Food insecurity affects about a quarter of the world's population and more than 80 percent of US food banks are serving more people now than they did a year ago.
How can we apply technology towards these challenges? Join the next Public Good App House demo event from TechSoup and discover four apps that address food insecurity.
DEMOS
ShareTheMeal – United Nations World Food Programme
ShareTheMeal is the mobile fundraising app from the United Nations World Food Programme. The app allows users to 'share their meal' with a hungry child with just a tap and $0.80, feeding 1 child for a day.
Flashfood
Reduce food waste and feed people affordably using Flashfood. Users get massive savings on fresh food items like meat and produce that are nearing their best before date at grocery stores across Canada and the U.S.
MealConnect 2.0 – Feeding America
Since 2014, MealConnect has been facilitating local food donations for community hunger relief organizations. In just a few months, Feeding America will launch functions allowing produce growers to donate crops anywhere in the country and enable Feeding America food banks to more easily share bounty with their lower-resourced peer food banks.
GetCalFresh – Code for America
Code for America built GetCalFresh to be the most human-centered, mobile-friendly, and efficient way to apply for the SNAP (also known as "food stamps") program. Code for America will share lessons learned while building the app, and what's coming next for helping Californians get the money for food that they're entitled to.
OpenMeal
This presentation will showcase how a user can order a meal from one of OpenMeal's partnered restaurants and pay for it using their provided credits.
