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.
Food Recovery Network’s (FRN) Super Mad Food Recovery Challenge is a new game designed to drive increased surplus food recoveries on college campuses between February and March when the Super Bowl and March Madness are underway.
FRN will provide a bingo card filled with a variety of food recovery activities for chapters to complete during the month. Some activities can be completed in less than one hour, and others will take anywhere from 1-3 hours to complete.
For each activity completed, chapters will be rewarded with a specific amount of additional grant funding from FRN. Through this challenge, FRN seeks to create a fun and engaging atmosphere for chapters to recover and distribute more surplus food on and off campus as the new semester kicks off. If you have ideas for the bingo card or would like to contribute in kind or cash prizes to incentivize students to participate, please contact FRN by emailing programs@foodrecoverynetwork.org.
BOWL TO BRACKET BINGO
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Examples can include grocery bingo, beach cleanup, breakfast w/FRNds, movie night, craft night, etc!
Have a friend at another university who loves volunteering? Tell them about FRN and see if they'd be interested in starting a chapter.
Your chapter likely has funding available to you via FRN National. Email us to find out more.
All sustainable swaps are eligible for FRN grant funding.
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Submit video content! IG reel, behind-the-scenes, food recovery in action, food safety, or 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.
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Email FRN National (programs@foodrecoverynetwork.org) to earn credit for this challenge.
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.
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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).
News media can help recruit volunteers, donations, spread awareness about your leadership efforts.
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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 $575.
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.