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Month: May 2014

  • Spotlight on: Boston Area Gleaners

    This interview is with Duck Caldwell, Executive Director of the Boston Area Gleaners, one of the many amazing food donor partners who make our Produce Rescue and Delivery program possible. The Boston Area Gleaners is a 10-year-old organization dedicated to rescuing surplus farm crops for people in need through the work of their staff and many amazing volunteers. Food For Free is the…

  • What’s Going On Around Here? (Spring 2014 edition)

    We’ve been busy this winter and spring. Since our last update, we’ve: Launched weekend pickups. Our recent collaboration with two student-run organizations—Tufts Food Rescue and BU’s Student Food Rescue—has enabled us to finally roll out much-needed weekend pickups of food donations from five of our partner grocery stores during their busiest times. Read more about this exciting food rescue expansion! Enjoyed…

  • A new partnership enables weekend pickups

    “Would it be possible for you to pick up on the weekend?” This is a question we’ve heard often from our retail partners. As anyone who’s ever shopped on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon knows, weekends are busy times for grocery stores—which means there’s also lots of food available for donation. However, because Food For…

  • Twice as nice: Food For Free’s Home Delivery program doubles its efforts

    This post is written by Rayna Jhaveri. What’s better than one box of fresh, nutritious food delivered to your doorstep? Why, TWO, of course—especially when you rely on it to feed you through the month. Our big news in Q1 of 2014 is that we’ve doubled our Home Delivery Service, allowing us to better serve…

  • Farmers’ markets are open. Let the food rescue begin!

    Long-time readers of this blog will recognize this as an updated version of this post from last season—as you can see, all of last year’s market partners are back this year! Our local farmers’ markets are either already open or opening soon for 2014, which means that Food For Free is back with our farmers’ market…

  • Now reaching Lynn, MA!

    Food For Free has just added our first recipient agency in Lynn: Living Fields Church. Living Fields primarily serves members of the Cambodian-American diaspora community and other refugees in Lynn, MA. They reached out to Food For Free with an interest in expanding their program, which currently serves about 7-10 families, but hopes to serve many…

  • Now hiring an Operations Director!

    Edited June 4, 2014: This position is now filled. To apply for this position, please send a resume and cover letter–describing your interest in this position and why you believe you would be a good fit–to director@foodforfree.org. Include “Operations Director” in the subject line. Applications will be accepted through the end of May 2014. The…