G4G Boston + Community Servings | July 17, 2024

Join G4G Boston and Community Servings in making scratch-made meals for chronically and critically ill individuals and their families.

Date: Wednesday, July 17
Time: 4pm–7pm
Meet location: Community Servings, 179 Amory Street, Jamaica Plain

About the project:

This project is limited to 15 G4G volunteers.

G4G Chapter Project Coordinator: Carey

About our Partner: Community Servings provides medically tailored, nutritious, scratch-made meals to chronically and critically ill individuals and their families across Massachusetts. They commit, in all their programs and business practices, to prioritize racial and economic justice and health equity.

Since their founding in 1990, Community Servings has provided more than 10 million medically tailored meals (MTMs) to their clients who are living with severe critical and chronic illnesses such as HIV, cancer, diabetes, and kidney disease.

Transport and Parking: Community Servings’ Jamaica Plain facility is just steps from the Stony Brook Station on the MBTA Orange Line.  They also have a parking lot designated for volunteer use on a first-come first-served basis.

Additional Information:

• When volunteering in the Community Servings kitchen, you must feel 100% healthy and be free of any symptoms, including a cough, fever, chills, body aches, chest congestion, shortness of breath, nausea/vomiting, or diarrhea.
• Community Servings follows a strict kitchen dress code to ensure the safety of our volunteers and the quality of our food. Volunteers are required to adhere to the following guidelines:
  • Long-sleeved shirt
  • Long pants without rips or tears
  • Closed-toed shoes that completely cover the foot

We will provide hairnets, beard nets, aprons, and gloves on-site.

• Masks are optional at Community Servings. We do not require volunteers to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination.
• You will receive a 15-minute new-volunteer orientation led by the Volunteer Team staff prior to the start of your first volunteer shift.  The orientation will include an overview of our mission and a food safety training. For subsequent shifts, you will not need to repeat orientation.