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Food Waste and Hunger
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In Montgomery Co. Every Year:
• 246,000 tons (23%) of the County’s solid waste is food waste.
• 81,000 (8%) of Montgomery County
residents do not know where their next meal will come from.
22.80%
4.20%
0.10%
0.20%
3.30%
2.30%7.00%
Organics Waste Composition
Food Waste
Clothing, textiles
Rubber
Tires
Diapers
Fines
Misc.
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Food Insecurity and Hunger
In 2012, almost 70,000 County residents received monthly SNAP benefits, a 12% increase from 2011, and a 151% increase from 2008. (MD Hunger Solutions)
35,390 children in Montgomery County, live in “food insecure” households, uncertain where their next meal is coming from. (Feeding
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County residents receiving SNAP benefits
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2008 2011 2012
+151%
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Inspiration and Vision 2012 County Council inspired 2013 Food Recovery Task Force—Action Plan 2014 System design and pilot 2015 Implementation
Manna Food Center Full Plate Ventures Univ. of MD Eastern Shore-Campus Kitchens
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Community Food Rescue Baseline Food Donor Matches = 128
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What’s the Potential?
Potential: Montgomery County has 15,000 licensed food businesses!
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Jump Start Grants- Build Operational Capacity • $112,000 distributed to 16 organizations
Building the System
Safe Food Handling and Transport Guidelines • Best practices have been vetted by DHHS
Education and Outreach Materials • Community Food Rescue Website www.communityfoodrescue.org
• Introduction video • Social media www.facebook.com/communityfoodrescue
Operational Protocols and Matching Technology (In Process) • System design • Matching technology
= completed
Mapping Using Data to build a coordinated system
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Approaches and Technology
Static website list of recipient orgs.
Website referral list that is filtered by donor needs
Site manager matches manually
Partial real time matching volunteers; partial site manager matching
Fully automated matching, in real time
Least sophisticated Least expensive No metrics recording
Most sophisticated Most expensive Metrics recording
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Current Food Recovery Challenges
Rainbow Community Development Center
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How Community Food Rescue will help
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Designing a system that works for everyone
Benefits of more food to distribute through “emergency” channels
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•Celestial Manna •DC Central Kitchen •Family Services Inc. •Food Donation Connection •Food Recovery Network •Full Plate Ventures •Gaithersburg HELP •growingSOUL •Interfaith Works •Manna Food Center •Montgomery County Dept. of Health and Human Services •Montgomery County Dept. of Econ. Devel–Ag Services •Montgomery County Public
Schools Food Services •Montgomery College •Montgomery County Council staff •Nourish Now •Rainbow Community Development Ctr. •Say No to Waste •Shepherd’s Table •Washington Regional Convergence Partnership •Women Who Care Ministries •UMES Campus Kitchens
Who We Are
Food Recovery Working Group (MoCo Food Council)
Mont. Co. Council and County Executive Ike Leggett
Coordinator Team: Manna Food Center Full Plate Ventures UMES-Campus Kitchens
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www.communityfoodrescue.org