Does your organization offer a complimentary meal to volunteers?  If so, how is it administered?  One meal/per shift or a dollar amount?  How is it monitored?

Yes, our organization provides a complimentary meal to volunteers. Each volunteer is eligible to receive one free meal per day during their shift.

Due to recent increases in food costs, we have transitioned from offering a set meal to providing a $10 meal allowance per day.

This benefit is monitored and administered on a daily basis to ensure that each volunteer receives only one complimentary meal per shift. On our end, we track this by entering the amount weekly in Volgistics under each volunteer’s name.

The Dietary Department prints the meal receipt, which the volunteer signs at the time of service. All receipts are then submitted to the Dietary Manager, who charges the total to my cost center on a monthly basis.

We offer a $10 credit towards a meal and the employee 20% discount to volunteers that provide three hours or more on a shift. This would only be on the day of their shift and wearing their name badge.

We give our volunteers a voucher worth $7 that they can use to purchase whatever they'd like in our cafeteria. If they go over, they pay the difference. Our cost center is only charged for the actual amount that they spend. They get a voucher for every shift they volunteer.