NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

Recent Press coverage

• "Dining works to limit food wastage" (Oct. 2, 2008)-Stanford Daily
• "Student groups get work - and fun - done in the summer sun" (July 31, 2008)-Stanford Daily

Fall 2008

• Volunteers needed for Dining Hall pick-ups:
  Volunteer 1.5 hours of your time each week to pickup leftover food from the following dining halls:
  
  • Branner & Manzanita: pickup any day except Fri and Sat
  • Ricker: pickup any day except Fri and Sat
  • FloMo and Lagunita: pickup on Thurs
  • Stern: pickup on Wed
  • Wilbur: pickup on any day
  Thank you for making a difference, feeding the needy, and saving waste!
  
  Please click here for additional information and how to contact a SPOON core member to get started!
  
  
• Volunteers needed for Faculty Club pick-ups (which make up the bulk of SPOON's donations to the local homeless):
  To volunteer, show up on the assigned day at the Faculty Club, pack up food leftovers, and take it to the Haas Center shed. Pickups begin at 2-2:15pm and last about an hour once a week. No previous experience is required since someone will be there to help on the first day.
  Please contact Ahlia Kattan (akattan@stanford.edu) if you are available.
  
  
• Cook breakfast for the homeless!
  Sign up to be a SPOON breakfast cook! Every week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, dorms, interest groups (church, community service, a capella, dance, fraternity, sorority, cultural, etc.) can cook breakfast and serve it to the homeless at the Palo Alto Opportunity Center. This is a great way to help out the community, spend time with peers, and have fun! Be sure to sign up early to ensure that you get the desired date to help out!
  
  Click here for additional information and available dates!
  For more information or to sign up for a breakfast or lunch slot, please contact Paula de Los Angeles (cpdelosangeles@stanford.edu).

Summer 2008

• Thank you Summer SPOON volunteers!
  Our heartfelt thanks go out to the 30 dedicated volunteers, including undergraduates, graduates, postdocs, and high school students, who helped to feed approximately 8,400 individuals. In operating over the summer for the first time, SPOON worked closely with Stanford Dining and other campus groups- thank you!
  "Student groups get work - and fun - done in the summer sun" (July 31, 2008) -Stanford Daily
  
  

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What did you do today?

• Today, 50 more people in the Bay Area had dinner due to SPOON's food salvaging program.
• Today, hundreds of children in the world will go to bed with a full stomach due to SPOON's fundraising for international hunger relief organizations.
• Today, dozens of Stanford students got inspired to join the fight against hunger due to SPOON's hunger awareness efforts.
• Today, 100 homeless people had breakfast due to SPOON's community outreach work.

Hunger and malnutrition are a way of life for over 800 million people in the world, almost one-seventh of humanity. The tragedy of the situation is that it doesn’t have to be this way. The world produces enough food to completely hunger in this world; it is one of humanity’s biggest failures that not everyone has access to this food. The Stanford Project on Hunger works to reduce hunger and malnutrition locally, nationally, and internationally. To succeed, it will take the commitment of individuals like you. What did you do today?

Mission statement

Stanford Project on Hunger (SPOON) takes as its mission the widespread reduction of food waste on the Stanford University campus. Unused food leftovers from dining halls, row houses, the faculty club, and special events are channeled to local organizations to meet the hunger needs of community members. SPOON works in addition to spread campus awareness of hunger and homelessness issues with the overall goals of reducing waste and alleviating hunger.

SPOON was founded in 1987 by a group of students who wanted to salvage a bowl of chicken wings. It has since blossomed to be one of, if not, the most decorated student group(s) on campus- earning the Legacy Award and chosen for showcase by the Haas Center for their 20th Anniversary Celebration.