- From one intuitive dashboard: onboard, receive and dispatch every donation
- Real time status and live rescue tracking from donation to volunteer pick-up to delivery
- Safety tracking to ensure every rescue is completed within food safety windows
We partner with food rescue organizations to scale impact.
The Food Rescue Hero™ platform is an end-to-end solution that supports a food recovery organizations' operations—from managing donations, mobilizing volunteer drivers, real-time rescue coordination to reporting on your impact.
Over
170
pounds of food redirected
Currently
18
partners use Food Rescue Hero in 2 countries
Over
600
food rescues coordinated
More than
54,000
registered volunteer drivers—Food Rescue Heroes
Award-winning food rescue platform
Purposefully designed for teams like yours
People-powered
Food Rescue Hero was built with volunteers in mind.
Learn how we make it easy for volunteers.
- The Food Rescue Hero platform mobilizes the fastest growing on-demand volunteer driver network in the world.
- Performing at a 99% service level on average (across all cities) – higher than some commercial food delivery services.
- Designed for iOS and Android, the app is fully integrated with mobile features such as push notifications, maps and more.
- Easily transition your current volunteer drivers into the app. The app is intuitive and designed to make doing a food rescue convenient at any time.
Reliable, timely and transparent
Greater food waste prevention and shrink for real time data transparency and greater overall impact. Food Rescue Hero uniquely enables community food recovery efforts to have a greater impact on food waste, nutrition security and climate change on a local level, thereby contributing to our network’s impact on our nation.
Join a growing community of food rescue organizations
Our 18 partners in the U.S. and Canada operating in over 54 communities.
412 Food Rescue (Pittsburgh, PA)
Philly Food Rescue (Philadelphia, PA)
Hunger Network (Cleveland, OH)
Northern Virginia Food Rescue (VA)
Food Finders (Los Angeles, CA)
Haven’s Harvest (New Haven, CT)
Vancouver Food Runners (Vancouver, B.C.)
Last Mile Food Rescue (Cincinnati, OH)
Table to Table (Northern NJ)
White Pony Express (Contra Costa, CA)
530 Food Rescue (Butte County, CA)
Supply Hive (Des Moines, IA)
Lake Erie Food Rescue (Erie, PA)
302 Food Rescue (DE)
Lakeshore Food Rescue (Holland, MI)
Kentucky Harvest (Louisville, KY)
We Don’t Waste (Denver & Boulder, CO)
My Father’s Table (Minot, ND)
Learn more about our partners.
Today, our Food Rescue Hero Network measurably saves fresh nutritious food from going to waste in:
Delaware
2023
Pittsburgh, PA
2016
Butte County, CA
2021
Los Angeles, CA
2020
New Haven, CT
2020
Cleveland, OH
2018
Louisville, KY
2023
Erie, PA
2022
Holland, MI
2023
Cincinnati, OH
2020
My Father’s Table
2024
Northern Virginia
2023
Philadelphia, PA
2018
Des Moines, IA
2023
Bergen, NJ
2021
Vancouver, Canada
2020
Denver & Boulder, CO
2024
Contra Costa, CA
2022
Our impact, your impact
We are on a mission to create a global movement. By partnering with local food rescue organizations, together we can launch and grow food rescue operations in cities globally.
92%
of recipients agreed that food rescue helped to make ends meet
86%
reported increased access to healthier food
290M+
pounds of CO2 prevented
”It is gratifying to know that the food I pick up and deliver will get to those in need within hours or minutes of my rescue.
RobertHunger Network Food Rescue
