Volunteer Needs

If you are interested in bringing your talents to Common Table, we would love to have you! We are always looking for more volunteers to help us eat good, do good and make good happen.

Currently, we are looking for volunteers to help with hosting/greeting, bussing tables, beverage service, food prep, and dishwashing.

The first step in becoming a volunteer at Common Table is to register with Common Table Shiftboard, our online scheduling system, which can be found by clicking HERE or by visiting www.shiftboard.com/commontable/register.html.

After registering with Shiftboard, you can attend a volunteer orientation, which is an informal hour-long meeting to familiarize you with Common Table’s space and our guiding philosophies. Once you fill out the short application, you will receive an email with a temporary password and login information for signing into Common Table Shiftboard, as well as upcoming volunteer orientation dates. Once you attend a volunteer orientation, you can see which shifts are available and sign up for shifts at our Common TableShiftboard, found HERE. (www.shiftboard.com/commontable)

If you have any questions about volunteering at Common Table, please do not hesitate to contact our Volunteer Volunteer Coordinator, Nate Bettger, at bettger2@gmail.com.

Donation List

Common Table needs:

Persian rug – roughly 5×8
Paint
Books
Hardwood planks
Cleaning supplies
Flat screen TV, moxi, CVR
Mugs and quality earthen plates & flatware
Bar stools, unique
2 interesting screen doors
Peace Pole, planted on sidewalk in front of 150 NW Oregon Ave.
Food and drink for volunteers who are working
Volunteers to simply attend to the volunteers, connecting and bringing encouragement.
Volunteer to record names of volunteers on work days
Magazine and Newspaper Subscriptions to: Utne Reader, New York Times, Oregonian, New Yorker, The Sun, Adbusters, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone. Others TBD.

Why Common Table?

Common Table will work because people who pay for the excellent food we offer will also be feeding others the same excellent food.  At least 20% of our gross revenues will be going to pay for others to eat meals in our café.  This is nearly one free meal for each paid meal.  This goes far beyond a business offering 10% of profits to a worthy cause.  Giving meals to those in need is at the heart of our business plan not an add-on extra.  People will be able to purchase valued tokens as a tax deductable donation in order to pass on to the working poor, or street people for redemption at Common Table to order off the food menu – eat in or take-away.

We like to say at Common Table that by Eating Good, you will be Doing Good, and helping to Make More Good Happen.  Please consider a tax deductable gift to help get Common Table up and running and thereby Doing Good in Bend and beyond.