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Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Rescued - Last Mile Food Rescue

Here’s to 500,000 more!

We did it! Thanks to the amazing efforts of our Food Rescue Heroes we have saved half a million pounds…

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Watch Your Back!

Rescuing food is a big job! If you have a heavy rescue, you can ALWAYS ask the workers at the…

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Finding Solutions in the Midst of Uncertainty

Food for the Soul, a soup kitchen & food distribution program based out of Transfiguration Spirituality Center, started as a…

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Tips for Counting Quantities

One frequent question our team receives on rescues is how to count boxes and types of food on the quantities…

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Meet Todd: Food Rescue Superhero

“The fact that we have kids going to bed hungry at night and yet fresh food going to the landfill…

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Feeding the 2,000

Written by Olivia Cook I grew up with the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000 with just 5 loaves of…

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Tikkun Olam.

To repair the world through acts of kindness. Tikkun Farm started as an after-school & summer camp program in Mt.…

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Welcome, Benita!

From the moment she walks in the door – or jumps onto a zoom call – her positivity fills the…

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Meet Patty!

Hi, my name is Patty, and I love to rescue food! I have four grown children, for the last several…

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A ‘Touchdown’ Food Rescue Partnership

Cincinnati’s and Los Angeles’ (the two cities competing in Super Bowl LVI) food rescue organizations share a fantastic food partner…

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Our Cincinnati Community is Going the Mile!

Written by Co-Founder, Tom Fernandez I have made a lot of new friends this year.  Here’s just one example.  …

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A Growing Team

2021 was not only our first full year of operations but it was a season of growth! We were able…

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