This year, ReFED, a national nonprofit working to end food loss and food waste, awarded Move For Hunger a $100,000 grant. It’s ReFED’s mission to make the best use of the food we grow through data and insights to highlight inefficiencies in the supply chain, spur innovation, and connect people together and get them into action.
That’s where Move For Hunger comes in. Getting our start by collecting food when people move, we now leverage our network of over 1,000 volunteer transportation partners to recover food from various sources - farms, manufacturers, community food drives, and, of course, when people move, and then distribute that to local food banks across the United States.
Food waste is an epidemic around the world and in the United States. Forty percent of all food is thrown out every year which costs the US over $200 billion annually. All the while, nearly 1 in 7 people in this country goes to bed hungry.
Move For Hunger is taking a bite out of the food crisis one transport at a time. Over the past decade, we’ve collected and delivered over 20 million pounds of food which is the equivalent of over 17 million meals. With ReFED’s generous grant, we’ve set a record of collecting about 5 million pounds of food this year alone.
Want to be part of solving food waste in your community? Sign up for a food drive or fundraiser.
