Share My Meals Inc

Success means achieving our mission: feeding people in need by recovering meals. Our goal for 2022 is to deliver 90,000 meals, 70% of which will be recovered, to address the increasing demand from the community, while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

We started as an all-volunteer operation in January 2020, but it became evident that a small staff was needed to keep operations running smoothly and meet the growing demand for our services. SMM now has a small staff of nine: a Program Director (f/t), a Development Director (p/t), a Volunteers Director (p/t), a Logistics Coordinator (p/t), an Operations Coordinator (p/t), Program Coordinator (p/t) and 3 drivers (p/t).

Programs:
Currently, SMM operates two main programs, the Meal Recovery Program (MRP) and the COVID-19 Program. We also have two complementary programs, a Gleaning Program as an add-on to the MRP, and an Inclusion Program to create jobs for members of the communities we serve.

Our key objectives include:

- Grow our MRP to recover 55,000+ donated meals by strengthening our collaboration with large food service providers and developing new partnerships with local corporations, universities, schools, hotels and other caterers.

- Increase our reach to serve over 250 families in our program and 1,500 individuals by strengthening and developing partnerships with other nonprofit organizations in the Princeton area and beyond.

- Prepare for replication of the model in surrounding communities.

In the past 2.5 years, we have developed an efficient food sourcing and delivery network of donors, volunteers and community partners capable of distributing over 5,000 meals per month in the Princeton area. We have experienced significant growth since our inception in January 2020, delivering more than 136,000 healthy meals to date: we delivered 39,000 meals in 2020, 70,000 meals in 2021, and an expected 90,000 meals in 2022, to 220 families enrolled in our program and over 1200 individuals through our community partners.