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We are Still Open but we NEED more Volunteer Help

More than 20 of our volunteers who help weekly are currently staying at home to protect themselves or a family member in the high-risk category. That leaves us with many shifts to fill.  If you are a volunteer who is not on our weekly schedule and you are willing to help, please contact Linda.  If you are a volunteer who already volunteers once a week and are willing to do more, please contact Linda:  volunteers@wastenotflorida.com.  

Because Waste Not Want Not rescues food for those in need, we are not among the business required to close.  We will continue rescuing and distributing food as long as there is surplus food to rescue and a way to distribute it to those in need WITHOUT putting our volunteers or the community at risk.  

Currently, all truck runs, in-house shifts, and rescues (other than Red Lobster and Jaguars Team Feeding) continue as usual.  If anything changes, Linda or I will let you know.  And as always, if you need a sub for any reason, please let Linda know as soon as you can at (904) 505-5894. 

Thank you!

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Chefs to the Rescue

POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

RUE SAINT-MARC
APRIL 26, 2020

Tickets and Sponsorships

Every year in the United States, 40% of our edible food ends up in landfills while one in six Americans is food insecure. To fund our efforts to resolve this paradox while highlighting these statistics, Waste Not Want Not has introduced CHEFS TO THE RESCUE.  

CHEFS TO THE RESCUE is a mission-based concept that challenges local chefs to work with rescued ingredients to transform them into gourmet dishes.  Scott Alters, Executive Chef of Rue Saint-Marc, has accepted Waste Not Want Not’s challenge.   

Well-known for his skillfully crafted food, Chef Alters will prepare a multi-course menu for 100 guests on April 26, 2020 at Rue Saint-Marc.  The seated dinner will contain an element of suspense as Chef Alters reveals the rescued ingredients he was given and the gourmet delights he has prepared.  With special thanks to our Dinner Sponsors, all the proceeds from the evening will be used to further Waste Not Want Not’s mission.

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Tickets and Sponsorships

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What We Do and Our Impact

Waste Not Want Not volunteers rescue unmarketable, but still wholesome, food from supermarkets, restaurants, and other businesses daily. We have convinced stores and businesses within a 15-mile radius of Orange Park to donate food to us on or before its sell-by date rather than throw it away after that date.  Every day, 363 days a year, our volunteers drive their own cars to these businesses, pick up the donated food, and bring it our facility.  Currently we make 149 scheduled rescues a week, collecting an average of 4,750 pounds of food a day.  In addition to our scheduled food rescue activities, Waste NotWant Not also seeks out special projects that further our mission.  For example, in the past five years, Waste Not has rescued more than 200,000 pounds of undeliverable food items, primarily fancy foods and citrus sent as holiday gifts, from the US Postal Services’ bulk mail warehouse.  We have distributed thousands of pounds of produce gleaned from farmers’s fields and neighbors’ trees.  Our volunteers have even filleted, iced and transported fish donated after fishing tournaments.

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Donate Food

Last year Waste Not Want Not distributed the equivalent of 1,429,000 meals through our recipient agencies, saving them over $4 million dollars. 

Waste Not Want Not rescues food from all segments of the food industry including grocery stores, restaurants, wholesalers, bakeries, caterers, as well as canned food drives and produce gleaning efforts. 

If you have or know of excess food is still wholesome, Waste Not Want Not will attempt to rescue that food and put it in the hands of hungry Floridians.  Our Donation Guidelines will help you determine whether food can be safely rescued.  If you do have food to donate,  please visit our How to Donate page.

There’s no danger in donating food to Waste Not Want Not.  The Federal Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act provides uniform national protection to those who act in good faith to donate, recover and distribute excess food.  Likewise, Chapter 768.13 of the Florida State Statue specifically provides immunity from civil and criminal liability to food donors and to volunteers acting on behalf of charitable organizations that rescue food.

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Who We Help

Waste Not Want Not helps groups ranging from large shelters serving thousands of meals a week, food pantries handing out groceries to hundreds of families, church groups feeding dozens of homeless people in the woods, to mentors providing snacks to a handful of children in afterschool programs.  There are several ways our recipients use the food they receive which include Food Distribution, Food Service,  and Special Events.

FOOD DISTRIBUTION

Many organizations help the less-fortunate by providing them with groceries rescued by Waste Not Want Not.  Those listed in italics receive food weekly, bi-weekly or monthly.  The rest receive food as needed or as available

FOOD PANTRIES, FOOD BANKS, SERVICE AGENCIES

Clay:

  • Abundant Life
  • Advent Lutheran Church (Orange Park High School Food Pantry)
  • Calvary United Methodist Church
  • Challenge Enterprises
  • Clay County Emergency Food Assistance Program 
  • Clay County Homeless Outreach
  • Council on Aging:Senior Centers of Green Cove, Keystone Heights, Middleburg and Orange Park
  • Episcopal Children’s Services
  • Evangel Temple South West
  • The Father’s Heart Ministries
  • The Food Pantry and Clothes Closet of Orange Park
  • The Food Pantry of Green Cove Springs
  • Good Samaritan Church
  • Henderson Haven
  • Kids First of Florida
  • Lake Area Ministries
  • Living Hope Baptist Church
  • Middletowne Apartments
  • Middleburg United Methodist Church
  • Maggie’s Meals
  • Orange Cove Seventh Day Adventist Church
  • Orange Park Junior High – Student Charity Program
  • Orange Park United MethodistChurch
  • Sacred Heart Catholic Church Green Cove Springs: Spanish Mission
  • Salvation Army
  • Springs Church
  • Giles Presbyterian Church
  • James AME
  • Luke’s Parish Outreach
  • Simon’s Baptist Church

