Mondays

EASTERN FARM WORKERS ASSOCIATION (EFWA) members may apply to the association’s budget-saving Benefit Plan II program and participate in weekly free-of-charge supplemental food distributions featuring fresh organic produce and other nutritional foods. Volunteers are needed year-round to pick up, sort, box and distribute food to enrolled members.

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Volunteer physicians and registered nurses conduct preventive general medical sessions, checking vital signs and medical histories, providing routine health screenings and exams, including vision care, assisted by a certified EFWA lay medical advocate. More volunteer medical professionals and advocates are needed!

Monthly

Volunteer attorneys present general legal information in group settings as well as private legal advice consultations, accompanied by an EFWA lay advocate. Topics include wage theft, evictions, discrimination and predatory lending. EFWA needs more volunteer attorneys, legal advocates and interpreters.

Tuesdays

Farm workers, service workers, domestic workers and other low-paid workers can’t win without organization. EFWA teaches the skill of advocacy. You can learn how to prevent utility shutoffs or restore utility service, how to expunge medical debt, and fight benefit denials for elderly, blind or disabled members.

Saturdays 9am - 4pm

EFWA membership canvasses are the lifeblood of our grassroots farm and service worker organizing drive. Alone and isolated we cannot achieve anything; united we can win! Volunteers canvass door-to-door in low-income neighborhoods where members and potential members live, to build organization where it’s needed the most.

Thursdays 6-9pm

Join EFWA's publication staff! You can learn – or help teach – how to produce the next issue of EFWA's newspaper, the New York Farm Worker and our seasonal Sponsors Guide to tell the truth about low-income workers organizing for economic justice. We also need volunteers to design flyers. Call EFWA!

Sundays

EFWA members who work on Central New York’s farms host EFWA volunteers at farm labor camps to bring the benefit of organization, community connection and material aid, such as food, clothing, sun protection and cooling supplies to their families, and to report on farm worker conditions. Call EFWA to join us!

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Volunteer dentists see members in the dentists’ offices free of charge to provide non-emergency preventive and corrective care.

Weekly

Volunteers assist sorting and organizing clothing, doing benefit intakes and assisting members in filling their clothing requests.

Fridays 11am - 7pm
Tuesdays 9am - 2pm

Volunteers set up information tables in front of grocery stores, at community events, churches, temples and other venues to promote EFWA so that others can join our cause. EFWA also offers speakers to enlist new participants and supporters to come in and make a difference. Please call if you can volunteer or if you can host an EFWA information table and/or speaker.

Thursdays 9am - 2pm

Volunteers prepare and send letters about our current campaigns to people who have joined EFWA and have expressed an interest in volunteering or supporting EFWA. We need volunteers to help with the daily letter mailouts as well as to assist with the bulk mailing of EFWA’s membership newspaper and Sponsors Guide.

Wednesdays 6 - 9pm

Volunteers are essential to all of EFWA’s activities year-round. Volunteers conduct group telephone sessions to recontact interested individuals met on speaking engagements, literature tables, community canvasses and by word-of-mouth referrals about participating with EFWA’s organizing activities 365 days a year.