Central Texas Food Bank in Austin
Site: https://www.centraltexasfoodbank...
- Monday:8AM–5PM
- Tuesday:8AM–5PM
- Wednesday:8AM–5PM
- Thursday:8AM–5PM
- Friday:8AM–5PM
- Saturday:Closed
- Sunday:Closed
I was delivery load early morning my appointment at 8 am check in 7:30 am there Mexican guy come late thay give as dock right away and also starting unloading his truck receiving office they dont respect driver are come on time delivery
It was an amazing experience getting to volunteer my time here. The people who work here are passionate about their cause and are real, genuinely hard-working, caring people. It was an honor to help in the little way I could.
Place is great they have a kitchen there to help people that are homeless and they have big refrigerators place is nice and clean i went there to see if I could detail some of their work vans but they already got someone doing that
The food was great, the volunteers were courteous, helpful, and pleasant. The atmosphere was understanding, no judgement.
Its a really nice location, and super friendly staff and volunteers. I met some new people when I volunteered and they made it easy to want to help.
This is a great place to volunteer and do some good within your community. Highly recommend!
I went there to get info on getting some food but you can volunteer there you have to talk to them and they will give u info great place
Went to volunteer. Such a great experience.
Dont gave away food here went and was told that long ride on bike and on empty stomach. Goggle sent me to this place to get food.?
The food bank was very resourceful, it gave us good information to find food.It was an amazing blessings to have center Texas food bank, they really help.Thanks much love and light.432/369/1.161.
Delivery by appointments only… really nice people
Volunteered in the warehouse as food sorting for approximately 3 hrs. They offer AM and PM volunteer shifts. Companies can volunteer as a group. Parents can volunteer with their children. Wonderful experience that helps out the community!
Families being hungry in this country, in this day in age with all the massive corporate wealth, is truly heartbreaking to me. I give what I can on a regular basis, not to make myself feel good, but to let these people, these angels, do the ultimate good that they can only do. The only thing that gives me peace is knowing a family or families will have food and nourishment.
What a great place to volunteer. They have lots of activities for small to large groups and they provide food to a huge service area. There are jobs for everyone from kids to adults. For bigger, corporate groups you can call the volunteer coordinator and get a specific website set up for your activity. Easy peasy for your volunteers. They have a big drop in volunteers right after the new year, so thats a really important time to go!
Our company enjoys our community involvement!
Take a group of friends, family, and/or coworkers (call or e-mail first to schedule a time) and help central Texans in need. This is a great place to volunteer: a beautiful facility, knowledgeable and friendly staff and coordinators, and lots of tasks appropriate for a range of ages and abilities. And don’t forget to check out their beautiful garden! 😊
Really nice location.. I love all of the gardens they have. I wish there was an area you can drop food off on the weekend. I work Monday - Friday 9-5 while raising on 14 month old. So I dont have time during business hours to come by.
I have had a great volunteering experience here before. I recently tried to sign a group of kids up for a volunteer shift. Somehow our reservation got cancelled, and they werent able to accommodate our group. Its frustrating, but I will definitely try to sign us up again. What a great sign that this place has so many volunteers that theyre turning people away!
If you have time to donate this is a great place to start! Give them a call and ask her about their many programs! From school lunches to meals-on-wheels this organization helps many people in Travis County and surrounding counties to with their food bank program. Thank you for all that you do! Love my bowls from the empty bowl project!!
Amazing new facility. Such an awesome amount of food move through the warehouse every day. Happy to see that people are being supportive all year round and not just for the holidays. Austin is home to some fantastic people! Thanks so much for all your help and support.
Great staff and wonderful opportunity to serve.
What a great experience! As a private chef, it was a joy to donate and get a beautiful bowl filled with delicious soup from local restaurants for the empty bowl project. I will be returning!
I volunteered for a few weeks in July 2020. I was very impressed with the work and overall organization. Great staff and a good time!
