May 20, 2024 | What's New
By: Emily Grant 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...
Jul 27, 2023 | What's New
By Grace Hoening I have worked with MEANS since June 2019 when I started as an Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) Outreach intern at the age of 16. My passion for food recovery started at the ELCA World Hunger Leadership Conference. I tagged along with my...
Oct 29, 2021 | What's New
MEANS Database was created by passionate youth at the beginning of 2015. Co-founder and Chair of the Board Maria Rose was able to build out the beginnings of MEANS because she was afforded opportunities by adults and institutions who took a chance on her as a...
Sep 1, 2021 | Press, Press Releases, What's New
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...
Aug 27, 2021 | What's New
Food insecurity is a problem all over the United States: in 2018 food insecurity affects 1 in 9 Americans. However over the year due to COVID-19 that number has increased to 1 in 4 households in the United States. College students are no exception when it comes to...
