Washington, DC. September 12, 2025 — Meals Restoration Community (FRN), a nationwide chief in addressing meals waste and starvation, proudly proclaims the profitable launch of its second cohort of group school grant awardees. Following the influence of the primary cohort, which demonstrated the very important function group faculties play in meals restoration, this new group is on monitor to divert much more surplus meals to feed individuals sooner.
This yr’s grant awardees are:
Over the previous few years, FRN developed a data-driven strategy to determine the place larger schooling infrastructure can finest be utilized to recuperate surplus meals and help people and households going through starvation. Our evaluation signifies that two-year group faculties, not four-year universities, are sometimes positioned in areas with important meals entry and waste disparities. To successfully recuperate meals the place it’s wanted most, FRN goals to develop its community by rising group school meals restoration applications nationwide. Moreover, we are going to improve our choices to raised help the distinctive wants of group faculties.
“Group faculties are uniquely located to implement efficient meals restoration applications that resonate inside their communities,” mentioned Regina Harmon, CEO at FRN. “We’re excited to help these establishments as they leverage their native connections and pupil engagement to construct sustainable meals restoration practices.”
The inaugural cohort’s outcomes had been hanging, with FRN’s elevated monetary and technical help, 100% of cohort members recovered meals, and the median kilos recovered per group school accomplice was 2,500, barely greater than a chapter at a four-year establishment. This implies the 5 cohort members, who recovered a complete of 189,556 kilos, equipped almost 20% of all kilos recovered by our college-based chapters.
“Receiving the Meals Restoration Community grant revealed a strong and beforehand underutilized strategy to addressing meals safety inside the campus group. It gave the faculty the concept, framework, and funding to construct a meals restoration program from the bottom up. What started as a brand new idea has rapidly change into a core a part of CCA’s efforts to extend entry to free meals in a sustainable and community-centered manner,” says Andrea Rascón, Venture Coordinator inside CCA’s Workplace of Scholar Advocacy.
