FoodForCause

What does Food For Cause do for the community?

Problem

• Kansas City does not have a resource to connect food suppliers and organizations that provide food stuffs to the community.

• Many grocery stores, and restaurants throw away food that could go to good use.

  • Some of these items will expire soon.
  • Others items may have damaged packaging or other small defects that do not affect the quality of the product, but the store is still unable to sell the items.

• Food banks and Kitchens provide a valuable service: feeding people in our community that need assistance and sustenance.

• A large amount of food is unnecessarily wasted.

• Our community needs food assistance programs to thrive and care for those in need.

Solution

• Food For Cause provides a platform to connect local community outreach programs, like food banks and kitchens, with companies that have food to donate.
• This will help to reduce food waste, put the food to good use, and strengthen the community.

How Does it work?

• Grocery Stores, restaurants, and other businesses login and then post their available food items (including quantity, and expiration date).
• Food banks, and kitchens may reserve and pick up items.
• Unreserved items that are nearing expiration will be tweeted and text (SMS) to let the community know about their availability.

What powers FoodForCause?

• React
• Node/ Express
• MySQL
• Heroku
• Passport.js User Authentication