Food Recovery

In the face of rising food insecurity, many frontline organizations struggle to meet the growing demand for assistance. Food Shift is committed to supporting these vital organizations by distributing fresh, nutritious and culturally appropriate food.

Health is a right, not a privilege

Uplifting Our Frontline Organizations

Our foundational food recovery program, Operation Together, shifts the procurement of food upstream, allowing our partners to focus on their community relationships. By working together, we can ensure that food reaches those in need more effectively with minimal carbon footprint.

Rather than delivering the food to individuals ourselves, we partner with local organizations on the frontlines who help us steward the food we recover to immediately impact their communities. Through this partnership, we can adapt to the unique needs of each community.

Operation Together isn’t just a campaign, it’s a movement that’s shifting our community’s food ecosystem. Join us in supporting these vital efforts and helping to build a more equitable and sustainable food system.

Operation Together Partners

Operation Together is made possible through partnership with community organizations and programs that know the people they are serving. Our partners include:

  • Food Donors that provide surplus or cosmetically imperfect food. In-kind donors giving supplies, equipment, and services.
  • Community organizations that distribute food to nourish our neighbors 
  • Funders that help underwrite Food Shift 

Please visit our Partnerships page for our list of partners.

Voices From Our Community

I truly appreciate everyone at Food Shift, everything the org does, and most of all the careful attention to the ‘how’. This is the way we build the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.

Jess Beebe
Waxwing Book Studio Founder
Food Shift Food Recovery Volunteer

We appreciate Food Shift’s professionalism and consistency: they show up with working vehicles with capacity for 3000 pounds when we end up with perfectly good food the stores don’t want.They navigate the busy streets by the market to safely deliver our food to nourish our neighbors with fresh produce, and keep edible food out of landfills and compost.

Sammy Freccero
Farmers’ Produce Corporation
(food donor to Food Shift)

As someone who’s spent a lot of time in the corporate/tech world, it’s been amazing to be able to look inside and learn the nonprofit world, particularly through the lens of Food Shift, whose mission is one that I’m personally very passionate about (Food Waste and Social Justice). I’ve been able to lend my ‘talents’ in a multitude of ways, from management, strategy, and coaching, to helping with technical projects, and to helping with the food recovery operation. That I get to contribute in all these ways (really, anything that I can help with, I try to) is especially rewarding for me.

Rizwan Dhanani
Executive-In-Residence
and Chief Technical Consultant

Food Shift is at the very forefront of exploring the links between food, community, economic empowerment, inclusion and health.

Robert Egger
Founder of DC Central Kitchen and LA Kitchen
Food Security Advisor to the Mayor of Sante Fe, NM

Join Us

Volunteer, donate, or partner with us to create lasting change in the food system. Every effort counts.

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