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Founded in 2025, Sur+ is fiscally sponsored by the Greater Washington Community Foundation as we await official 501(c)(3) nonprofit status. We're in our pre-launch phase — building our team, infrastructure, and systems to launch in Fall 2025.
Your support fuels more than a bold new effort — it powers the foundation for a food system that’s equitable, efficient, and scalable. As an early partner, you’re co-creating a movement that will grow to serve thousands.
Every dollar you contribute helps activate a broader network, unlocking surplus food from businesses, drawing in community allies, and attracting support. It sets powerful change in motion, multiplying value and accelerating progress.
Feel good knowing your support tackles two urgent issues — hunger and climate change — through one powerful partnership with Sur+.
Every $1 invested returns $4 to society through environmental, health, and hunger relief benefits.
Unlike many food rescue efforts that rely on volunteers, we’re investing in local jobs and lasting food systems.
For every ton of food recovered, we stop 3.8 metric tons of CO₂e emissions and 1,800+ gallons of water waste.
Food recovery is 10x more cost-effective than producing new food to meet the same need.
We throw away 120 billion meals a year — nearly 1/3 of all food produced. Meanwhile, 48 million Americans struggle to eat. That's the entire population of Spain. Right here at home in the DMV region, 4 billion meals are wasted as 2.4 million neighbors face hunger -- a line of people circling the Capital Beltway 6 times.
And yet, businesses donate just 2% of this edible surplus.
Reducing hunger and waste by connecting surplus food to unmet demand using smart logistics and technology.
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