunity within marginalized communities through creating a healthy, equitable food system. We are rebuilding urban, community-based food systems through social enterprise, helping to increase access to healthy food and improve community health, develop low-income entrepreneurs and cooperatives, and train at-risk adult residents for sustainable, family-supporting wages.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
ECO City Farms
ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.
ECO City Farms - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
EcoHermanas
EcoHermanas is a community of women that weaves and reconnects communities to Mother Earth. Together we create a bold sisterhood culture of awareness, energy, and flow around place-based environmental issues, cultivating community and contributing to the greater co-fulfillment of our potential as a whole. We value a deep respect for the Rights of Mother Earth and engage in projects that promote:
Farm To Freezer
Farm to Freezer is a new brand of delicious, healthy, and locally-produced foods from vegetables that are frozen at the peak of ripeness. Your purchase of Farm to Freezer products allows us to provide this nutrient-rich food at deep discount to local hunger relief agencies for those in need.
Farm To Freezer - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Feeding America
The Feeding America network of food banks works with agencies to provide food through pantry and meal programs, which help families, students and seniors facing hunger and poverty make ends meet.
Food and Friends
The mission of Food & Friends is to foster a community caring for men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses by preparing and delivering specialized meals and groceries in conjunction with nutrition counseling.
Food and Friends - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food For All DC
Food for All DC is a non-profit charity that strives to provide food to low income home-bound residents in real need. Our clients are generally elderly citizens, handicapped, or single mothers with young children. The operation is entirely volunteer operated, with the assistance of federal and other agency grants.
Food For All DC - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food Recovery Network
Food Recovery Network unites students on college campuses to fight food waste and hunger by recovering perishable food that would otherwise go to waste from their campuses and communities and donating it to people in need.
Food Recovery Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
FRESHFARM Markets
FreshFarm Markets strive to build and strengthen the local-food movement in the Chesapeake Bay region, using farmers markets to create vibrant urban and community places, providing economic opportunities for farmers and artisanal food producers and showcasing our region’s agricultural bounty. FRESHFARM Markets operates 11 producer-only farmers markets with more than 110 farmers and producers from 5 states who farm more than 9,000 acres.
FRESHFARM Markets - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Green Scheme
The Green Scheme is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization promoting environmental sustainability, health awareness, and social justice. We are improving the trajectory of health, educational and economic outcomes in at-risk communities through training and awareness of environmental issues.
Green Scheme - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Iona’s Senior Services
In Washington DC, Iona Senior Services has a Farm-to-Table program that partners with farmers markets. They glean leftober produce at DC farmers market. The food is sorted, weighed and then distributed at a free market that is set-up and run every week at their congregate meal site. In addition, they hold cooking demonstrations, recipe distribution, and nutrition counseling on site. In addition every Saturday morning, Iona volunteers deliver meals to homebound older adults in northwest DC who are unable to prepare their own meals.
Kid Power
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Little Red Bird Botanicals
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
Manna Food Center
Manna Food Center works to end chronic hunger in Montgomery County, MD.
Manna Food Center - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Martha’s Table
For over 35 years, Martha’s Table has worked to build a better future for children, their families, and neighbors in Washington, DC by increasing access to education, food, and opportunity. Martha’s table programs are divided into three initiatives: healthy start, healthy eating, and healthy connections.
Martha’s Table - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Maryland Food Bank
The Maryland Food Bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization, leading the movement to end hunger throughout Maryland. – See more at: https://mdfoodbank.org/#sthash.RiXk3XDp.dpuf
Maryland Food Bank - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network
The Gleaning Network links farmers who have crops that are edible but not marketable with those who distribute food to the needy through the work of volunteer gleaners. Their staff organizes teams of people to go to local farms to harvest fresh nutritious fruits and vegetables to be given to low income individuals, families, as well as agencies or communities that serve the hungry.
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Miriam’s Kitchen
Miriam’s Kitchen is a nonprofit working to end chronic homelessness in Washington, DC through a variety of programs.
Miriam’s Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Our mission is to bring together a diverse representation of stakeholders in a public and private partnership to improve the environmental, economic, social and nutritional health of Montgomery County, Maryland through the creation of a robust, local, sustainable food system. Our vision is to cultivate a vibrant food system in Montgomery County that consciously produces, distributes, and recycles food, making it accessible to all residents while promoting the health of the local food economy, its consumers, and the environment.
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
N Street Village
N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. With comprehensive services addressing both emergency and long-term needs, we help women achieve stability and make meaningful gains in their housing, income, employment, mental health, physical health, and addiction recovery.
N Street Village - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Real Food for Kids
A group of concerned parents in Fairfax County, Virginia who want to improve FCPS school lunches, to include local and organic foods and farm-to-school programs, and, to educate the school community, students, administrators and parents.
Real Food for Kids - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SHARE Food Network
SHARE Food Network provides nutritious food for everyone in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area. Our food packages are available at prices 40-50% under supermarket prices, making healthy food more affordable. SHARE distributes food through a network of 320 partnering host organizations: churches, tenant associations, senior and day care centers, schools and other community agencies. SHARE depends on these relationships with collaborating organizations to carry out its mission. SHARE is accepting applications for new food sites.
SHARE Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Slow Food DC
Slow Food DC is the DC chapter of Slow Food USA. Slow Food is an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production.
Soilful City
Soilful is a space dedicated to connecting humans to nature through information, ideas, and people in urban environments. Creating Leadership through the wisdom of nature.
Soilful City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SOME (So Others Might Eat)
SOME is an interfaith, community-based organization that exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation’s capital. Each day, SOME is restoring hope and dignity one person at a time. We invite you to join us.
SOME (So Others Might Eat) - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Crossroads Community Food Network is working to improve community health through local food access programs and education for at-risk populations in Maryland’s Takoma/Langley Crossroads area and beyond. Some of CCFN programs include a Farmers Market, healthy eating program, and a microenterprise training program.
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The ECAC builds on the strengths of the community by providing informal and formal gathering space, capturing neighborhood history, engaging new and old residents in civic discourse, and reconnecting the generations of residents.
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The Emergence Community Arts Collective - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
Three Part Harmony Farm
Three Part Harmony Farm is part of a community that grows, sells and eats healthy food. An urban farm on a 2-acre parcel in Northeast Washington, DC, most of its produce is sold through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, and at area stores and restaurants.
Three Part Harmony Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Thrive DC
Thrive DC works to end and prevent homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. is a nonprofit social enterprise whose mission is to create economic opportunity within marginalized communities through creating a healthy, equitable food system. We are rebuilding urban, community-based food systems through social enterprise, helping to increase access to healthy food and improve community health, develop low-income entrepreneurs and cooperatives, and train at-risk adult residents for sustainable, family-supporting wages.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.
