Preventing food waste. Feeding people.
We rescue surplus food from Bay Area businesses and deliver it, the same day, to the agencies that feed our neighbors in Union City, Fremont, Hayward and beyond.
7.5M+
pounds of food rescued since 2016
as of August 2026
139,000
people reached every month through our partners
estimate, September 2026
87
food donors and 41 partner agencies
2021–2026
2024
California Nonprofit of the Year
Assembly district honoree
How can we help each other?
Three ways in. Every one of them keeps good food out of the landfill.
I have food to give
Grocers, wholesalers, kitchens and farms: SB 1383 asks you to donate surplus. We make it easy, and we pick it up.
My agency needs food
Pantries, shelters and community programs get fresh produce and prepared food from us — always free, always to be given free.
I want to help
Ride along, sort and weigh, drive a van, or fund a route. An average shift is three and a half hours.
How it works
From a loading dock to a dinner table, the same day.
- Rescue. Our refrigerated vans and box truck collect surplus food from dozens of businesses every week.
- Sort and weigh. Everything is checked, weighed and logged — that’s how we know it’s 7.5 million pounds.
- Deliver. Fresh food reaches partner agencies within hours, not days. Nothing sits in a warehouse; we’ve never needed one.
Stories
What rescued food makes possible
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Kaiser Permanente Fremont: a zero-food-waste hospital
Our longest partnership, since December 2016, produced a model that hospitals across California have since adopted.
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How a vandalized van became a refrigerated one
One social post, one county supervisor, and 726,000 pounds of food moved in the new van’s first months on the road.
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Ten years of diamonds in the rough
Two hundred friends, a truckload of gratitude, and a decade of work worth celebrating at the Ruggieri Senior Center.
Our partners
The businesses and agencies who make every pound possible.
Every dollar rescues about five pounds of food.
Your gift keeps our vans on the road and good food on the table — not in the landfill.