Really fun experience but good luck getting your hours if youre going here for community service or if its required by your school. Their process to get proof of your hours is ridiculous, you first have to book an appointment and bring in all your papers and even if you dont have papers you have to type them up? You need a time sheet and a paper where you were required to do hours. Then at that appointment you make another and thats where you will receive proof of your hours. Its proof of volunteering not a diploma good lord they make it so difficult i just did more hours somewhere else bc i was on a time limit and it was going to take about 2 weeks to get my hours.
Im a participant in the Empty Bowl project...and I attend every year. Wonderful charity event, great for the entire family. Lunch and live music included with purchase of the beautiful handmade bowls!
Ive been volunteering here for months, and I love it. It seems very well ran. The staff is super friendly. Signing up to be a volunteer is quick and easy online!
I volunteer every Friday at the Grace Baptist Food Pantry in Red Rock. And I stand amazed at how smoothly the pantry runs and the seamless delivery service accomplished by Central Texas Food Bank. The drivers are both respectful and knowledgeable about every facet or the system utilized.Thank you all so much and God Bless us all.
Having donated and volunteered in the past, I have seen this group from the inside and out and cannot possibly rate less than 5 stars. As this city grows, so does the population of economically disadvantaged and hungry. Their work is critical in so many ways. A sincere thank you to the organization and all of the volunteers for their selfless work to help those less fortunate. My son, for his 4th birthday party, told all of his friends - No Presents! Just bring food to donate. He was thrilled to bring it all down here.
Great place to volunteer. Take your kids, too, they can get a little work experience and help people. Not a dispensing food bank though. They send food to the different pantries that then give it out.
Really nice place, but one of their drivers parked in the dock I was assigned and then told me, “Too bad, cuz I ain’t moving”.DRIVERS TAKE NOTE: the street address is not the delivery address. The street address is Metropolis, but the entrance for shipping/receiving is on Burleson...it’s about 1,000 feet before Metropolis on the left. It’s a concrete driveway with a 4 wheeler parking lot off to the side. Go straight through the gate and check in by door 11.
Thanks for the opportunity to support, donate and volunteer @12 week Culinary Arts program.What an exciting day! Culinary students graduated! As a final assignment, we prepared a delicious menu for the graduation. We couldnt be more proud and thankful. congratulations team!! 🥳🥳🥳👩🍳👨🍳..#graduation #futurechefs #chefs #foodbank #culinaryprogram #team #doingthings #congratulations
They coordinate with the Legacy of Giving organization to promote philanthropy in school age children, from elementary to high school. Each year, our campus conducts a canned food drive and we deliver the food to the Central Texas Food Bank. It is well organized, our students are fed lunch and they participate in the joy of giving. What a great day for our students and us!
Enjoyed volunteering here. Everything is very organized. The facilities are top-notch! The central Texas Food Bank is doing a lot of great work.
Went here for food assistance during the recent government shutdown. Although the process was efficient and quick, the majority of the food I received was out dated. I received 3 jars of peanut butter with Best By dates in 2011, canned goods dated from 2014 to 2016, boxed goods that were not only outdated but were opened and taped closed, etc. The canned goods may be fine, but I seriously doubt the peanut butter is. And the boxed food. Why are they giving food out thats so old? I may just take it back, maybe another family can benefit more.
We had a great experience volunteering at the food back. There are people who need this service and 1/3 are kids. Noone should have to choose between rent & food, health & food, but this is what we have here, and we can redistribute the leftover food to where its needed. A supply chain problem. They serve >40k clients.
Well run volunteer operation. Maintaining Covid precautions while working to build and fill emergency food boxes.
Took us a day early straight to door unloaded fast in and out 1 hr
If you cant respect the purpose of the Central Texas Food Bank, you have to love the quality of work done there, the largeness of heart of the staff dedicated to support it and the army of volunteers who commit to keeping it thriving and growing.
Giving back is always good, but here they make it fun! I found its also a great free team building event. Its a must for large companies as well as small.
Very awesome and helpful
My first time here was a good experience. Unloaded in a timely matter. The female shipping clerk was friendly and professional
Bring your team or family here to volunteer or just come on your own! This is good work that when done with other caring people is a blessing to both the giver and the receiver.