ECO City Farms - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
EcoHermanas
EcoHermanas is a community of women that weaves and reconnects communities to Mother Earth. Together we create a bold sisterhood culture of awareness, energy, and flow around place-based environmental issues, cultivating community and contributing to the greater co-fulfillment of our potential as a whole. We value a deep respect for the Rights of Mother Earth and engage in projects that promote:
Farm To Freezer
Farm to Freezer is a new brand of delicious, healthy, and locally-produced foods from vegetables that are frozen at the peak of ripeness. Your purchase of Farm to Freezer products allows us to provide this nutrient-rich food at deep discount to local hunger relief agencies for those in need.
Farm To Freezer - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Feeding America
The Feeding America network of food banks works with agencies to provide food through pantry and meal programs, which help families, students and seniors facing hunger and poverty make ends meet.
Food and Friends
The mission of Food & Friends is to foster a community caring for men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses by preparing and delivering specialized meals and groceries in conjunction with nutrition counseling.
Food and Friends - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food For All DC
Food for All DC is a non-profit charity that strives to provide food to low income home-bound residents in real need. Our clients are generally elderly citizens, handicapped, or single mothers with young children. The operation is entirely volunteer operated, with the assistance of federal and other agency grants.
Food For All DC - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food Recovery Network
Food Recovery Network unites students on college campuses to fight food waste and hunger by recovering perishable food that would otherwise go to waste from their campuses and communities and donating it to people in need.
Food Recovery Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
FRESHFARM Markets
FreshFarm Markets strive to build and strengthen the local-food movement in the Chesapeake Bay region, using farmers markets to create vibrant urban and community places, providing economic opportunities for farmers and artisanal food producers and showcasing our region’s agricultural bounty. FRESHFARM Markets operates 11 producer-only farmers markets with more than 110 farmers and producers from 5 states who farm more than 9,000 acres.
FRESHFARM Markets - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Green Scheme
The Green Scheme is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization promoting environmental sustainability, health awareness, and social justice. We are improving the trajectory of health, educational and economic outcomes in at-risk communities through training and awareness of environmental issues.
Green Scheme - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Iona’s Senior Services
In Washington DC, Iona Senior Services has a Farm-to-Table program that partners with farmers markets. They glean leftober produce at DC farmers market. The food is sorted, weighed and then distributed at a free market that is set-up and run every week at their congregate meal site. In addition, they hold cooking demonstrations, recipe distribution, and nutrition counseling on site. In addition every Saturday morning, Iona volunteers deliver meals to homebound older adults in northwest DC who are unable to prepare their own meals.
Kid Power
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Little Red Bird Botanicals
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
Manna Food Center
Manna Food Center works to end chronic hunger in Montgomery County, MD.
Manna Food Center - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Martha’s Table
For over 35 years, Martha’s Table has worked to build a better future for children, their families, and neighbors in Washington, DC by increasing access to education, food, and opportunity. Martha’s table programs are divided into three initiatives: healthy start, healthy eating, and healthy connections.
Martha’s Table - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Maryland Food Bank
The Maryland Food Bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization, leading the movement to end hunger throughout Maryland. – See more at: https://mdfoodbank.org/#sthash.RiXk3XDp.dpuf
Maryland Food Bank - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network
The Gleaning Network links farmers who have crops that are edible but not marketable with those who distribute food to the needy through the work of volunteer gleaners. Their staff organizes teams of people to go to local farms to harvest fresh nutritious fruits and vegetables to be given to low income individuals, families, as well as agencies or communities that serve the hungry.
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Miriam’s Kitchen
Miriam’s Kitchen is a nonprofit working to end chronic homelessness in Washington, DC through a variety of programs.
Miriam’s Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Our mission is to bring together a diverse representation of stakeholders in a public and private partnership to improve the environmental, economic, social and nutritional health of Montgomery County, Maryland through the creation of a robust, local, sustainable food system. Our vision is to cultivate a vibrant food system in Montgomery County that consciously produces, distributes, and recycles food, making it accessible to all residents while promoting the health of the local food economy, its consumers, and the environment.
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
N Street Village
N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. With comprehensive services addressing both emergency and long-term needs, we help women achieve stability and make meaningful gains in their housing, income, employment, mental health, physical health, and addiction recovery.
N Street Village - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Real Food for Kids
A group of concerned parents in Fairfax County, Virginia who want to improve FCPS school lunches, to include local and organic foods and farm-to-school programs, and, to educate the school community, students, administrators and parents.
Real Food for Kids - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SHARE Food Network
SHARE Food Network provides nutritious food for everyone in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area. Our food packages are available at prices 40-50% under supermarket prices, making healthy food more affordable. SHARE distributes food through a network of 320 partnering host organizations: churches, tenant associations, senior and day care centers, schools and other community agencies. SHARE depends on these relationships with collaborating organizations to carry out its mission. SHARE is accepting applications for new food sites.
SHARE Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Slow Food DC
Slow Food DC is the DC chapter of Slow Food USA. Slow Food is an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production.
Soilful City
Soilful is a space dedicated to connecting humans to nature through information, ideas, and people in urban environments. Creating Leadership through the wisdom of nature.
Soilful City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SOME (So Others Might Eat)
SOME is an interfaith, community-based organization that exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation’s capital. Each day, SOME is restoring hope and dignity one person at a time. We invite you to join us.
SOME (So Others Might Eat) - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Crossroads Community Food Network is working to improve community health through local food access programs and education for at-risk populations in Maryland’s Takoma/Langley Crossroads area and beyond. Some of CCFN programs include a Farmers Market, healthy eating program, and a microenterprise training program.
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The ECAC builds on the strengths of the community by providing informal and formal gathering space, capturing neighborhood history, engaging new and old residents in civic discourse, and reconnecting the generations of residents.
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The Emergence Community Arts Collective - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
Three Part Harmony Farm
Three Part Harmony Farm is part of a community that grows, sells and eats healthy food. An urban farm on a 2-acre parcel in Northeast Washington, DC, most of its produce is sold through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, and at area stores and restaurants.
Three Part Harmony Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Thrive DC
Thrive DC works to end and prevent homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
EcoHermanas is a community of women that weaves and reconnects communities to Mother Earth. Together we create a bold sisterhood culture of awareness, energy, and flow around place-based environmental issues, cultivating community and contributing to the greater co-fulfillment of our potential as a whole. We value a deep respect for the Rights of Mother Earth and engage in projects that promote:
Farm to Freezer is a new brand of delicious, healthy, and locally-produced foods from vegetables that are frozen at the peak of ripeness. Your purchase of Farm to Freezer products allows us to provide this nutrient-rich food at deep discount to local hunger relief agencies for those in need.
Farm To Freezer - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Feeding America
The Feeding America network of food banks works with agencies to provide food through pantry and meal programs, which help families, students and seniors facing hunger and poverty make ends meet.
Food and Friends
The mission of Food & Friends is to foster a community caring for men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses by preparing and delivering specialized meals and groceries in conjunction with nutrition counseling.
Food and Friends - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food For All DC
Food for All DC is a non-profit charity that strives to provide food to low income home-bound residents in real need. Our clients are generally elderly citizens, handicapped, or single mothers with young children. The operation is entirely volunteer operated, with the assistance of federal and other agency grants.
