Burrito BrigadeVolunteer Opportunities with Burrito Brigade
Join Burrito Brigade as a volunteer and help nourish our neighbors in Lane County. From preparing and sharing burritos to stocking pantries and supporting local food access programs, every role makes a real difference — there’s a place for everyone.
Immediate Volunteer Needs:
Waste to Taste
✦ We are seeking 2–3 volunteer donation pickup/delivery drivers.
✦ We are seeking 3–4 volunteer substitute closers.
Weekend Burrito Brigade
✦ The Weekend Burrito Brigade is in need of 3-4 volunteers who are available on-call for burrito prep and distribution.
Volunteer Roles
Weekend Burrito Brigade
The Weekend Burrito Brigade makes fresh and hot vegan burritos every Saturday and Sunday, which are distributed throughout the community by our incredible volunteers on the same day they are made.
Weekend Burrito Brigade needs 3–4 on-call volunteers to help with burrito preparation and distribution on weekends. Volunteers are contacted as needed to help ensure food reaches our community consistently.
Volunteer Assignments:
✦ Prepping (chopping, slicing, etc.), burrito filling, and rolling
✦ Distribution (by bike or car!)
Weekend Burrito Brigade Volunteer shifts are available during the following days and times:
Saturdays:
Burrito Prep/Production: 10:00am–2:00pm
Distribution: 1:30–2:00 pm
Sundays:
Burrito Prep/Production: 10:30am–2:30pm
Distribution: 2:00–2:30pm
*Start times are subject to change. Please always carefully check the SignUp Genius link when signing up for shifts to ensure you are available at the posted times.
Note: All drivers for Burrito Brigade and its projects must sign a safe-driving agreement and waiver, whether driving a Burrito Brigade vehicle or a personal vehicle.
To volunteer, please complete the Weekend Burrito Brigade Request Form with the button below.
Waste to Taste
At Waste to Taste, our free food pantry project, we rely on volunteers for nearly every aspect of the operation.
Volunteers may assist with a wide variety of tasks: unloading and sorting incoming donations, portioning out bulk donations, restocking and organizing shelves, general cleaning and tidying to keep the space beautiful and clean, greeting and assisting shoppers during their appointments, and making and/or delivering food boxes.
Sorter/Stocker: Includes unloading incoming donations, processing, organizing and re-stocking shelves. Helps with some basic cleaning tasks like sweeping, disinfecting surfaces, taking out trash and recycling as needed, etc.
Bulk Food Portioners: Portioning out bulk food donations into smaller packages to be distributed to Waste to Taste and the Little Free Pantries.
Commitment: Approximately 2–3 hours per week. Shifts available Monday through Friday for each position.
- Monday: 11am–1pm & 1–3:30pm
- Tuesday–Thursday: 1–3:30pm
- Friday: 1–2:30pm
Closers: Greets clients (shoppers) and checks them in, assists with shoppers’ questions, manages the protein/dairy table. Completes some basic closing tasks, such as wheeling carts of perishables to the walk-in cooler for the night, etc.
Commitment: Approximately 2.5 hours per week. Shifts available Monday through Friday.
- Monday–Wednesday: 3:45–6:00pm
- Thursday & Friday: 2:45-5:00pm
Friday Cleaners: Extra help on Friday afternoons with deeper cleaning of the Waste to Taste shopping space prior to the weekend. Includes disinfecting all surfaces, sweeping and mopping, hosing off sidewalks, picking up trash in the parking lot, taking out trash and breaking down all cardboard and putting in outside bins, and other cleaning duties as needed. This position is a very important part of helping keep the Waste to Taste shopping space clean and welcoming for our shoppers, as well as helping prevent potential pests.
Commitment: Approximately 1-2 hours per week.
- Fridays only: 5:30–6:30pm
To volunteer for Waste to Taste, please complete the Volunteer Request Form with the button below.
Little Free Pantries
Little Free Pantries are a hyper-local neighborhood-based form of food support. They are kind of like Little Free Libraries, except, they are filled with food!
Hosts and volunteers are encouraged to contribute to LFPs in their own neighborhoods, closest to their own homes by sharing non-perishable, high-demand foods. (E.g., pop-top canned meals, rice, beans, protein bars, etc.)
Little Free Pantry Hosts: Current hosts are encouraged to continue maintaining their pantry at least once a week by cleaning in and around the pantry, restocking as they’re able, and encouraging neighbors to help restock as they’re able.
Description: Hosts assist with cleaning in and around the pantry itself, restocking when possible, cooking if they choose, and doing outreach with neighbors to encourage engagement throughout the neighborhood.
Commitment: Approximately 1-6 hours per week. No set shift times or days.
