Food Recovery in Marin County: By picking up excess fresh food from businesses and immediately delivering it to nonprofits serving Marin’s most vulnerable children, adults, and families, we address the critical issues of hunger, wasted food, and global warming.

Content

Media inquiries: Media@ExtraFood.org

From this page, you can navigate to pages that provide:

• Statistics and a brief documentary on hunger in Marin

• Statistics on the enormous food waste problem

• Statistics and testimonials on ExtraFood's impact

• Impact Stories on ExtraFood's work in the community:

SparkPoint Marin's Food Pantry Helps People Rebuild Their Lives

Nugget Markets: Building Community Through Food Donations

Novato Unified School District: Miguel Villarreal Helps Solve Food Injustices in Marin County

Next Generation Scholars: Food Donations Help Break the Cycle of Poverty

• Impact Videos on ExtraFood's work in the community

• Stories in the press about ExtraFood

• A brief summary of how ExtraFood's program works

• Lists of organizations donating excess food, Planned Giving food donors, and recipient partners

• Research and articles on hunger and food waste

• Bios of ExtraFood Founder Marv Zauderer and ExtraFood's Board of Directors

• Bios of ExtraFood's Advisory Board members

Community Spotlight:
food-recipientsNew Beginnings Center, part of the Homeward Bound family

NBC is an 80-bed shelter for single homeless adults that combines shelter, job training, and work experience opportunities. Their job training programs include the Fresh Starts Culinary Academy, which offers a class in cooking basics and food service techniques. Some of their students will be serving food at our Volunteer Appreciation Event next Sunday, completing a circle of giving between NBC and ExtraFood. NBC does great work, check ‘em out! https://hbofm.org/Homeless-Adults.html

Supported in part by:

Marin Community Foundation

County of Marin

The San Francisco Foundation