Food For All DC - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food Recovery Network
Food Recovery Network unites students on college campuses to fight food waste and hunger by recovering perishable food that would otherwise go to waste from their campuses and communities and donating it to people in need.
Food Recovery Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
FRESHFARM Markets
FreshFarm Markets strive to build and strengthen the local-food movement in the Chesapeake Bay region, using farmers markets to create vibrant urban and community places, providing economic opportunities for farmers and artisanal food producers and showcasing our region’s agricultural bounty. FRESHFARM Markets operates 11 producer-only farmers markets with more than 110 farmers and producers from 5 states who farm more than 9,000 acres.
FRESHFARM Markets - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Green Scheme
The Green Scheme is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization promoting environmental sustainability, health awareness, and social justice. We are improving the trajectory of health, educational and economic outcomes in at-risk communities through training and awareness of environmental issues.
Green Scheme - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Iona’s Senior Services
In Washington DC, Iona Senior Services has a Farm-to-Table program that partners with farmers markets. They glean leftober produce at DC farmers market. The food is sorted, weighed and then distributed at a free market that is set-up and run every week at their congregate meal site. In addition, they hold cooking demonstrations, recipe distribution, and nutrition counseling on site. In addition every Saturday morning, Iona volunteers deliver meals to homebound older adults in northwest DC who are unable to prepare their own meals.
Kid Power
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Little Red Bird Botanicals
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
Manna Food Center
Manna Food Center works to end chronic hunger in Montgomery County, MD.
Manna Food Center - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Martha’s Table
For over 35 years, Martha’s Table has worked to build a better future for children, their families, and neighbors in Washington, DC by increasing access to education, food, and opportunity. Martha’s table programs are divided into three initiatives: healthy start, healthy eating, and healthy connections.
Martha’s Table - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Maryland Food Bank
The Maryland Food Bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization, leading the movement to end hunger throughout Maryland. – See more at: https://mdfoodbank.org/#sthash.RiXk3XDp.dpuf
Maryland Food Bank - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network
The Gleaning Network links farmers who have crops that are edible but not marketable with those who distribute food to the needy through the work of volunteer gleaners. Their staff organizes teams of people to go to local farms to harvest fresh nutritious fruits and vegetables to be given to low income individuals, families, as well as agencies or communities that serve the hungry.
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Miriam’s Kitchen
Miriam’s Kitchen is a nonprofit working to end chronic homelessness in Washington, DC through a variety of programs.
Miriam’s Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Our mission is to bring together a diverse representation of stakeholders in a public and private partnership to improve the environmental, economic, social and nutritional health of Montgomery County, Maryland through the creation of a robust, local, sustainable food system. Our vision is to cultivate a vibrant food system in Montgomery County that consciously produces, distributes, and recycles food, making it accessible to all residents while promoting the health of the local food economy, its consumers, and the environment.
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
N Street Village
N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. With comprehensive services addressing both emergency and long-term needs, we help women achieve stability and make meaningful gains in their housing, income, employment, mental health, physical health, and addiction recovery.
N Street Village - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Real Food for Kids
A group of concerned parents in Fairfax County, Virginia who want to improve FCPS school lunches, to include local and organic foods and farm-to-school programs, and, to educate the school community, students, administrators and parents.
Real Food for Kids - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SHARE Food Network
SHARE Food Network provides nutritious food for everyone in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area. Our food packages are available at prices 40-50% under supermarket prices, making healthy food more affordable. SHARE distributes food through a network of 320 partnering host organizations: churches, tenant associations, senior and day care centers, schools and other community agencies. SHARE depends on these relationships with collaborating organizations to carry out its mission. SHARE is accepting applications for new food sites.
SHARE Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Slow Food DC
Slow Food DC is the DC chapter of Slow Food USA. Slow Food is an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production.
Soilful City
Soilful is a space dedicated to connecting humans to nature through information, ideas, and people in urban environments. Creating Leadership through the wisdom of nature.
Soilful City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SOME (So Others Might Eat)
SOME is an interfaith, community-based organization that exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation’s capital. Each day, SOME is restoring hope and dignity one person at a time. We invite you to join us.
SOME (So Others Might Eat) - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Crossroads Community Food Network is working to improve community health through local food access programs and education for at-risk populations in Maryland’s Takoma/Langley Crossroads area and beyond. Some of CCFN programs include a Farmers Market, healthy eating program, and a microenterprise training program.
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The ECAC builds on the strengths of the community by providing informal and formal gathering space, capturing neighborhood history, engaging new and old residents in civic discourse, and reconnecting the generations of residents.
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The Emergence Community Arts Collective - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
Three Part Harmony Farm
Three Part Harmony Farm is part of a community that grows, sells and eats healthy food. An urban farm on a 2-acre parcel in Northeast Washington, DC, most of its produce is sold through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, and at area stores and restaurants.
Three Part Harmony Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Thrive DC
Thrive DC works to end and prevent homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The Feeding America network of food banks works with agencies to provide food through pantry and meal programs, which help families, students and seniors facing hunger and poverty make ends meet.
The mission of Food & Friends is to foster a community caring for men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses by preparing and delivering specialized meals and groceries in conjunction with nutrition counseling.
Food and Friends - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food For All DC
Food for All DC is a non-profit charity that strives to provide food to low income home-bound residents in real need. Our clients are generally elderly citizens, handicapped, or single mothers with young children. The operation is entirely volunteer operated, with the assistance of federal and other agency grants.
Food For All DC - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food Recovery Network
Food Recovery Network unites students on college campuses to fight food waste and hunger by recovering perishable food that would otherwise go to waste from their campuses and communities and donating it to people in need.
Food Recovery Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
FRESHFARM Markets
FreshFarm Markets strive to build and strengthen the local-food movement in the Chesapeake Bay region, using farmers markets to create vibrant urban and community places, providing economic opportunities for farmers and artisanal food producers and showcasing our region’s agricultural bounty. FRESHFARM Markets operates 11 producer-only farmers markets with more than 110 farmers and producers from 5 states who farm more than 9,000 acres.
FRESHFARM Markets - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Green Scheme
The Green Scheme is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization promoting environmental sustainability, health awareness, and social justice. We are improving the trajectory of health, educational and economic outcomes in at-risk communities through training and awareness of environmental issues.
Green Scheme - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Iona’s Senior Services
In Washington DC, Iona Senior Services has a Farm-to-Table program that partners with farmers markets. They glean leftober produce at DC farmers market. The food is sorted, weighed and then distributed at a free market that is set-up and run every week at their congregate meal site. In addition, they hold cooking demonstrations, recipe distribution, and nutrition counseling on site. In addition every Saturday morning, Iona volunteers deliver meals to homebound older adults in northwest DC who are unable to prepare their own meals.
Kid Power
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Little Red Bird Botanicals
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
Manna Food Center
Manna Food Center works to end chronic hunger in Montgomery County, MD.
