05/19/2026
5 years of impact, growth, community, and sustainability 🌱♻️
We’re so grateful to everyone who has supported the Food Recovery for Rhode Island initiative over the past five years. From our volunteers and partners to every individual helping us reduce food waste and fight food insecurity. What originally began as an idea rooted in community, education, and food equity, has grown into a statewide movement. We have helped create real food system changes across Rhode Island and beyond.
Collectively, over the past five years, we have:
• Diverted more than 520,000 pounds of wasted food from landfills
• Recovered and donated 400,000 pounds of surplus food
• Inspired meaningful behavior change in hundreds of participants
• Built a growing network of community changemakers across the state
We especially want to thank our amazing donors, , , .doughnuts, , and for their generous donations and support in helping us celebrate this milestone!
The most inspiring part of this journey has been seeing alumni, volunteers, educators, and community partners continue this work on farms, in schools, food pantries, neighborhoods, and communities throughout Rhode Island. As Food Recovery for the Future expands nationally across more than 30 states, we’re excited to continue building a collaborative, community-driven future for food recovery.
Here’s to 5 years of food recovery, local impact turning into national impact, and many more impactful years to come ♻️✨
