Community Solidarity is not a food bank, though it does the work of one. It’s more like a radical food rescuer, popping up in flash-mob fashion around Long Island and Brooklyn atop a loose infrastructure of volunteers, folding tables and produce. There is no warehouse, no fleet of trucks, and…
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Volunteer drivers are proving to be a key ingredient in the success of Feeding America’s MealConnect platform, which is expanding to include another 15 food banks by summer’s end, bringing the total number of food-bank users to 22. Through MealConnect, volunteers are logging in to identify the locations of excess…
Three Square Food Bank is taking food rescue to the next level with a cool tool — the blast chiller. Common in commercial kitchens, blast chillers are not widely used in food rescue, though they are well-suited to the task. The fast-acting freezers can take food from thoroughly hot to…
It didn’t take long for John Whitaker to confirm that his idea for diverting food headed for the landfill was a keeper. After investing only $10,000, Whitaker accepted his first load of perfectly good food saved from the dump. It was worth $33,000. Following a nearly 30-year career in the…