PLEASE FIX THIS so that (at least at this veteran-targeted venue) our military veterans are first in line (scroll down for “PROPOSAL”).[T]he idea of Healthy Foods for Veterans is a welcomed one.For the convenience of #MilitaryServiceVeterans, the Federal Government has graciously welcomed the 🥕CTFB to set up a monthly pop-up #FoodBank on the Austin VA Clinic Parking lot from 0900-1100.There is only one serious problem; and it’s getting worse…This #MobileFoodBank is open to the public, which is a problem only because the number of civilians who are willing to line up before the clinic gates officially open (0600) seem to outnumber the number of our veterans who are able to take advantage of this nutritional program.Many veterans claim that the norm is to wait in one line for as long as an hour (before 0900 when the mobile bank officially opens) — just so that they can get in queue (usually in the mid-70s to over 100) to wait in queue for yet another line (the actual food line). But after the first 70-90 or so clients (remember those folks who are already lining up before 0600 when the clinic gates officially open), the freshest and most desirable products are long gone.Not to mention, these veterans (many of them ill, frail and/or elderly) are waiting outdoors. Now just stop and imagine waiting in a food line for 1-3 hours during this past Central Texas summer (Austin’s third hottest, with over 50 days of triple-digit temperatures) — and what might await our veterans as the seasons change to the other extreme.So by the time most of our real veterans get in line (to get queued for the food line), the civilians have reaped the cream of the crop — the fresh veggies, meats, etc. so that most veterans are left with bags of potatoes and rice and a few can goods (not so healthy).Now theres nothing wrong with potatoes and rice (and our veterans are extremely grateful), but THERE IS SOMETHING SERIOUSLY WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE!Many of the early-bird civilians are #FoodPantryScavengers who follow the published 🥕CTFB schedule and make their rounds, for which the VA Outpatient Clinic happens to be one of many stops they will make throughout the month. While standing in these lines, many non-veterans can be overheard boasting about their bounty and/or claiming that they are here for a veteran (usually a neighbor). Clearly, they have little or no shame (and less propriety)!And because no ID is required at these events, our veterans must wait behind the selfishness of these other gluttonous clients. (It’s important to mention that the no-ID policy is associated with 🥕CTFB. Bona fide military veterans do not mind showing their IDs. If they use the VA Clinic, they typically have their IDs readily available.)Remember, Military veterans are all too familiar with lines — lines for meds, immunizations, deployment readiness, meals, etc. — you name it; veterans know what it’s like to wait in line... But THIS PROGRAM IS SUPPOSEDLY SET ASIDE (SPECIFICALLY) FOR VETERANS; SO LETS NOT MAKE THEM STAND IN, YET, ONE MORE LINE — BEHIND THE CIVILIANS THEY HAVE ALREADY SERVED (and sacrificed for).Now the PROPOSAL: To afford #MilitaryServiceVeterans the earliest opportunity to benefit from the 🥕CTFB #MobileFoodBank which is set up (monthly) at the Austin VA Outpatient Clinic Parking lot for the benefit of providing fresh and nutritional foods for military veterans, no line will form before 0700, and civilians may only join the queue line (no ID required) at or after 0915.Youre welcome,@TheSleuthClinic/cp
Brianna at the front desk was so kind and informative. It’s wonderful to be received and guided by people who care about the experience of others.
ITS FOR A GOOD CAUSE! Need I say more? Oh, the commercial is hilarious, poor dude gets a parking ticket, but decides to give to the food bank instead. Only in Austin. Way to stick it to the man guy.
Good place to deliver appointment at 8:00 out 8:15 full truck load no overnight parking but you can park near streets
Incredible Food Bank. They feed hundreds of thousands of hungry bellies every month and even have an organic garden.We volunteered here as a company and I’ll definitely be back!
I really enjoyed volunteering here. The facility is really nice and they do some great work.
Good place to volunteer. Everyone was cool. Felt like I made an impact during my shift.
