Family-Friendly Volunteering For Meals on Wheels: Compassion in Action 

Volunteering together with your children or grandchildren for Meals on Wheels is a wonderful opportunity to pass on the values of kindness, compassion, and civic responsibility. Whether you have infants or teenagers, you can make a contribution together to improve your community. Here are resources to guide you in the experience.

• MOW Volunteer Opportunities for Families
• Top 10 Family Benefits of Volunteering Together
• Food for Thought - A Parent's Guide to Delivering Meals: Learn how to prepare your children for volunteering, get tips for how to make the experience successful, and discover hints for helping children integrate the experience after they've volunteered. (Large File - may take a few minutes to download)
• Storytime: Read firsthand accounts of how other families, students, and youth groups volunteer for MOW. Share your story here!
• Meet a Meals on Wheels Volunteer Family (2-minute video)

"Meals on Wheels is a well-established program that made it easy for our family to slip into a mutually beneficial routine of community service. Already we see the seeds of compassion, patience, and acceptance growing in our four-year-old, who has been delivering meals once a week since he was two."

-Tami Lee, Volunteer