Meals & Wheels

Meals & Wheels recognizes the critical role of its volunteers and is extremely grateful for their
dedication, time, and compassion. Meals & Wheels accepts the service of all volunteers with the
understanding that such service is at the sole discretion of the agency.

Meals & Wheels ask you as a volunteer to:

• Perform your service to the best of your ability, maintain the clients’ interests as your primary focus
• Maintain an environment free of harassment (physical, sexual, or verbal), discrimination, and
  unprofessional conduct.
• Refrain from false, misrepresented, or omitted information on a volunteer application form and
  understand that MOW cannot accept applications with such information.
• Observe, maintain, and protect confidentiality regarding clients, and avoid sharing with anyone
  information that identifies clients.
• Treat proprietary or privileged information involving staff members or other volunteers as strictly
  confidential.
• Avoid activity construed as conflict of interest, i.e. neither accept loans or gifts of money or property
  from clients nor give gifts of money or property to clients, unless through an organized agency program
• Refrain from offering medical, legal, or financial advice to clients.
• Respect the cultural, religions, and political views of clients and refrain from imposing your beliefs on
  clients.

By submitting this application, you are agreeing to follow this code of ethics.