Duval:

  • Arlington Community Services
  • Ben’s Place
  • Casa de Alabanza
  • Catholic Charities
  • Central Baptist Church
  • Community Health Outreach
  • Community Life Ministry
  • Daily Growth Outreach
  • Deliverance Christian Center
  • Dominion Impact
  • Don’t Miss a Beat
  • Downtown Ecumenical Services Council
  • Eglise Evangelique Haitienne de Jacksonville
  • El-Beth-El 
  • Emanuel Missionary Baptist Church
  • Evangel Temple Assembly of God (Samaritan House)
  • Gateway of Deliverance Tabernacle (The Father’s Market)
  • Greater New Hope AME
  • Gospelers Ministry
  • Helping Hands Depot
  • Iglesia Evangelistica Nueva Esperanza
  • Jewish Family and Community Services
  • Kingdom of God
  • Life Changing Ministries
  • Lord’s House of Prayer
  • Mandarin Presbyterian Church
  • Messagiers Pour Christ
  • New Covenant Ministries
  • New Kingdom Harvest Church International
  • Presbyterian Social Ministries
  • Real Life End-Time Evangelistic Ministry
  • Right Direction New Life Church
  • Serenity Christian Fellowship
  • Spiritual Moving Bodies for Christ
  • Catherine’s Episcopal Church
  • Mary’s Episcopal Church
  • Matthew’s Catholic Church
  • Michael’s Charities
  • Strong Tower
  • Sweetwater Church
  • Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church
  • Vision Christian Ministries
  • Youth Alternative Correctional Services

Other:

  • Baker County Ministers’ Association (Baker)
  • Bradford Ecumenical Services (Bradford)
  • Feed the Need of Putnam County (Putnam)
  • Just for Jesus (Putnam)
  • Pie in the Sky (St. Johns)
  • Starke Seventh Day Adventist Church (Bradford)
  • Monica’s Catholic Church (Putnam)
  • The Children’s Table (Alachua/Bradford/Citrus/Columbia/Dixie/Gilchrist/Marion/Levy/Suwannee/Union)

FOOD SERVICE

Some groups use food received from Waste Not Want Not to prepare food which is then served ready-to eat at  permanent locations such as missions and group homes, places used occasionally to feed the hungry such as church soup kitchens, or on the streets and in the woods where it is distributed to homeless people.  Those listed in italics receive food weekly, bi-weekly or monthly.

Missions & Soup Kitchens

  • Bread of Life – Putnam
  • Calvary Baptist Church Middleburg
  • City Rescue Mission – Duval
  • Home Again St. Johns – St.Johns
  • Most Holy Redeemer – Duval
  • Soup Kitchen of Clay County: Green Cove Springs, Middleburg, Orange Park
  • Francis Soup Kitchen – Duval

Mobile Meals

  • Bethesda Outreach – Duval
  • Celebration Church – Clay
  • Circle of Hope – Duval/Clay
  • Cupbearers Ministry – Clay/Duval
  • Hippie Que – Duval
  • Laundry Love (Grace Episcopal) – Clay
  • Springs Church – Clay
  • Catherine’s Catholic Church – Clay

Small Groups:  Homes + Meetings + Day Centers + After School Programs

Clay:

  • BASCA Men’s Homes & BASCA Women’s Homes
  • Blue Devil Morning Meal Initiative
  • Boy Scouts of America: Black Creek District
  • Clay Behavioral
  • Club Challenge
  • Council on Aging: Senior Centers of Green Cove Springs, Keystone Heights, Middleburg, and Orange Park
  • House of Hope
  • Quigley House

Duval:

  • Angelwood 
  • Camp I am Special
  • CEO (Children Enriched with Opportunities)
  • Disable Veterans of America
  • Evening Reporting Center
  • Girls Inc.
  • Hogar C.R.E.A. 
  • Kash Kids
  • Northwestern Middle School
  • The Pulse
  • River Region Human Services
  • Sober Living America
  • Westside Club of AA

Other:

  • Kairos Prison Ministries – Baker, Columbia, Florida State Prison West, Putnam, Union
  • Communita Cenacolo: Saint Vincent de Paul Farm, Mary Immaculate House – St. Johns County

SPECIAL EVENTS

Most of the groups that receive food from Waste Not Want Not do so on a regular basis to fill an ongoing need in our community.  But we also provide food to organizations for special events addressing a particular community need such as back-to-school backpack handouts, Special Olympics, and Homeless Outreach Programs.

Waste Not Want Not has been a proud contributor to the Empty Bowls luncheon for many years.  This annual event, at which guest receive a modest meal of soup, bread and a cookie, raises money for the Salvation Army of Clay County’s rent and utilities assistance programs.  Local celebrities serve the soup prepared by a restaurant and the bread and cookies provided by Waste Not Want Not.  Guests also select a bowl from the many beautiful items handmade by local students.

From mid-October through the end of the year, Waste Not Want Not stocks the freezers of local churches, food pantries and even schools that will be delivering Thanksgiving and Christmas baskets to those in need.  Waste Not provides these groups with a pie and a package of dinner rolls (and other items as requested if available) for each basket.