Ways to Engage
Solution Providers
Grow Your Impact as a Solution Provider
ReFED is committed to supporting food waste solution providers and scaling effective solutions that can reduce food waste. That’s why we’ve created resources for solution providers from across the food system to leverage our support and grow their impact. If you’re a food waste solution provider, please see below to learn about partnership opportunities, how to make the most of ReFED’s tools and resources, and how we can support and amplify your work.
How You Can Engage With ReFED
Sign up for (or update your information in) the Solution Provider Directory
The ReFED Solution Provider Directory (SPD) showcases our network of 1,500+ for-profit and nonprofit organizations implementing food waste reduction initiatives. Being part of the SPD gives you exposure to food businesses and funders and the opportunity to attract new partners and sources of capital.
Share Your Solution's Data
ReFED is seeking updated data from solution providers on the effectiveness of your solution in diverting food waste, as well as the associated cost and benefit expectations. Providing this information will help the 2,000+ weekly users of ReFED's Insights Engine—which include investors, businesses, government agencies, and more—understand which solutions provide the most impact.
2 | Get Noticed & Expand Your Reach
Connect with us about funding needs & opportunities
ReFED directly supports our network of solution providers by highlighting your funding needs to a select group of capital providers through our Food Waste Funder Circle. The Food Waste Funder Circle also features pitch events for solution providers to share their work and funding requests with Funder Circle members.
Feature in our Guest Blogs & Case Studies
Amplify your food waste reduction work, insights, and impact on ReFED’s website and blog. We’re building a library of case studies featuring organizations that are successfully implementing food waste solutions. Contact our Communications team to learn more.
3 | Connect with Food System Leaders
ReFED Impact Story
Catalyzing Capital: ReFED’s COVID-19 Food Waste Solutions Fund
In response to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, ReFED launched the COVID-19 Food Waste Solutions Fund, a one-stop, rapid response vehicle for donors to deliver critical support to mid-sized organizations that could rapidly scale food waste reduction and hunger relief efforts.
“Take Care was created as an emergency response effort built specifically to eliminate food waste and serve the most marginalized populations affected by COVID in the Central Valley. The funding from the ReFED grant came at the most crucial moment for our program. Without the ReFED grant, we wouldn’t have been able to scale and eventually turn the program into a CARES-funded initiative that was able to serve more than one million meals over the course of 2020. Working with the ReFED team was one of the best experiences with funders we have ever had. They saw the need and met it head-on with urgency and great humanity.”
Channelle A. Charest
Bitwise Industries
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