Current Highlights
Reducing Food Waste
The Foundation’s Food Waste Program, developed in 2013, seeks to reduce, recover, and recycle food waste by directing it towards its highest and best use – ultimately feeding more people and reducing the environmental impact of food waste. The Food Waste Program is particularly concerned about the issue of food being wasted while people in our communities remain hungry.
OUR PROGRESS.....
Report Launched March 9, 2016 - additional details can be found at www.refed.com
Foundation Action Guide launched November 2016 - download here
Announcing 2 new tools The Food Waste Policy Finder and Innovator Database!
The Foundation funded a project joining ReFED with Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic to create The Food Waste Policy Finder, an interactive tool and mapping site that will provide stakeholders with critical food waste policy information. The Policy Finder will help food businesses and food recovery organizations better navigate laws on liability protection, date labeling, tax incentives, animal feed and waste bans. At the same time, the tool highlights inconsistencies in existing legal frameworks and the opportunities for state and federal action.
ReFED's Innovator Database - a living compilation of 400+ commercial and nonprofit entities focused on reducing and preventing food waste - enables users to explore the dynamic and expanding food waste innovation sector. The database will also help connect innovators to the private sector, government, foundations and investors to collaborate, fundraise and accelerate impact.
OUR PROGRESS.....
Report Launched March 9, 2016 - additional details can be found at www.refed.com
Foundation Action Guide launched November 2016 - download here
Announcing 2 new tools The Food Waste Policy Finder and Innovator Database!
The Foundation funded a project joining ReFED with Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic to create The Food Waste Policy Finder, an interactive tool and mapping site that will provide stakeholders with critical food waste policy information. The Policy Finder will help food businesses and food recovery organizations better navigate laws on liability protection, date labeling, tax incentives, animal feed and waste bans. At the same time, the tool highlights inconsistencies in existing legal frameworks and the opportunities for state and federal action.
ReFED's Innovator Database - a living compilation of 400+ commercial and nonprofit entities focused on reducing and preventing food waste - enables users to explore the dynamic and expanding food waste innovation sector. The database will also help connect innovators to the private sector, government, foundations and investors to collaborate, fundraise and accelerate impact.
In 2016 The Foundation joined ReFED, The Rockefeller Foundation and the San Francisco Department of the Environment to seed fund the OpenIDEO competition for Food Waste Challenge - "How might we dramatically reduce waste by transforming our relationship with food?"
The Challenge received over 450 ideas and was narrowed down to 41 finalists.
Check out the TOP IDEAS: https://challenges.openideo.com/challenge/food-waste/top-ideas
The Challenge received over 450 ideas and was narrowed down to 41 finalists.
Check out the TOP IDEAS: https://challenges.openideo.com/challenge/food-waste/top-ideas
Torres del Paine Legacy Fund
May 3, 2017 - Torres del Paine Legacy Fund - Protecting the 'World's Eighth Wonder' film produced by Project Eudaimonia, an organization supporting grassroots NGOs around the world.
The Fink Family Foundation is proud to support the development of the Torres del Paine Legacy Fund, a travel-philanthropy mechanism in Chilean Patagonia that aims to turn travel into a tool for positive environmental development. In partnership with Sustainable Travel International, the Torres del Paine Legacy Fund will work to improve the sustainability of park visitation and operations while simultaneously creating a better, more impactful experience for visitors to the park and surrounding communities. It is the goal of the initiative to develop Torres del Paine as an economic and social resource for generations to come. To find out more about the Legacy Fund initiative, email info@supporttdp.org.
NEWS & THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Grantee OpenIDEO releases update report, May, 2017: Food Waste Challenge Report
FFF is pleased to announce Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic Policy Finder Tool, completed in partnership with ReFED, April 17, 2017: Launch of the U.S. Policy Finder
ReFED Launches 2 New Tools, April 17, 2017: ReFED's Food Waste Innovator Database and Policy Finder
UC Berkeley, Edible Education 101, April 12, 2017: Opportunities and Innovation in Food Waste", View Live Recording
Commonwealth Kitchen Announces Pop-Up at the Street, Boston MA, April 5: Pop-up marketplace features local goods from over 20 CWK entrepreneurs
Stanford Social Innovation Review, Feb 2017: "When Impact Investing Is All About the People", part of the SSIR/Mission Investors Exchange series: "Mission Impossible - How Foundations are Shaping the Future of Impact Investing"
Food Tank feature, Dec 2016: "Engaging Restaurants and Markets to Rebuild a Regional Food System"
AgFunder News, Nov 2016: "Why Fink Family Foundation Invested in Spoiler Alert"
BostInno, Nov 2016 "Spoiler Raises $2.5m Seed for a Food Waste Solution"
Source International participates in The Tech Award for the 'Cerro de Pasco' Project - view clip
Harvard Business Review, Oct 2016: "The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability"
Trustee speaks at Fidelity Charitable NASDAQ event: "Entrepreneurs in Philanthropy"
Veris Partners interview, Sept 2016: "Jesse Fink on the Opportunity for Impact Investors in Reducing Food Waste"
Exponent Philanthropy, Sept 2016: ReFED in the Hall of Outsized Impact
FFF is pleased to announce Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic Policy Finder Tool, completed in partnership with ReFED, April 17, 2017: Launch of the U.S. Policy Finder
ReFED Launches 2 New Tools, April 17, 2017: ReFED's Food Waste Innovator Database and Policy Finder
UC Berkeley, Edible Education 101, April 12, 2017: Opportunities and Innovation in Food Waste", View Live Recording
Commonwealth Kitchen Announces Pop-Up at the Street, Boston MA, April 5: Pop-up marketplace features local goods from over 20 CWK entrepreneurs
Stanford Social Innovation Review, Feb 2017: "When Impact Investing Is All About the People", part of the SSIR/Mission Investors Exchange series: "Mission Impossible - How Foundations are Shaping the Future of Impact Investing"
Food Tank feature, Dec 2016: "Engaging Restaurants and Markets to Rebuild a Regional Food System"
AgFunder News, Nov 2016: "Why Fink Family Foundation Invested in Spoiler Alert"
BostInno, Nov 2016 "Spoiler Raises $2.5m Seed for a Food Waste Solution"
Source International participates in The Tech Award for the 'Cerro de Pasco' Project - view clip
Harvard Business Review, Oct 2016: "The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability"
Trustee speaks at Fidelity Charitable NASDAQ event: "Entrepreneurs in Philanthropy"
Veris Partners interview, Sept 2016: "Jesse Fink on the Opportunity for Impact Investors in Reducing Food Waste"
Exponent Philanthropy, Sept 2016: ReFED in the Hall of Outsized Impact
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