Manna Food Center - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Martha’s Table
For over 35 years, Martha’s Table has worked to build a better future for children, their families, and neighbors in Washington, DC by increasing access to education, food, and opportunity. Martha’s table programs are divided into three initiatives: healthy start, healthy eating, and healthy connections.
Martha’s Table - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Maryland Food Bank
The Maryland Food Bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization, leading the movement to end hunger throughout Maryland. – See more at: https://mdfoodbank.org/#sthash.RiXk3XDp.dpuf
Maryland Food Bank - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network
The Gleaning Network links farmers who have crops that are edible but not marketable with those who distribute food to the needy through the work of volunteer gleaners. Their staff organizes teams of people to go to local farms to harvest fresh nutritious fruits and vegetables to be given to low income individuals, families, as well as agencies or communities that serve the hungry.
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Miriam’s Kitchen
Miriam’s Kitchen is a nonprofit working to end chronic homelessness in Washington, DC through a variety of programs.
Miriam’s Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Our mission is to bring together a diverse representation of stakeholders in a public and private partnership to improve the environmental, economic, social and nutritional health of Montgomery County, Maryland through the creation of a robust, local, sustainable food system. Our vision is to cultivate a vibrant food system in Montgomery County that consciously produces, distributes, and recycles food, making it accessible to all residents while promoting the health of the local food economy, its consumers, and the environment.
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
N Street Village
N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. With comprehensive services addressing both emergency and long-term needs, we help women achieve stability and make meaningful gains in their housing, income, employment, mental health, physical health, and addiction recovery.
N Street Village - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Real Food for Kids
A group of concerned parents in Fairfax County, Virginia who want to improve FCPS school lunches, to include local and organic foods and farm-to-school programs, and, to educate the school community, students, administrators and parents.
Real Food for Kids - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SHARE Food Network
SHARE Food Network provides nutritious food for everyone in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area. Our food packages are available at prices 40-50% under supermarket prices, making healthy food more affordable. SHARE distributes food through a network of 320 partnering host organizations: churches, tenant associations, senior and day care centers, schools and other community agencies. SHARE depends on these relationships with collaborating organizations to carry out its mission. SHARE is accepting applications for new food sites.
SHARE Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Slow Food DC
Slow Food DC is the DC chapter of Slow Food USA. Slow Food is an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production.
Soilful City
Soilful is a space dedicated to connecting humans to nature through information, ideas, and people in urban environments. Creating Leadership through the wisdom of nature.
Soilful City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SOME (So Others Might Eat)
SOME is an interfaith, community-based organization that exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation’s capital. Each day, SOME is restoring hope and dignity one person at a time. We invite you to join us.
SOME (So Others Might Eat) - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Crossroads Community Food Network is working to improve community health through local food access programs and education for at-risk populations in Maryland’s Takoma/Langley Crossroads area and beyond. Some of CCFN programs include a Farmers Market, healthy eating program, and a microenterprise training program.
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The ECAC builds on the strengths of the community by providing informal and formal gathering space, capturing neighborhood history, engaging new and old residents in civic discourse, and reconnecting the generations of residents.
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The Emergence Community Arts Collective - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
Three Part Harmony Farm
Three Part Harmony Farm is part of a community that grows, sells and eats healthy food. An urban farm on a 2-acre parcel in Northeast Washington, DC, most of its produce is sold through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, and at area stores and restaurants.
Three Part Harmony Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Thrive DC
Thrive DC works to end and prevent homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food for All DC is a non-profit charity that strives to provide food to low income home-bound residents in real need. Our clients are generally elderly citizens, handicapped, or single mothers with young children. The operation is entirely volunteer operated, with the assistance of federal and other agency grants.
Food For All DC - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Food Recovery Network unites students on college campuses to fight food waste and hunger by recovering perishable food that would otherwise go to waste from their campuses and communities and donating it to people in need.
Food Recovery Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
FRESHFARM Markets
FreshFarm Markets strive to build and strengthen the local-food movement in the Chesapeake Bay region, using farmers markets to create vibrant urban and community places, providing economic opportunities for farmers and artisanal food producers and showcasing our region’s agricultural bounty. FRESHFARM Markets operates 11 producer-only farmers markets with more than 110 farmers and producers from 5 states who farm more than 9,000 acres.
FRESHFARM Markets - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Green Scheme
The Green Scheme is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization promoting environmental sustainability, health awareness, and social justice. We are improving the trajectory of health, educational and economic outcomes in at-risk communities through training and awareness of environmental issues.
Green Scheme - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Iona’s Senior Services
In Washington DC, Iona Senior Services has a Farm-to-Table program that partners with farmers markets. They glean leftober produce at DC farmers market. The food is sorted, weighed and then distributed at a free market that is set-up and run every week at their congregate meal site. In addition, they hold cooking demonstrations, recipe distribution, and nutrition counseling on site. In addition every Saturday morning, Iona volunteers deliver meals to homebound older adults in northwest DC who are unable to prepare their own meals.
Kid Power
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Little Red Bird Botanicals
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
Manna Food Center
Manna Food Center works to end chronic hunger in Montgomery County, MD.
Manna Food Center - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Martha’s Table
For over 35 years, Martha’s Table has worked to build a better future for children, their families, and neighbors in Washington, DC by increasing access to education, food, and opportunity. Martha’s table programs are divided into three initiatives: healthy start, healthy eating, and healthy connections.
Martha’s Table - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Maryland Food Bank
The Maryland Food Bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization, leading the movement to end hunger throughout Maryland. – See more at: https://mdfoodbank.org/#sthash.RiXk3XDp.dpuf
Maryland Food Bank - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network
The Gleaning Network links farmers who have crops that are edible but not marketable with those who distribute food to the needy through the work of volunteer gleaners. Their staff organizes teams of people to go to local farms to harvest fresh nutritious fruits and vegetables to be given to low income individuals, families, as well as agencies or communities that serve the hungry.
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Miriam’s Kitchen
Miriam’s Kitchen is a nonprofit working to end chronic homelessness in Washington, DC through a variety of programs.
Miriam’s Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Our mission is to bring together a diverse representation of stakeholders in a public and private partnership to improve the environmental, economic, social and nutritional health of Montgomery County, Maryland through the creation of a robust, local, sustainable food system. Our vision is to cultivate a vibrant food system in Montgomery County that consciously produces, distributes, and recycles food, making it accessible to all residents while promoting the health of the local food economy, its consumers, and the environment.
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
N Street Village
N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. With comprehensive services addressing both emergency and long-term needs, we help women achieve stability and make meaningful gains in their housing, income, employment, mental health, physical health, and addiction recovery.
N Street Village - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Real Food for Kids
A group of concerned parents in Fairfax County, Virginia who want to improve FCPS school lunches, to include local and organic foods and farm-to-school programs, and, to educate the school community, students, administrators and parents.
Real Food for Kids - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SHARE Food Network
SHARE Food Network provides nutritious food for everyone in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area. Our food packages are available at prices 40-50% under supermarket prices, making healthy food more affordable. SHARE distributes food through a network of 320 partnering host organizations: churches, tenant associations, senior and day care centers, schools and other community agencies. SHARE depends on these relationships with collaborating organizations to carry out its mission. SHARE is accepting applications for new food sites.
