Food Recovery Network

Food Recovery Network We are a student-run group that takes surplus food and brings it to people who are hungry.

The Food Recovery Network @ Brown (FRN@Brown) is a network of student groups and individuals at Brown University, volunteering to recover the surplus food from the dining halls and special events and donate in the Providence area. Every night, through our partnership with Brown Dining Services, we go around to the dining halls on campus and collect food that is still perfectly good, but would have

been thrown out for various reasons (dented can, day-old bagels, nearing expiration date). We take that food and bring it down to shelters and meal sites in Providence. We are part of the Food Recovery Network, a national network of food recovery groups on college campuses. Check them out: http://www.foodrecoverynetwork.org/

We also partner with We Share Hope, a local food recovery organization that gets almost no credit, but that recovers over 250,000 pounds of food a year and gives it to people who need it. Check 'em out and give them a little cash if you like what they do (or tell your rich friends and family to give them a donation!) http://www.wesharehope.org/

10/03/2017

Check out our new partnership with The Elisha Project!! 531 pounds of food donated and more to come!

04/20/2017

Before dedicating her life to helping the poorest among us and educating the next generation of advocates, Barbara Freitas was herself homeless. Now, a house fire has confronted her with the prospect of homelessness once again. This emergency fund will make sure Barbara can pay the deposit on an...

04/18/2017

Before dedicating her life to helping the poorest among us and educating the next generation of advocates, Barbara Freitas was herself homeless. Now, a house fire has confronted her with the prospect of homelessness once again. This emergency fund will make sure Barbara can pay the deposit on an...

Lookin to learn more about sustainability efforts on other campuses (campooses? campi? campees? who knows...)? Or has it...
04/05/2017

Lookin to learn more about sustainability efforts on other campuses (campooses? campi? campees? who knows...)? Or has it just gotten to that point in the year when you want an entirely new friend group? Check out this event at JWU this weekend, it should be pretty greeeeeeeeeen

03/25/2017

For anyone lookin to get educated during spring break:

https://www.recyclingstar.org/events/building-resiliency-food-recovery-webinar/

A staggering amount of food is wasted in the United States—estimated at 52 million tons a year. At every step of our food system–growing, harvesting, processing, packaging, transporting, marketing, consumption, and disposal—waste is generated. Meanwhile, in our country, 13 percent of households (15....

03/07/2017
03/07/2017

Good people standing up for those less fortunate than them.

Some pretty baws things goin on cross the sea
02/21/2017

Some pretty baws things goin on cross the sea

Since 2012, Waitrose has used any unsold food that is not donated to create electricity through anaerobic digestion. Its latest endeavor goes a step further: ten of its new delivery trucks will use food waste as fuel.

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