Nutritionists Needed to Teach Basic Nutrition for Low-Income Individuals

Volunteer Opportunity Details:

Last updated on July 20, 2012

Share Our Strength’s Cooking Matters®, nationally sponsored by the ConAgra Foods® Foundation and WalMart Foundation, is celebrating 18 years of groundbreaking nutrition education. Cooking Matters works to connect families with food by teaching them how to prepare healthy, tasty meals on a limited budget.

Cooking Matters’s volunteer instructors teach multi-session class series, using lesson plans and recipes from established curricula. Nutrition volunteers work in partnership with volunteer chefs to teach basic nutrition, including selection and purchase of healthy, low-cost foods.

Class series meet once a week for six weeks and are coordinated by Cooking Matters staff. Classes are offered for adults, teens, and children, and are held at community agencies. Cooking Matters provides materials including curricula, participant handouts and recipes, nutrition education tools, cooking supplies, and food.

• Professional nutrition experience or training
• Interest in working with low-income individuals with diverse backgrounds
• Dedication to helping alleviate hunger and poverty
• Comfort speaking in front of and leading a group (teaching experience a plus!)
• Ability to travel to class location once a week for six weeks
• Willingness to work alongside a volunteer chef and be trained in Cooking Matters curricula
• Willingness to work as a team and adhere to program policies and procedures
Time commitment
• Instructing: at least 2 hours a week for six weeks, plus travel time to and from class locations
• Training: orientation, class observation, ongoing training as needed

This opportunity is sponsored by: Cooking Matters

This volunteer opportunity is available to the following types of volunteers Older Adults Individual Adolescents (13-17) Small Group (2-10) Adults (26-54) Young Adults (18-25) We need volunteers who are free at these times Afternoons Mornings Evenings Weekdays Frequency Available Monthly Seasonally Occasionally Weekly This volunteer opportunity addresses the following social interests Family Services Advocacy & Human Rights Healthcare Children & Youth Hunger/Nutrition Community Development We are looking for volunteers with the following skills Advocacy Meal Preparation / Serving Food Preparation / Delivery Teaching

Contact Person: Cooking Matters Massachusetts, (email) View all organization contacts

Address:

110 W. Squantum Street Quincy, MA 02171 (See a map)

Directions:

From Boston and points north: Take the Braintree branch of the Red Line to North Quincy station. Walk toward the front of the train to exit station, and follow directions below. From the south (Quincy, Braintree): Take the Red Line to North Quincy station. Walk toward the front of the train to exit station. When you exit the station, turn right onto West Squantum Street and continue for 3 blocks until you see Farrington St. on the left. The office is located in the Manet Community Health Center building, at the corner of W. Squantum and Farrington. We are on the second floor in Suite 27.   Nearest Metro/Subway Stop: North Quincy,   Walk distance (in minutes): 5

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