- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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1 person is interested
Volunteer with One Brick at Rescuing Leftover Cuisine - December 20th
ORGANIZATION: ONE BRICK
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
-
1 person is interested
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, One Brick will be volunteering with Rescuing Leftover Cuisine:
Help rescue some prepared food and drinks from a restaurant in Midtown West!
Heavyweight: the average amount of food rescued from this event is enough for a group of around five or so people.
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW:Please be aware volunteers should be able to carry a bag of food for a 15 to 30 minute walk. This event happens rain or shine.
WHERE TO MEET:We will meet inside the restaurant.
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.
More opportunities with ONE BRICK
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About ONE BRICK
Location:
234 KEARNY ST STE 209, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108, US
Mission Statement
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.
Description
One Brick is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization (Federal ID: 77-0593889) that is a community of volunteers that support other local nonprofits by creating a friendly and social atmosphere around volunteering. 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.
The Impact of One BrickOne Brick currently operates in eight chapters nationwide: San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Seattle, Silicon Valley, Boston, and National.
The One Brick model has been hugely successful! Since we started, One Brick volunteers have contributed 630,000 hours to the communities we serve.
What makes us special is that One Brick chapters are 100% volunteer-run! We have no chapter based employees... we don't even maintain offices! In fact, on a national level, One Brick has only one employee.
But we DO have a lot of dedicated volunteers who make it all happen. And we're always looking for more people like YOU to join us!
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
119 W 40th St,Two ForksNew YorkNew York, NY 10018
DATE POSTED
November 29, 2019
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 21
- 1 Hour - Although we hope you can join us for food and/or drinks afterwards