Giving Sunlight is s small team of dedicated citizens in Southern Idaho working to lessen food insecurity in our communities.
Food waste is rampant, both in the grocery and restaurant industries. Simultaneously, the homeless crisis in our country has only worsened with rising inflation, barriers to education, training and employment, and access to medical care.
To help alleviate these issues, Giving Sunlight focuses in 3 areas:
1) FOOD RESCUE: This work involves taking surplus food from restaurants and delivering to food pantries in the community.
2) FOOD PREPARATION: We are approved to cook and prepare food within the state. Our efforts in this area include making food for local shelters and raising money for direct food donation by selling online and in the community. A portion of the proceeds go directly to funding our Giving Sunlight efforts.
3) DIRECT FOOD DONATION BASED ON NEED: Based on funds available, we aim to provide nutritional foods that are not readily available to food pantries.
THE HARD FACTS
- Restaurants waste more than 20 billion pounds of food per year
- 1/3 of the food produced in the world is wasted or lost
- 85% of the unused food from restaurants ends up in landfills
WORK WE ARE CURRENTLY DOING
We have a strong partnership with the Community Council of Idaho in Burley where we aim to provide nutritional foods to their food pantry as funds permit. This relationship continues to grow! Since our move to the Cassia County area, we have also been able to volunteer regularly and hope to offer community classes in the future (2024 Goal). We also had the amazing experience of providing resources toward the council's migrant farmer workers project, all thanks to our donors!
Being new to the area, we are also working on making those important relationship connections with restaurants to start our Food Rescue efforts.
Additionally one of our team members has been volunteering her time at home coloring future learning kits--a project organized by the local Humanitarian Center.
HOW YOUR DONATIONS HELP OTHERS
- Purchasing ingredients for the food we prepare for sale as a means of furthering the goals of our organization.
- Purchasing high-need nutritional foods as requested by food pantry management.
- Purchasing items in connection to local need based projects.
Thank you for the time you have taken to get to know us, our work, and to learn more about the needs.
We are grateful for the partnership had when serving the Treasure Valley shelters, and we are excited about our new and growing partnerships in the Cassia county area.
This passion project of ours is an ongoing effort. As our organization grows, so does our efforts and impacts!
Please consider a monthly donation, as it allows us to sustain our efforts over time. Also, if you could share this site, we would greatly appreciate it.
We could not do this without you! Thank You for Your Support!
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Be Well.
--The Giving Sunlight Team
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