Strengthening bonds and the community.
Many hands are needed to help us make the more than one million meals we serve each year to our clients living with chronic and critical illnesses, so we are happy to welcome volunteer groups at both our Boston (Jamaica Plain) and Mansfield facilities.
Our facilities and activities are designed with every kind of volunteer in mind, whether groups or individuals, experienced or brand new to our mission. That makes us a great fit for a team-building day or a corporate service outing.
Volunteers from Chiesi’s Boston office in our Liberty Mutual Packaging Kitchen helping our team fill medically tailored meal containers.
Volunteers from our partner Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts building meal bags for our clients in the Volunteer Packaging Kitchen.
Members of Alnylam’s team recently stopped by to volunteer and help feed our critically and chronically ill clients. Here, they’re precisely portioning out protein so every clients gets exact nutrition they need to stay healthy.
Volunteers from Rockland, MA-based Alletess chopping fresh kale in our Production Kitchen that our cooks used for delicious and nutritious Kale Soup!
Thanks to the help of corporate teams like Boathouse Group, we were able to keep up with the demand for our medically tailored meals last winter!
The team from Moderna recently stopped by to lend a helping hand in our kitchens portioning, packaging and labeling scratch-made medically tailored meals for our clients.
Thank you to our friends at Sanofi for helping our Packaging Kitchen team build the homemade "soup stacks" our critically and chronically ill clients receive in their weekly meal delivery!
Groups work alongside our staff and individual volunteers on our production lines. You will help peel and chop vegetables, portion soups, stews, and salads, and package meal bags for delivery. Every task supports the delivery of medically tailored meals to neighbors across Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
In our Boston commercial kitchen, we can welcome groups of up to 20 volunteers in the morning and afternoon, or up to 10 in the evening. In Mansfield, Massachusetts, we can host groups of four to six in our packaging warehouse during morning and afternoon shifts.
Group members just need to arrive dressed in line with our dress code. Everything else is provided. That includes lockers to store your belongings, a 15-minute video orientation and Q&A with our Volunteer Services staff, and the disposable sanitation gear needed to work in our production areas.
Community Servings invoices a $75 donation per volunteer for corporate volunteer groups in Boston (Jamaica Plain). That amount is equivalent to two weeks of meals for a client. The donation deepens the impact of group volunteering by offsetting some of the costs of staff and infrastructure required to host large volunteer groups.
This donation does not apply to community volunteer groups or to certain corporate groups with which we have other forms of partnership. It is currently optional for small corporate groups joining at our Mansfield facility.
If you would like to learn more about sponsorship arrangements for LifeSavor and Pie in the Sky that could exempt your organization from the donation, please email our Manager of Volunteer Services, T’sera Mirescu, at and ask to be connected with a member of our Development team.
During most of the year, we need six to eight weeks of advance notice to accommodate groups, and up to 12 weeks around the fall and winter holidays. We may be able to book smaller groups in Boston even sooner.
Interested in a group shift? Reach out to our team, and we will help you find a date. You can email or call 617-522-7777, option 5. Our web calendars are for first-time individual bookings only.
Group shifts run Monday through Friday year-round, except for major federal and state holidays. Current shifts are:
In our Boston commercial kitchen, we welcome groups of up to 20 in the morning and afternoon, or up to 10 in the evening. In Mansfield, we host groups of four to six during morning and afternoon shifts
For most of the year, we need six to eight weeks of advance notice. Around the fall and winter holidays, we ask for up to 12 weeks. We may be able to book smaller groups in Boston even sooner.
Groups work alongside our staff on the production lines. That includes peeling and chopping vegetables, portioning soups, stews, and salads, and packaging meal bags for delivery.
Just arrive dressed in line with our dress code. Everything else is provided onsite, including disposable sanitation gear for our production areas.
We provide lockers to store your belongings, a 15-minute video orientation and Q&A with our Volunteer Services staff, and all the sanitation gear you need to work in our production areas.
Group shifts run Monday through Friday year-round, except for major federal and state holidays. Current shifts are 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., and 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. The evening shift is not currently available in Mansfield.
We host volunteers at two sites, our main kitchen in Boston (Jamaica Plain) and our packaging warehouse in Mansfield, Massachusetts.
Community Servings has achieved high ratings by GuideStar & Charity Navigation and is an accredited FIMC Member.
