Preble Street has many rewarding and fun volunteer opportunities that are great for individuals, families, and even groups!
Whether chopping veggies and helping to prepare meals at Preble Street’s Food Security Hub or organizing donations at the Receiving Center, there is a way for everyone to get involved and make a direct impact in the lives of vulnerable community members.
If you’re a college or high school student, volunteering at Preble Street is great way to meet any service hour requirements. Students can receive recommendation letters for college or confirmation letters for service hours, when they complete their volunteer commitments.
Volunteering at Preble Street is also a great way to meet new people and engage with community members. Many passionate, driven, and interesting people work and volunteer at Preble Street. Preble Street staff come from many different professional and personal backgrounds, with extensive experience in social work, policy and advocacy work, restaurant work, and more.
Most importantly, volunteering with Preble Street can have a direct and powerful impact on someone’s life. For example, Preble Street’s Food Security Hub is a model for fighting hunger and food security in Maine and the country. It produces roughly 2,000 meals daily to feed food insecure people in Cumberland County and is undergoing construction to expand capacity to 10,000 meals daily! The work done there has a direct and immediate impact on the lives of people who don’t have consistent access to healthy or nutritious food.
Sign-up to volunteer today with any of the following opportunities:
- Food Security Hub
- Teen Meals
- Florence House Meals
- Food Pantry
- Receiving Center
You can also join the Preble Street Beach to Beacon team as a volunteer! We still have volunteer slots available for the below opportunities:
Mile 4 Water Stop – Hand out water to runners as they pass the Mile 4 marker. Requires standing in outside elements (rain or shine) from 6:30-10:30am. 25 volunteers needed.
Finish Line Water – Hand out water to runners as they finish the race. Required standing in outside elements (rain or shine) from 6:30-10:30am. 17 volunteers needed.
Betty: A volunteer’s story
Betty Haymon has been volunteering at Preble Street every month for 25 years. In the summer of 2000, she signed up to do the breakfast shift at the Resource Center Soup Kitchen on the first Saturday of each month. Shortly after, she was given a tour of the Teen Center and told that their kitchen
Preble Street Volunteers are #CompassionInAction
For 50 years, volunteers have been a key part of Preble Street, helping ensure that the agency is able to meet the basic human rights of Mainers. In fact, the agency was staffed solely by student interns and volunteers for its first 10 years! Today, over 1,500 volunteers contribute 20,000 hours of service each year.
Maine Needs and Preble Street Announce Partnership to Help More Mainers Meet their Basic Needs
Preble Street is excited to announce a new partnership with Maine Needs that will support both organizations’ goal to meet the basic needs of Mainers experiencing homelessness or who have recently moved out of homelessness. As of April 18, 2025, Preble Street will no longer accept individual in-kind, non-food donations. All clothing, hygiene, and household
