Get Involved
How You Can Help
Join us in the fight against food insecurity and diaper need in Greater Lawrence. By coming together, we can ensure that every family has access to adequate food and diapers. Your support can change lives. Each week, Neighbors In Need provides 1,600 families in Greater Lawrence with food and helps another 600 children with diapers each month. You can help by volunteering, donating food or diapers, or getting the word out about what we do. Help us make sure local families have the opportunity to thrive.
Volunteer
Neighbors In Need has more than 400 volunteers who serve 11,500 hours in our food pantries, food warehouse, diaper pantry, office and at special events each year. We’d love to have you join us! Please see our current volunteer opportunities below. If you have any questions or have a group from your organization or business who would like to serve, please email volunteer@needfood.org.
First Time Volunteer?
If this is your first time volunteering with Neighbors In Need, please complete our volunteer application by clicking below
Donate Food or Diapers
Neighbors In Need relies on donations of food and diapers to help fulfill our mission. Your donation may directly help someone who might otherwise go hungry or be unable to change their baby’s diaper as often as needed.
Donate Food
NIN accepts donations of unopened, unexpired, non-perishable food as well as fresh produce, even from your home garden! Please include nutritious foods in your donation – we work hard to make sure that the food we distribute helps improve the health of the families we serve, especially those who otherwise may not have access to balanced meals. Last year we distributed more than 1-million pounds of donated food. Donating surplus food to NIN also helps reduce food waste.
Canned Food
*please, no glass jars
- Canned Food
- Shelf Stable Milk (e.g. Parmelat)
- Canned Beans (all kinds, not baked)
- Canned Vegetables
- Canned Fruit (no sugar added)
- Peanut Butter
- Tuna
- Canned Ham & Chicken
- Soups (low sodium)
Packaged Food
- Cereal (unsweetened)
- Rice—Canilla or Carolina— (NOT Uncle Ben’s or Minute Rice)
- Pasta (all kinds)
Food and Diaper Drop Off
If you are not available to drop off during these times, please contact info@needfood.org to schedule a drop off.
If you have a large amount of donated items please call 978-685-8321 or email info@needfood.org to arrange a pickup.
NIN Warehouse
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Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 9am – 4pm
Wednesday and Friday 9am – 2pm
Donate Diapers
We gratefully accept all brands and varieties of diapers, including pull-ups, overnights, youth and adult sizes, as well as wipes, rash cream, incontinence and period products. Open packages of diapers are accepted. Open packages of period products are only accepted if individually wrapped. We also accept all unexpired/unopened brands of powdered or liquid formula, baby food (jars or pouches), baby cereal, and toddler/teething snacks. Not all specialized tube feeding or other medical formulations are accepted, please email info@needfood.org or call the diaper pantry at 978-699-3683 if you are uncertain.
Baby Needs
- Formula – Similac Advanced – (blue label)
- Diapers – all sizes
- Baby wipes
- Baby food
Hold a Food or Diaper Drive
Interested in holding a food or diaper drive? Use one of our customizable flyers below to help you publicize the event. Simply download the attached PDF below and drop in your organization’s logo and drive details. Please reach out to Helena@needfood.org with questions or if we can help provide posters or social media content.
Amazon Wish List
Shop our Amazon Wish List for our most needed items and have them shipped directly to the NIN warehouse.
Neighbors In Need is a non-profit, 501c3 organization – donations of goods or services are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