SHARE Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Slow Food DC
Slow Food DC is the DC chapter of Slow Food USA. Slow Food is an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production.
Soilful City
Soilful is a space dedicated to connecting humans to nature through information, ideas, and people in urban environments. Creating Leadership through the wisdom of nature.
Soilful City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SOME (So Others Might Eat)
SOME is an interfaith, community-based organization that exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation’s capital. Each day, SOME is restoring hope and dignity one person at a time. We invite you to join us.
SOME (So Others Might Eat) - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Crossroads Community Food Network is working to improve community health through local food access programs and education for at-risk populations in Maryland’s Takoma/Langley Crossroads area and beyond. Some of CCFN programs include a Farmers Market, healthy eating program, and a microenterprise training program.
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The ECAC builds on the strengths of the community by providing informal and formal gathering space, capturing neighborhood history, engaging new and old residents in civic discourse, and reconnecting the generations of residents.
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The Emergence Community Arts Collective - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
Three Part Harmony Farm
Three Part Harmony Farm is part of a community that grows, sells and eats healthy food. An urban farm on a 2-acre parcel in Northeast Washington, DC, most of its produce is sold through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, and at area stores and restaurants.
Three Part Harmony Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Thrive DC
Thrive DC works to end and prevent homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
FreshFarm Markets strive to build and strengthen the local-food movement in the Chesapeake Bay region, using farmers markets to create vibrant urban and community places, providing economic opportunities for farmers and artisanal food producers and showcasing our region’s agricultural bounty. FRESHFARM Markets operates 11 producer-only farmers markets with more than 110 farmers and producers from 5 states who farm more than 9,000 acres.
FRESHFARM Markets - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The Green Scheme is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization promoting environmental sustainability, health awareness, and social justice. We are improving the trajectory of health, educational and economic outcomes in at-risk communities through training and awareness of environmental issues.
Green Scheme - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Iona’s Senior Services
In Washington DC, Iona Senior Services has a Farm-to-Table program that partners with farmers markets. They glean leftober produce at DC farmers market. The food is sorted, weighed and then distributed at a free market that is set-up and run every week at their congregate meal site. In addition, they hold cooking demonstrations, recipe distribution, and nutrition counseling on site. In addition every Saturday morning, Iona volunteers deliver meals to homebound older adults in northwest DC who are unable to prepare their own meals.
Kid Power
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Little Red Bird Botanicals
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
Manna Food Center
Manna Food Center works to end chronic hunger in Montgomery County, MD.
Manna Food Center - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Martha’s Table
For over 35 years, Martha’s Table has worked to build a better future for children, their families, and neighbors in Washington, DC by increasing access to education, food, and opportunity. Martha’s table programs are divided into three initiatives: healthy start, healthy eating, and healthy connections.
Martha’s Table - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Maryland Food Bank
The Maryland Food Bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization, leading the movement to end hunger throughout Maryland. – See more at: https://mdfoodbank.org/#sthash.RiXk3XDp.dpuf
Maryland Food Bank - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network
The Gleaning Network links farmers who have crops that are edible but not marketable with those who distribute food to the needy through the work of volunteer gleaners. Their staff organizes teams of people to go to local farms to harvest fresh nutritious fruits and vegetables to be given to low income individuals, families, as well as agencies or communities that serve the hungry.
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Miriam’s Kitchen
Miriam’s Kitchen is a nonprofit working to end chronic homelessness in Washington, DC through a variety of programs.
Miriam’s Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Our mission is to bring together a diverse representation of stakeholders in a public and private partnership to improve the environmental, economic, social and nutritional health of Montgomery County, Maryland through the creation of a robust, local, sustainable food system. Our vision is to cultivate a vibrant food system in Montgomery County that consciously produces, distributes, and recycles food, making it accessible to all residents while promoting the health of the local food economy, its consumers, and the environment.
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
N Street Village
N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. With comprehensive services addressing both emergency and long-term needs, we help women achieve stability and make meaningful gains in their housing, income, employment, mental health, physical health, and addiction recovery.
N Street Village - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Real Food for Kids
A group of concerned parents in Fairfax County, Virginia who want to improve FCPS school lunches, to include local and organic foods and farm-to-school programs, and, to educate the school community, students, administrators and parents.
Real Food for Kids - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SHARE Food Network
SHARE Food Network provides nutritious food for everyone in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area. Our food packages are available at prices 40-50% under supermarket prices, making healthy food more affordable. SHARE distributes food through a network of 320 partnering host organizations: churches, tenant associations, senior and day care centers, schools and other community agencies. SHARE depends on these relationships with collaborating organizations to carry out its mission. SHARE is accepting applications for new food sites.
SHARE Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Slow Food DC
Slow Food DC is the DC chapter of Slow Food USA. Slow Food is an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production.
Soilful City
Soilful is a space dedicated to connecting humans to nature through information, ideas, and people in urban environments. Creating Leadership through the wisdom of nature.
Soilful City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SOME (So Others Might Eat)
SOME is an interfaith, community-based organization that exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation’s capital. Each day, SOME is restoring hope and dignity one person at a time. We invite you to join us.
SOME (So Others Might Eat) - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Crossroads Community Food Network is working to improve community health through local food access programs and education for at-risk populations in Maryland’s Takoma/Langley Crossroads area and beyond. Some of CCFN programs include a Farmers Market, healthy eating program, and a microenterprise training program.
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The ECAC builds on the strengths of the community by providing informal and formal gathering space, capturing neighborhood history, engaging new and old residents in civic discourse, and reconnecting the generations of residents.
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The Emergence Community Arts Collective - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
Three Part Harmony Farm
Three Part Harmony Farm is part of a community that grows, sells and eats healthy food. An urban farm on a 2-acre parcel in Northeast Washington, DC, most of its produce is sold through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, and at area stores and restaurants.
Three Part Harmony Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Thrive DC
Thrive DC works to end and prevent homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
In Washington DC, Iona Senior Services has a Farm-to-Table program that partners with farmers markets. They glean leftober produce at DC farmers market. The food is sorted, weighed and then distributed at a free market that is set-up and run every week at their congregate meal site. In addition, they hold cooking demonstrations, recipe distribution, and nutrition counseling on site. In addition every Saturday morning, Iona volunteers deliver meals to homebound older adults in northwest DC who are unable to prepare their own meals.
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Little Red Bird Botanicals
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
Manna Food Center
Manna Food Center works to end chronic hunger in Montgomery County, MD.
Manna Food Center - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Martha’s Table
For over 35 years, Martha’s Table has worked to build a better future for children, their families, and neighbors in Washington, DC by increasing access to education, food, and opportunity. Martha’s table programs are divided into three initiatives: healthy start, healthy eating, and healthy connections.
