Food Recovery Network (FRN) is a national 501(c)3 nonprofit that mobilizes college students across the U.S. in the fight against climate change and hunger by recovering perishable food from their campuses and communities that would otherwise go to waste and donating it to local nonprofits who feed people experiencing hunger.
Over the last ten years, FRN has evolved from a few students recovering surplus food at college campus dining facilities during the school year to more than 4,000 college students, dining providers, food suppliers, and small businesses across the U.S. working together year-round to recover food from farm fields, local restaurants, event venues, and college campuses and redistribute it to over 350 hunger-fighting nonprofit partners that provide food to the 38 million people currently experiencing hunger in the U.S. Our programs are on 186 campuses in 46 states and the District of Columbia, and we have recovered and donated more than 5.3 million pounds of food to date – the equivalent 4.4 million meals donated to individuals and families experiencing hunger.