Thursday, May 16, 2024

Shopping sign up for May 18th and May 20th

Shopping sign up for May 18th and May 20th


Saturday - Please text Patty if you need a spot after 9pm Friday

Saturday list - 


Monday - Please text Alicia if you need a spot after 9pm Sunday

READ TODAY : Sign up rule: If your time slot is full, please sign up for a later time slot in the day and add a NOTE that says (time slot full). You can also sign up for cleanup shift if the space is open. If all the slots are full after (and cleanup is full), then  you can contact Patty for Saturday or Alicia for Monday to get a slot prior to your name slot. We try hard to keep folks in their last name slot for fairness. 


READ TODAY: Failure to follow these directions may result in  your name being taken off and you will need to re-schedule. Please keep your personal calendar open for shopping and do not plan events around shopping time if you plan to shop and ask for us to re-schedule you. There are 2 opportunities (days) for you to shop. There are times for many reason Patty and I may ask to move you. Please be mindful we are coordinating over 175 families and just over 520 individuals. 


There are also slots for our volunteers to shop mid shopping to make the day smoother and allow for our volunteers to shop the same day. Some of the names will NOT be in the correct space because they are volunteering and pre-scheduled weekly for the slot. If you have suggestions to make this program better, we welcome them


Please be mindful that you click the proper day below-I made the title link easier (Click the day of the week to get to the sign up).  Please be mindful of signing up that you will actually shop. If you shop on Saturday and skip, do not call with notice, etc you will not be allowed to shop on Monday. Our membership is FULL and every shopping spot is important. 

Volunteer Opportunities Week 05/17/24 - 05/23/2024

 Volunteer Opportunities Week 05/17/24 - 05/23/2024

Garden Hours are part of the "alternative" hours and limit out at 2 hours per month per household

Everyone must sign up to volunteer via the sign up genius unless PRE-authorized by Patty 

(Tues, Wed Thursday, Friday and Saturday) and Alicia for Monday

REMINDERS: 

1. You can only sign up for 1 shift every 24 hours to allow others the opportunity to sign up. 

2. You are limited to 2 check in or out shifts per month.

3. You are not allowed to sign up for check in / out back to back.



https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A054EA8A72EA2F58-49674285-volunteer#/


Wednesday, May 15, 2024

New Policy on Minimum ON SITE volunteers and Delivery / ride share rules & Revised : Policy 6: Adoptee Food Delivery Drivers Responsibilities;

Policy #6 takes effect immediately

Policy 1.4.5 & 1.4.6 takes effect on June 1, 2024


1.4.5 On site volunteer requirement 

Members are required to put in at least 4 hours of volunteer time on site. This helps our program as a whole but also allows for members to add value to the program and understand the work it takes to make the program a success and put food on tables.  

1.4.6 Volunteering for Delivery to Adoptees & DSP employees

a. There is a 4 hour minimum on site volunteer requirement for all members. 

b. The delivery volunteer limit is 4 hours per month or 1 hour per week. 

c. Members are not allowed to claim hours for delivering to family members. 

d. We will only allow ½ hour for giving a ride to an adoptee per week.  

e. If you are being paid as a caregiver to shop for a client, you are not allowed to count the time as volunteer time. No double dipping allowed.  

f. If you are not getting paid, we may request you to sign a document stating you are not getting paid to do an adoptees shopping.  

g. Members will need to write down their hours or use the online portal to document their hours. 

f. Drivers must knock and wait outside "a release form allowing the driver to enter a residence must be signed if the adoptee requires assistance bringing the food  inside"




