Starting Semester: Fall 2026 Assigned: No Location: Atlanta
Second Helpings Atlanta
Client Profile
Second Helpings Atlanta is a nonprofit food rescue organization whose mission is to end hunger and food waste in the Metro Atlanta area by rescuing healthy, nutritious surplus food and distributing it to those in need. We do this using an army of over 700 volunteers (and a small fleet of trucks) to pick up food from donors (grocery stores, restaurants, events like FIFA) and deliver it to local food pantries across 10 different counties in 90 minutes or less! Since 2004, we have rescued over 26 million pounds of food; along the way incorporating several new programs into our operations including the one that this project is about: Field to Fork.
Project Description
We at second helpings need your help to develop a process and platform for special distributions. We proudly use "Food Rescue Hero" to coordinate all of our smaller donations from restaurants and events which allows us to identify a recipient (from our 150+ partner organizations) and assign a volunteer to the route. However, one of our programs Field to Fork focuses on purchasing excess produce from local farmers by the entire truckload. We distribute over 1 million pounds of food a year through this program, right now all through google forms and emails. While effective, it is terribly inefficient and prohibits us from putting more product through this program. We are hoping you can help us build a platform / marketplace to "list" these large distributions, notify our partner agencies of the listing, collect responses on how many cases each partner organization wants, and create "shopping lists" for our warehouse volunteers to build the pallets for our partner organizations to pickup. This platform would help us more rapidly notify partners of what we have, create more equity in who we distribute food too, and ultimately enable us to rescue more food. Afterall, every minute counts in the fresh food world.
Skills
This project requires some development skills. It does not necessarily need to be coded from scratch (we are open to modifying an existing program). Some understanding of warehousing / distribution would be helpful, but that part is not as critical.
