BOWL TO BRACKET BINGO
Kicking off after the Super Bowl and ending during March Madness, FRN is hosting our fourth Bowl to Bracket Bingo Challenge to promote food recovery and help fund our student-led chapters. Complete challenges from the Bowl to Bracket bingo card below and earn prize money allocated to each activity for your chapter.
BOWL TO BRACKET BINGO
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Examples can include grocery bingo, beach cleanup, breakfast w/FRNds, movie night, craft night, etc!
Advocate for the Food Date Labeling Act to move forward. Send your legislators an email with our template, be sure to bcc or forward us the email for credit.
Do you have a friend at a different university with a spirit for volunteering? Tell them about FRN on your campus and see if they'd be interested in starting a chapter of their own. Connect us with them via email!
Your chapter likely has funding available to you via FRN National. FRN Grant Funding can go towards FRN merchandise, supplies, mileage reimbursement, and much more! Have questions on what you can spend your funding on? You can email us and we are always happy to talk about what your FRN funding can go towards.
Looking to make your food recoveries more sustainable? This could mean: switching to reusable stainless steel pans, wearing baseball caps (FRN hats) instead of harinets, replacing plastic wrap with silicone lids, reusable aprons, and more. Have an idea to reduce your chapter's single-use items? Share with us vis photo submission your chapter's sustainable swap! All swaps are eligible for FRN grant funding.
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Submit FRN video content! This can be a viral trend/Instagram reel, behind-the-scenes b-reel, food recovery in action, food safety, or even soundbites on why you love FRN.
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Recover from alternative food donors: nearby restaurant, cafe, local farmers markets, or catered campus events.
This accreditation is awarded to food donors to show their commitment to food recovery and sustainable initiatives. Email FRN for the free code to apply for FRV certification via this challenge.
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Email FRN with your plan to help fight end-of-semester food waste via a food drive or refrigerator clean-out.
Email FRN National (programs@foodrecoverynetwork.org) to earn credit for this challenge.
Research to see if your university has an on-campus food pantry or community fridge that you can donate to!
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Build community through food recovery! Host a community meal on campus or at your partner agency.
Email FRN National (programs@foodrecoverynetwork.org) to earn credit for this challenge.
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Engage with your community by volunteering at your partner agency (where you donate surplus food) or another nearby non-profit!
Table on campus to bring awareness to your chapter, FRN's mission, and recruit more volunteers (FRNds).
Share the mission of FRN on and off campus! Utilize our media templates to reach out to your local or school news. BCC FRN National (programs@foodrecoverynetwork.org) to earn credit for this challenge
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Sport your FRN merch when recovering food, advocating for change, volunteering, or any other chapter activity.
How to Play
Must be currently affiliated with an official FRN Chapter to participate and money earned is to be used for Food Recovery Network-sanctioned activities and events.
To gain credit for each challenge, you must document and send FRN National proof of completion. The top right corner of each square has a symbol that indicates what you need to send FRN National to get credit for completing the challenge (upload photos or videos, tag us on social media posts, fill out your food tracking form, email FRN National).
The Challenge ends 3/31/26 at 11:59pm EST, proof of completion of all challenges must be submitted by that date and time.
The maximum amount of money that can be earned by one chapter is $590.
A bingo is described as across the row, down the column, or a diagonal.
Each chapter can only earn the money for each square one time.
Money earned through Bowl to Bracket Bingo will be added to the chapter's individual funding no later than 4/19/26. To check your chapter’s funding balance find your chapter under Current Chapters and select the pounds-to-date spreadsheet to view the funding tab.
By participating in the challenge in any way you grant Food Recovery Network license to repost, publicly display, reproduce entries, in whole or in part, in any media or use now existing of later developed, for any purpose. This giveaway is not sponsored, endorsed, administered by or associated with Instagram, Facebook, NFL, or NCAA.
“I joined FRN because I have always cared about sustainability and climate change. Learning about the harmful effects of food waste on the climate was enlightening, because we can avoid so many problems by just feeding people who are hungry. I recover food to address the issues with food waste, help the environment, and—what I believe is the best thing about food recovery—building up my community. Through FRN, I can educate others and show people how we can make a difference.”
2025 Bingo Highlights
57 Participating Chapters
14 Chapters Hosted Thank You Note Parties for Partners
$8300 To Supporting Chapters
“Northern Arizona University is a relatively large university with more than 9,000 students living on campus that use campus dining halls on a daily or near daily basis. The kitchens will often overestimate the amount of food they prepare which causes extra food to be thrown away. We believe recovering this food is important because we are not only curbing food waste in the best way we can, but we can then donate that food to those who need it. Flagstaff community members experience a high rate of food insecurity so being a part of a movement to reduce food waste and feed local people is an incredible movement to be a part of.”
2024 Bingo Highlights
53 Participating Chapters
11 Representatives Contacted to Support Food Waste Labeling Act
$6400 To Supporting Chapters
“I recover food because I want to make a meaningful difference in my community. Redistributing food that otherwise would have been wasted helps people in need and strengthens my community.”
2023 Bingo Highlights
56 Participating Chapters
80,801 Pounds of Surplus Food Recorded
$5000 To Supporting Chapters
“We recover food for the planet and its people. Each one of our E-board and general body members is personally devoted to the mission of fixing America’s food system and making sure no one goes hungry. We are grateful for the opportunity to contribute to these endeavors through FRN and are excited to keep fighting for change. We want to see a better future with less food waste and less hungry people, and we believe we’ll get there.
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