Volunteers at Stone Soup Café each add a unique flavor to the community and contribute to our culture of belonging.
Thanks for your interest in volunteering with Stone Soup to build a diverse, inclusive community through a high-quality dining experience with healthy delicious food! Volunteers are a key part of our mission, and we aim to strategically use volunteers' skills to address community needs.
To ensure the best volunteering experience, please take some time to review our Volunteer Handbook.
Once you are ready, feel free to register and sign up for a shift! Any questions can be directed to volunteer@thestonesoupcafe.org.
Find us at 399 Main Street in Greenfield, in the basement of All Souls Church. We're on the corner of Hope Street & Main Street. Enter at the Hope Street entrance – through the red door. Street parking is free on Saturdays.
As of 2022, Stone Soup Café is a certified "Service Enterprise" by the Association of Leaders in Volunteer Engagement (AL!VE) and the Massachusetts Service Alliance!
We are proud to be one of the latest organizations to join the movement to strategically engage volunteers in our mission.
Becoming a Service Enterprise allows us to leverage the full value of volunteer time and talent and leads to more efficient engagement of volunteers, increased capacity, and sustainability.
>> 2:30PM - 4:30PM / 4:30PM - 6:30PM / 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Come on down to the Stone Soup Café and chop with the crew! Be ready to learn to prep food, prep veggies, and make dessert! Tasks: chopping vegetables, cooking, and cleaning.
>> Morning Food Prep, Cooking & Set-Up (6:30AM - 8:30AM, 8:30AM - 10:30AM)
Cook with our chef! During this shift, we complete the preparation of veggies and finish cooking all the dishes for Saturday’s lunch. Tasks: chopping vegetables, cooking, dishing out the soup, rolling compostable utensils, dish-washing. If you'd like to stay for food service, sign up for that shift as well!
>> Meal Packing (11:00AM - 2:30PM)
This shift goes until 2:30pm so that everyone can assist with cleaning the dining room before leaving (sweeping, mopping, wiping down surfaces). As Chef Kirsten says, “When you’re done, you’ve just begun!” If you cannot stay for the whole shift, please sign up for the earlier Food Prep shift instead.
>> Outdoor Meal Service (11:30AM - 1:30PM)
If you're a sociable type and you love chatting with community members, this is the shift for you! Join us outside taking people's meal orders, helping to run the Free Store/Food Pantry, and keeping the meal-pickup line movin' and groovin'! We have fun, even when it's chilly.
>> Dishwashing & Kitchen Clean-Up (1:30PM - 3:30PM)
If you love to clean and organize – this is a job for you! Dishwashing, cleaning kitchen space, sweeping and mopping the kitchen floor. We work and sing along to great tunes while scrubbing down the Cafe! Hopefully, the morning dishwashing fairy has made your job light.
>> Meal Delivery Driver! (12:15PM - 2:00PM)
We are all so grateful that we are able to deliver hundreds of meals to our community every week! Our volunteer drivers bring SO much happiness, relief, and respect to our communities.
We deliver to Greenfield, Bernardston, Deerfield, Shelburne Falls, Colrain, Great Falls, Millers Falls, Montague, Lake Pleasant, and sometimes even Whately and Sunderland.
I understand that the Café community is built on personal responsibility and relationships. I will act with respect for Café’s volunteers and guests. I will take responsibility for my actions. If I am uncomfortable addressing an issue with another community member, I will bring the issue to the attention of the Volunteer Coordinator. If I am not able to make a scheduled shift, I will let the Volunteer Coordinator know that I cannot attend.
I acknowledge that Stone Soup Café is committed to the ongoing work of building a beloved community, where all walks of life can come together to share nourishment, connection, and learning for body, mind and spirit. In order for all people affected by racism to feel a sense of belonging at the Café, I all agree to practice antiracism and build a culture of inclusivity, justice, and transformation.