Martha’s Table - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Maryland Food Bank
The Maryland Food Bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization, leading the movement to end hunger throughout Maryland. – See more at: https://mdfoodbank.org/#sthash.RiXk3XDp.dpuf
Maryland Food Bank - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network
The Gleaning Network links farmers who have crops that are edible but not marketable with those who distribute food to the needy through the work of volunteer gleaners. Their staff organizes teams of people to go to local farms to harvest fresh nutritious fruits and vegetables to be given to low income individuals, families, as well as agencies or communities that serve the hungry.
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Miriam’s Kitchen
Miriam’s Kitchen is a nonprofit working to end chronic homelessness in Washington, DC through a variety of programs.
Miriam’s Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Our mission is to bring together a diverse representation of stakeholders in a public and private partnership to improve the environmental, economic, social and nutritional health of Montgomery County, Maryland through the creation of a robust, local, sustainable food system. Our vision is to cultivate a vibrant food system in Montgomery County that consciously produces, distributes, and recycles food, making it accessible to all residents while promoting the health of the local food economy, its consumers, and the environment.
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
N Street Village
N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. With comprehensive services addressing both emergency and long-term needs, we help women achieve stability and make meaningful gains in their housing, income, employment, mental health, physical health, and addiction recovery.
N Street Village - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Real Food for Kids
A group of concerned parents in Fairfax County, Virginia who want to improve FCPS school lunches, to include local and organic foods and farm-to-school programs, and, to educate the school community, students, administrators and parents.
Real Food for Kids - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SHARE Food Network
SHARE Food Network provides nutritious food for everyone in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area. Our food packages are available at prices 40-50% under supermarket prices, making healthy food more affordable. SHARE distributes food through a network of 320 partnering host organizations: churches, tenant associations, senior and day care centers, schools and other community agencies. SHARE depends on these relationships with collaborating organizations to carry out its mission. SHARE is accepting applications for new food sites.
SHARE Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Slow Food DC
Slow Food DC is the DC chapter of Slow Food USA. Slow Food is an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production.
Soilful City
Soilful is a space dedicated to connecting humans to nature through information, ideas, and people in urban environments. Creating Leadership through the wisdom of nature.
Soilful City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SOME (So Others Might Eat)
SOME is an interfaith, community-based organization that exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation’s capital. Each day, SOME is restoring hope and dignity one person at a time. We invite you to join us.
SOME (So Others Might Eat) - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Crossroads Community Food Network is working to improve community health through local food access programs and education for at-risk populations in Maryland’s Takoma/Langley Crossroads area and beyond. Some of CCFN programs include a Farmers Market, healthy eating program, and a microenterprise training program.
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The ECAC builds on the strengths of the community by providing informal and formal gathering space, capturing neighborhood history, engaging new and old residents in civic discourse, and reconnecting the generations of residents.
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The Emergence Community Arts Collective - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
Three Part Harmony Farm
Three Part Harmony Farm is part of a community that grows, sells and eats healthy food. An urban farm on a 2-acre parcel in Northeast Washington, DC, most of its produce is sold through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, and at area stores and restaurants.
Three Part Harmony Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Thrive DC
Thrive DC works to end and prevent homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.
Manna Food Center works to end chronic hunger in Montgomery County, MD.
Manna Food Center - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Martha’s Table
For over 35 years, Martha’s Table has worked to build a better future for children, their families, and neighbors in Washington, DC by increasing access to education, food, and opportunity. Martha’s table programs are divided into three initiatives: healthy start, healthy eating, and healthy connections.
Martha’s Table - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Maryland Food Bank
The Maryland Food Bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization, leading the movement to end hunger throughout Maryland. – See more at: https://mdfoodbank.org/#sthash.RiXk3XDp.dpuf
Maryland Food Bank - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network
The Gleaning Network links farmers who have crops that are edible but not marketable with those who distribute food to the needy through the work of volunteer gleaners. Their staff organizes teams of people to go to local farms to harvest fresh nutritious fruits and vegetables to be given to low income individuals, families, as well as agencies or communities that serve the hungry.
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Miriam’s Kitchen
Miriam’s Kitchen is a nonprofit working to end chronic homelessness in Washington, DC through a variety of programs.
Miriam’s Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Our mission is to bring together a diverse representation of stakeholders in a public and private partnership to improve the environmental, economic, social and nutritional health of Montgomery County, Maryland through the creation of a robust, local, sustainable food system. Our vision is to cultivate a vibrant food system in Montgomery County that consciously produces, distributes, and recycles food, making it accessible to all residents while promoting the health of the local food economy, its consumers, and the environment.
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
N Street Village
N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. With comprehensive services addressing both emergency and long-term needs, we help women achieve stability and make meaningful gains in their housing, income, employment, mental health, physical health, and addiction recovery.
N Street Village - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Real Food for Kids
A group of concerned parents in Fairfax County, Virginia who want to improve FCPS school lunches, to include local and organic foods and farm-to-school programs, and, to educate the school community, students, administrators and parents.
Real Food for Kids - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SHARE Food Network
SHARE Food Network provides nutritious food for everyone in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area. Our food packages are available at prices 40-50% under supermarket prices, making healthy food more affordable. SHARE distributes food through a network of 320 partnering host organizations: churches, tenant associations, senior and day care centers, schools and other community agencies. SHARE depends on these relationships with collaborating organizations to carry out its mission. SHARE is accepting applications for new food sites.
SHARE Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Slow Food DC
Slow Food DC is the DC chapter of Slow Food USA. Slow Food is an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production.
Soilful City
Soilful is a space dedicated to connecting humans to nature through information, ideas, and people in urban environments. Creating Leadership through the wisdom of nature.
Soilful City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SOME (So Others Might Eat)
SOME is an interfaith, community-based organization that exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation’s capital. Each day, SOME is restoring hope and dignity one person at a time. We invite you to join us.
SOME (So Others Might Eat) - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Crossroads Community Food Network is working to improve community health through local food access programs and education for at-risk populations in Maryland’s Takoma/Langley Crossroads area and beyond. Some of CCFN programs include a Farmers Market, healthy eating program, and a microenterprise training program.
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The ECAC builds on the strengths of the community by providing informal and formal gathering space, capturing neighborhood history, engaging new and old residents in civic discourse, and reconnecting the generations of residents.
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The Emergence Community Arts Collective - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
Three Part Harmony Farm
Three Part Harmony Farm is part of a community that grows, sells and eats healthy food. An urban farm on a 2-acre parcel in Northeast Washington, DC, most of its produce is sold through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, and at area stores and restaurants.
Three Part Harmony Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Thrive DC
Thrive DC works to end and prevent homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
For over 35 years, Martha’s Table has worked to build a better future for children, their families, and neighbors in Washington, DC by increasing access to education, food, and opportunity. Martha’s table programs are divided into three initiatives: healthy start, healthy eating, and healthy connections.
