Alameda County Community Food Bank Review

Whether you need a little help in your food pantry, or want to volunteer some of your time to help package groceries, a visit here will help warm your heart.

This is for the volunteer experience. The people working here are great. The guy who explained the whole operation and how it works was excellent.

Great place to volunteer at. They are well organized, friendly, and professional. They have lots to do, such as sorting food, bagging fruits or vegetables, weighing rice/beans/pasta, etc. Children 10+ years are welcome if joined by an adult. I highly recommend volunteering here. The shifts are less than 4 hours, breaks are included as well as a tour of the facility. Bring a light sweater because it is a bit chilly.

Everybody inside the building is really nice I'm staying at the shelter called the East Bay Community project off of 75th and International they have a kitchen there so they go to the Alameda food bank to buy food for the shelter to feed 150 people breakfast lunch and dinner and not the slot that they serve at most of the other shelters where they just put everything together they actually make a decent breakfast with eggs potatoes bacon with some fruit and water coffee and juice lunch they made burritos homemade burritos tuna casserole lasagna for dinner we have fried chicken or baked chicken fried fish baked fish with some rice or mashed potatoes with some gravy on top of it send green beans mixed vegetables I just make like a real course meal

Volunteered here with UMOJA through the College of Alameda. It was busy and very rewarding to help the community.

Great place to volunteer for any individual or an entire group. Today we bagged onions and potatoes, previous times it was oranges, corn, apples and other fruits and vegetables. One needs to apply to be able to contribute this way and when the work starts a lot of fun can be had meeting people, having conversations and sharing snacks during the break. Work periods last about three hours and people of all ages volunteer: classes of school children, members of a group at work, a group of friends etc. I highly recommend it!

The food bank is a very special place they're helpful and it's clean five stars

I volunteer here with my company several times a year. I feel good about giving back and working with great people who care about their community.

Did volunteer work for a few hours. Kinda hectic and not well run.

Went and helped out there for 2-3 days
The people there where nice and the work was easy, and we helped alot of famileys that really where in need. I felt good about what i helped with. Getting good food to good people
Helping families in need.

Top notch organization not sure why you can rate them on google....

The volunteers here are doing wonders for the community! They work with very little but give ask they can to help feed those in need. I volunteered as part of a work event and left energized to volunteer more often in my own neighborhood!

Always a pleasure working with Faith Network and others!!! Fun and a real workout...

The staff here are always friendly, organized, and helpful. Our company volunteers here quarterly, and it's something my husband and I thoroughly look forward to every time.

Friendly and helpful staff make this experience great. The food items offered for free and/or cheap make it easier to provide healthy food options to our clients, program participants and their families.

You can never be sure what to expect. Don't bank on getting anything in particular, as their inventory and supply varies. You can always be sure to get some type of free fresh fruit and/or vegetable during 8-2, no appointment needed. Otherwise you must be a non-profit organization and signed up through their agency services department to shop here with an appointment.

Great folks doing great work. A great team building activity.

The Greatest!!! Alameda County Community Food Bank everyone there has the best client services in the bay area, Always has the best, fresh food for our community...The Food Bank has really and truly helped me and Arsola's Food Pantry and Community Services with whatever I needed to get us this far serving the community. THEY ARE THE GREATEST!!! THANK YOU SUSAN AND ALL THE GREAT TEAM AND VOLUNTEER PLAYERS.. We could not have done any of this without YOU!!! Candi Thornton

I had a wonderful experience volunteering here today. The staff is great and well organized. I had a productive day and they are good at educating you on how the operate.

The food bank is saving lives every day weather open or closed they are touching lives everywhere young and old struggling or donating rich and poor thank you

Very helpful place, very professional personal, they make you feel you are in good hands, I highly recommend this place.

Many great opportunities to volunteer for such a great cause in our community

Thank goodness for this fantastic community food bank! BEST EVER THANK YOU!!

I was the contact person @ john muir elementary school Berkeley, California.
For 4 years.

Excellent organization that helps thousands of people daily. Well structured group that is a perfect place to donate your money and time!!

I volunteered here. It was a great experience and this is a great organization.

Such a good cause. I intend to regularly volunteer.

Alameda County Food Bank helps hundreds of people who are in need and not just foe the Holidays it's everyday

Great place to volunteer and do good. Always have a great time being here.

