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Rotary Club: Solana Beach Project Title: ProduceGood 1. Describe the project. What was done, when and where did project activities take place? It takes a community to Produce Good and Solana Beach Eco Rotary played a significant role in helping to move our mission in 2022. Our goal in 2022 was to divert 320,000 pounds of fresh fruit and vegetables from San Diego waste streams to instead feed people. We recovered 316,500 pounds in 2022 for 99% achievement of our goal with 900 volunteers gleaning and supplying this excess through 721 produce recovery events throughout San Diego County. The 949,500 fresh servings of produce recovered was supplied to 50 different feeding partners who collectively serve 187,500 of San Diego’s 750,000 food insecure people (25%). Servings provided to the clients of feeding partners equate to 379,800 meals, bringing essential vitamins and minerals to those facing economic and other hardships leading to food insecurity. Additionally, 800 backyard growers, farmers and growers benefitted from ProduceGood community services. ProduceGood and its volunteers work to reduce food waste to mitigate climate degradation caused by the emission of greenhouse gasses resulting from decomposition in landfills. Because the amount of food wasted (40%) exceeds the capacity to manage it, gleaning this excess to feed people in combination with composting and industrial uses, extends the management capacity of the organic excess. These actions are a benefit to three million San Diegans who breathe the county air and who benefit from the reduction of fine particulates in the atmosphere. 2. How many people benefited from this project? multiple families and individuals, over 3000 meals 3. Who were the beneficiaries, how were they impacted by this project, and what humanitarian need was met? ProduceGood feeding partners serve individuals and families across a spectrum with a particular focus on beneficiaries attending public schools and colleges, after school programs, seniors and others living below the poverty line, military families, displaced individuals and families, disabled individuals and many others of all races and ethnicities. The funds provided through the grant helped covered the shared cost of produce gleaning at 12 events helping reduce food waste at farmers markets while feeding families in need. By supporting this effort and sharing the operational cost of these events, 2,795 pounds of produce were collected, which converted into 8,385 servings or the equivalent of 3,354 meals. 4. How many Rotarians participated in the project? 0 5. What did they do? Please give at least two examples, not including financial support provided to the project. We did not participated in gleaning events this year. 6. If a cooperating organization was involved, what was its role? none 7. Income
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District must retain receipts of all expenditures for at least five years. Please scan and upload to the project's "Documents" tab all invoices (be sure they are marked "paid"), receipts and/or copies of checks for the full amount of the project budget. By signing this report, I confirm that to the best of my knowledge these District Grant funds were spent only for eligible items in accordance with Trustee-approved guidelines, and that all of the information contained herein is true and accurate. I also understand that all photographs submitted in connection with this report will become the property of RI and will not be returned. I warrant that I own all rights in the photographs, including copyright, and herby grant RI and TRF a royalty free irrevocable license to use the photographs now or at any time in the future, throughout the world in any manner it so chooses and in any medium now known or later developed. This includes the right to modify the photograph(s) as necessary in RI's sole discretion. This also includes, without limitation, use on or in the web site, magazines, brochures, pamphlets, exhibitions and any other promotional materials of RI and TRF.
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