ANAHEIM, CA — Orange County’s Waste Not Coalition received a large Food Waste Prevention and Rescue grant Monday, along with seven organizations and one city in Los Angeles County. The funds received by all totaled in excess of $2.6 million, from the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery. The program is part of California’s…
Ashford Lauriano, Kitchen Supervisor at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, stacks roughly 100 pounds of food that will be donated to Waste Not OC. Over the last two years, a partnership between St. Joseph Hospital in Orange and the Waste Not OC Coalition has been taking a symbiotic approach to ensuring locals don’t go hungry.…
Screening at the Art Theater and “Root to Stem” Lunch On March 6th, 2016, The Berlin Bistro, The Art Theatre, and Dine LBC partnered for a fundraising event for Food Finders. The event began with a screening of the documentary “Just Eat It. A Food Waste Story” by filmmakers Jen Rustemeyer and Grant Baldwin followed…
Food is a necessity for all living things. Shouldn’t we all be able to live without the fear of hunger? Food insecurity occurs when any individual or household may not be able to access adequate nutritious food at any time during the year. Aspects that can contribute to food insecurity include finances, transportation, and the…
Mark Lowry, director, OC Food Bank and co-founder of Waste Not OC was recently recognized at the 2016 Summit by the Orange County Funders Roundtable. He was awarded the Sister Regina Fox Quiet Achiever Award for his work to make a difference. Sister Regina Fox cited the impressive growth of the OC Food Bank, and highlighted Mark’s work with Waste Not…
