Month: February 2014

  • Food For Free on WGBH

    Food For Free’s own Kirsten Sims speaks about food rescue on WGBH (video)

  • Spotlight on: Cambridge Weekend Backpack Program

    This interview is with Alanna Mallon, founder of the Cambridge Weekend Backpack Program, one of the many amazing recipient agencies we serve through our Produce Rescue and Delivery program. What is the Cambridge Weekend Backpack Program? The Cambridge Weekend Backpack program is a food safety net for food insecure Cambridge public school students whose main source of nutrition…

  • What’s going on around here? (Winter 2014 edition)

    We are always looking to improve our systems and programs in order to do more. In the last few months, we have: Expanded Home Delivery: Possibly the most exciting change this winter is the expansion of our Home Delivery program, which now delivers twice a month thanks to a targeted donation from one of our very…

  • Over a million: Food For Free by the numbers

    We’ve completed our end-of-year numbers, and we’re pleased as punch to share what you helped us do last year. Drum roll, please! HOW MUCH FOOD did we distribute? Through our Produce Rescue and Delivery program, we distributed 1,030,000 lbs of food in 2013. We were able to provide the equivalent of about 22,559 more meals…