Volunteer With Us

Astoria Food Pantry is run entirely by volunteers, and we'd love to have you join us! Whether you just want to stop by once, or you're looking for a mutual aid community where you can get involved with on a regular basis, our space is open to you!

Before volunteering, please take a few minutes to get acquainted with our guidelines and organizing principles. 

Food Pantry Mondays
Join us any time from 8am-3pm, no need to sign up ahead of time! The Food Pantry team can always use help with distributing lunch and groceries, bagging rice & beans, sorting donations of food or grocery bags, collecting donations at a nearby grocery store, or cleaning our space. Dress for the potential for a physically active day!

Free Store Outreach Tuesdays 
Join us from 11am-2pm, email freestoreastoria@gmail.com ahead of time to sign up. Free Store could always use help distributing free items at Astoria Houses.  You would be asked to meet at Astoria Food Pantry at 11am to load items into a vehicle, distribute them from 11:30am-1:30pm, then unload the vehicle at 2pm.  It's a fun and an easy way to make new friends. Dress warm, as it's all outside! 

Free Store Wednesdays
(Note: closed first Wednesday of the month)
Join us any time from 9am-6pm, no need to sign up ahead of time! The Free Store team can always use help with sorting, folding, and hanging clothes, greeting and answering questions from shoppers, and wrapping bread for distribution to community fridges. Check out the Free Store Instagram to see what it's like. Dress for cuteness or for comfort! 

Grocery Delivery Saturdays
On Saturdays, Astoria Mutual Aid Network sends deliveries of groceries to neighbors who are not able to go to their local food pantry. We need a few people for packing and clean up at the pantry, and more people for walking, biking, and driving the deliveries around Astoria. Because we create delivery routes ahead of time based on the number of volunteers, we ask people to sign up for Saturday volunteering. Sign up at bit.ly/amansaturdays or at the bottom of this page.

Other Times & At Home Volunteering
If you are interested in helping out but can't make it during the times above, we also have ongoing administrative needs that can be done from home or at other times, like coordinating fundraising events, renovations to our space, accounting & legal paperwork, and more!

​We also can never have enough donation drives, as they are one of our primary sources of food. Consider hosting one of your own!