Volunteer
Join Our Volunteer Team
Be a Volunteer Food Runner! Drive to an organization in the North Bay, pick up a food donation, then drive it immediately to a local nonprofit that serves people facing food insecurity. That’s it! An hour of your time to feel the love from our donor and recipient partners, help the planet, and serve people in need.
To be a volunteer:
- You need to be 18 or over (or children can volunteer with their parents)
- Have a vehicle, valid driver’s license, car registration, and our minimum amount of car insurance.
Once you’re signed up and trained as a volunteer food runner, you can sign up online on a first-come, first-served basis for food trips that are posted each Sunday for the following week. So, you can do trips whenever it’s convenient for you — we ask only that you do at least two per month.
Or, if there are regular, weekly food trips available, you can “own” one or more of those if you like. And when new food trips come up during the week, you’ll get an email or text.

Other Ways To Get Involved
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2022 Volunteer of the Year: Hoang L.
“After retiring I was looking for something meaningful to do that enabled me to give back to my community. I discovered the ExtraFood program and thought what a brilliant idea that they can rescue thousands of pounds of food to give to the needy and I have been a volunteer ever since. I appreciate what they are doing and am happy to be part of this wonderful organization.”
-Hoang L., Volunteer








