Daily News | Philly food rescue nonprofit Sharing Excess receives $250K grant from Pew
Foreground with arms folded is Evan Ehlers, founder of Sharing Excess. “Sharing Excess, a food-rescue organization launched by a rising Drexel senior in 2018, has set up shop in the Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market, which sees about $1.5 billion worth of produce move through its gigantic warehouse in a year. Some of that produce, for one reason or another, goes to waste.
Now, Sharing Excess is getting support from another Philly organization, Pew Charitable Trusts. Pew is giving Sharing Excess $250,000 over two years so it can increase its capacity to rescue and redistribute from 13 million pounds annually to more than 20 million pounds. end of COVID-era benefits like the SNAP emergency allotment
,” said Pew project director Kristin Romens. “We thought it was a good time to support an innovative and scalable potential solution to food insecurity.” While it’s easy to find food banks in need of food, establishing partnerships with donors requires more strategy, said founder Evan Ehlers. “It’s often a long-term approach. We have to work through a lot of different people in a ladder and we’ll often do pilots,” he said. “You almost need somebody like a salesperson to go and find all that food.”
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