Little Free Pantry Star Supporters: Star Supporters drive to Waste to Taste (on 6th Ave in Eugene) to pickup a food box or food boxes once a week or more.
Commitment: Approximately 2-3 hours per week. Shift length may vary, depending on the volume of food to be delivered and how many pantries a driver might supplement.
- Monday–Friday: ≈3–6:00 pm
Little Free Pantry General Supporters: General supporters are encouraged to help restock their local free pantry on a regular schedule, as they are able to do so. Supporters can be anyone in the neighborhood near a LFP willing to help out!
Commitment: Varies, depending on each person. Approx. 1-2 hours per week.
Note: No volunteer hours will be formally tracked for Little Free Pantry roles, unless volunteers have an additional volunteer assignment through Burrito Brigade, and/or make special arrangements with the volunteer coordinator in advance.
Find one in your neighborhood using our LFP map.
To inquire about becoming a Pantry Host, please email Jen at [email protected] to learn more.
Driver & Delivery Roles
Donation Pickup Drivers: Assists with traveling to partner locations across Lane County to pickup donations. For example: Market of Choice, WinCo, restaurants, etc. Should be comfortable lifting 20-40 pounds regularly. (Some crates/boxes may be up to 80 pounds, though this is less common.) May possibly use the Burrito Brigade van for pickups, though having a vehicle with large cargo capacity is a plus!
Commitment: Approximately 2-3 hours per week. Shifts available Sunday through Saturday. Shift length may vary, depending upon the volume of food to be picked up at any given stop.
- Saturday–Sunday: 9–10am
- Monday–Friday: 11am–12pm
Food Box Delivery: Delivers pre-made food boxes to households within ≈5 miles of downtown Eugene. Persons and families who are unable to travel to Waste to Taste may receive weekly boxes on a set schedule, though there are also deliveries made on an as-needed basis that may not be part of a set route/schedule. We try to coordinate deliveries with your general area of town and your visit to Waste to Taste (if you’re already a shopper) to reduce carbon emissions.
Commitment: Approximately 1-3 hours per week. Shifts available Monday through Friday. Shift length may vary, based on quantity of deliveries per route.
- Monday–Friday: 3–6pm
Note: All drivers for Burrito Brigade and its projects must sign a safe-driving agreement and waiver, whether driving a Burrito Brigade vehicle or a personal vehicle. Drivers of our vehicles must past a driver background check.
To volunteer to assist with donation pickup and/or food box deliveries, please complete the Volunteer Request Form with the button below.
Board of Directors
Applications for the Board of Directors are currently closed. Please check back for openings.
We’re flexible! Are you interested in volunteering but not sure if you can fulfill certain duties? Please reach out!
We’re happy to make sure there are accessible roles for everyone who wants to be a part of Burrito Brigade’s work.
Volunteer Spotlight
Meet Annie S.!
Annie sees Burrito Brigade as “a bunch of gears that work together to make a complicated, beautiful clock. Different sizes and shapes, but we all work together, and none of it could work without all the different pieces.” And she’s an essential part of that machine!
Why Annie Volunteers:
“I volunteered for two years cleaning up home sites destroyed by the Holiday Farm Fire. When that work was nearing its end, the trauma of it wasn’t all gone, but now it felt like there was no activity I could engage with for me to feel useful. Then I started volunteering here, and I felt like it revived me.”
When she’s not volunteering, Annie enjoys long walks with her dog, Poppy. 
Thank you, Annie, for your dedication, heart, and incredible lid-matching skills! 
Meet Carol W.!
“Volunteering here saved my life. Or at least my sanity!” – Carol W.
Carol first came to volunteer back in November of 2020. She heard about Burrito Brigade through the Eugene Foodies Facebook page. Learning more about the organization, Carol thought this was the perfect volunteer opportunity, especially for a foodie, and the rest is history!
What’s your favorite part about volunteering here? My favorite thing is working with Jen, and our Monday morning crew is a great team to work with!
What do you like to do when you’re not volunteering? I like to create things, sew, cook, occasionally I pick up the ukulele… and visit the wineries with my girlfriends. :)
Thank you, Carol, for your years of service!
Special Events
Thanksgiving 2025
Thank you to Whirled Pies for hosting another amazing Community Thanksgiving Meal and to all the volunteers who turned out to make this event truly special!
2025 Volunteer Appreciation
Not a day goes by without at least two handfuls of volunteers making their way to pick up goodies for the little free pantries, stocking the shelves of waste to taste, or making allllllll those burritos. We’re thankful every day for these folks, but at least once a year we try to make sure we say it out loud with pizza, this year at Whirled Pies.
Thanksgiving 2024
We are so excited to to host the second annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner with Whirled Pies! Last year, we provided a full dinner for 190 folks. Everyone is welcome!