As a director of a Volunteer program, it is not easy to place people who need to complete court ordered community service hours. Many places do not want to take a chance on them. Another way to look at it might be to be thankful there was a place to complete those community service hours. It sounded like his Volunteer work was appreciated by Second Harvest Foodbank. Many nonprofits don't have funds to hire staff, that is why they depend on the generosity of precious Volunteers.
I spent over 80 hours volunteering here, as a convicted felon. I applied for a job there for which I was more than qualified for, and wasn't offered even an interview. I find it to be complete crap that they are more than willing to allow a bunch of convicted felons to work there for FREE, but won't even consider HIRING one. Very unhappy...
tamil 07/09/2012
We consider every application for all open positions and there are rarely open positions. We are not hiring on an ongoing basis. We apologize that you did not qualify for the recent open positions and thank you for your volunteer service.