Volunteer Spotlight:200 Meal Bagging Volunteers

Volunteer Spotlight:
200 Meal Bagging Volunteers

More than 200 regular volunteers are the heart, soul, mind and muscles that bring SOK’s mission to life. They participate five to six times each school year and help with anything from meal bagging and delivering meal bags to schools, to working at SOK events.

Serving Our Kids proudly recognizes two special groups of volunteers – SOK volunteer supervisors and SOK meal bag drivers – who literally keep our operations rolling from our warehouse to the schools we serve.

SOK has 10 Volunteer Supervisors who keep our meal-bagging motor running smoothly and efficiently. They educate new volunteers about SOK’s mission and operations. They make sure our meal-bagging teams are fully fueled with thousands of food items. And they ensure the quality of each weekend meal bag before it leaves our warehouse.

Without our Volunteer Supervisors, we would have to hire paid employees to perform these critical duties. And we simply could not create enough weekend meal bags to help feed more than 4,000 food-insecure kids each week during the school year.

All the work of our volunteer baggers and supervisors would be for naught if we couldn’t deliver our weekend meal bags to the schools and, ultimately, to the students who need them. That takes a team of 30 volunteer delivery drivers.

Our volunteer drivers deliver thousands of weekend meal bags 40 different schools throughout the Las Vegas Valley. Between two and four times a month, they donate their time, their vehicles and the gas to make sure each meal bag reaches its destination on time.

Twice a year, SOK asks our participating schools to give us feedback about our services. More than half of the schools that reply mention how much they appreciate our drivers and their vital role in SOK’s operations. They also mention the close personal relationship between many of our drivers and school administrators. They’re more than drivers. They’re SOK ambassadors.

Thank You Volunteer Drivers!

Andi Ahart, Ann Averett, Reagan Barba, Jen Beckham, Keyon Bell, Glen Bension, Austin Burns, John Burns, Sheila Butler, Lorianne Caracoilo, Lou Cassara, Maggie Cassara, Margaret Chen, Darin Costantine, Greg Davis, Susan Davis, Roger Dilts, Neal Fowler, Leah Gorman, Gregorio Gutierrez, John Heidorn, Jacque Hoatson Powell, Michele Hodges, Joe Huffman, Jackie Hunsaker, Nancy Hunting, Jane Kentz, Ethan Kice, Pam Kowell, Brandon Kuptz, Tim Kuptz, Dawn Langdon, Wes Lau, Kathy Lopez, Christine Lundervold, Shanon Madrigal, Tim McDevitt, Pastor Brian Medley, Melissa Mendez, Michele Mittemiller, Dana Nakamoto, Theo Newson, Joseph Noble, Lonnie Noble, Nancy Poliner, Kim Quinnell, Carl Salas, Fran Sarkett, Trent Thorell, Melody Townsend, Natalie Vaughn, Karen Victor.

Thank You Volunteer Supervisors!

Andi Ahart, Tiffany Blasco, Robin Duccint, Jackie Hunsaker, Pam Kowell *, Tim Kuptz, Karen Polist, Fran Sarkett *, Carolyn Streva, Karen Victor, Bernie Waite. *Volunteer Coordinators

JOIN OUR SUPER SUPERVISORS AND DRIVERS!

Serving Our Kids is actively seeking:

  • Volunteer Team Leader/Supervisor for meal bagging sessions
    • (2 sessions per month)
  • Volunteer Drivers to deliver meal bags to schools
    • (2 deliveries per month, 2 hours each)

Please email your contact information to info@servingourkids.org and we’ll respond within in 48 hours. Thank you!

Happy Birthday Julie Cane!

Happy “special birthday” to our dear friend and SUPER volunteer Julie Cane!

Julie has been a supporter of Serving Our Kids for many years.  Over the past 3 years Julie has supported Serving Our Kids with volunteers, event sponsorships and food drives.

 We estimate that Julie has brought us over 400 volunteers, totaling more than 900 volunteer hours.

These individuals have helped us create the weekend meal bags and most recently drove the single largest food drive that totaled more than 13,720 units of food with 99.5% going directly into a child’s weekend meal bag.

Happy Birthday Julie!  Thank you so much for all you are doing to support Serving Our Kids and many other wonderful organizations across the valley.

Thank you Findlay Mazda!

Wow! Look at all of this ramen Findlay Mazda General Manager, Brennan Wedewer, Marketing Manager, Sydee Randall, and the Findlay Mazda team collected for Serving Our Kids! This is a favorite item for the kids. Findlay Mazda brought enough Ramen to help us create 1400 weekend meal bags! Thank you for helping us take steps to end child hunger.

Thank You Lotus Broadcasting!

Thank you Stephanie MacKenzie and Lotus Broadcasting Corp for their very generous $5000 donation to Serving Our Kids ! This donation will help us create over 1400 weekend meal bags! Thank you for your support and helping us end child hunger across the valley!

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