Martha’s Table - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The Maryland Food Bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization, leading the movement to end hunger throughout Maryland. – See more at: https://mdfoodbank.org/#sthash.RiXk3XDp.dpuf
Maryland Food Bank - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network
The Gleaning Network links farmers who have crops that are edible but not marketable with those who distribute food to the needy through the work of volunteer gleaners. Their staff organizes teams of people to go to local farms to harvest fresh nutritious fruits and vegetables to be given to low income individuals, families, as well as agencies or communities that serve the hungry.
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Miriam’s Kitchen
Miriam’s Kitchen is a nonprofit working to end chronic homelessness in Washington, DC through a variety of programs.
Miriam’s Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Our mission is to bring together a diverse representation of stakeholders in a public and private partnership to improve the environmental, economic, social and nutritional health of Montgomery County, Maryland through the creation of a robust, local, sustainable food system. Our vision is to cultivate a vibrant food system in Montgomery County that consciously produces, distributes, and recycles food, making it accessible to all residents while promoting the health of the local food economy, its consumers, and the environment.
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
N Street Village
N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. With comprehensive services addressing both emergency and long-term needs, we help women achieve stability and make meaningful gains in their housing, income, employment, mental health, physical health, and addiction recovery.
N Street Village - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Real Food for Kids
A group of concerned parents in Fairfax County, Virginia who want to improve FCPS school lunches, to include local and organic foods and farm-to-school programs, and, to educate the school community, students, administrators and parents.
Real Food for Kids - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SHARE Food Network
SHARE Food Network provides nutritious food for everyone in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area. Our food packages are available at prices 40-50% under supermarket prices, making healthy food more affordable. SHARE distributes food through a network of 320 partnering host organizations: churches, tenant associations, senior and day care centers, schools and other community agencies. SHARE depends on these relationships with collaborating organizations to carry out its mission. SHARE is accepting applications for new food sites.
SHARE Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Slow Food DC
Slow Food DC is the DC chapter of Slow Food USA. Slow Food is an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production.
Soilful City
Soilful is a space dedicated to connecting humans to nature through information, ideas, and people in urban environments. Creating Leadership through the wisdom of nature.
Soilful City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SOME (So Others Might Eat)
SOME is an interfaith, community-based organization that exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation’s capital. Each day, SOME is restoring hope and dignity one person at a time. We invite you to join us.
SOME (So Others Might Eat) - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Crossroads Community Food Network is working to improve community health through local food access programs and education for at-risk populations in Maryland’s Takoma/Langley Crossroads area and beyond. Some of CCFN programs include a Farmers Market, healthy eating program, and a microenterprise training program.
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The ECAC builds on the strengths of the community by providing informal and formal gathering space, capturing neighborhood history, engaging new and old residents in civic discourse, and reconnecting the generations of residents.
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The Emergence Community Arts Collective - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
Three Part Harmony Farm
Three Part Harmony Farm is part of a community that grows, sells and eats healthy food. An urban farm on a 2-acre parcel in Northeast Washington, DC, most of its produce is sold through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, and at area stores and restaurants.
Three Part Harmony Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Thrive DC
Thrive DC works to end and prevent homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The Gleaning Network links farmers who have crops that are edible but not marketable with those who distribute food to the needy through the work of volunteer gleaners. Their staff organizes teams of people to go to local farms to harvest fresh nutritious fruits and vegetables to be given to low income individuals, families, as well as agencies or communities that serve the hungry.
Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Miriam’s Kitchen is a nonprofit working to end chronic homelessness in Washington, DC through a variety of programs.
Miriam’s Kitchen - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Our mission is to bring together a diverse representation of stakeholders in a public and private partnership to improve the environmental, economic, social and nutritional health of Montgomery County, Maryland through the creation of a robust, local, sustainable food system. Our vision is to cultivate a vibrant food system in Montgomery County that consciously produces, distributes, and recycles food, making it accessible to all residents while promoting the health of the local food economy, its consumers, and the environment.
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
N Street Village
N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. With comprehensive services addressing both emergency and long-term needs, we help women achieve stability and make meaningful gains in their housing, income, employment, mental health, physical health, and addiction recovery.
N Street Village - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Real Food for Kids
A group of concerned parents in Fairfax County, Virginia who want to improve FCPS school lunches, to include local and organic foods and farm-to-school programs, and, to educate the school community, students, administrators and parents.
Real Food for Kids - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SHARE Food Network
SHARE Food Network provides nutritious food for everyone in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area. Our food packages are available at prices 40-50% under supermarket prices, making healthy food more affordable. SHARE distributes food through a network of 320 partnering host organizations: churches, tenant associations, senior and day care centers, schools and other community agencies. SHARE depends on these relationships with collaborating organizations to carry out its mission. SHARE is accepting applications for new food sites.
SHARE Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Slow Food DC
Slow Food DC is the DC chapter of Slow Food USA. Slow Food is an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production.
Soilful City
Soilful is a space dedicated to connecting humans to nature through information, ideas, and people in urban environments. Creating Leadership through the wisdom of nature.
Soilful City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SOME (So Others Might Eat)
SOME is an interfaith, community-based organization that exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation’s capital. Each day, SOME is restoring hope and dignity one person at a time. We invite you to join us.
SOME (So Others Might Eat) - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Crossroads Community Food Network is working to improve community health through local food access programs and education for at-risk populations in Maryland’s Takoma/Langley Crossroads area and beyond. Some of CCFN programs include a Farmers Market, healthy eating program, and a microenterprise training program.
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The ECAC builds on the strengths of the community by providing informal and formal gathering space, capturing neighborhood history, engaging new and old residents in civic discourse, and reconnecting the generations of residents.
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The Emergence Community Arts Collective - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
Three Part Harmony Farm
Three Part Harmony Farm is part of a community that grows, sells and eats healthy food. An urban farm on a 2-acre parcel in Northeast Washington, DC, most of its produce is sold through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, and at area stores and restaurants.
Three Part Harmony Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Thrive DC
Thrive DC works to end and prevent homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Our mission is to bring together a diverse representation of stakeholders in a public and private partnership to improve the environmental, economic, social and nutritional health of Montgomery County, Maryland through the creation of a robust, local, sustainable food system. Our vision is to cultivate a vibrant food system in Montgomery County that consciously produces, distributes, and recycles food, making it accessible to all residents while promoting the health of the local food economy, its consumers, and the environment.
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council
Montgomery County (MD) Food Council - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. With comprehensive services addressing both emergency and long-term needs, we help women achieve stability and make meaningful gains in their housing, income, employment, mental health, physical health, and addiction recovery.
N Street Village - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Real Food for Kids
A group of concerned parents in Fairfax County, Virginia who want to improve FCPS school lunches, to include local and organic foods and farm-to-school programs, and, to educate the school community, students, administrators and parents.
Real Food for Kids - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SHARE Food Network
SHARE Food Network provides nutritious food for everyone in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area. Our food packages are available at prices 40-50% under supermarket prices, making healthy food more affordable. SHARE distributes food through a network of 320 partnering host organizations: churches, tenant associations, senior and day care centers, schools and other community agencies. SHARE depends on these relationships with collaborating organizations to carry out its mission. SHARE is accepting applications for new food sites.
