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06-30-2016, 03:23 PM
The app that matches surplus food with the hungry
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Plenty of businesses throw a ridiculous amount of catering into the garbage every day, often as people go hungry on the streets outside their ****** buildings.*
What if there was a push-button way of matching the surplus with the demand? What if an app could actually be useful in this situation?
That's the premise behind Copia (https://www.gocopia.com/#/), a service for on-demand food donations. It offers an easy way for businesses to provide their uneaten food to nearby shelters and other **nprofits that provide food to people in need.*
SEE ALSO: What 6 survivors of homelessness want you to k**w (http://mashable.com/2016/06/29/sf-homeless-project/)
Here's how it works: businesses, event hosts or any other group that wants to make a donation snaps a photo of their extra food — Copia takes anything, cooked or uncooked, packaged or unpackaged — and schedule a pickup time in the app or website. * Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/06/29/copia-app/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Plenty of businesses throw a ridiculous amount of catering into the garbage every day, often as people go hungry on the streets outside their ****** buildings.*
What if there was a push-button way of matching the surplus with the demand? What if an app could actually be useful in this situation?
That's the premise behind Copia (https://www.gocopia.com/#/), a service for on-demand food donations. It offers an easy way for businesses to provide their uneaten food to nearby shelters and other **nprofits that provide food to people in need.*
SEE ALSO: What 6 survivors of homelessness want you to k**w (http://mashable.com/2016/06/29/sf-homeless-project/)
Here's how it works: businesses, event hosts or any other group that wants to make a donation snaps a photo of their extra food — Copia takes anything, cooked or uncooked, packaged or unpackaged — and schedule a pickup time in the app or website. * Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/06/29/copia-app/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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