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Local Organizations
Office of Food Justice, City of Boston
The Mayor's Office of Food Justice works to improve the accessibility and affordability of healthy food in Boston.
Daily Table
Founded by Doug Rauch, former president of Trader Joe’s, Daily Table offers fresh produce and grocery items as well as ready-to-cook and grab-n-go prepared meals at truly affordable prices. We do all of this by recovering food from supermarkets, growers and food distributors that would otherwise have been wasted.
Food for Free
Food For Free rescues fresh food—food that might otherwise go to waste—and distributes it within the local emergency food system where it can reach those in need.
Fresh Truck
A repurposed school bus, Fresh Truck is a mobile food market on a mission to support food access and community health in Boston.
Boston Area Gleaners
Our Mission: Boston Area Gleaners, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to rescuing surplus farm crops for people in need.
Our Actions: We distribute high quality produce to food pantries and meal programs by working closely with local farmers, providing volunteer labor to harvest what would otherwise be plowed under.
Our goal: Create a reliable supply chain of surplus produce from local farms to people in need.
The Food Project
Our mission is to create a thoughtful and productive community of youth and adults from diverse backgrounds who work together to build a sustainable food system. Our community produces healthy food for residents of the city and suburbs, provides youth leadership opportunities, and inspires and supports others to create change in their own communities.
Fair Foods
For the past 22 years, Fair Foods has provided healthy produce to low income families in the Boston area. Our unique Two Dollars-a-bag program goes beyond emergency hunger relief, strengthening your dollar to make a healthy diet of fresh fruits and vegetables affordable.
Haley House
Haley House uses food and the power of community to break down barriers between people, transfer new skills, and revitalize neighborhoods. We believe in radical solutions: solving problems at their root by challenging attitudes that perpetuate suffering and by building alternative models.
Food Not Bombs (Boston Chapter)
Food Not Bombs is a world-wide movement made up of over 1,000 independent chapters that provide free food to their local communities. The main ideology of Food Not Bombs is that food is a right, not a privilege. Food Not Bombs provides free vegan meals to the public, regardless of whether one is hungry or food secure. We recognize that there is so much food wasted in this country, and yet people are still starving. We see this as violence.
Fresh Food Generation
We believe that you should be able to eat well regardless of where you live or your level of income. Our food truck enables us to sell food in neighborhoods where healthy options are hard to find. We believe in hiring from within the communities we serve, sourcing from local businesses and farms in and around Boston.
Gaining Ground
Gaining Ground, a non-profit organic farm in Concord, Massachusetts, grows vegetables and fruit with the help of hundreds of community volunteers and donates all of this fresh food to area meal programs and food pantries.
The Greater Boston Food Bank
The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) is the largest hunger-relief organization in New England and among the largest food banks in the country. Last year, we distributed more than 54 million pounds of food, enough to provide healthy meals to over 500,000 people. We are committed to increasing our food distribution to provide at least ONE MEAL A DAY to every person in need in eastern Massachusetts.
New Entry Sustainable Farming Project
New Entry, an initiative of Tufts University’s Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and additional partners, works locally, regionally, and across the country to strengthen local food systems by supporting new farmers. We serve and collaborate with the people, communities, and organizations in Massachusetts, the Northeast, and beyond!
Project Bread
Project Bread brings a fresh approach to ending hunger. These are our goals: to promote sustainable and reliable access to healthy food for all, to invest in the strength and resiliency of local communities, and to collaborate with others in building a robust regional food system.
City Sprouts
The CitySprouts mission is to develop, implement and maintain beautiful, resource-rich school gardens in collaboration with public school communities. Integrated into the curriculum, CitySprouts gardens inspire teachers, students, and families with a deep, hands-on connection to the food cycle, sustainable agriculture, and the natural environment.
The Open Door Food Pantry
The mission of The Open Door is to alleviate the impact of hunger in our community.
We use practical strategies to connect people to good food, to advocate on behalf of those in need, and to engage others in the work of building food security.
Urban Farming Institute of Boston
"The Urban Farming Institute of Boston (UFIB) is a social innovation organization founded in 2012 to support the development of urban farming (the growing of agricultural products for income) in Boston and in other urban areas of Massachusetts.
Building a healthier, more locally based food system is at the heart of UFI’s mission."
Food Insecurity Resources at Boston University
Food @ BU (BU Student Wellbeing)
All students need to feel confident that they can have access to nutritional food. Learning and thriving cannot happen when a student is concerned about where their next meal will come from. Thanks to cross-campus efforts and partnerships, BU is proud to offer several resources for our students.
