We caught up with co-founder Leah Lizarondo to chat about the app, her grant, and her thoughts on the fight against climate change:
Just two years ago we spoke with Leah Lizarondo, co-founder of Food Rescue Hero, an app that redirects food that would’ve gone to landfills into the mouths of the hungry. To say it’s been an impressive couple of years for the organization would be an understatement. In 2017, Food Rescue Hero had saved nearly 2 million pounds of food and was operating in just one city—Pittsburgh.
Thank you so much! The $20,000 grant is instrumental as we begin to create a pool of funds to enable smaller organizations in cities around the U.S. to adopt our technology. But beyond the funds, the platform that DVF has provided for women-led social impact organizations multiplies our network, catalyzing connections that help us achieve our goals to end food waste and positively impact hunger and climate change.
When we last spoke, I believe we just hit our 2 million pounds milestone and our technology was only available in Pittsburgh. Since then, we have spun off our technology platform so that we can support organizations in other cities to launch and scale food rescue. Our goal is to launch and scale food rescue in 100 cities by 2030, in support of SDG 2030. We are creating a global movement of food rescue heroes, making it possible for all of us to be part of the solution.
Last week, I spoke at the first Project Drawdown conference. Drawdown research has shown the path to not only stop climate change but to reverse it. That is a provocative proposition, but their research gives us the map. Reducing food waste is the third most impactful way to reverse climate change, and we are doing our part to make this happen. Today, I was at the TED We the Future event and heard David Wallace Wells speak—he wrote The Uninhabitable Earth. It is a terrifying book.
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