Please visit https://www.connectcenterforyouth.org and click "Volunteering" to sign up for Backpack shifts.
Help us package and deliver meals for students in Cohoes through our BackPack program! In conjunction with the Regional Food Bank, we provide qualifying students with healthy weekend meals to ensure that they are able to start school each week, ready to learn.
Volunteers will assist in packing each BackPack and then deliver the bags to the student's home in Cohoes. Other tasks that we may ask people to help with include breaking down boxes we receive and moving our overstock inventory to ensure that we are following a "first in, first out" system with the food we receive.
There are two available Friday shifts for interested BackPack volunteers:
- From 7:30 to 8:30 am, we package dry goods and produce
- From 8:30 to 9:00 am, volunteer drivers deliver a route of 3-5 BackPacks to homes in Cohoes
There is also a Wednesday shift from 7:30am-9:30am
- Volunteers must have a vehicle for this shift
Volunteers may sign up for one or both shifts. If you have any questions or would like to sign a large group up to volunteer, please reach out to us at volunteer@connectcenterforyouth.org.
