Our Volunteers
Are Amazing
We are all Volunteers here at the Community Kitchen. The only paid positions are the part-time kitchen manager, who wrangles the food, the patrons, the phone, and all of the Volunteers and an amazing custodian/dishwasher who keeps our facility shining and welcoming.
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Folks volunteer hours of their time to prepare, pack, and serve lunch five days a week. People pack lunches to send weekend meal bags for the Rainbow House, the WVU-ACT program, and the Barttlet House apartment complex on West Run as well as for our daily diners.
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Volunteers make grocery store runs for basic supplies and to fill in the gaps among food donations. They unload large orders of food supplies from Mountaineer Food Bank, or 1,000 pairs of socks from Bombas.
Ms. Lori Maynard, Executive Director of the Milan Puskar Foundation, stopped in to help pack weekend bags. The Puskar Foundation is providing a grant this year that funds a significant portion of the food for our weekend bags for 2026.
Lori and 14 other volunteers, including 3 WVU students, packed 180 weekend bags. So far in 2026, the Kitchen has distributed 620 weekend bags. Each bag contains food for two meals, one breakfast and one lunch, totaling 1240 meals for January.
Without generous donors like the Milan Puskar Foundation, the Community Kitchen could not continue our 41-year tradition of feeding hungry people in Monongalia County. We are most grateful for the Puskar Foundation’s support.
Caring for the Pets
The Care Crew
First Energy lends a hand at the Kitchen.
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WVU Rugby Team packing weekend bags.
Veterinarians & staff from Banfield Pittsburgh-Cleveland Market came to the Kitchen to give vaccinations, provide dewormer medicine, check furry ears, clip nails, and provide some preventative medications. All this and their time donated to make life better for the pets of our patrons. With cheese snacks as bribes, everyone left happier and healthier. Thank you for your time, your caring, and your willingness to do this lovely service for those we serve!
WVU Ruby Club helped to pack 163 weekend meal supplement bags in December 2024.
Making a difference in our community! WVU Social Work students and faculty joined forces at the Community Kitchen, Inc. to pack over 200 bags of food for weekend distribution.
Volunteer Aurie Acciavatti thanks volunteers from First Energy January '26
Thank you, Phi Kappa Phi for packing bags!
Trinity Episcopal Church thanks Volunteers during Daughters of the King dinner.