Sharing Excess helped set a new Guinness World Record for the largest donation of fresh produce in 24 hours, redistributing more than 543,000 pounds of surplus fruits and vegetables alongside Canadian partner Odd Bunch.
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Sharing Excess, founded by Drexel alum Evan Ehlers, partnered with Canadian produce group Odd Bunch to redistribute 543,501 pounds of surplus produce in 24 hours, breaking the previous Guinness World Record by more than 49,000 pounds.
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Broadcast coverage of Ugly Potato Day, where Sharing Excess partnered with Odd Bunch to redistribute more than 543,000 pounds of surplus produce in a single day, setting a new Guinness World Record.
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Evan Ehlers, founder and CEO of Sharing Excess, delivered the keynote address at the Samuel A. Green Scholarship Program ceremony, sharing lessons from building a national surplus food redistribution network out of a Drexel dorm room.
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Evan Ehlers explains how Sharing Excess turns young volunteers into long-term supporters through in-person volunteer opportunities and low-friction digital giving. After the organization added Apple Pay as a donation option, online giving surged more than 200 percent.
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Sharing Excess scaled its food deliveries to TSA workers at Philadelphia International Airport from once a week to three to five times weekly, backed by a donation from Firstrust Bank, keeping essential employees supplied with fresh, surplus groceries during a federal funding lapse.
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The Pew Charitable Trusts awarded Sharing Excess $2.8 million over five years to expand its surplus food redistribution network across the Philadelphia region and strengthen the technology and infrastructure behind it.
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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- More than a third of all food produced in the U.S. goes to waste. But Sharing Excess, a nationwide nonprofit right here in Philadelphia, is working to change that and helping get food to those in need. Meteorologist Karen Rogers took a visit...
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Philadelphia-based nonprofit Sharing Excess has launched a website mapping free food locations to support people facing food insecurity as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits run out for millions of Americans.
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Evan Ehlers, founder of Sharing Excess, partnered with Bank of America’s Jim Dever to expand his hunger relief work. The result: redistributing 200 million pounds of food in Philly and beyond.
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We waste nearly 40% of our food supply in the U.S.—over 150 billion pounds every year. But what if there was a better way? Evan Ehlers, founder of Sharing Excess, takes us behind the scenes at the Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market where his team rescues millions of pounds of surplus food that would otherwise be thrown away. This initiative isn’t just about reducing waste, it’s about feeding people, cutting costs for businesses, and creating a movement built on compassion and common sense...
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In America, we waste enough food each year to equal 123 billion meals, according to Feeding America. Yet our national “meal gap,” the total shortage needed to feed every person experiencing food insecurity, is only 9.1 billion meals. If we rescued even ten percent of what we throw away, we could theoretically end hunger in the United States.
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When you see the perfect displays of produce in grocery stores, do you ever wonder whether it’s all sold before it spoils? It isn’t, and stores often pay to send unpurchased produce to landfills. In this episode of “After the Fact,” Evan Ehlers, founder of Sharing Excess, shares how his organization is working to solve what he calls “the world’s dumbest problem.”
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Since Drexel graduate Evan Ehlers started Sharing Excess in 2018, the food rescue nonprofit has established over 2,000 distribution sites across 36 states and helped feed over 10 million people across the country. As the organization's expansion efforts collides with industry challenges from federal funding cuts, Ehlers said the core of its mission remains in Philadelphia...
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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market is the largest fully enclosed and refrigerated produce terminal in the world, a place where you can buy fresh fruits and vegetables from across the globe. When vendors have more of a particular item than they can sell, or perhaps produce that's misshapen, they give it to the food rescue organization, Sharing Excess...
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For Evan Ehlers, the 28-year-old founder and executive director of the food collection and redistribution nonprofit Sharing Excess, one unexpected boost came through YouTube. This past spring, YouTube mega-influencer MrBeast, who has 329 million subscribers and his own foundation, featured Sharing Excess on his philanthropy...
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Hunger is often described as one of the world's dumbest problems, particularly when one considers all the food that goes to waste. But now, one man's hustle is creating change in the Delaware Valley and beyond...
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The popular indie rock band Mt. Joy is teaming up with Sharing Excess for an inspiring canned food drive initiative that will span their entire headline tour this summer and fall. Fans across the nation are encouraged to bring non-perishable food items to Mt. Joy’s concerts, supporting local communities while enjoying the band’s electrifying performances...
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When Darnell Thomas took a job at , Philadelphia’s largest food-rescue organization, he was so excited to help people, he came out of retirement. After a successful career running a printing business and an adjacent nonprofit, Thomas gravitated toward Sharing Excess’ mission: to fight food waste and food insecurity at the same time, saving perfectly good surplus food and redistributing it to organizations who serve those in need.
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There is a new non-profit organization whose focus is on developing efficient ways to turn intermittent oversupply events into a resource for those who might not otherwise be able to afford fresh produce. It is called and was founded by Evan Ehlers...
