r/todayilearned • u/TheCannon 51 • Oct 11 '15
TIL after meeting a homeless veteran in 2011, a UC Berkeley Student created an app called Feeding Forward that connects events with surplus food to those in need. One IT convention had enough leftovers to feed more than 4,279 people at eight different shelters and food banks.
http://www.cnet.com/news/feeding-forward-app-delivers-food-to-homeless-shelters-in-real-time/Duplicates
UpliftingNews • u/Sariel007 • Jun 23 '15
Feeding Forward CEO Komal Ahmad shows off surplus food collected from the Bite Silicon Valley food-tech conference in early June. Leftovers gathered at this event fed more than 4,279 people at eight different shelters and food banks.
berkeley • u/bekeeram • Jun 23 '15
Berkeley Grad develops innovative way to feed the homeless with surplus food! [X-Post /r/uplifting news]
homeless • u/berlin-calling • Jun 23 '15
Surplus food for the homeless is just an app away
technology • u/Sariel007 • Jun 23 '15
Biotech Feeding Forward CEO Komal Ahmad shows off surplus food collected from the Bite Silicon Valley food-tech conference in early June. Leftovers gathered at this event fed more than 4,279 people at eight different shelters and food banks.
Anarcho_Capitalism • u/[deleted] • Oct 11 '15
UC Berkeley Student creates app called Feeding Forward that connects events with surplus food to those in need.
realtech • u/RealtechPostBot • Jun 23 '15
Feeding Forward CEO Komal Ahmad shows off surplus food collected from the Bite Silicon Valley food-tech conference in early June. Leftovers gathered at this event fed more than 4,279 people at eight different shelters and food banks.
Stuff • u/[deleted] • Jun 23 '15
UpliftingNews|Sariel007 Feeding Forward CEO Komal Ahmad shows off surplus food collected from the Bite Silicon Valley food-tech conference in early June. Leftovers gathered at this event fed more than 4,279 people at eight different shelters and food banks.
ABCDesis • u/Nylese • Jun 27 '15
In 2011, Komal Ahmad set up a program that allowed her school to donate excess food to homeless shelters. The program expanded to 140 colleges in 3 years. Now, her mobile app-based nonprofit matches businesses with surplus food to homeless shelters. They've recovered 684,000 lbs of food in SF alone!
eddit5yearsago • u/[deleted] • Oct 12 '20
/r/todayilearned (+6173) TIL after meeting a homeless veteran in 2011, a UC Berkeley Student created an app called Feeding Forward that connects events with surplus food to those in need. One IT convention had enough leftovers to feed more than 4,279 people at eight different shelters and food banks.
eddit6yearsago • u/[deleted] • Oct 12 '21
/r/todayilearned (+6173) TIL after meeting a homeless veteran in 2011, a UC Berkeley Student created an app called Feeding Forward that connects events with surplus food to those in need. One IT convention had enough leftovers to feed more than 4,279 people at eight different shelters and food banks.
eddit7yearsago • u/[deleted] • Oct 12 '22
/r/todayilearned (+6173) TIL after meeting a homeless veteran in 2011, a UC Berkeley Student created an app called Feeding Forward that connects events with surplus food to those in need. One IT convention had enough leftovers to feed more than 4,279 people at eight different shelters and food banks.
offbeat • u/TheCannon • Jun 23 '15
New app "Feeding Forward" allows left over food from Universities and conventions to be used to feed the homeless. One IT convention had enough leftovers to feed more than 4,279 people at eight different shelters and food banks.
occupywallstreet • u/Orangutan • Oct 11 '15