Staff
This person is my Site Supervisor.
This is how many weeks the Summer Fellows will serve.
What is 8 weeks?
This toxic greenhouse gas is emitted when food waste decomposes in the landfill.
What is CO2?
True or false: I can use Careit as both a desktop and phone app.
True!
FoodCycle's slogan.
What is "Feed People, Not Landfills?"
When this person noticed her local grocery store was filling dumpsters with completely edible food, she started picking up the food weekly with a group of yoga friends. From there, FoodCycle was born.
Who is Nancy Beyda?
What is the 15th and 30th/31st?
This is the percent of food that gets wasted worldwide
This important document is automatically generated by Careit when a food run is created between a donor and a recipient.
This is about how many meals FoodCycle serves to the Los Angeles community per week.
What is 70,000?
This person is in charge of FoodCycle logistics, we call her our "Dispatcher."
Who is Tammy?
These opportunities are an important part of my fellowship and include training and climate-related certifications to learn real-world climate action and community engagement skills.
What is professional development?
This is the type of food that gets wasted the most.
What are fruits, veggies, and tubers?
What is SB-1383?
This is the number of organization FoodCycle distributes food to.
This person is in charge of Westside operations and is also one of our drivers.
Who is Martina?
As an Americorps volunteer, I am eligible for this governmental assistance program.
What is CalFresh?
This type of food has the highest carbon footprint of any food, requiring over 40 lbs of CO2 for farming and over 18 lbs of CO2 for land use per pound produced.
What is beef?
This is how soon after completing a run I should enter my weights.
What is preferably immediately, but no later than 3 days after completing the run?
When picking up food, all volunteers should have this on them.
What is FoodCycle identification?
These are the names of our four drivers.
Martina, Jesus, Jack, and Martin.
True or False: I am only allowed to complete professional development opportunites CCAC assigns to me.
False! You are able to research any opportunity that interests you, from language classes to community council meetings. You do need to fill out a PD request form to get CCAC approval.
It is at this stage of the supply chain that most food gets wasted.
Where is at home and in restaurants?
In order to be able to start completing runs, all volunteers must first do this through CareIt.
What is pass a food safety quiz?
What is over 500?