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Month: December 2014

  • Top 5 posts of 2014

    As we bid goodbye to 2014, and welcome 2015, here’s a roundup of our most popular blog posts of the year, as well as a few of our favorites: 1. Our post advertising our new Operations Director position (Now hiring an Operations Director!) was a big hit… 2. …and the next post popular post was…

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

    We’ve been busy this summer and fall! What have we been up to? We: Added 20 new recipient agencies since January. We’re up to 107 agencies served!   Expanded service into high-need towns and neighborhoods. We are now serving several new cities and neighborhoods: Malden, Lynn, Lowell, and Allston-Brighton. We’ve also expanded our service to Chelsea and Dorchester.   Teamed up…

  • Welcome, Santana!

    We are pleased to welcome our newest member to the Food For Free Family: our newest driver, José Santana, joined the team in October…and just in time! Earlier that month, Food For Free purchased our third vehicle. With a growing fleet, we needed someone who could take on the task of driving this new van…

  • Hurrah for this year’s Ride for Food team!

    Hurrah for this year’s team of amazing bike riders, who helped us raise over $20,000 for Produce Rescue! Click below for some great pictures of our team:   Post by Food For Free.

  • We’re expanding our board!

    We have an exciting announcement: Food For Free is currently seeking to expand our board so that we can further our mission while building on our values and strengths. We’ve invited Frank Rizzo, of FocalPoint Coaching New England to give you an outsider’s perspective on board membership at Food For Free. Frank has been assisting our Executive…

  • Thank you, Glenwood Garden!

    On Saturday, November 29th, Glenwood Garden hosted a one-day online shopping benefit event for Food For Free. But for anyone who missed it, don’t worry—you can shop for the Food For Free cause anywhere, anytime at Glenwood Garden: just enter in the code “FOODFORFREE” at checkout and we will receive 50% of the proceeds. Forget Black…

  • Meet Food For Free’s newest food rescue program: prepared foods, here we come!

    Who knew the term “Commercial Organics Waste Ban” could be so exciting? Well…it is! Why, you ask? Well, on October 1st, 2014, Massachusetts implemented the most progressive commercial organics waste ban in the nation. 1 ton of food waste per week? No longer allowed. According to the new law, any organization that disposes of more than…

  • It’s #GivingTuesday! Donate to a special 1-day campaign, and post an #unselfie for Food For Free!

    We have a holiday for giving thanks, and two for getting deals. Now there’s one for giving back: today is Giving Tuesday! How can you help Food For Free celebrate our first-ever Giving Tuesday? Simple! Give to our one-day campaign to buy 100 holiday roasts for meal programs in Malden, Lowell, and Chelsea! Take an #unselfie to tell everyone why…