Revised : Policy 6: Adoptee Food Delivery Drivers Responsibilities; 6.6.1 Deliverers must distribute food immediately after assembled or stored in the walk-in refrigerator until delivery. 6.6.2 Boxes cannot be left on a doorstep unless notified by the recipient. 6.6.3 Deliverers should inform the coordinator of any changes in status to who they are delivering to. 6.6.4: The safety of the Food Deliverer is important, if the deliverer has safety concerns, let the Program Manager / Coordinator know in order to make other arrangements 6.6.5: The following Rules for Adoptee Delivery Drivers must be strictly adhered to: Recognize your own personal boundaries Avoid getting into situations that could be misunderstood Think before you say ‘Yes’ Do not give out your home phone number or address DON’T take the other person to your own home DON’T become emotionally over-involved DON’T get involved in a sexual or intimate relationship DON’T accept any form of harassment/violence from others. Report any situation to the Program Manager The Philomath Community Gleaners, Inc. Procedure and Policy Manual Updated May 15, 2024 Page 16 DON’T buy expensive gifts or give money to participants DON’T accept expensive gifts or money from participants DON’T lend to or borrow from participants money/material goods DON’T give rides to participants Absolutely NO Physical Contact with participants Drivers must knock on the door, step back, wait for participant to come to the door, have participant sign sheet as proof of delivery Drivers are never allowed to enter a participant's domicile DRIVERS MUST REPORT ANY ISSUES TO THE PROGRAM MANAGER IMMEADIATELY

Drivers must knock and wait outside "a release form allowing the driver to enter a residence must be signed if the adoptee requires assistance bringing the food  inside"

June yard sale - Philomath Sale

We will be part of this Philomath Non Profit Garage Sale. We will need help and also volunteers. We will post a volunteer list closer to the date. 




Monday, May 13, 2024

Minds in Motion - Just sharing information

 All I have is this flyer. I don't know any more, but want to share a community event coming up soon. 









Free to good home - Bunny!

(1) bunny. I do not have any more details. no clue about what comes with the bunny so assume it is just the bunny. Please sign up to win this cute bunny by 5pm on Tuesday


https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd3NCahYA6iKWVak-ZyszMxeDcUtWQQtqeLEyc_qxaxFN5oFg/viewform?usp=sf_link





Friday, May 10, 2024

Spare room - Income - Individual looking for a place

A note from Mark at PCS: 


I wonder if there are any Gleaners who would be interested in sharing their home for extra income.


My friend, James Paul, used to donate his garden's organic produce to the Marys River Gleaners and is now looking for a place to live. He is willing to pay $700 to $1,000 per month to a Gleaner or Gleaner family for a compatible home.

He prefers non-users of tobacco or illegal drugs; and someone who is willing to help with household care, is "solvent" (I had to look that up - I guess someone who is not deep in debt,) and is good natured.

I can personally attest that James is very kind and orderly. He is an older gentleman in his 70s and has been very involved in the local sustainability/nonprofit scene. He has his own car and belongings and would surely help with routine chores around the house.

One other note: James has no pets but has no problems if housemates have pets (he likes birds, cats, dogs, pollinators and other critters.)

If you think you might have space for him, please reach out to Mark: 
mark.m@philomathcommunityservices.org

Thursday, May 9, 2024

Shopping sign up for May 11th and May 13th

 Shopping sign up for May 11th and May 13th


Saturday - Please text Patty if you need a spot after 9pm Friday

Saturday list - 


Monday - Please text Alicia if you need a spot after 9pm Sunday

READ TODAY : Sign up rule: If your time slot is full, please sign up for a later time slot in the day and add a NOTE that says (time slot full). You can also sign up for cleanup shift if the space is open. If all the slots are full after (and cleanup is full), then  you can contact Patty for Saturday or Alicia for Monday to get a slot prior to your name slot. We try hard to keep folks in their last name slot for fairness. 


READ TODAY: Failure to follow these directions may result in  your name being taken off and you will need to re-schedule. Please keep your personal calendar open for shopping and do not plan events around shopping time if you plan to shop and ask for us to re-schedule you. There are 2 opportunities (days) for you to shop. There are times for many reason Patty and I may ask to move you. Please be mindful we are coordinating over 175 families and just over 520 individuals. 


