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According to Amy Cooper-Ayles, director of volunteers at GBFB, groups of 20 volunteers at a time—consisting of students, faculty, and staff—will fill shifts at the Food Bank roughly once a week beginning in January and continuing until the end of the academic year. Two shifts in November will also be filled by members of the Office of the President and the Provost and the Office of Government, Community and Public Affairs...
...Food Bank does not serve meals, but rather distributes more than 30 million pounds of food and grocery products each year to soup kitchens, homeless shelters, and other community organizations. Cooper-Ayles said that volunteers help sort through the food for damaged, expired, or seasonal products...
...added that Harvard’s commitment is unique, and that in her three years at the Food Bank, no other university has offered a similar long-term pledge of service. Harvard’s commitment, she said, will help ensure that there are enough hands to sort through food after the holiday season, when the number of volunteers typically drops off but the amount of product to be sorted is greatest...
...well as by contacts at the Phillips Brooks House Association and the Graduate Student Council. She said the cost of the commitment was “minimal”—roughly $7,000 for this academic year—and will stem from transportation to the Food Bank and lunches for volunteers...
Harvard’s commitment to the Food Bank comes just before the University launches its Public Service Week, which begins today and recognizes and promotes public service activities and careers. According to the University’s press release, roughly 7,000 Harvard students contributed more than 900,000 hours of service in and around Boston...