Volunteer with One Brick at Rescuing Leftover Cuisine - Monday - Dec 9

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One Brick creates a community of volunteers by offering fun opportunities for individuals to serve local nonprofits. We provide a calendar of volunteer and social events to help people get involved, have an impact, and have fun, without the requirements of long term commitments.

After each volunteer event our volunteer team invites everyone to gather at a local restaurant or coffee shop where they can get to know one another in a relaxed social setting. Additionally we host regular social events for our volunteers to connect to one another and to welcome new volunteers to our community.

We provide a flexible way for you to volunteer where and when you want.

For this upcoming event, we will be volunteering with Rescuing Leftover Cuisine:

One Brick volunteers take leftovers from a restaurant and make the 15 minute walk to a nearby homeless shelter. We routinely bring between 30 - 75 pounds of meals to help the food insecure. Then afterwards, we usually go to a nearby establishments for food or a drink.

WHAT WE'LL BE DOING:

Walking food from a Proper Food located in Manhattan to a nearby shelter

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW:

Event happens rain or shine!

WHERE TO MEET: Proper Food Midtown 1211 6th Ave, Fox News Building, New York, NY 10036 RESCUING LEFTOVER CUISINE: Rescuing Leftover Cuisine is a national 501(c)3 non-profit food rescue organization, operating in 16 cities and headquartered in New York City, that provides solutions to prevent excess wholesome cuisine from being wasted. RLC provides services such as food waste consulting, excess food delivery, co-branding services, and tax credit assistance. RLC approaches the two large issues of hunger and food waste in three main ways.

• First, we localize the issues into sets of communities that can help sustain themselves. We crowdsource the solution of the transportation to the members of the public in these communities as volunteers. After identifying the homeless shelters of a needy community, we proactively find restaurants, hotels, and catering companies with excess food in that vicinity that could help support these disadvantaged communities.
• Second, we leverage technology to facilitate the identification and handling of excess food. Thus, partner food providers report when excess food is occurring and a web application is used to engage community members, because volunteering with us can be as easy as taking a brisk walk.
• Third, we tackle food waste at its root, aiming to eliminate as much food waste as possible and bringing the remaining excess food to where it is needed most. The data of when food waste occurs is used in our analysis of what types of food waste could be avoided, and RLC suggests ways that partner food providers can reduce waste at its root.