Extrafoodorg

Extrafood operates a food recovery program in marin, san francisco,and sonoma counties,california, where 1 in 4 people struggle with hunger. Extrafood rescues excess fresh food from any business or school and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and shelters for the unhoused - serving our most vulnerable children, adults, and families, 365 days a year and free of charge.

Extrafood reached more than 10,000 people each month with prepared food, fresh fruits and vegetables, dairy products, eggs, meat, baked goods, and packaged goods. And,extrafood reduced the massive impact of food waste on local greenhouse gasemissions, preventing 80,000 pounds of methane from warming the planet. Extrafoodis ending hunger differently -- by leading a movement to transform ourfood system: from wasting food to donating it for people in need. As a result,investing in extrafood creates triple impact: on hunger, on the climate crisis, andon permanent change in our food system. In 2022, extrafoods ninth year ofoperation, the organization made significant progress toward its first major goal:enrolling every possible business and school in its program, and rescuingevery possible pound of excess fresh food for our most vulnerable neighbors.investing in extrafood is investing in a vision: a vision of food justice: everyone in our community should have the food they need. A vision of climate action: food waste and its massive harm to our planet must end. A vision of community: food waste and hunger are solvable problems in the bay area; with this living, growing coalition of people and partners, we can solve them together.

And, extrafood operates a community meals program, which uses the excess capacity ofrestaurants and caterers to give freshly-made meals to people in need. In 2022,extrafood's small staff and 250 volunteers, organized, rescued, and delivered 937,000 pounds the equivelent of 781,000 meals from 88 businesses, such as grocery stores,restaurants, caterers, and farms, and delivered the food to 155 nonprofitdistribution partners throughout the county.