Volunteer
FCS volunteers are a family of helpers
Freeport Community Services works for everyone because of the kindness of caring citizens in Freeport and Pownal who volunteer thousands of hours every year. There are many volunteer opportunities that are of great help to FCS and our local residents.
We encourage you to select one that most suits your interests and join in!
For more information about how you can become a volunteer, please contact:
Susan Adams, Volunteer Coordinator at:
(207) 865-3985 x206 | sadams@fcsmaine.org
Food Pantry
- Volunteer as a pantry tender to help customers choose their food
- Organize a neighborhood, family or workplace food drive
- Help with special projects in the pantry
- Substitute in the Food Pantry to cover vacations, illness, etc.
- Join the team organizing inventory and packing/unpacking food
Thrift Shop
- Help sort donations
- Assist customers in the gift shop, 2-3 hour shifts
- Help organize the boutique
- Become a Thrift Shop substitute
Help Your Neighbors
- Join “Read To Succeed” and become a volunteer reader to children in child care homes, 1 hour/week
- Adopt a person to help with outside chores – snow shoveling in winter and raking and clean up in the spring and fall
- Take a senior who is home-bound shopping
- Organize a fundraiser for the Carol Kaplan Emergency Fuel Fund
- Volunteer to give rides to medical appointments
During the Holidays
- Prepare a family food basket for Thanksgiving or Holiday Helpline
- Adopt a family and purchase gifts for them during the FCS Holiday Helpline
- Wrap gifts to benefit FCS at L.L. Bean during December
- Volunteer to organize/label gifts, prepare packages and give out gifts for Holiday Helpline, 3-hr. shifts
- Bake treats for volunteers during special events
Special Projects
- Become a committee member
- Video record events
- Photograph events
- Distribute flyers and promotional materials
- Serve at Free Lunch Friday meals, 3rd Friday of the month, January-October
- Make and/or deliver meals for our Free Summer Lunch for Kids program
- Volunteer at the blood donor sign-in table and/or hand out snacks at the community center blood drives.
- Sign in people and/or give out snacks at the community center blood drives
- Help out with painting, construction and maintenance projects
Volunteering for Freeport Community Services means so much to me. The work the organization does represents the essence of being part of a caring community. We help each other no matter what the circumstances. It connects me to wonderful individuals and to the heart of the community.
– Pat Robles, Past Board Member
Want to learn more?
We’d love to hear from you!
Feel free to contact Susan Adams, Volunteer Coordinator at 207-865-3985 x206, or by email at sadams@fcsmaine.org.