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OCR Page 1 of 112Food Recovery and Gleaning Transportation Consortium
Final Report, December 2000
I. Executive Summary
This report examines ways to increase the amount of food donated to feed America's
hungry by in increasing the amount of free and reduced -cost transportation available to
move such food from the point at which it is donated to the point at which it is eaten. It
examines challenges to increasing such transportation, and offers concrete
recommendations about how such challenges can be overcome.
The report is the product of a multi-year effort between three nonprofit groups ---
America's Second Harvest, Gifts-in-Kind International, and the Society of St. Andrew
and two Federal government agencies
the United States Department of Agriculture
and the United States Department of Transportation
The report makes the following five recommendations.
1) Establish a continuing strategic fund to pay for occasional opportunities of
food availability that are of such size that they would overwhelm Relief Fleet,
ResourceLink, and the Hunger Relief Advocate program.
2) Secure $3.9 million in one-time funding to fully expand the Relief Fleet
program of America's Second Harvest that obtains free and reduced-cost
transportation to move donated food.
3) Provide $1.0 million in one-time funding for the Society of St. Andrew's
"Local Gleaning Coordinators" Initiative in order to decrease the distance that
gleaned food needs to travel.
4) In crease direct food donations from transportation companies (such as
airlines and passenger railways) that directly serve food, by expand upon
existing partnerships and developing creative new initiatives.
5) Partner with USDA and the transportation industry to increase the donations
of fresh produce that is rejected due to market specifications but is otherwise
wholesome.
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