One word AMAZING. The work this organization does, many families would go to sleep hungry if they werent here to help.
OTR Drivers appointment only no overnight parking fast unloading
The food bank serves 21 counties, helping to make sure there is a resourse for people who need assistance feeding themselves and their families. They help to supply close to 250 partner food banks.
Really great volunteer experience. Sign in process is expedient and the volunteer leaders are fun and engaging.
Great volunteering experience, despite the very small group we were, we were welcomed and felt useful
Always with a smile I go there to get the monthly calender for Food distribution, and hand them out to people in need.
A great place to volunteer and help feed the community. Come fill your soul with peace and help feed thousands around the State.
I spoke to multiple people at this organization about the process for signing off on community service hours and even after trying several times to get credit from them they refused. Spend your time elsewhere!
Come volunteer! Its fun and your community needs you.
Looking for a place to volunteer? Go here! The staff is great and the facilities are nice.
Fantastic organization and a great time volunteering today. I would recommend it to anyone.
Not bad...nice friendly staff and three hours of volunteer work goes by fast !
Great place to volunteer in groups. They really manage the volunteers well.
Needs more signage for food drop off. Starting on the road, so that people dont turn into wrong entrance.
Empty Bowl Project
Amazing place to volunteer. Well run. Clean. Friendly. Worthwhile.
The Empty Bowl fund raiser for the food bank.
Central Texas Food Bank is very well organized place ,a great place to go and volunteer your time to help the community very friendly staff
I have a worked at serving lunches. I appreciate all that the food bank does. Thank you to drivers.
Awesome place for volunteering.
Their new location is incredible. Great place to help the community out by donating your time.
Every year we go for the empty bowl project. unique one of a kind and it helps the community
Great people working here.. best place for the delivery
Played music. Everyone was so nice and friendly. Everyone worked together. I have nothing bad to say about this place.
Very nice new facility. Great place to host the empty bowl project.
They do good work, and its a great place to volunteer.
What an incredible place! Great staff. Great volunteer day.
Volunteer here on occasion. Well run. Always good to give back
Staff is always ready with helpful hand or advice. Very helpful to our little food bank
Love donating at this location great staff .
They let the light back in my life. Thanks
Great family project, meaningful service to our community, fun all the way around!
Terrible place to deliver as a truck driver! Has no respect for time! Will not do business or support this food bank!
Really clean facility and a great experience to go volunteer.
What an awesome place!! These people do some amazing work!
This is a great place that has found a way to do amazing things for their community.
☹️ Dont buy into the hype. This is just another numbers game (for more donations and grant money) disguised as assistance for our veterans.
20 years ago, many churches drove out there to pick up food for their donations.
Support your food bank otherwise No soup for you!
Amazing facility! Love volunteering at CTX Food Bank!
Volunteering is fun and helps the community. Its a win win
Eilsha was Very Helpful to me..Thanks to her and Central Texas Food Bank for your service
Their friendly staff make volunteering easy
I work as a volunteer great pay
Spent a morning volunteering. The staff are very knowledgeable and friendly.
Went here for The Austin Empty Bowl Project. Its an impressive facility!
Good place 2 volunteer &donate food.
Clean lobby, offer many options in regards to volunteering
Great place to do volunteer work!!!
They do great work & are always friendly
Had a great time team volunteering!
Great to see helping others.
Quality operation and vital role in our community. Well organized
Thank you for all the food much appreciated and needed!! God 💖 you all!!!
Great staff...thanks for helping me while the government shutdown...gracias!
Try to be the cardboard collector. Running the baling machine was pretty satisfying!
Great place to pick up service hours.
A great organization thats always in need of volunteers and donations.
Great people and great place to volunteer.
Never been here 🙋🤷 yet 🙄But, Its a Blessing to have a Place like this 💜❤️
A special organization in our community to give back to. Every bit helps!
Awesome! Much needed expansion to better serve clients
This is a good place to help people in need! And care the most.
Had a great experience volunteering
Such a great way to serve the community!
