Photograph courtesy of Food Rescue US.
凯文·穆林斯（Kevin Mullins）于2011年共同创立了社区盘子，现在被称为食品救援我们（FRUS），以帮助全国各地的家庭获得新鲜食品，原本注定要填埋填埋场。现在担任首席执行官，穆林斯（Mullins）对解决美国的饥饿和粮食浪费危机的热情受到了自己的孩子的工作的启发，他们的孩子们收集了午餐，将午餐作为晚餐送给有需要的朋友。
食物营救我们从不同的行业来源获取多余的新鲜食品，并通过在线应用将其提供给不安全的家庭。该计划将志愿食品救援人员与接收机构和食品捐助者联系起来。它简化的调度系统为参与者提供了便利，下车或收到新鲜食物的选择，从而减轻了普通食品救援计划的刚性。
w88优德老虎机平台食品坦克与穆林斯谈到了美国粮食不安全的根源，多余的食物浪费，以及弗鲁斯希望如何利用技术和创造力来对抗两者。
Food Tank (FT):粮食不安全意味着什么？
凯文·穆林斯（KM）：有官方的定义，然后有一个驱动我们工作的定义。正式，food insecurity被定义为“没有可靠获取足够数量的负担得起的营养食品的状态”。弗鲁斯已经个性化了一点。我们认为，粮食不安全是当某人无法为自己或家人提供健康生活所需的食物时。
FT:您组织的核心价值之一是创造力。在建立创意组织方面，哪些当前和未来的战略努力正在进行中？为什么这对食物挽救了我们的身份很重要？
KM:Creativity was core to our founding. Our co-founder, Jeff Schacher, realized an opportunity to reimagine what it looks like to feed hungry people. Instead of inserting new food into the system, we could take advantage of the abundance of existing food. Jeff said, “We don’t have a food shortage in the U.S., we have a food logistics problem.” We have to be creative and tell the stories of the American hungry without resorting to the same images and worn out language usually attributed to that narrative in order to engage communities to care for each other without resorting to guilt and manipulation.
Creativity drives the future of our current tech platform. While the app successfully creates food rescue communities and engages thousands in the cause, it is just one possible solution. If we want to bring an end to hunger in America, we will have to consistently reimagine the solutions necessary. Although we will never be a start-up again, we want to retain that energy and constantly challenge ourselves to look for creative, different solutions.
We continuously explore new partnerships, looking for creative ways to further our mission. We recently partnered with Zipcar in Washington, D.C., and hope to expand that partnership in 2018. Zipcar offers a path to action for non-car owning volunteers, allowing them to join the fight against hunger in their own communities.
FT：为什么餐厅和杂货行业有这么多食物浪费？除了挽救多余的废物外，食物如何拯救我们有助于解决问题的根本原因？
KM:这是一系列因素。杂货店和餐馆产生不同的废物。尤其是在杂货行业中，一个主要因素是美国对完美食品的成瘾和储存良好的商店的美感。一方面，大多数美国购物者都经过任何被斑驳的食物或其他不完美的食物，另一方面，许多人只想在已经储存（或储存过多）货架的商店购物。
杂货行业的第二个因素是出售和到期日的谬误。这场与营销有关的悲剧一直是最近有记录的. On average, restaurants waste less food, but similar to farming, frequently over-prepare or over-purchase food to ensure they have enough product to feed their customers. The root of the issue is that this country doesn’t truly value food. FRUS technology ensures available food is valued all the way through its life-cycle.
FT：选择的尊严如何为食物接受者提供食用新鲜健康食品的选择，在食品系统中改变？
KM:我们破碎的食品系统的一部分是，最脆弱的人也是最有可能吃不健康的食物的人。与粮食安全的人群相比，粮食不安全的人口更有可能吃东西的东西。他们对此不满意，因此他们不健康。我们对选择尊严的关注更多是改变现实，而不是其他任何事物。
英尺：你award-winningFood Rescue US应用程序已帮助Frus和参与志愿者营救数百万餐。该应用如何工作？您要考虑哪些升级来继续或提高技术的功效？
KM:Food Rescue US应用程序为食品回收系统的所有三个基本部分提供了按需门户。我们的技术使食品捐献者可以简单地提供必要的信息，以确保所有可用的食物都可以养活有需要的人。平均而言，我们的食品救援人员（平台的命脉）需要大约两分钟的时间才能做出回应。此外，我们可以将他们提供给有需要的人提供了多少餐。
Nationally, over 2,200 registered volunteers have rescued and delivered 23.1 million meals to people in need. This represents about 15,740 metric tons (34.7 million pounds) of food saved from the landfill, conservatively valued at US$59 million. Volunteers can input their scheduling preferences into the app, access a schedule showing all food rescuers available in their area, and review their food rescue stats.
Our food rescuers deliver food to third-users, awesome receiving agencies around the country that provide food to the food insecure population through soup kitchens and food pantries. The app allows receiving agencies to share important information like what kinds of food they can use and when.
Our future app developments are focused on making the app more accessible and more engaging to make our donation streams as efficient and effective as possible. We are especially interested in the idea of the final mile. How can we get the food as close as possible to where food insecure people live and at the exact right times?
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