Sharing Excess

🎉 We’re hiring! Join Sharing Excess as our Volunteer Manager! At Sharing Excess, we’re not just fighting food waste—we’re building an equitable food system that ensures everyone has access to the fresh, healthy food they deserve. Join a dynamic and vibrant team that’s driving our mission and feeding local communities while diverting over 1,000,000 pounds of food from landfills every week.  As our Volunteer Manager, you’ll work hand-in-hand with our incredible community engagement team and foster a network of changemakers who are passionate about creating a world without food waste. Ready to make an impact? Apply today at https://lnkd.in/gwt252Mz

We’re so proud to share that our founder Evan Ehlers has been appointed to the Philadelphia City Council’s Food and Nutrition Security Task Force! 💚

🚨 Calling all college students! 🚨 Are you looking for a way to grow your skillsets, connect with your community, and create meaningful change at your university? Sharing Excess is looking for passionate student leaders to join or launch chapters on their campuses! By launching a chapter, you’ll have the opportunity to develop key skills that will benefit you for a lifetime (especially in your professional career) including:  ✨ Leadership: Lead a team of dedicated peers toward a common goal of rescuing food and redistributing it to students and like-minded hunger relief organizations.  🎉 Event Planning: Organize impactful events such as free-food pop-ups to raise awareness and drive change.  💸 Fundraising: Hone your ability to develop and execute fundraising strategies.  🤝 Community Outreach: Build partnerships within your university and local community.  📊 Project Management: Learn how to manage projects and initiatives from start to finish while making a tangible impact. Does this sound like something you'd love to do? Reach out to us today via email at community@sharingexcess.com to learn if your College or University has a chapter you can join, or how you can start a Sharing Excess chapter of your own! 

The recent wildfires in Los Angeles have devastated communities, displaced families, and left so many in need of immediate support of basic necessities. Sharing Excess is working to provide logistical support for frontline relief efforts. We’ve set up a warehouse in Downtown LA with our friends at WARP to store and distribute donations, hygiene products, diapers, pet food, and other essential supplies to shelters, community centers, and mutual aid efforts across the city. Our transportation team is moving donations free of charge to ensure these critical resources reach those who need them most. This is a time for us all to come together. If you’re part of a frontline effort that needs support, transportation, storage, or if you have resources to share, please reach out. Together, we can make a small but meaningful difference and bring relief to those deeply affected by this horrific tragedy. Let’s show up for Los Angeles❤️🩹 #LAfires #mutualaidla

2024 was an amazing year, but being on stage with Tony Robbins at Date With Destiny was a surreal, life-changing moment that I’ll never forget. Standing in front of 6,000 driven, purpose-filled people to share my life’s mission statement felt like a dream come full circle. The energy in that room, the love, the breakthroughs, the raw emotions, and the incredible stories of perseverance reminded me of the inner power we all have to create change—not just in ourselves but in the world around us. Tony, your support of Sharing Excess has been nothing short of transformational. With your help we were able to provide over 60 million meals in 2024, and now we’re poised to far surpass that this year. Your belief in our mission has inspired us to reach new heights, and I am endlessly grateful for the trust you’ve placed in us. This wasn’t just an event—it was a pivotal moment for our work and my own personal journey. I’m leaving 2024 with an even clearer purpose, a stronger vision, and the unwavering commitment to make a lasting positive impact on as many people as I possibly can. The world needs all of us to show up, and I’m ready now more than ever. To everyone I met at Date with Destiny—you’ve inspired me beyond words. Thank you. Let’s change the world👊❤️🙏 Check out the video here: https://lnkd.in/e6XmuKzp

To top off an incredible year, we have some exciting news to share: Sharing Excess has officially completed its first international food distribution in Guatemala!!🌎🚢💫 Thanks to our friends at Del Monte, we were able to send 30,000 pounds of rescued oat milk on a two-week voyage to our local chapter partners in Guatemala City. This is a meaningful step forward for impact but a HUGE leap for the bounds of our mission; proving that no matter the place, language, or culture - there is food to be shared💚 Our goal is to continue going deep in the cities that we’re located in, while also sprouting local chapters of Sharing Excess in other countries to establish food rescue and redistribution infrastructure on a global scale. Although food waste is big in the USA, there’s even more work to be done across the global food system. Over 1/3rd of food is wasted globally while over 750 million people experience food insecurity. There’s so much progress to be made and we see a meaningful role in teaching others across cultures how to replicate the systems we’ve created here in the USA. This took a LOT of work and collaboration so we want to acknowledge all the awesome people and organizations who made this possible: Beast Philanthropy for taking our mission to the next level and inspiring your global audience to start Sharing Excess in other countries. Tony Robbins and the The Tony Robbins Foundation for your generous donation that allowed us to make our first international delivery in support of the incredible 100 Billion Meals Challenge Chiara Agnello, our Global Expansion Manager for establishing our Latin America network, clearing international customs, handling layers of paperwork, and translating every step back to us. Del Monte for donating the cargo space, Holt Logistics Corp. for loading the ship for free, and Federación Internacional de Fe y Alegría, Regnum Christi and Christo De La Calle for the incredible work they are doing on the ground to distribute the oat milk feeding hundreds of families and children. The incredible SE LATAM team that worked tirelessly to advise, coordinate, and organize this distribution with the partners and players on the frontlines: Luis Perez, MBA, Emilio Flores, Héctor Flores Moscoso, Joseph Daniel Mooney, and of course, Juan Pablo Ramírez Brickell. What started with a few donated meals from a college dining account has turned into a global movement of food sharing and we could not be more excited to see people coming together across cultures for this shared mission. Thanks for an incredible 2024, we’ll see you in 2025 for another amazing year of impact. Let’s free food!

