take action for Earth Month
Today, 44 million people are experiencing hunger in the United States, while 78 million tons of perfectly good food goes to landfills. This month, we invite you to take action with FRN to combat hunger and climate change.
Check out these fun, virtual opportunities and join the fight!
Donate to FRN to stop food waste every day
Food Recovery Network started as a group of four students at the University of Maryland. Now, our student-led chapters are recovering food on nearly 200 campuses in 46 states and Washington D.C., and our nationwide network has recovered more than 16.3 million pounds of food and prevented more than 9,300 metric tons of CO2 emissions to date.
Through the end of April, all donations made to FRN will be DOUBLE by our partners, Hellmann’s, up to $5,000! Help support our continued growth and impact by making a donation today!
food waste prevention week
FRN will kick off Earth Month by celebrating Food Waste Prevention Week, April 1-7! Join FRN’s webinars or search for more ways to get involved here.
Join A Power Hour to Prevent Farm food Loss
FRN is hosting research Power Hours (one-hour zoom calls) to help our partners at The Farmlink Project connect with farms in regions where surplus food is occurring and food insecurity rates are highest. Power Hours are a FUN, virtual, communal, easy, and impactful volunteer opportunity. By joining one Power Hour, you can help us recover 26,000 pounds of surplus food!
Register for a Power Hour below, or click here to learn more about this initiative.
Help Grow our network
Since July, FRN has welcomed 20 new student chapters on college and university campuses into our network! Help us keep that momentum going by encouraging your friends and family members to start a chapter at their school. Your referral means everything!
Recognizing Indigenous Peoples’ familial ties to these lands
Aaron Carapella, a self-taught mapmaker in Warner, Ok. designed this map of Native American tribes before first contact with Europeans. You can learn more about Aaron and purchase his maps here.
No matter who we are, how we grew up or where we live, the Earth and the nature that surrounds us is our family. While many of us have embraced Earth Day, or even Earth Month, as a way to celebrate our life-giving planet, it is important to know that the roots of celebration go much farther back. The numerous Indigenous Peoples living in the US have a sacred connection to the Earth dating back thousands of years. We all have the opportunity to listen to their teachings, and to be in community with others whose relationships with the Earth differ from our own. Food Recovery Network thanks the many Indigenous Peoples for their continued stewardship of the Earth and gives thanks to them for allowing us to learn from them and show us ways to reconnect to the Earth in ways we may not have been taught. Read Executive Director Regina’s blog post to learn more.
“The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share”