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Non-profit OrganizationsCalifornia, United States11-50 Employees
Food Finders is a non-profit food rescue organization based in Los Alamitos, California, serving Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, and Riverside counties. It rescues and redistributes good, wholesome perishable and non-perishable food, as well as personal hygiene items, household items, and pet food, delivering them to about 330 partner agencies such as missions, food pantries, churches, senior centers, sober livings, and shelters. Donors include LA produce markets, grocery stores, restaurants, hospitals, hotels, schools, farmers markets, catering companies, manufacturers, and distributors. The organization runs programs such as Food 4 Kids, which provides 1,500 monthly boxes of food to 47 Long Beach schools, and a College Pantry startup that provides initial donations and ongoing food support; it also participates in community events like senior breakfasts, book fairs, back-to-school events, and holiday distributions. Food Finders states a mission to eliminate hunger and food waste while improving nutrition in the food-insecure communities it serves, and notes 36 years of operation with more than 153 million pounds of food rescued, enough for about 211 million meals.