Mondays are especially busy days for YMOW volunteers like Nancy Culotta. Along with the usual meals, staff and volunteers distribute donations of produce, bread, and other items to everyone on their routes. It’s a lot more work, but Nancy sees every knock on a door, every bag of apples and every
Friday visits provide more than a meal
Every once in a while, we're reminded of little bits of good that resulted from the largely negative event that was the pandemic of 2020. One of those bits comes from Carola Baker, half of the volunteer team that's recognized as YMOW's volunteer of the second quarter, 2024. "We couldn't do
Small favors are a big part of volunteer’s role at YMOW
Knowledge of a foreign language certainly isn't required of YMOW volunteers. But that hasn't stopped Rick Humesky from learning phrases in Spanish and Romanian as part of his role at YMOW. When Rick learned that a client on his Monday route spoke Romanian, he took it upon himself to learn