Saturday Distributions: Browse the schedule on Saturday Pantry VolunteerSpot and sign up for a date/s that work for you. For questions, please contact Charisse Gioia at foodpantrysteteresa@gmail.com
Thursday Food Arrival: Interested persons should contact Mairead Reidy at mairead.reidy@yahoo.com .
Our parish food pantry is a welcoming, dependable source of nutritious food, respect and social contact to the food insecure of our community. Most of the food is supplied from the from the Greater Chicago Food Depository (GCFD). However, we do supplement with donations from parishioners and purchase needed items.
You have helped us in the past or plan on helping us with Saturday Food Pantry Distributions, including set-up, distributing to our guests, and clean up after the distribution, from 9AM to 12PM. And we are very grateful. Purpose of this message is to remind some of the volunteers Etiquette in place at Ste Teresa.
Anyone can earn service hours... even during July, August!
1. Children are welcome to volunteer along with a responsible adult (8 to 12yrs old, one adult per child). If you do so, please only book spots for the adults.
2. Teens (13yrs old and older) may volunteer without an accompanying adult if an adult checks them in with the manager on duty that day and specifies any instructions regarding how the teen will go home afterward. This is in order to ensure safety and continued positive volunteer experiences.
As a reminder, we couldn’t run the Food Pantry without you… our guests count on our great volunteers!
3. When signing up, kindly ensure you have no other potential commitments that might prevent you from attending. If you do need to cancel the sooner the better. Kindly do it the week before.
4. In case you have to cancel the week you are signed up for, kindly help to find an alternative volunteer back up plan or warn the food pantry team with 72 hrs notice, any last minute cancellation impacts the other volunteers and our ability to serve our guests.
5. We reserve the right to no longer accept volunteers that would not show up or have cancelled at last minute without finding a back up plan.
6. if you would like to sign up but the Saturdays are already booked, you can reach out to foodpantrysteteresa@gmail.com and request to be added to the back up plan volunteering list. If needed, the manager of the Saturday may reach out to you within the prior 72hrs to backfill some cancellations.
We continue to look forward seeing you for many more Saturdays. Our guests are so grateful of our service. Don't hesitate to spread the good words in your network!
Should you have any other questions, please reach out to foodpantrysteteresa@gmail.com
The Ste Teresa Food Pantry Team
People to Contact for More Information
Charisse Gioia
at cgioia@stteresaparish.org
(Office Manager)
Mairead Reidy at
mairead.reidy@yahoo.com
(GCFD and Stocking Coordinator)