Food Recovery Network
What is the Food Recovery Network (FRN)?
The Food Recovery Network (FRN) is a national non-profit that fights waste and feeds people by recovering excess food and donating it to those in need. Founded in 2011, the network includes chapters at more than 230 colleges and universities in the US. Each chapter works with on-campus dining halls and other, off-campus outlets to divert food from the landfill to community members in need while simultaneously raising awareness about food waste and hunger in America.
UNCG FRN Chapter
Our chapter collects food from the UNCG Cafeteria every Wednesday and Friday from 3:00 to 4:00.
A Volunteer shift consists of:
- Meeting with the other volunteers between the staircases on the first floor of the cafeteria
- Packaging the excess food provided and weighing it
- Taking the packaged food to the Greensboro Urban Ministry (8 minutes away from campus- the shift leader transports the food and must have a car).
You choose when you’d like to sign up to help recover; it could be once a month, once a week, or once a semester- up to you!
The UNCG chapter of FRN was founded in 2015. Since then we have recovered over 19,000 pounds of food.
Recover and Donate Food
Recovered food is donated to local non-profit organizations such as:
- The Salvation Army
- Greensboro Urban Ministry
- Backpack Beginnings
- Others in need