The Father English Food Pantry of Catholic Charities, Catholic Family & Community Services, 435 Main Street, Paterson, NJ 07501 is in dire need of volunteers to sort food donations and pack bags of

food to be handed out to clients at the door.  We have gone from providing food to 5,000+ in February to 21,000 in December. We are blessed with donations of food, but we don’t have enough workers to get the food organized and packaged to be distributed to clients and two low income senior projects in Paterson. 

Volunteers are needed Monday – Friday between 8 am and 4 pm and Saturdays between 8 am and noon. You can come for an hour or more on any day. We practice Covid protocols. Each volunteer has a temp taken and completes a questionnaire. We all wear masks, use hand sanitizer, and practice social distancing. The building is sanitized on a regular basis. 

Volunteers unpack donations, sort them and then package bags of food to hand out at the door. Volunteers do not come in direct contact with clients.

For further information, please contact Sister Maureen Sullivan, SC, Director of Volunteers for CFCS, 

msullivan@catholicharities.org  973-572-5283