Wonderful volunteer program if you are looking to donate you time for a non profit

Wow what an operation. Makes me feel good to know my donations are in good hands.

I'm sure this is a great place, but I don't know why they call themselves a food bank, with a giant sign on the front that says food bank. I'm posting this review in the hope that no one else wastes the last of their money to get here, only to find out that it's not a food bank. It is a distribution warehouse only, there is no way for hungry people to get food here.

The young lady I spoke to was extremely helpful with my situation...

An amazing experience. We all need to join the cause to end hunger. It cost more thsn $117K to live minimally in the Bay Area with 20% of people needind support from the food bank. That is ridiculous!

What a great way to give back to our community. I am energized by the great work going on here to ensure that healthy food is provided for those in need.

We had a very enjoyable afternoon helping out at the food bank. Our company volunteered for the day, so we had a team of 20 or so folks. It was really interesting to see not only the volume of food moving through the place, but how many man-hours of full time employees and volunteers it takes to make it all happen. After we bagged potatoes and some other vegetables for a few hours, we got a tour of the entire facility. Really an impressive operation! This is a great way to give back to the community. Sign your company up for a day!

Great environment and employees, equals a positive force dedicated to feeding 1 out of 5 residents of Alameda County with fresh food ingredients.

Delivered load here. Picked up 21 pallets of can foods from Williamston SC. Appointment time 10:00am. Checked in at 9:30am, empty by 10:00am just in 30 minutes. Helpful staff. Portable bathroom for drivers. Hard backing on dock, tight space for 53 feet trailers.
No complaints for this place. Keep it up guys

One of the nicest run warehouses I've seen in a long time. Clean, orderly, organized, great procedures and work instructions. Impressive the quality and quantity of work they can do with the resources they have.

They are doing great things to end hunger in our community! I was so happy to get to volunteer there! Such an awesome day!

seems to me contra costa county can teach alameda country a whole lot about food bank operation

I am very much impressed with their community work and with the amount work they do.

I love. Go. Boluntaria. The staff is very nice and selapasa one. Agusto working whatever they put to work ....

It's nice it helps organized church and other . to feed the community

The volunteer experience was outstanding. A great feeling to give back to help those who need it the most. Plan to do again.

A fantastic facility! A true pride and joy of Alameda county.

They always ar nice and they call back when the line is busy.....i am so bless to have this place to call to got some food for my fam...

These people are doing incredible work to help those of us who are less fortunate. Many groups and companies host work days here to assist with the Food Bank's mission to serve others.

Excellent place to help the needy. 1 in 5 people need the assistance of this place. Went there as part of a group through work. 4 hrs of standing and sorting. It was rewarding work and all the volunteers were kind and the staff you could tell really got behind their work. Will volunteer my time again

The Oakland, Alameda County Community Thanks the Food Bank, Such Great Help and Food to offer all those in Need! A little Help Goes along Way, to a Family in Need!

If you've ever thought about volunteering you must volunteer at the Alameda County Food Bank. It's by Oakland Airport. It's a beautiful facility and you'll enjoy yourself more than you can imagine. We did a work event there and the morning three-hour shift absolutely flew by. In total the morning volunteers packed more than two tons of food which amounted to 9000 meals. I really didn't realize the enormous amount of hunger in the Bay Area but the staff at the food bank does a marvelous job of educating everyone who volunteers. It's a very short education time, most of your time is spent packing the food. This is a great place to bring kids over 10 and a great place to volunteer your time. They need volunteers during the day Monday through Friday. 3 hours will change your life give it a try.

The best place to volunteer for immediate gratification. Whatever you choose to do, whether it's putting produce in bags or sorting dry goods from donation barrels, you know that food is going out to folks who need it asap! If you want to be happy, do service.

This place serves a deep need in the community for healthy food. They have a huge Warehouse that distributes food to agencies serving the poor and homeless citizens of Alameda County. Great caring staff and a huge benefit to the community. They accept donations of cash and food in addition to their annual food drives. Great place to volunteer for individuals and organizations.

If you want to volunteer for the community, here's a great place to do it: nice people, big roomy space, free coffee, lots of free parking.

We volunteered today to help bag food for the food bank. Together we were able to bag over 15,000lbs of food. It is a great volunteer opportunity for adults and kids.