• New food donor! We now collect fresh, healthy prepared foods from MIT’s Masseeh Dining Hall every week.

• 6 new food recipient programs! We now provide food for:
  • the K-Lo Market, a new school-based pantry we co-founded in Cambridge
  • the food pantry and the Senior Brown Bag program at ABCD’s Elm Hill Family Service Center in Roxbury
  • Community Servings, which delivers nutritious food to people living with critical and chronic illnesses
  • East End House’s Putnam Upper Afterschool Program
  • Freedom Farm now takes some of our stale bread to feed to their hogs. Yet another way to bridge the gap between waste and want!

• Busy news season for Food For Free! You can read/watch/listen about us in:
  • Our Boston Metro cover story about food rescue at Harvard Commencement
  • The Boston Globe‘s story about Daily Table in Dorchester, with comments from our own Sasha Purpura
  • the Zipcar blog’s “Food Rescue to the rescue” piece
  • The Somerville Times profile of Matt Crawford’s work in our Field of Greens
  • Boston Magazine’s coverage of our Farmers’ Market rescue and Prepared Foods rescue
  • C-SPAN’s coverage of Sasha on the “Recovering Wasted Food” panel at Harvard’s “Just Food?” conference

• We’ve had a number of comings and goings:
  • We’ve welcomed Ross Richmond in the exciting new role of Community Partnerships Manager.
  • We’ve also had to say goodbye to Kelly Worrall, our first-ever Operations Director. In her time here, she helped us grow our operations, and we know she’ll be awesome in her next role, too!
  • We’re welcoming our new Operations Director, Ryan Lee! He brings 7 years experience directing The Walk for Hunger with Project Bread.
  • We’ve kicked off this year’s Field of Greens season with a new Farm Manager, Catie Bekel, as well as a new Assistant Farm Manager, Allison Houghton. Shifts happen every Wednesday mornings…join us at the farm!
  • We also welcome Megan Bodo as our new Home Delivery Coordinator.
  • We’ve also welcomed two new board members: welcome, Bruce Posner and Rob Steinberg!

• Our 2nd annual Empty Bowls benefit at Mudflat Pottery School was a great success! We welcomed hundreds of guests, served soup from a dozen amazing restaurants, and nearly sold out of beautiful bowls! Thanks to our generous attendees and donors, this event brought in over $9,000 for our Food Rescue work!

• We’ve just started gathering our team for the Ride for Food, our second largest fundraising event of the year. Like the idea of a fun bike ride for the Food For Free cause? Join us!

Read the rest of our Spring Newsletter!

1. Top 5 Ways to Embrace the Summer, Food For Free Style!
2. What’s Going On Around Here? (News from Food For Free)
3. Spotlight on: The K-Lo Market (our new school-based pantry!)