Food Giveaway Coordinator

Position Description and Objectives

Compassionate Action for Animals (CAA) is offering a volunteer staff position for Food Giveaway Coordinator. Candidates must be organized, outgoing, have some general knowledge of vegan food products, and have excellent communication skills. Experience in outreach, event planning and logistics, volunteer coordination, and food preparation are desired. Candidates should be passionate about animal advocacy and veganism.

One part of our long-term strategy at CAA is to help build a bigger and stronger animal advocacy movement. With each new person that embraces the values of veganism, thousands of animals are saved over the course of that person's lifetime, and even more through the additional people that person influences. As the movement grows, the numbers of animals we can help will increase exponentially.

At CAA we realize that tasting is believing and when people get a chance to try vegan foods, they'll seek out more in the future.

Objectives and Criteria for Success: Your coordination of our food giveaways will...

• Educate the public about alternative, compassionate food choices
• Provide the opportunity for the public to ask questions about vegetarianism
• Encourage people to make the transition to become vegetarian or vegan
• Make it possible for staff and volunteers to carry out our work

Responsibilities

• Be available on weekdays, weekends, and evenings to participate in food giveaways
• Oversee volunteers at each food giveaway
• Help to recruit and retain volunteers for giveaway events
• Research and schedule locations for the food giveaway events
• Procure, through donations and purchases, food samples for distribution
• Transport some goods and equipment for each giveaway
• Promote events by overseeing the production of posters, flyers, and other advertisements
• Call and write press releases to major news outlets such as MPR, Star Tribune, Pioneer Press, City Pages, MN Daily, Minn Post, etc.
• Report food giveaway results and projections

Time Commitment and Evaluation

• This position lasts six months and can be renewed upon review.
• This position is for 3-5 hours/week (this may be negotiable). Additional time is at your discretion.
• Your performance review will occur three months after your start date.
• Your supervisor will be the Executive Director, Unny Nambudiripad.

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