For this month’s blog post, the Food Resources Team is happy to bring you a Food Waste Prevention Week recap! Food Waste Prevention Week is a national movement with the goal of educating and inspiring change relating to wasted food. This year we celebrated from April 7th-13th. Manna Food Center’s Community Food Rescue partnered with the DC Food Recovery Working Group , the Montgomery County Food Council , and Food Rescue US – DC to putContinue Reading
CFR Donor Spotlight: Red Wiggler Care Farm For March’s blog, we reached out to our contact at Red Wiggler Care Farm , Rachel Armistead. Red Wiggler has been a member of Community Food Rescue since 2016 and has donated 22,732lbs (18,943 meals) since then. Read on to hear what Rachel shared with us. “Red Wiggler Care Farm, a 501(c)(3)Continue Reading
For the month of February, we tapped our partner, So What Else , a donor and recipient agency of CFR. We asked them to share about their experience getting connected with Sharing Excess , a national non-profit that works as the middleman for food rescue and tackles the logistical concerns involved in running a food rescue organization. Read onContinue Reading
Happy New Year Community Food Rescue & Farm 2 Food Bank members! This was a busy year for us, and we are happy to bring you a 2024 recap! Thanks to our 124 donors, we rescued an impressive amount of food this year: 3,651,415 lbs! We were able to direct all of this food toContinue Reading
The holiday season is upon us, and this brings about a time of giving thanks and celebrating. Here at Community Food Rescue, we are thankful for the dedication and hard work from ALL our network members; donors, volunteers, and recipients. We literally couldn’t accomplish our mission without them. We knew for the month ofContinue Reading
For the month of October, we tapped our partner, So What Else , a donor and recipient agency of CFR. We asked them to share about their experience getting connected with The Farmlink Project , a national non-profit that connects surplus produce from farmers with food banks and other food assistance providers. This is a mission that is shared by CFR,Continue Reading
CFR Donor Spotlight: Cedar Ridge Community Church For September’s blog, we reached out to our contacts at Cedar Ridge Community Church, Ruth and Tinica. We wanted to highlight Cedar Ridge as a prolific and consistent donor of fresh produce to CFR. They made their first donation to CFR in 2018 and have donated a whoppingContinue Reading
For July’s blog post, we reached out to Wendy Smith (left), Program Director/volunteer Coordinator of Interfaith Works Residences (IWR.) The Community Food Rescue team has been working with Wendy since this past April, when a regular food run from Chick-Fil-A on Tech Road was directed to the residences. This generous food run was made possible by Food Donation Connection , an internationalContinue Reading
So What Else is a CFR donor and recipient. We recently spoke to our partner, So What Else, asking how Community Food Rescue and our ChowMatch platform have helped them in their work. Megan Joe, Executive Director for So What Else responded. “So What Else has enjoyed being able to offer items in bulk toContinue Reading
Food Waste Prevention Week kicked off Monday, April 1st, 2024, and ran through April 7th, 2024. As with the year before, Manna Food Center’s Community Food Rescue program partnered with other organizations and institutions in the DMV area to raise regional awareness. Check out this webpage to see all the events that happened locally with all our partners. Below are the events CFR partneredContinue Reading
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