There are also slots for our volunteers to shop mid shopping to make the day smoother and allow for our volunteers to shop the same day. Some of the names will NOT be in the correct space because they are volunteering and pre-scheduled weekly for the slot. If you have suggestions to make this program better, we welcome them


Please be mindful that you click the proper day below-I made the title link easier (Click the day of the week to get to the sign up).  Please be mindful of signing up that you will actually shop. If you shop on Saturday and skip, do not call with notice, etc you will not be allowed to shop on Monday. Our membership is FULL and every shopping spot is important. 

Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Volunteer Opportunities Week 05/10/24 - 05/16/2024

Volunteer Opportunities Week 05/10/24 - 05/16/2024

Garden Hours have been added! Garden Hours are part of the "alternative" hours and limit out at 2 hours per month per household

Everyone must sign up to volunteer via the sign up genius unless PRE-authorized by Patty 

(Tues, Wed Thursday, Friday and Saturday) and Alicia for Monday

REMINDERS: 

1. You can only sign up for 1 shift every 24 hours to allow others the opportunity to sign up. 

2. You are limited to 2 check in or out shifts per month.

3. You are not allowed to sign up for check in / out back to back.

 https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A054EA8A72EA2F58-49549945-volunteer#/

Thursday, May 2, 2024

Shopping sign up for May 4th and May 6th

 Shopping sign up for May 4th and May 6th


Saturday - Please text Patty if you need a spot after 9pm Friday

Saturday list - 


Monday - Please text Alicia if you need a spot after 9pm Sunday

READ TODAY : Sign up rule: If your time slot is full, please sign up for a later time slot in the day and add a NOTE that says (time slot full). You can also sign up for cleanup shift if the space is open. If all the slots are full after (and cleanup is full), then  you can contact Patty for Saturday or Alicia for Monday to get a slot prior to your name slot. We try hard to keep folks in their last name slot for fairness. 


READ TODAY: Failure to follow these directions may result in  your name being taken off and you will need to re-schedule. Please keep your personal calendar open for shopping and do not plan events around shopping time if you plan to shop and ask for us to re-schedule you. There are 2 opportunities (days) for you to shop. There are times for many reason Patty and I may ask to move you. Please be mindful we are coordinating over 175 families and just over 520 individuals. 


There are also slots for our volunteers to shop mid shopping to make the day smoother and allow for our volunteers to shop the same day. Some of the names will NOT be in the correct space because they are volunteering and pre-scheduled weekly for the slot. If you have suggestions to make this program better, we welcome them


Please be mindful that you click the proper day below-I made the title link easier (Click the day of the week to get to the sign up).  Please be mindful of signing up that you will actually shop. If you shop on Saturday and skip, do not call with notice, etc you will not be allowed to shop on Monday. Our membership is FULL and every shopping spot is important. 

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Volunteer Opportunities Week 05/03/24 - 05/09/2024

 Volunteer Opportunities Week 05/03/24 - 05/09/2024

Garden Hours have been added! Garden Hours are part of the "alternative" hours and limit out at 2 hours per month per household


Everyone must sign up to volunteer via the sign up genius unless PRE-authorized by Patty 

(Tues, Wed Thursday, Friday and Saturday) and Alicia for Monday


REMINDERS: 

1. You can only sign up for 1 shift every 24 hours to allow others the opportunity to sign up. 

2. You are limited to 2 check in or out shifts per month.

3. You are not allowed to sign up for check in / out back to back.


https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A054EA8A72EA2F58-49378610-volunteer#/ 

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Crazy Days (Yard Sale) this weekend!

Donating items: We are taking drop off of goods on Thursday and Friday 9-11. Anything larger than a banana box will need to be approved before dropping it off.

Please make sure your items are clean and ready for selling. Bags will need to be labeled so we can return broken or dirty items back to you. 


SALE TIMES:

Saturday --  10:30 am to 4:00 pm 

Monday -- 11:00 am to 4:00 pm




Drawing closes on MAY 3rd @ 2:00

 

Drawing closes on MAY 3rd @ 2:00 


Please sign up by 2pm, May 3rd.  You MUST plan on shopping either May 4th (Saturday) or May 6th (Monday) .  We will not tell you if you won or not as that is a lot of emails, etc. If you are not in town or do not plan to be shopping, then do NOT sign up. Any items not picked up by Monday shopping will be put back into the drawing for the next drawing. We do not save items unless we forget your items or we miss it on our end.


