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Learn more about RLC: www.rescuingleftovercuisine.org

Part of the nationwide Rescuing Leftover Cuisine network, a non-profit dedicated to rescuing and donating excess food, reducing food waste and preventing hunger. Volunteer: www.rescuingleftovercuisine.org/volunteer
Donate Food: www.rescuingleftovercuisine.org/donate-food
Support RLC Rhode Island: www.rescuingleftovercuisine.org/sponsor-a-meal

03/18/2022

RLC Rhode Island turned 1 year old today! Check out our Rescue Event to mark the occasion + follow us at our NEW PAGE: www.facebook.com/RLC.MA.RI - see you there!

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03/15/2022

We've Moved! We are now Rescuing Leftover Cuisine Massachusetts + Rhode Island - connect with us at www.facebook.com/RLC.MA.RI. We have some big news coming up so we hope to see you there this Thursday, March 17!

12/01/2021

⭐ 4 HOURS LEFT! ⭐

www.globalgiving.org/fundraisers/rlcri

Please donate what you can to help RLCRI raise $10,000 to prevent wasted food, provide for people and preserve the environment here in Little Rhody!

Your donation will be eligible for a proportional match
UNTIL 11:59PM TONIGHT ONLY.

RI PROGRESS SINCE 3.17.21:
8,870 pounds of food rescued
7,392+ meals provided
983 CO2 lbs. prevented
197 Food Rescues
7 Food Donors
6 Recipient Organizations
25+ RLCRI RESCUERS

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11/30/2021

TODAY is GivingTuesday and Rescuing Leftover Cuisine Rhode Island is asking for your support! Please make your tax deductible donation at:

www.globalgiving.org/fundraisers/rlcri

⭐ TODAY ONLY: Each donation up to $2,500 is eligible for a proportional match!

⭐ We believe that excess food marks a new beginning, not an end. Nearly every day in Rhode Island, RLC volunteer "Rescuers" pick up surplus food that would have otherwise been discarded to deliver to organizations that provide food assistance to people of all ages, religions, cultures & backgrounds experiencing homelessness, hunger or food insecurity.

⭐ OUR OBJECTIVES - $10,000 raised will support:

1. FREE & FLEXIBLE FOOD RESCUE: Due to the pandemic, we have waived fees for businesses who have excess food to donate but cannot afford pickups, with no minimum size requirement to warrant a pickup. We aim to continue our no-fee model as needed. Doing so will encourage existing partners to continue donating food, incentivize businesses who have not yet partnered with us, and support local eateries while building the resiliency of Rhode Island's food system, making food rescue common-practice.

2. OUTREACH: We aim to broaden our Food Donor, Recipient and Rescuer partnerships to increase food rescues and redistribution throughout Rhode Island. This includes hiring an associate from Breaktime, a Boston-based transitional employment program for young adults experiencing homelessness, to provide a unique opportunity for their associates to learn valuable professional & personal skills to help break the cycle of homelessness while furthering our mission.

3. TECHNOLOGY: We aim to streamline and enhance the volunteer, food donor and food recipient experience via our web-based food rescue app; and increase RLC’s impact per dollar earned while decreasing manual operational costs to make food recovery more pliable, efficient and sustainable over time.

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11/26/2021

Wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!

Rescuing Leftover Cuisine Rhode Island is grateful for our Rescuers, Donor Partners, Recipient Partners and supporters: since launching RLCRI on March 17, 2021, we have rescued ~8,820 pounds of food, accounting for ~7,350 meals via 196 Rescue Events in Pawtucket, Portsmouth, Providence, and Riverside, Rhode Island. We have only just begun Rescuing Leftover Cuisine here in Little Rhody and we are looking forward to an exciting 2022!

Learn how we aim to significantly increase our impact in 2022 at www.globalgiving.org/fundraisers/rlcri - we hope to have your support on GivingTuesday, November 30, 2021. Your donation will be eligible for a proportional match that day only.

11/09/2021

We are thrilled to have partnered with East Side Mart! Thank you Paul for your dedication and commitment to our mission to feed people instead of landfills in Providence, Rhode Island!

www.eastsidemart.com

10/24/2021

Rescuing Leftover Cuisine Rhode Island has partnered with University of Rhode Island's Food Recovery for Rhode Island Cooperative Extension program! bit.ly/rlc-uri-ffri-toolkit

Are there ways to simultaneously address food waste and food insecurity at the community level? Food Recovery for Rhode Island invites people from across the state to come together, learn something new, engage in dialogue, and take action to strengthen the local food system. Learn more here: https://youtu.be/exCS3lEZZrQ

Rescuing Leftover Cuisine's Rhode Island branch has partnered with University of Rhode Island's Food Recovery for RI Program. Learn about how you can partici...