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Thanks to a new partnership, more excess food from retailers, wholesalers and farmers will make its way to community fridges in the Bronx. Services for the Underserved (S:US) announced last week a partnership with, a nonprofit that “rescues” extra food and redistributes it throughout communities.
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Debuting at #2 on YouTube's globally trending videos, Beast Philanthropy spotlights the founding of Sharing Excess and the partnership between the two organizations that has helped rescue and redistribute over 10 million pounds of food.
Thousands attended the concerts held at the Skyline Stage, including a sold-out first night. Sharing Excess requested fans donate healthy nonperishable items, and they delivered, bringing in lots of soup, granola bars, pasta, and more.
Sharing Excess hits a major milestone with their partner the Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market. The pair has collectively saved over 10 million pounds of produce from reaching landfills..
The funds will allow Sharing Excess to expand its footprint to Baltimore and Washington, D.C., and make key hires in sourcing, fundraising, and technology development...
Heights Philadelphia and Sharing Excess will use the grants to expand their reach in college and career readiness, and in tech-enabled food access, respectively...
As a college student in Philadelphia, Evan Ehlers began sharing his excess meal passes in 2018. Four years later, Ehlers and his cofounder, Victoria Wilson, have built Sharing Excess to a regional non-profit that collects surplus food from grocery stores...
Sharing Excess, a nonprofit that Evan Ehlers and Victoria Wilson launched in 2018 to fight hunger in Philadelphia by diverting food from landfills, is helping more communities than ever...
Sharing Excess, a nonprofit focused on fighting food waste, is giving away thousands of avocados in Philadelphia. Founder Evan Ehlers talks about the effort...
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A nonprofit group in Philadelphia passed out hundreds of thousands of avocados on Wednesday to everyone who drove up in a car at FDR Park and asked for a case...
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The nonprofit Sharing Excess has redistributed 11 million pounds of surplus food that would have gone to landfills...
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Sharing Excess hosts First Lady Frances, Governor Tom Wolf, and PA Secretary of Agriculture Russell Redding at their wholesale rescue operation in the Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market..
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Through their ongoing partnership, Sharing Excess is able to recover edible food and bring it directly to communities. Their volunteers set up pop-up events where community members can choose what they take home...
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Sharing Excess came to be when a Drexel student gave away 50 meals left in his dining account to people in need. He inspired others to join his efforts, which grew to include excess “food rescue” from a network of grocers, restaurants, farmers, and wholesalers.
Last March, as Philly scrambled to adjust our lives to Governor Tom Wolf’s new shutdown orders, Drexel alum and Sharing Excess founder Evan Ehlers realized something: Restaurants prepared for a busy week would suddenly find themselves awash in leftover food. Sharing Excess, the fledgling food rescue nonprofit...
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PHILADELPHIA — After nearly six months of collaborating to provide free fresh produce to low income Philadelphians, the Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market and Sharing Excess have been able to donate 2,039,323 pounds of food back to the community. With food insecurity continuing to impact 38 million...
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Evan Ehlers, an alum from the Charles D. Close School of Entrepreneurship, built Sharing Excess, a nonprofit organization with a mission to address food insecurity in Philadelphia and around the country. Dragons are extraordinary and making a difference in this changing world. Because community can't wait...
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On November 30th, we joined the student-run NGO “Sharing Excess” in their mission of tackling the problem of food insecurity. In communities everywhere, food is going to waste while people suffer from food insecurity. This is a disconnect created by the logistical barriers between excess and scarcity. If solved, this connection...
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Meet the 24-year-old founder of Sharing Excess that is getting good food to the people that need it most during the coronavirus pandemic. (Source: QuickTake)
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On Monday, Philadelphia restaurants responded to Mayor Jim Kenney’s order that they restrict operations to pickup and/or delivery. While some partnered with third-party carriers or prepared to offer curbside delivery, other establishments decided to temporarily close — which creates the potential for a massive amount of food...
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A group of Philly nonprofits has joined together to give back to the community during the coronavirus pandemic. ‘Sharing LOVE’ is providing meals to anyone in need. Philly Live’s Aunyea Lachelle talks to Evan Ehlers about how you can help.
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Sharing Excess is an organization working to fight food insecurity and address the root causes of hunger in Philadelphia, PA. The new nonprofit serves the Philadelphia through its chapters on college campuses across the city. And Sharing Excess is especially devoted to helping college students improve their food security...
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The waste going on in America is immense. Approximately 1/3 of all food produced in the United States (126 billion pounds) is thrown in landfills each year. This waste is due to a variety of reasons like non-standardized expiration dates, aesthetic imperfections, and supply chain inefficiencies.
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Two years ago, the Drexel student donated 50 uneaten dining hall meals to the homeless. Now he’s started a company to share college food excess citywide
Sharing Excess is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Donations are tax-deductible. Nonprofit Tax ID/EIN: 86-2161466. "Sharing Excess" is a registered trademark, all rights reserved.