If you sign up and skip shopping or don't let us know, you will not be able to enter into the next drawing.

You can enter for 2 items. Please tell us your 1st, 2nd choice.

NEW!!! Example:
First Last Name - 1S (Add day of week HERE "M for Monday or "S" for Saturday)
First Last Name - 2M (Add day of week HERE "M for Monday or "S" for Saturday)


Adding the day of the week after your name will help us with sorting and "hopefully" save us some time. 

Monday, April 29, 2024

Yard sale helpers needed

Looking for volunteers for the Yard Sale this Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday

Please make sure you are not shopping during your yard sale volunteer slots...plan accordingly. 

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A054EA8A72EA2F58-49377950-yard#/ 


Sunday, April 28, 2024

Please help welcome Anna

Hi Everyone! 

Please help welcome Anna to the team of volunteers who will be keeping you connected. Anna is taking over the volunteer coordinating and scheduling person. 

Anna posted her first post on Thursday for shopping sign ups. The email if you need to contact Anna is Gleaners.volunteer@philomathcommunityservices.org

Anna also has Whatsapp and can be contacted through that as well. From here on out, she will be your contact for changes that need done on the volunteer schedule if it is 24 hours prior to your scheduled time. For instance if you need to cancel a sign up at least 1 day before the scheduled volunteer time -- please email/text Anna. If you are cancelling last minutes (0-24 hours until your time), please message PATTY for all days except Monday. On Monday, you can message Linda or Alicia. 

We have had a few glitches - some of her emails went to folks SPAM folder, so if you didn't get the sign up to shop email on Thursday, please check your spam folder and approve so you will get future emails. 





Mini Cakes - Mold

 


Take note- one of our member opened a mini cake thing and it was starting to mold. Please make sure to check if you took the little cakes


Thursday, April 25, 2024

Shopping sign up for April 27 and April 29

Shopping sign up for April 27 and April 29


Saturday - Please text Patty if you need a spot after 9pm Friday

Saturday list -


Monday - Please text Alicia if you need a spot after 9pm Sunday

READ TODAY : Sign up rule: If your time slot is full, please sign up for a later time slot in the day and add a NOTE that says (time slot full). You can also sign up for cleanup shift if the space is open. If all the slots are full after (and cleanup is full), then  you can contact Patty for Saturday or Alicia for Monday to get a slot prior to your name slot. We try hard to keep folks in their last name slot for fairness. 


READ TODAY: Failure to follow these directions may result in  your name being taken off and you will need to re-schedule. Please keep your personal calendar open for shopping and do not plan events around shopping time if you plan to shop and ask for us to re-schedule you. There are 2 opportunities (days) for you to shop. There are times for many reason Patty and I may ask to move you. Please be mindful we are coordinating over 175 families and just over 520 individuals. 


There are also slots for our volunteers to shop mid shopping to make the day smoother and allow for our volunteers to shop the same day. Some of the names will NOT be in the correct space because they are volunteering and pre-scheduled weekly for the slot. If you have suggestions to make this program better, we welcome them


Please be mindful that you click the proper day below-I made the title link easier (Click the day of the week to get to the sign up).  Please be mindful of signing up that you will actually shop. If you shop on Saturday and skip, do not call with notice, etc you will not be allowed to shop on Monday. Our membership is FULL and every shopping spot is important. 

