City Harvest offers a variety of volunteer opportunities in New York City, including participating in food rescue and distribution, providing nutrition education to people of all ages, and more.

Mobile Market

These farmers’ market style distributions deliver fresh produce free of charge 18 times a month across all five boroughs. You will distribute thousands of pounds of fruits and vegetables to hundreds of families.

Time Commitment: 8:30am–12:00pm (shift time subject to change); our Mobile Markets take place twice a month

Location: Each of CH’s nine locations across all five boroughs.

Repack

Much of the food that City Harvest procures through partnerships with farmers, wholesalers, or through local food drives arrives in large capacity containers, which can be challenging to distribute equitably. Help us take thousands of pounds of produce and repack it from large, bulk containers into smaller, family-sized units that community food programs can easily distribute to their clients.

Time commitment: Varies, 3-4 hours

Location: The Cohen Community Center Rescue Center, Sunset Park, Brooklyn

Greenmarket Rescue (Seasonal)

Rescue thousands of pounds of fresh, seasonal produce that would otherwise go to waste at Greenmarkets across the city. At the close of the market, volunteers collect excess food from local farmers and help load it onto City Harvest trucks, which immediately deliver the food to soup kitchens and food pantries across the city.

Time commitment: 2 hours

Location: Varies seasonally

Nutrition Education

City Harvest invites New Yorkers with an educational, culinary, or nutrition background, or a strong interest in healthy cooking and eating, to be a part of our Nutrition Education volunteer opportunities. Our free Nutrition Education classes and cooking demonstrations mostly take place Monday–Friday during regular business hours, with occasional Saturday mornings, in schools, community centers, and supermarkets across all five boroughs. We will supply you with recipes and all of the information and materials you’ll need. All that’s required is your passion and a basic understanding of cooking.

Time commitment: Varies

Location: Varies

Office Work

Put your office skills to work by joining us at our Sunset Park headquarters to help with mailings, data entry, and other administrative projects.

Please let us know what opportunities you are interested in below: