Loaves & Fishes Featured in Greenville Journal’s Forces of Philanthropy

Our mission is simple and urgent: make sure no good food goes to waste while helping the people around us who need it most. By keeping food out of landfills, we also protect the planet.

Loaves & Fishes’ food rescue creates a ripple effect of impact. Rescued food becomes hot meals at shelters, groceries at food pantries and critical nourishment for neighbors facing food insecurity. But food insecurity doesn’t exist in isolation. It’s intertwined with broader issues — homelessness, addiction, mental health, reentry after incarceration and human trafficking.
 

For over 30 years, Loaves & Fishes has worked to solve one of Greenville County’s most urgent challenges: food insecurity. Every day, our small fleet of drivers and dedicated volunteers rescue surplus food from grocery stores, restaurants, caterers and wholesalers and deliver it, free of charge, to over 100 partner agencies across the county.

Our mission is simple and urgent: make sure no good food goes to waste while helping the people around us who need it most. By keeping food out of landfills, we also protect the planet.

Each year, we rescue over 2.5 million pounds of food and deliver it to food pantries, shelters, afterschool programs, low-income housing and more. That means $9 million in food feeds those in need rather than our landfills.

 
We are so proud and honored to be featured among many wonderful organizations working to help our neighbors in need. Thank you Greenville Journal for this beautiful issue of Forces of Philanthropy! 
 
https://greenvillejournal.com/forces-of-philanthropy/loaves-fishes/