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Volunteer Opportunities Week 04/26/24 - 05/02/2024

Volunteer Opportunities Week 04/26/24 - 05/02/2024

Garden Hours have been added! Garden Hours are part of the "alternative" hours and limit out at 2 hours per month per household


Everyone must sign up to volunteer via the sign up genius unless PRE-authorized by Patty 

(Tues, Wed Thursday, Friday and Saturday) and Alicia for Monday


REMINDERS: 

1. You can only sign up for 1 shift every 24 hours to allow others the opportunity to sign up. 

2. You are limited to 2 check in or out shifts per month.

3. You are not allowed to sign up for check in / out back to back.


https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A054EA8A72EA2F58-49266691-volunteer#/

Monday, April 22, 2024

Fridge Issues-Check your food please

We had fridge issues this afternoon and it was not keeping the temperature where it should have been at end of day. If you shopped the fridge next to the deep freeze, the food could be compromised.


It will be up to you if you think it is safe to consume what you got from that fridge. 


We will be swapping out the fridge on Wednesday so the new one is ready for Saturday. 

New (Group email) in your inbox.

 Hi everyone, 


I have been working at how to cross share the email list with Patty, Alicia (me), and our new volunteer coordinator. I have created a group for us to share in our system. You likely won't notice much difference other than you might get emails from Patty or the Volunteer Coordinator emails and not all just from me. 


You actually won't be able to email the group at the gleaneractive email, so please just email any questions to us or send us a text. This is LEGIT and not spam. 


Below is an example of an email you will likely get when I add you to the system.




Saturday, April 20, 2024

Sunday - April 28th Cleanup 2-5

We need a good set of helpers to come on down on Sunday the 28th and help us do a SPRING CLEAN of the site. Please sign up as soon as you know you are able to help us out. This is a super important cleaning for our program. Would love to see as many people as we can get! 



https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A054EA8A72EA2F58-49226832-annual

Thursday, April 18, 2024

Tuesday help needed - WEEKLY Volunteer position

We need 1 person to volunteer every Tuesday. This volunteer slot will open up immediately. Training will be at 3:30pm on Tuesday the 23rd. After initial training, you might be able to come earlier in the day if our Executive Director is on site to open the door. If not, you would need to wait for the Food Bank to arrive to get into the site. 






This job takes all the clean totes from what was washed on Monday and stacks them and puts them in the outside "can" (big Conex box to the side of the building). This is a guaranteed 1 hour volunteer slot per week but must be done on Tuesday to give space for the food bank to use the tables too. 

Please text Alicia to inquire. If 2 people are interested, we could do alternating weeks as it is also good to have back up folks on hand. 

Free Couch - Drawing ends Friday at 9pm

 

Couch available ASAP here in Philomath. Must be picked up by winner. Owner of couch will not be able to help move. Please sign up if you are interested. AGAIN - You must be able to pick up on your own with your own vehicle. 






Shopping sign up for April 20 and April 22

 

Shopping sign up for April 20 and April 22

Saturday - Please text Patty if you need a spot after 9pm Friday

SAT list - CLOSED


Monday - Please text Alicia if you need a spot after 9pm Sunday

READ TODAY : Sign up rule: If your time slot is full, please sign up for a later time slot in the day and add a NOTE that says (time slot full). You can also sign up for cleanup shift if the space is open. If all the slots are full after (and cleanup is full), then  you can contact Patty for Saturday or Alicia for Monday to get a slot prior to your name slot. We try hard to keep folks in their last name slot for fairness. 


READ TODAY: Failure to follow these directions may result in  your name being taken off and you will need to re-schedule. Please keep your personal calendar open for shopping and do not plan events around shopping time if you plan to shop and ask for us to re-schedule you. There are 2 opportunities (days) for you to shop. There are times for many reason Patty and I may ask to move you. Please be mindful we are coordinating over 175 families and just over 520 individuals. 


There are also slots for our volunteers to shop mid shopping to make the day smoother and allow for our volunteers to shop the same day. Some of the names will NOT be in the correct space because they are volunteering and pre-scheduled weekly for the slot. If you have suggestions to make this program better, we welcome them


Please be mindful that you click the proper day below-I made the title link easier (Click the day of the week to get to the sign up).  Please be mindful of signing up that you will actually shop. If you shop on Saturday and skip, do not call with notice, etc you will not be allowed to shop on Monday. Our membership is FULL and every shopping spot is important.