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Non-profit OrganizationsMassachusetts, United States11-50 Employees
Food For Free is a non-profit organization based in Somerville, Massachusetts, focused on increasing access to healthy food through a range of hunger-relief programs. The organization operates Food Recovery, which rescues fresh food and distributes it to more than 100 programs in 25 communities across Greater Boston, totaling over 2 million pounds of rescued food each year. Its Carrot Cards program provides reloadable debit cards to food-insecure families in Cambridge, enabling over 2,100 PK-12 students to purchase food each weekend. Through School Markets, Food For Free partners with public charter and district schools in Somerville and Cambridge to host monthly markets for school families and community members to access free food. Just Eats distributes 1,600 grocery boxes and 50,000 pounds of bulk food weekly to food programs, and the Transportation Partnership with the Greater Boston Food Bank makes Food For Free its largest transportation partner. The organization employs 11-50 people and operates its website at foodforfree.org.