MORRIS COUNTY, NJ – The Morris County Nutrition Program is seeking volunteers to assist in the kitchen and to deliver meals to Morris County Seniors. The program has nutrition sites throughout Morris County that serves more than 1,200 seniors Monday to Friday.
There are two types of volunteer opportunities: kitchen assistants and drivers to help deliver meals.
- Volunteer kitchen assistants assist with setting up in preparation for delivery, serving meals to congregate seniors, and cleaning up. There is no cooking of meals but portioning and preparing of bags for delivery.
- Volunteer drivers deliver meals to homebound seniors in the local community. Driver must have a valid driver’s license and the use their own car.
Volunteers must be 18 or older and available weekday mornings. For more information or to sign up to volunteer, call Carol Stolz at 862-219-9125 or email MorrisNutrition@co.morris.nj.us.
Below are the sites and the types of volunteers needed:
- Denville Nutrition Site-Cooks Pond Senior Housing, 455 Diamond Spring Road
Volunteer Kitchen Assistant
Days needed: Monday, Wednesday, Friday
Hours: 8 a.m. – 12 p.m.
- Dover Nutrition Site: St. John’s Episcopal Church, 11 South Bergen Street
Volunteer Kitchen Assistant
Days: Mondays and Thursdays
- Long Hill Nutrition Site – The Senior Center, 769 Valley Road
Volunteer Kitchen Assistant
Days needed: Tuesdays
Hours: 8 a.m. – 1 p.m.
- Montville Nutrition Site-Montville Senior house – 366 Main Road
Volunteer Kitchen Assistant
Volunteer Driver
Days needed: Thursdays
Hours: 8 a.m. – 12 p.m.
- Morristown Nutrition Site
Volunteer Kitchen Assistant
Days needed: Tuesday and Thursday
Hours: 9:30-11 a.m.
Volunteer Driver
Days needed: Monday, Wednesday, Friday
Hours: 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
- Morris Township Nutrition Site– Morris Mews, 99 Ketch Road
Volunteer Driver
- Rockaway Nutrition Site-Pleasant View Village, 221 Mt. Pleasant Avenue
Volunteer Kitchen Assistant
Days needed: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday
Hours 6:30 – 9:30 a.m.
To learn more about the county’s nutrition programs, which include local congregate dining, delivered meals and farmers market vouchers, click here.
