She won the Judges’ Choice Volunteer Award at the Celebrate Clay Breakfast for all her hard work connecting the dots between surplus food and hungry people last year. The fame must have gone to her head: She then had the nerve to take a vacation. Some people, I tell ya’! (Just kidding, Cathy. The award … Read more
Check out the News4Jax video! https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/05/25/positively-jax-waste-not-want-not/
Waste Not Want Not was delighted to provide groceries and the food for the lunches at the recent Back to School Backpack Bash. Available for free were backpacks full of school supplies, kid’s clothing and shoes, snow-cones, haircuts, bikes, groceries, information on access to free medical care and how to apply for medical insurance. Not to … Read more
Every year in the United States, 40% of our edible food ends up in landfills while one in six Americans is food insecure. To fund our efforts to resolve this paradox while highlighting these statistics, Waste Not Want Not has introduced CHEFS TO THE RESCUE.
“While the rest of us are just getting ready for the day, enjoying our morning coffee, or commuting to work, volunteers at a small workshop garage in Orange Park feverishly sort cinnamon rolls, cookies, chips, and other packaged edible items into paper grocery bags. Other volunteers at the facility load pallets onto a pickup truck, … Read more
not this year! Based on our preliminary numbers for the month, our hard-working volunteers have rescued close to 161,ooo pounds of food so far this year. In addition to the usual baked items and restaurant foods, we also rescued two pallet-loads of frozen mango smoothie mix, 160 cases of Brussel sprouts, and 8,000 pounds of … Read more
Waste Not volunteers rescued and delivered 1,936,063 pounds of food last year to people struggling to feed themselves and their families. That’s 4,200 meals a day, 362 days last year! Our volunteers donated more than 500 hours a week to multiply every donor’s gift, providing 10 meals to those in need for each dollar donated. Donors and volunteers: together you filled … Read more
Check out the St. Augustine Catholic Article July/August issue. Mailed to 53,000 households in 16 counties. Estimated readership 148,000. St. Augustine Catholic Article
Waste Not Want Not volunteers rescue food for those in need 362 days a year. They work hard to put food in the hands of those in need. For a taste of what volunteers do, read these excerpts from our nomination of JAE as the Celebrate Clay 2011 Outstanding Community Volunteer of the Year: Waste Not Want … Read more
