DONATE
DONATE to People's Grocery
The easiest, fastest and most effective way to help is to donate to People's Grocery. Your donation can send a youth to summer camp, subsidize the Mobile Market, buy supplies for the gardens or help us buy land to build an organic grocery store.
Here are some ways you can help right now:
Donate to our new Agricultural Park in Sunol
Donate to our general fund and help keep our programs running
Want to help but short on cash? Try volunteering at one of our garden workdays, in the after school program or in our office. Click one of the links above to find out more.
Garden Work
Volunteer at our Garden Workdays
We couldn't do it without your help! Share your skills, meet new people and learn something new.
Come and get your hands dirty with us.
Weekly Garden Workdays:
| MONDAY | |
| Sunol Farm | 9:00 - 4:30 pm |
| TUESDAY | |
|
YMCA Garden |
11:00 - 12:30 pm |
|
59th Street Garden |
1:00 - 4:00 pm |
| WEDNESDAY | |
|
55th Street Garden 1167 55th Street (Just West of San Pablo) |
10:30 - 12:30 pm |
|
Ralph Bunch Class and Green House Work 1240 18th Street (Just West of Adeline) |
2:00 - 4:00 pm |
| THURSDAY | |
| No work scheduled | |
| FRIDAY | |
| Sunol Farm | 7:00 - 3:00 pm |
The garden workdays happen regularly throughout the year, weather permitting. For questions, directions, or rain updates please call our Garden Manager Jason Uribe at (510) 504-3664.
Note: We need volunteers to come work with us at our Farm in Sunol on Mondays and Fridays throughout the summer and fall harvest. The Farm Days will happen throughout the summer planting to fall harvest. Please contact Jason Uribe at (510) 504-3664 for more information.
Directions to the 59th St. Garden:
From the North
Come down Sacramento St. which becomes Market St.
Just past Stanford, make a U-turn as soon as you can. From there, come North and take a right on 59th.
The garden is 2 properties down on your left hand side.
From the South
Come North on Market street past 57th St.
Take a right on 59th St.
The garden is 2 properties down on your left hand side.
Directions to the Sunol AgPark at 505 Paloma Way, Sunol, CA
From the North
Take I-680 South to the CA-84 exit to Dumbarton Bridge and continue on Paloma Way - go 0.6 mi.
Afterschool
Garden Nutrition After School Programs at Hoover Elementary School
Help with our gardening and cooking classes! If you're interested in joining the crew please call:
Cooking: Lori Camille (510) 367-2287
Garden: Jsun Arenas: (510) 402-7074
NOTE: This requires making a regular commitment from 2-5 every Thursday for the entire semester.
A little note about the role of volunteers within our community:
Volunteering can be an extraordinary opportunity for building powerful relationships between diverse communities and is a way in which people can make meaningful contributions to a cause. In an effort to build a strong base of volunteers committed to social justice, we ask those who are not from West Oakland to be aware and sensitive of their role and relationship to the community.
While some of us are blessed with the privilege of having enough time and money to volunteer with important efforts, People's Grocery does not support the idea that one class or group of people are better positioned to help another class or group. We believe that everyone has unique and valuable contributions and that volunteers often get as much out of an experience as they give to it. This reciprocal relationship is at the heart of why People's Grocery works with volunteers from diverse neighborhoods and is critical to building a true multi-racial movement for food justice.
Special Projects
Office Work
We really need your help in the office. You can help by running errands, data entry, mailings, special projects, and whatever comes up that day. If you have time to give on Mondays or Wednesdays (or Thursday afternoons), please call (510) 652-7607 right now. Or email victoria@peoplesgrocery.org
Special Projects
Got a special talent? We can use it! Drop us a line and we'll figure out where to plug you in.