We’re thrilled to announce a groundbreaking collaboration between Sharing Excess and NATURAL UPCYCLING LLC, a leader in the organic waste management industry, to tackle one of the most frustrating and solvable challenges in the food system: preventing perfectly edible food from ever ending up in landfills. This partnership is not just innovative; it’s transformational. The owner of Natural Upcycling recognized a troubling reality in the waste industry: sometimes companies throw away large quantities of perfectly edible food rather than donating it, simply because they don’t have the time or capacity to find an alternative solution. Driven by the belief that good food should never be destined for landfills, Natural Upcycling reached out to Sharing Excess, and together, we’ve developed a game-changing model for food rescue and organic recycling. Here's how it works: ✅ Rescuing Edible Food: When Natural Upcycling receives food they believe is too good for compost or recycling, they perform quality checks on its shelf life. If the food passes inspection, they notify Sharing Excess so we can redistribute it to communities and organizations who need it most. Food once inadvertently earmarked for landfill is now feeding people instead—at scale. ✅ Closing the Loop: When Sharing Excess receives food donations that, despite good intentions, don’t meet our quality and dignity standards, Natural Upcycling ensures this inedible product is recycled organically into compost, animal feed, and other sustainable purposes. Together we are creating a food hub model that follows the EPA Food Waste Scale. This closed-loop system is a win-win for the environment and our communities. We’ve already rescued well over ten million pounds of edible food together - a bold representation of what it means to radically partner with purpose, blending compassion and innovation to make food waste prevention an industry standard. To Natural Upcycling: thank you for redefining what’s possible in the waste management industry and for your unwavering commitment to feeding people instead of landfills. This is what meaningful impact looks like. 🙌 Together, we’re proving that partnerships can create systemic change. Let’s continue setting the standard for what’s possible in this space. 🚛 ➡️ 🍽️ #Partnership #FoodRescue #Sustainability #NaturalUpcycling #SharingExcess #FoodWaste #CircularEconomy #CommunityImpact #FeedingPeopleNotLandfills

We’re thrilled to announce a groundbreaking collaboration between Sharing Excess and NATURAL UPCYCLING LLC, a leader in the organic waste management industry, to tackle one of the most frustrating and solvable challenges in the food system: preventing perfectly edible food from ever ending up in landfills. This partnership is not just innovative; it’s transformational. The owner of Natural Upcycling recognized a troubling reality in the waste industry: sometimes companies throw away large quantities of perfectly edible food rather than donating it, simply because they don’t have the time or capacity to find an alternative solution. Driven by the belief that good food should never be destined for landfills, Natural Upcycling reached out to Sharing Excess, and together, we’ve developed a game-changing model for food rescue and organic recycling. Here's how it works: ✅ Rescuing Edible Food: When Natural Upcycling receives food they believe is too good for compost or recycling, they perform quality checks on its shelf life. If the food passes inspection, they notify Sharing Excess so we can redistribute it to communities and organizations who need it most. Food once inadvertently earmarked for landfill is now feeding people instead—at scale. ✅ Closing the Loop: When Sharing Excess receives food donations that, despite good intentions, don’t meet our quality and dignity standards, Natural Upcycling ensures this inedible product is recycled organically into compost, animal feed, and other sustainable purposes. Together we are creating a food hub model that follows the EPA Food Waste Scale. This closed-loop system is a win-win for the environment and our communities. We’ve already rescued well over ten million pounds of edible food together - a bold representation of what it means to radically partner with purpose, blending compassion and innovation to make food waste prevention an industry standard. To Natural Upcycling: thank you for redefining what’s possible in the waste management industry and for your unwavering commitment to feeding people instead of landfills. This is what meaningful impact looks like. 🙌 Together, we’re proving that partnerships can create systemic change. Let’s continue setting the standard for what’s possible in this space. 🚛 ➡️ 🍽️ #Partnership #FoodRescue #Sustainability #NaturalUpcycling #SharingExcess #FoodWaste #CircularEconomy #CommunityImpact #FeedingPeopleNotLandfills

Thank you Jan Carabeo with CBS Philadelphia and Abbe Stern with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for visiting Sharing Excess’ operation at the Philadelphia Warehouse Produce Market and helping us spread the word about using surplus food as a solution to scarcity. Volunteers from the Philadelphia community and our corporate partners amplify our ability to rescue up to 50,000lbs of perfectly edible surplus food every day in Philly and distribute it to hundreds of nonprofits. If you’re looking for a community service opportunity for yourself or your company, our doors are always open! #volunteer #Philadelphia #nonprofit #foodrescue #corporatephilanthropy https://lnkd.in/eZsZVuAi

We are thrilled to announce that Sharing Excess has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development Local Share Account Statewide program! This critical funding will allow us to expand our food rescue and distribution operations, helping us provide even more meals to individuals and families in need across the City of Philadelphia and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Thank you to State Senator Nikil Saval for his advocacy and partnership in bringing these dollars home to Philadelphia! We are excited to put these funds to work and continue growing our impact.