09/14/2021

Between now and Friday, September 17, a little goes a long way - literally: all donations up to $50 will be matched 50% by GlobalGiving. In addition, if you sign up for a monthly recurring donation, your donation (up to $200) will be matched 100%! Support Rescuing Leftover Cuisine Rhode Island's mission to FEED PEOPLE INSTEAD OF LANDFILLS. Thanks for your support!

www.globalgiving.org/fundraisers/rlcri

Rescuing Leftover Cuisine (RLC) is a nonprofit food recovery organization. Our mission is to prevent consumable excess food from being wasted by redirecting it to feed people instead of landfills! Our dedicated volunteer “Rescuers” use our food rescue app to pick up excess food from businesses a...

08/06/2021

Meet Helen, one of our RLC Rhode Island RESCUERS! Helen is a rising Senior at Brown University, with a major in Biology. Helen is dedicated to our mission to feed people instead of landfills and has formed an RLC-Brown University Rescue Team! Spread the word!

07/04/2021

"Let freedom never perish in your hands." - Joseph Addison

🇺🇲 RLCRI wishes everyone a Happy 4th of July! 🇺🇲

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RESCUING LEFTOVER CUISINE RHODE ISLAND

Preventing wasted food. Providing for those in need. Preserving the environment.

WHO WE ARE: Rescuing Leftover Cuisine is a non-profit organization that provides a platform for volunteers to recover excess fresh and prepared food from businesses and transport it to nearby human service agencies who serve those in need.

WHERE WE OPERATE: RLC was started in NYC in 2013 by Robert Lee. RLC’s Headquarters remain in NYC, with a total of 12 branches in the U.S. RLC Massachusetts is lead by Dana Siles, New England Coordinator. Since 2017, Dana and the team have grown RLCMA to become the second largest RLC branch, having successfully recovered over 200K pounds of excess consumable food. This has provided over 150K nutritious meals and prevented over 50K lbs of CO2 emissions from entering the earth’s atmosphere. Siles has begun the process of beginning operations in Rhode Island and is aiming to launch RLCRI operations on July 1, 2020.

WHAT WE DO: Rescuing Leftover Cuisine educates participating businesses about the law, tax incentives and logistics (including food safety) in order to prevent wasted food and reap the benefits while doing so. Food Rescues take place daily from food businesses such as Dig Inn, Pret A Manger & Eataly; school and business cafeterias including The Walnut Hill School & Acushnet World Headquarters (both operated by Sodexo); businesses & production companies who host professionally catered lunches such as Moderna, CarGurus, Beam Therapeutics & Element Productions; and event caterers & venues including Lombardo’s, Wolfgang Puck Catering at Museum of Science, New England Aquarium & Granite Links Golf Club. RLC charges a nominal, tax-deductible service fee to our Food Donors, as we rely almost solely on our donors for the sustainability of our operation. With the addition of the enhanced benefits, decreased disposal costs, increased customer & employee loyalty and PR, donors report considerable annual savings as a result of partnering with RLC.

WHY WE EXIST: While the USA is discarding 40% of consumable food every year, 1 in 7 Americans (1 in 9 individuals in RI) is experiencing some level of food insecurity. This means they are without consistent, reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food. Meanwhile, Human Service Agencies continually face the challenge of needing food to serve their communities, yet they lack consistent resources to retrieve it. Further, they’re often forced to turn food away based on uncertainty of quality or if it was properly stored prior to being donated. RLC has taken great lengths to develop strong and trusted relationships with these agencies by strategically matching our Food Donor Partners to each organization we serve, based on three key factors: geography, schedule and what the donor tends to provide in relation to what the recipient needs, based on guest population and storage capacity. There is no cost to our food recipients. RLCMA recipients include: Boston Rescue Mission, St. Francis House, New England Center and Home for Veterans, Huntington YMCA and many more.

WHEN WE CAN START IN RI & HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED: RLCRI Fundraising officially kicks off in January 2020. In order to launch RLCRI, we must raise $20,000 to cover tech and operations. Please visit https://donate.rescuingleftovercuisine.org/RLCRI to help launch RLC in Rhode Island. RLC is entirely made up of volunteers, who generously donate their personal or business’ time to recover and transport food donations. Anyone can volunteer: for kind kids under 16, an adult must be present, making this a gratifying family effort. An average Volunteer Opportunity rescues 40 pounds of food, feeds 32 people, prevents 15 lbs of CO2 emissions from entering the earth's atmosphere - and takes about 45 minutes! Daily Volunteer Events can be seen on our RLC Calendar (www.rescuingleftovercuisine.org/calendar). For example, you’ll see about 85 recurring weekly rescues scheduled in MA.

LEARN MORE & JOIN RLC: VOLUNTEER, DONATE FOOD & RECEIVE FOOD: www.rescuingleftovercuisine.org/ma DONATE TO RLCRI: https://donate.rescuingleftovercuisine.org/RLCRI SPREAD THE WORD: [email protected] RLCMA TOOLKIT: www.tinyurl.com/rlcma-tool-kit PRESS: www.tinyurl.com/RLCMA-Press

Dana Siles, New England Coordinator Rescuing Leftover Cuisine [email protected]