Friendship Donations Network is celebrating 30 years of rescuing food and reducing hunger since Sara Pines founded our organization in 1988. Join us for the FDN Fall Feast, our first signature fundraising event. Date: October 13, 2018 Time: 6:00 – 8:30 PM Location: New Park Retreat and Event Center, 1500 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca, NY 14850 Cost is $45 per person […]
Please save the date for our first-ever signature fundraising event. FDN’s Fall Feast Saturday October 13, 2018 New Park Ithaca Check back here for details. Contact us to get involved, volunteer and learn more!
As part of FDN’s 30th Anniversary we’re co-sponsoring the film WASTED! The Story of Food Waste (2017) at Cinemapolis on April 11 as part of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF). Showing will begin at 6:50 p.m. followed by a panel discussion. Co-sponsored by Tompkins County Recycling and Materials Management, Cornell University Food Recovery Network, […]
Written by Sara Pines, founder of Friendship Donations Network. Published in the Ithaca Journal February 12, 2018. Friendship Donations Network was founded in 1988 as a response to my visit to migrant labor camps in Sodus, NY where I witnessed extreme hunger and poverty. In contrast, I observed abundance of food and food waste in […]
We are proud to sponsor this event. Please join us! Join nationally-acclaimed author Andy Fisher as he talks about his new book, “Big Hunger,” where he reveals the damage caused the hunger-industrial complex, and offers a new vision for the anti-hunger movement through a focus on health, economic justice, and local economies. A panel of […]
