Rescuing Food, Empowering Communities

Editor’s note: This article first appeared in Vicinity Magazine.

Table to Table, New Jersey’s first and largest food rescue nonprofit, and ArcMorris, a nonprofit that uplifts and empowers individuals with disabilities, are partnering in volunteerism. Through this collaboration, individuals with disabilities use the award-winning Table to Table I-Rescue App to pick up fresh, surplus food that would otherwise be wasted and deliver it to local community partners supporting people facing food insecurity.

“People with disabilities have so much to contribute to our communities. Volunteering with organizations like Table to Table is only one way we are proving that each day,” said Sal Moran, executive director, ArcMorris.

In just a few short months, ArcMorris clients have rescued more than 2,600 pounds of nutritious food from local businesses such as ShopRite (Chester), Whole Foods (Morristown), and Wawa (Parsippany) and delivered it to nearby food pantries, churches, and community centers—benefitting hundreds of neighbors in need.

Table to Table is New Jersey’s first and largest food rescue nonprofit, bridging the gap between food being wasted and people facing food insecurity. We bring rescued fresh, nutritious food to 303 community partners, including social service organizations, pantries, shelters, fresh produce markets and centralized distribution hubs. Food is provided free of charge. Through this, Table to Table touches a diversity of those in need, including families, children, veterans, and older adults, making good nutrition accessible while serving as a stimulus for other longer-term benefits. Since 1999 we have rescued more than 120,700 tons of nutritious food—enough for 241,400,846 meals—and delivered it to our neighbors in need, saving over 544 metric tons of methane from entering the environment.

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