Sharing Excess: save food waste, feed the people
Save food waste. Feed the people.
Rescuing surplus and bringing it to those who
need it most (while saving the planet)
$818 / $30,000 (72 supporters)
2% funded
$818 / $30,000 (72 supporters)
2% FUNDED
Funding meals
2% FUNDEDcomplete!
A buck funds 16 meals!
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Goal: Fund 480,000 meals! ($30,000)
- 💵 $1 = 16 meals, 20 lbs of food rescued, and 90 lbs of CO₂ prevented
Every dollar keeps fresh food out of landfills and gets it directly to communities in need. Sharing Excess works with farmers, wholesalers, and retailers to redistribute food across the U.S. and Canada. - 🥬 Food that transforms lives
Each donation reduces hunger, strengthens communities, and fights climate change. For every $1 spent, nearly $38 of food value is unlocked. Over 171 million pounds of food have already been rescued, feeding families and protecting the environment. - 👉 Let’s turn waste into nourishment for all.
meals provided
provided 640 meals in NovIn the U.S., over 44 million people face food insecurity, yet up to 40% of food supply goes to waste each year. Perfectly good meals end up in landfills, releasing harmful greenhouse gases, while families go hungry.
Sharing Excess rescues surplus food from farmers, wholesalers and retailers and delivers it straight to food-insecure families across the U.S. and Canada. Every dollar keeps good food out of landfills and puts it on tables.
Meet the food rescuers!
about The project
Sharing Excess empowers communities by turning surplus food into sustenance. With 600+ partners and a powerful logistics system, they rescue fresh produce, dairy, and pantry staples daily, delivering directly to food-insecure families.
They track every pound rescued with their Food Rescue App, ensuring transparency and impact you can see.
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Best dollar you’ve ever donated
$1 Return on Donation:
of the nation’s food supply goes uneaten every year, while millions face hunger.
rescues 20 lbs of food, provides 16 meals, and prevents 90 lbs of CO₂ emissions.
of food already rescued, preventing 292M lbs of greenhouse gas emissions: about the same as taking 29,000 cars off the road for a year.
We vetted the crap out of this project
THE INTEGRATED IMPACT SCORE
4 - 6 week vetting process per project
“Sharing Excess stands out as a really collaborative and creative organization that is taking on the food rescue with a lot of passion”
“Sharing Excess seems highly capable of bringing efficiency and skill to previously fragmented charitable food systems.”
“Sharing Excess is a smart model for addressing hunger hiding in plain sight.”
“Sharing Excess stands out as a really collaborative and creative organization that is taking on the food rescue with a lot of passion”
“Sharing Excess seems highly capable of bringing efficiency and skill to previously fragmented charitable food systems.”
“Sharing Excess is a smart model for addressing hunger hiding in plain sight.”
Results of your donation will be shown to you on your Donation Tracker. No more guessing what happened.
Sharing Excess identified as the world’s current top solution in ending hunger.
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"You can’t build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.”
- Norman Borlaug
FAQ
To Sharing Excess, through Dollar Donation Club Fund, our donor-advised fund.
Not for individual members. Your whole gift goes to Sharing Excess. Card companies charge a processing fee on every payment, so it’s added at checkout instead of coming out of your gift. That’s the banks, not us, and we don’t keep a cent of it. Tipping DDC is optional. Brand members and gifts of $500 or more include a 10% fee that keeps the club running.
You betcha. Your gift goes into Dollar Donation Club Fund, a donor-advised fund within Legacy Global, a 501(c)(3).
Yes, anytime. Open the Subscriptions tab on your profile and tap Manage. For a company plan, email help@dollardonationclub.com.
It will roll into the next one. We’ve got plenty of global acupuncture points of change to fund!
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