Fresh Rescue Program - New Hampshire Food Bank

The NH Food Bank, through partnership with Feeding America, has agreements with many retail stores to receive donations of surplus products, that are still safe to eat, called Fresh Rescue.

These donations are picked up from stores, brought back to the NH Food Bank, and sorted or used in our Culinary Job Training Program to prepare nutritional cuisine for distribution to our agencies.

Partner Agencies can be enabled to pick up donations directly from their local retail stores, making food available to people facing hunger more directly.

Interested in volunteering?

Every day, the NH Food Bank trucks bring back a variety of frozen foods that need to be sorted into categories. Volunteers involved in this process inspect the food for any signs of contamination or damaged packaging and sort all the good product into boxes that we can distribute to Food Bank agencies. This task requires some bending, lifting, and standing for the duration of the activity.