The 5th Annual Just Be Cause Party will be held on Sunday July 30th at Agava Restaurant. The Village at Ithaca is this year’s beneficiary organization and 33% of the funds raised at this event go to help offset the cost of operating the Just Be Cause Center. The Just Be Cause Center is FDN’s first official home since we began in 1988, and we continue to realize the benefits […]
A GreenStar Community Projects networking session: Waste Less Food: Feed More People! Join the movement to avoid wasting good food – by getting it to the people who need it! Monday, July 10th from 5 – 8 pm Tompkins Public Library (Borg Warner Room) Free Meal ~ Open to All ! DID YOU KNOW? Across the […]
On Friday May 26, FDN board member, Art Pearce, and Coordinator, Meaghan Sheehan Rosen, joined Ute Ritz-Deutch on WRFI’s Human Rights and Social Justice Program for a conversation about FDN, food waste, food recovery, and more. You can listen at the link below.
Interview conducted in 2017 by Bruce Estes. Mimi Melegito has been collecting food donations for Friendship Donations Network since its earliest days. Like many of the pioneering volunteers who started in the 1980s, Mimi got recruited by FDN founder Sara Pines to help with her food donation plans. The two had meet at an Ithaca […]
If food waste were a country, it would be the world’s third largest emitter of greenhouse gases, behind the U.S. and China. This is #WhyWeMarch! #PeoplesClimate March for Climate, Jobs, and Justice Saturday, April 29 11:30am Rally on The Commons with music, speakers and satirical stilt walkers 12:30pm March to The Space @ GreenStar led by the Fall Creek Brass Band. […]