SHARE Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Slow Food DC
Slow Food DC is the DC chapter of Slow Food USA. Slow Food is an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production.
Soilful City
Soilful is a space dedicated to connecting humans to nature through information, ideas, and people in urban environments. Creating Leadership through the wisdom of nature.
Soilful City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SOME (So Others Might Eat)
SOME is an interfaith, community-based organization that exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation’s capital. Each day, SOME is restoring hope and dignity one person at a time. We invite you to join us.
SOME (So Others Might Eat) - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Crossroads Community Food Network is working to improve community health through local food access programs and education for at-risk populations in Maryland’s Takoma/Langley Crossroads area and beyond. Some of CCFN programs include a Farmers Market, healthy eating program, and a microenterprise training program.
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The ECAC builds on the strengths of the community by providing informal and formal gathering space, capturing neighborhood history, engaging new and old residents in civic discourse, and reconnecting the generations of residents.
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The Emergence Community Arts Collective - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
Three Part Harmony Farm
Three Part Harmony Farm is part of a community that grows, sells and eats healthy food. An urban farm on a 2-acre parcel in Northeast Washington, DC, most of its produce is sold through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, and at area stores and restaurants.
Three Part Harmony Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Thrive DC
Thrive DC works to end and prevent homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
A group of concerned parents in Fairfax County, Virginia who want to improve FCPS school lunches, to include local and organic foods and farm-to-school programs, and, to educate the school community, students, administrators and parents.
Real Food for Kids - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SHARE Food Network
SHARE Food Network provides nutritious food for everyone in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area. Our food packages are available at prices 40-50% under supermarket prices, making healthy food more affordable. SHARE distributes food through a network of 320 partnering host organizations: churches, tenant associations, senior and day care centers, schools and other community agencies. SHARE depends on these relationships with collaborating organizations to carry out its mission. SHARE is accepting applications for new food sites.
SHARE Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Slow Food DC
Slow Food DC is the DC chapter of Slow Food USA. Slow Food is an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production.
Soilful City
Soilful is a space dedicated to connecting humans to nature through information, ideas, and people in urban environments. Creating Leadership through the wisdom of nature.
Soilful City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SOME (So Others Might Eat)
SOME is an interfaith, community-based organization that exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation’s capital. Each day, SOME is restoring hope and dignity one person at a time. We invite you to join us.
SOME (So Others Might Eat) - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Crossroads Community Food Network is working to improve community health through local food access programs and education for at-risk populations in Maryland’s Takoma/Langley Crossroads area and beyond. Some of CCFN programs include a Farmers Market, healthy eating program, and a microenterprise training program.
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The ECAC builds on the strengths of the community by providing informal and formal gathering space, capturing neighborhood history, engaging new and old residents in civic discourse, and reconnecting the generations of residents.
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The Emergence Community Arts Collective - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
Three Part Harmony Farm
Three Part Harmony Farm is part of a community that grows, sells and eats healthy food. An urban farm on a 2-acre parcel in Northeast Washington, DC, most of its produce is sold through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, and at area stores and restaurants.
Three Part Harmony Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Thrive DC
Thrive DC works to end and prevent homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SHARE Food Network provides nutritious food for everyone in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area. Our food packages are available at prices 40-50% under supermarket prices, making healthy food more affordable. SHARE distributes food through a network of 320 partnering host organizations: churches, tenant associations, senior and day care centers, schools and other community agencies. SHARE depends on these relationships with collaborating organizations to carry out its mission. SHARE is accepting applications for new food sites.
SHARE Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Slow Food DC is the DC chapter of Slow Food USA. Slow Food is an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production.
Soilful City
Soilful is a space dedicated to connecting humans to nature through information, ideas, and people in urban environments. Creating Leadership through the wisdom of nature.
Soilful City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SOME (So Others Might Eat)
SOME is an interfaith, community-based organization that exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation’s capital. Each day, SOME is restoring hope and dignity one person at a time. We invite you to join us.
SOME (So Others Might Eat) - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Crossroads Community Food Network is working to improve community health through local food access programs and education for at-risk populations in Maryland’s Takoma/Langley Crossroads area and beyond. Some of CCFN programs include a Farmers Market, healthy eating program, and a microenterprise training program.
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The ECAC builds on the strengths of the community by providing informal and formal gathering space, capturing neighborhood history, engaging new and old residents in civic discourse, and reconnecting the generations of residents.
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The Emergence Community Arts Collective - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
Three Part Harmony Farm
Three Part Harmony Farm is part of a community that grows, sells and eats healthy food. An urban farm on a 2-acre parcel in Northeast Washington, DC, most of its produce is sold through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, and at area stores and restaurants.
Three Part Harmony Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Thrive DC
Thrive DC works to end and prevent homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Soilful is a space dedicated to connecting humans to nature through information, ideas, and people in urban environments. Creating Leadership through the wisdom of nature.
Soilful City - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
SOME is an interfaith, community-based organization that exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation’s capital. Each day, SOME is restoring hope and dignity one person at a time. We invite you to join us.
SOME (So Others Might Eat) - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Crossroads Community Food Network is working to improve community health through local food access programs and education for at-risk populations in Maryland’s Takoma/Langley Crossroads area and beyond. Some of CCFN programs include a Farmers Market, healthy eating program, and a microenterprise training program.
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The ECAC builds on the strengths of the community by providing informal and formal gathering space, capturing neighborhood history, engaging new and old residents in civic discourse, and reconnecting the generations of residents.
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The Emergence Community Arts Collective - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
Three Part Harmony Farm
Three Part Harmony Farm is part of a community that grows, sells and eats healthy food. An urban farm on a 2-acre parcel in Northeast Washington, DC, most of its produce is sold through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, and at area stores and restaurants.
Three Part Harmony Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Thrive DC
Thrive DC works to end and prevent homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Crossroads Community Food Network is working to improve community health through local food access programs and education for at-risk populations in Maryland’s Takoma/Langley Crossroads area and beyond. Some of CCFN programs include a Farmers Market, healthy eating program, and a microenterprise training program.
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network
Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
The ECAC builds on the strengths of the community by providing informal and formal gathering space, capturing neighborhood history, engaging new and old residents in civic discourse, and reconnecting the generations of residents.
The Emergence Community Arts Collective
The Emergence Community Arts Collective - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
Three Part Harmony Farm
Three Part Harmony Farm is part of a community that grows, sells and eats healthy food. An urban farm on a 2-acre parcel in Northeast Washington, DC, most of its produce is sold through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, and at area stores and restaurants.
Three Part Harmony Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Thrive DC
Thrive DC works to end and prevent homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
Three Part Harmony Farm is part of a community that grows, sells and eats healthy food. An urban farm on a 2-acre parcel in Northeast Washington, DC, most of its produce is sold through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, and at area stores and restaurants.
Three Part Harmony Farm - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Thrive DC
Thrive DC works to end and prevent homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
Thrive DC works to end and prevent homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Volunteer Opportunities
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