Great place to volunteer. KW
Donate there a lot, they get played to much and dont pay there employees well the real workers
Excellent facility, efficient team, valuable experience.
Really helpful and needed community service.
Doing good for the hungry people. Good stuff
Most wonderful place to work (HEAVEN)
I love this cause and the staff is great.
Amazing experience with great volunteers
Where the community comes together & changes lives one meal at a time!
Very helpful employees
I dropped-off a donation of food.vwent very well.😃
Great place to volunteer.
Very organized.
Good people great service.
Fantastic people serving the community
Thank you very much!
I love volunteering here!
Wonderful place to volunteer.
Love volunteering at this place.
Doing our part of all Austins population in need!
Help.nice everything ok
Very well organized
Quick and easy load and unload
Took to long to UNLOAD
Its pretty fun
Great volunteering opportunity!
Extremely friendly staff
Helping the community is the best
Awesome organic garden
Friendly and helping staff
Had loads of fun !!!!
The best
The best place to be on this planet.
Slended
Great service 👍
Heart and Soul of Texas
They are awesome
😎😎😎😷😷😷
Do what you can when you can
A wonderful charity.
This place is awesome
Very organized
Amazing
Awesome crew
Call and volunteer!
Cool
Helps those in need.
Helpful staff!
Great cause
Fighting Hunger
Vicite this place as a volunteer is a good place to contribute some of your time to something productive and that you know will help who. More you need it
In this place we receive excellent classes on healthy eating and our children learned what a garden is and its importance for health.
Good place
Very friendly all the staff
A place where you can help others
Total reviews rating 4.7
179 Reviews for Central Texas Food Bank 2023:
Review №1
2022-02-26Fantastic place to go and volunteer. Spaces are clean and well organized!!!! I am satisfied and pleased with the facility. They have excellent system where if theres expired meat, it goes to the zoo animals. Amazing!
Review №2
2022-03-05Great place to give back to the community. People here are friendly and helpful and just tremendously giving.
Review №3
2022-07-01Fantastic place doing fantastic things. I drop bulk donations off semi-frequently and the staff is always quick to get it processed. They make sure Im in and out and all paperwork is always in order. Awesome place and Im extremely happy I get to help them on their mission!
Review №4
2022-05-11I came to ctfb as part of a group volunteering effort in their food sorting and packaging Warehouse. The leadership, both volunteer and employed, were patient, energetic, and encouraging. They took what was already a feel-good experience, of helping local Texans in need, and made it even better.
Review №5
2022-06-04Very organized. Dedicated volunteers. Excellent volunteering experience with a host of things you can help out with. Highly recommend.
Review №6
2020-11-03I have been volunteering and donating here for decades. Its a fantastic organization to get involved with to help your fellow Central Texans in need. My father recently passed away and this was the place we loved volunteering together the most. In his name I started a Virtual Food Drive and donated almost 1,000 lbs worth of non perishable food, and I will continue the tradition in his honor, especially during the holidays!
Review №7
2022-06-14Extremely clean and well organized. I would definitely volunteer here again!
Review №8
2018-03-25I volunteer at this facility whenever I can make the time. I have been blown away by the impact a few hours of your time can make with respect to the incredible organization of Central Texas Food Bank. I have met so many lovely people that work and volunteer there and I highly recommend making the time to volunteer here. You will be helping SO many others and they make it fun while you’re there!
Review №9
2022-02-22There’s no other experience than the experience of giving back to your community. It is actually very fun and the time goes by quickly. Many different “jobs” to choose from during your volunteer time. My favorite is sorting food off of a conveyor belt because you have to move fast and be able to look at items and put in the appropriate box (harder than you think!). The CTFB is always in need of volunteers but especially at the beginning of a new year because ppl tend to volunteer more so over Thanksgiving and Christmas. Go with friends and make it a memorable experience or go alone and know you did something on your own that gives back! You will be rewarded in many ways!
Review №10
2021-12-21Volunteered here, was a professional and fun experience. Felt very welcomed and safe to be there. Was very clean and organized. Would recommend anyone with spar time to go and help out.