Food Recovery Network

Background of how they started:

The Food Recovery Network (FRN) was started by three college students with a great idea. They were eating in the dining hall where they attended school late one night where they witnessed all the leftover food from the day be thrown away and wasted and they couldn't help but think about all of the starving mouths that food could have fed. That night led to the 2011 creation of the Food Recovery Network by Ben Simon, Mia Zavalij and Cam Pascual, students at the University of Maryland, College Park. By the end of that year, the website states that they already had donated over 30,000 meals to those in need.

How they accomplish this:

FRN accomplishes their goal of donating left over foods to all of those in need by creating campus crews all over college campuses. They currently have 172 chapters across 40 states and they are continuously increasing. These crews have worked together to donate 1,115,640 pounds of food and by May of 2011 they hope to have 180 chapters and 1.2 million pounds of food. These college kids are doing great things and this is so empowering. Help them reach their goal by starting a chapter at your college if they aren't on the list by visiting https://sara-gassman.squarespace.com. If you can't get involved, donate a dollar to the cause to help feed a starving individual. Keep the college kids with their cause!