The Community Food Pantry, located in North Tampa, is open Sundays from 12:00-2:00 p.m. and Wednesdays from 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. The organization is experiencing a 272% increase to the families they serve each week, and the need continues to grow as more businesses reduce hours or suspend work. Visit the “Take Action” page to look for volunteer times.

Feeding Tampa Bay is considered an essential facility during this critical time, and the organization is working hard to ensure hundreds of thousands of our neighbors have the food they need during this pandemic. Volunteers are crucial in these efforts and they need you to #standwithFTB now more than ever. Until the situation stabilizes, the need for services will continue to increase, and Feeding Tampa Bay needs your help to deploy these programs. Check their schedule to find the shift that’s right for you and sign up today!

The need is always growing in Tampa Bay. Metropolitan Ministries needs passionate volunteers to ensure that families can find help when they need it. They have all the information you need to get started, whether you’re looking to do brief service, bring a group, or want to make a longer-term impact as a volunteer leader.

Metropolitan Ministries has numerous opportunities for you to make a real difference for people in your community. In the kitchen, you could find yourself doing meal preparation (e.g., cutting potatoes, washing chickens, or opening up hundreds of cans of mandarin oranges by hand), serving our residents in our dining facility, stocking shelves, washing dishes, mopping, or emptying the trash. Or you can help out at the Family Outreach Center. This is usually the first stop at Metropolitan Ministries for new clients. Here you can bring hope directly to those in need.

Whether it is rocking babies at our PromiseLand, cooking lunch for 2,500 or helping build our iconic Holiday Tent, you can find volunteering opportunities you will love at Metro. You can find more specific opportunities on their website under How You Can Help.