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Company | AmpleHarvest.org, Inc. | ||
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| http://www.AmpleHarvest.org | ||||
| Founded: | Created May 2009, incorporated April 2010 | |||
| City: | West Milford , New Jersey | |||
| Country: | United States | |||
| CEO: | Gary Oppenheimer | |||
| Founders: | Gary Oppenheimer | |||
| Category: | Non-Profit | Funding: | Angel | |
| Tags: | hunger, food insecurity, food pantries, food banks, | Employees: | 2-5 | |
What does AmpleHarvest.org, Inc. do?
The AmpleHarvest.org campaign diminishes hunger in America by helping backyard gardeners share their excess garden produce with neighborhood food pantries.
How are they different?
No one has ever done this before on the Internet. AmpleHarvest.org now only diminishes hunger, it has a number of environmental benefits including reductions in the local waste stream, reduced methane (a global warming gas) emissions from trash dumps) and a smaller carbon footprint for pantry supplied food.
….All at no cost to the donor or the food pantry.
Why could AmpleHarvest.org, Inc. be BIG?
America has 49 million food insecure people, many helped by going to one of the more than 30,000 food pantries across America. America also has 41+ million home gardeners growing food… often more than they can use, preserve or give to friends.
AmpleHarvest.org enables them to easily donate the excess garden bounty to a neighborhood food pantry eager for the excess.
AmpleHarvest.org is already backed by Google Inc. and the USDA. Gary Oppenheimer, Founder of AmpleHarvest.org is a CNN Hero.
Lastly, as written up in Huffington Post, the AmpleHarvest.org model not only diminishes hunger in America, it will also reduce long term health care costs as people get access to healthier food.
How they plan to make money:
As a non-profit, we’re interested only in raising monies needed to fulfill our goal of diminishing hunger in America. We are starting outreach to foundations… hopefully a few large grants that will enable AmpleHarvest.org to focus on diminishing hunger rather than focusing on fund raising.
Our thoughts:
No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!
Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.AmpleHarvest.org
