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August 2024 newsletter
Planned Giving Explained
You may have seen the exciting news in our recent communications: we are now accepting donations through planned giving!
Never heard of this way to support the causes you care about? Keep reading to learn more:
Beach, sun… and food recovery? Happenings from Sarasota and Bradenton, Florida
Back in 2021, before I joined FoodRecovery.org, my supervisor at the time caught the CNN Heroes clip of MEANS Database (now FoodRecovery.org), and nudged me to follow up. I had never heard of food recovery or food rescue, but quickly realized that this was an important puzzle piece in the local food system.
ChowBank Food Recovery App Acquired by MEANS Database
Today at the World Food Prize Foundation’s Iowa Hunger Summit, MEANS Database announced their acquisition of Des Moines-based food rescue app ChowBank. Since its debut in 2015, ChowBank helped users like Eat Greater Des Moines as the organization rescued nearly twenty...