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Splick-it Holding It Down
Posted on December 5, 2012 by zavier in Press, Uncategorized.Jonathan Hoover posted a great blog about BFR and the big picture issue of food waste. Check it out! Splick-it provides cool apps for online food ordering. They also have a bunch of awesome blog posts. SUPPORT! Thanks Jon!
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BFR wins eTown eCheivement Award
Posted on November 8, 2012 by zavier in Uncategorized.Caleb was interviewed on NPR’s eTown and came home with an awesome award! ..or eWard? Thanks to everyone for so much love and support. Check out the interview and the rest of eTown’s awesome show by clicking on the logo below.
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Measuring Our Impact…Nutritionally
Posted on October 31, 2012 by caleb in Progress, Statistics.In order to better understand the impact we have on the organizations we deliver food to, and to attempt to understand the value of direct just-in-time food rescue as a model, we conducted a collaborative research study with one of our recipients. Over eight weeks last winter, we recorded what food was delivered to the [...]
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Developer of our food rescuing software gets media recognition!
Posted on October 26, 2012 by zavier in Uncategorized.Our volunteers are familiar with the “BFR Robot.” It’s the software application that our website uses to organize, schedule, and log all of our pick ups and stats. It tells us what to do every day, it can even tell me that as of right now, we have rescued 191572 lbs of food. Sean Wiese (in [...]
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We received a Slow Food Denver CAFE Grant
Posted on October 7, 2012 by nora in Uncategorized.Last Wednesday October 3rd we were invited to attend a dinner organized by Slow Food Denver as one of three finalists for their micro grant program. All the finalists presented a brief overview of their projects and attendees at the dinner voted on who would receive the largest grant. We are happy to announce that we received a [...]
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Fundraising: Old Goals Met and New Ones Set
Posted on October 5, 2012 by nora in Progress.Thank you all so much for your support in helping us reach and exceed our fundraising goal of $15,000 on the Indiegogo fundraising site. In the past two months we’ve raised $18,572 through an enormous grassroots fundraising effort. We couldn’t have done it without the astounding support of our communities both here in Boulder and [...]
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Media Love!
Posted on September 4, 2012 by nora in Press.Here is a short piece from the KGNU Morning Magazine: kgnu_2012_09_24_morning_magazine We recently reached the milestone of 170,000 pounds of food rescued. The Daily Camera wrote an article about it , check it out! In August we were featured on NPR: http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=158972099&m=158972254 http://www.npr.org/blogs/participationnation/2012/08/07/158175984/rescuing-food-in-boulder-colo and on NPR’s food blog The Salt: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/08/22/159825659/theres-too-much-food-waste-but-here-are-five-things-people-are-doing-about-it and check out some coverage a [...]
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Fundraising at IndieGoGo
Posted on August 8, 2012 by caleb in Uncategorized.We just launched a Fundraising campaign over at IndieGoGo. You can see our progress towards our goal of $15,000 on the right. Or, visit our campaign page by clicking here. We’re trying to raise the money to take the next big step with the organization, by hiring our first paid employee, Hana Dansky. Hana has [...]
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June Data Report
Posted on July 23, 2012 by caleb in Progress, Statistics.Last month our 99 hardworking volunteers combined their powers to keep 17,980 lbs of good food out of the trash. This food was donated by 22 awesome donors, transported 92% of the time with bikes, over the course of 265 pick-ups, to 48 distinct recipients. This brings our total amount of food rescued over the [...]
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Pastries on the Path Video
Posted on July 8, 2012 by caleb in Progress.We had a blast during Boulder’s bike month and Bike to Work Day. It’s great to see so many people out and about on bikes, enjoying the bike love! Frankly, it’s just far too much fun for only one or two days a year. That’s why we serve up free coffee and pastries to commuters [...]
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Learn What Boulder Food Rescue is All About!
Start Your Own Food Rescue!
Do you want to rescue food in your community? Awesome! We can help. We've made a guidebook that walks you through the steps of starting a bike-powered food rescue. We call it The Package Deal:
Additionally, please feel free to contact us with any questions or requests for support. We're here to be a resource for you!
