Volunteer Opportunities
Weekend Meal Deal
Volunteers pack around 120 bags of food for local students. We use an assembly line system and volunteers will need to lift up to 5 pounds.
Every Thursday from 7:30 am - 8 am
Contact Morgan Gold for more info or to confirm dates.
Mobile Food Pantries
Volunteers go car to car and register the neighbors from each car, help with traffic control, and distribute food from the food truck into neighbors' cars.
Traffic control is needed from 8:30 am - 12:30 pm, Registration from 11 am - 12:30 pm , and food distribution from 11 am - 12:30 pm.
Dates and locations of upcoming mobile food pantries:
| Date | Location | Address | City |
| 1/10/2024 | Base - Grissom | The Parking lot between 2348 Randolph St and 1799 Foreman Drive | Peru |
| 1/24/2024 | Loree Church | 8483 S. Strawtown Pike | Bunker Hill |
| 2/14/2024 | Base - Grissom | The Parking lot between 2348 Randolph St and 1799 Foreman Drive | Peru |
| 2/28/2024 | Parkview UMC | 1785 State Rd. 19 | Peru |
| 3/13/2024 | Base - Grissom | The Parking lot between 2348 Randolph St and 1799 Foreman Drive | Peru |
| 3/27/2024 | East Point Bible Church | 1540 E Paw Paw Pike | Peru |
| 4/10/2024 | Base - Grissom | The Parking lot between 2348 Randolph St and 1799 Foreman Drive | Peru |
| 4/24/2024 | Bunker Hill Free Will Church | 279 W Broadway Street | Bunker Hill |
| 5/8/2024 | Base - Grissom | The Parking lot between 2348 Randolph St and 1799 Foreman Drive | Peru |
| 5/22/2024 | Community Church of Mexico | 4088 N Carroll Street | Mexico |
| 6/12/2024 | Base - Grissom | The Parking lot between 2348 Randolph St and 1799 Foreman Drive | Peru |
| 6/26/2024 | Main Street UMC | 81 W Main Street | Peru |
| 7/10/2024 | Base - Grissom | The Parking lot between 2348 Randolph St and 1799 Foreman Drive | Peru |
| 7/24/2024 | Denver Baptist Church | 111 N Yorick Street | Denver |
| 8/14/2024 | Base - Grissom | The Parking lot between 2348 Randolph St and 1799 Foreman Drive | Peru |
| 8/28/2024 | St. Charles Church | 4088 N Carroll Street | Mexico |
| 9/11/2024 | Base - Grissom | The Parking lot between 2348 Randolph St and 1799 Foreman Drive | Peru |
| 9/25/2024 | Parkview UMC (First Baptist) | 1785 State Rd. 19 | Peru |
| 10/9/2024 | Base - Grissom | The Parking lot between 2348 Randolph St and 1799 Foreman Drive | Peru |
| 10/23/2024 | East Point Bible Church | 1540 E Paw Paw Pike | Peru |
| 11/13/2024 | Base - Grissom | The Parking lot between 2348 Randolph St and 1799 Foreman Drive | Peru |
| 11/20/2024 | Amboy Friends Church | 110 E Pennsylvania Street | Amboy |
| 12/4/2024 | Base - Grissom | The Parking lot between 2348 Randolph St and 1799 Foreman Drive | Peru |
| 12/18/2024 | Mexico Brethren Church | 4460 N Mexico Rd. | Mexico |
Contact Morgan Gold for more info.
Plarn (Plastic Yarn Crocheting)
United Way received a grant from NIPSCO Charitable Foundation that will help provide additional comfort to our neighbors experiencing homelessness.
Our Mission is to straighten and cut plastic bags and crochet mats made of PLARN (plastic yarn) and help our local homeless population. You can help by collecting plastic bags and cutting and crocheting bags. The United Way will provide everyone who joins the initiative with a cutting board, scissors, crochet needles, and a bag.
(Meeting the first Thursday of every month at Community Resource Center from 4:30 – 6:30 pm)
It takes seven hundred plastic bags; start collecting now!
A tutorial video is available to watch at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUVLsWA1b8Y.
If you want to donate plastic bags or PLARN to the United Way Sleeping Mats for our homeless neighbors, you can drop them at the Community Resource Center, 13 E Main Street, Peru.