By rescuing excess fresh food from businesses, securing freshly-made meals, and immediately delivering the food to nonprofits serving Marin’s most vulnerable children, adults, and families, we address the critical issues of hunger, wasted food & climate change.

Our Volunteers

Our volunteer food runners have donated more than 43,000 hours of their time thus far, and are from all walks of life in Marin County. Working adults, high school students, retired adults, parents and children, couples, you name it. And volunteers who help us build the organization are diverse as well, helping us recruit food donors, manage publicity, design our materials, write grants, and many other projects. Here are many of the 300+ people on the ExtraFood team. And here is a brief video celebrating their amazing work in our community.

Community Spotlight:
VolunteersTom C.

Tom joined the ExtraFood volunteer team almost 3 years ago, in December 2016. He was inspired to help ExtraFood from an article that he saw in the local newspaper, and ever since has been committed to giving back and helping “locally” in his own community. Tom recently hit the 100 trip milestone, now having taken 110 trips and recovering over 7300 pounds of food! Tom has several trips that he likes to do regularly, but also jumps in when he sees a need - doing several trips per week!

He most often goes to Arizmendi, Woodlands Markets and helps at our Byte food distribution and recovers food for St. Stephens Church, People’s Inter-Cities and the Redwoods. He recently volunteered in the ExtraFood booth at Whole Foods Mill Valley to help increase awareness of ExtraFood’s mission to end hunger and food waste in Marin.

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2017 Award Recipient: Achievement in Nonprofit Excellence

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Our Volunteers

Community Spotlight:VolunteersTom C.

Community Spotlight:
VolunteersTom C.