PRODUCE
GOOD
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IMPACT
REPORT
2023
ProduceGood is building an active and engaged community committed to finding sustainable solutions to alleviate hunger, reclaim and repurpose waste and promote the health and well being of all.
2023 IN
PRODUCE
GOOD
REVIEW
167 TONS
DIVERTED FROM
THE LANDFILL
334,000 POUNDS
OF PRODUCE
RESCUED
83 METRIC TONS OF
GREENHOUSE GAS
EMISSIONS AVOIDED
1,000,000 EQUAL TO 9,400
SERVINGS GALLONS OF
GASOLINE
PROVIDED
1 COMMUNITY AT
OUR CORE
Our Harvest Hero Volunteers
1,400 volunteers this year, with a special thanks to our volunteer bosses Vann Parker Adam Austin Amy Stephens Nathan Cobb Michelle Bitto April Wensel Bernie Enriquez Jenny Luce Diane Panella Mehul Patel Eric Swenson Tom Venturino Elizabeth Watson Regina Meyer Molly Lam Traci West Bob Bjorkquist Barbara Bandhauer Ginger Ports Navi Parmar Coquette DuVal Paulette Schindele Pam Drew Stefanie Irwin Yuting Shen Steve Hollenbeck Ming Lai Susan Kobara Natasha Shapiro Susan Wingate Sandra Dopierala Kaytlyn Harris Anna Bowden Amanda Clardy Mary Hassing Debbie Dahlquist Colleen Lemke Ernesto Fernandez Carrie Phair Amy McClenahan Karen Lare Ronald Eng Peggy Sennett Karen Gross Nori Hepler Lisa Whittemore Emily Goss Rosa Chavez Joy Johnson Stevo Vuletic Stacey Glick Gilbert Acosta Connie Gonczy Shack Fisher Margaret Ohara Mark Riedler David Mackintosh Veronica Holmes Karen Osgood Tessa Wang Carol Farrell Viviane Osterwalder Susan Gilik Jeff Kucharski Dave Adams Our Cream of the Crop Growers, Farmers & Grocers
Thank you to 2023's 217 backyard growers, farmers and grocery partners Backyards
Most Pounds: Paulo Pinto/ Wygod Family - 37,292 Ibs | 111,876 svgs Most Picks Commercial: The Bridges RFS (17) - 9,335 Ibs | 28,005 svgs Most Picks Residential: Angela McCourt (8) - 4,545 Ibs | 13,635 svgs Most Self Picks: Dee Boukouzis (5) - 455 Ibs | 1,365 svgs Farms & Fields
Most Farmers Market Pounds: Rodney Kawano - 9,575 Ibs | 28,725 svgs Most BumperCrop Pounds: Yasukochi Family Farm - 49,134 Ibs | 147,402 svgs Most Pounds Citrus Orchard: Amy Wright - 1,268 Ibs | 3,804 svgs MARKET
Grocers
Jimbo's (Escondido, Carlsbad & Carmel Valley): 48,313 Ibs | 144,939 svgs Costco (Carlsbad): 6,740 Ibs | 20,220 svgs
2 FINANCIALS
Total Revenue and % by Category
$733,641* Corporate
7.6%
Org/Foundation
GIK Produce+ 7.6%
31.8%
Individuals
19.6%
Program Services
12.2%
Government
21.2%
Expenses by Category
$650,282* Fundraising
6.0%
Administration
6.0%
Operations
88.0%
*Includes gift in-kind produce & other donated goods
3 DEEPENING OUR ROOTS
57 SB1383 Edible Food Recovery and Community Outreach
TONS With CropCircle partners: Oceanside, Escondido, Chula Vista and Encinitas 9 MarketShare Expansion with CalRecycle Funding
SOURCES Markets: Leucadia, La Jolla, Hillcrest, Oceanside, Solana Beach Grocers: Jimbo's (3 locations), Costco (1 location)
167 Increased capacity, highest pounds and servings to date TONS Made possible by individual donors and grant makers Excess to Access in SD County Food Deserts
214,134 JEM Project, Kroger Foods Zero Waste-Zero Hunger, SDG&E Environmental SERVINGS Champions, City of San Marcos COVID Relief, Hervey Foundation, San Diego County Supervisor District 3
23 Field to Family Community Food Project (NIFA)
NEW USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture
PARTNERS Launched Community Food Drop produce boxes (106) with nutritional education, in collaboration with feeding partner PlusBox
CROP CIRCLE
Crop Circle City partnerships bring
ProduceGood together with cities to
meet the state goals on climate CITY OF
CHULA VISTA
change, environment, justice, equity,
and sustainability. We do this through
food recovery, community outreach,
education, and supply.
Encinitas
Senate Bill 1383 requires that by 2025 California will recover 20% of edible food surplus to feed food insecure individuals and families. Organic waste in landfills emits 20% of the state's methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. ESCONDIDO
City of Choice
Over 338,000 servings were supplied
to food insecure communities
in our CropCircle cities OCEANSIDE
US.
FEEDING
15 PARTNERS
Thank you for nourishing 90,000 San Diegans with fresh, nutritious produce CropCircle City Partners
Oceanside • Bayside Community Center
Boys & Girls Club Oceanside • ElderHelp
Brother Benno Foundation • Heaven's Windows
BCDI- Plant People • Hope Through Housing - Multiple
Paige's Pantry UrbanCorps
Helping Hand • Alpha Project for the Homeless
Calvary Chapel Oceanside St Leos
El Camino High School PlusBox
Mission San Luis Rey • Jewish Family Services
Oceanside High School Pantry UCSD Triton Food Pantry
Hope Through Housing - Multiple Fallbrook Food Pantry
North County LGBTQ Resource Center We All We Got San Diego Grandma Lulu's Table
SIATech High School
Interfaith Community Services San Marcos Seventh Day Adventist San Marcos Boys & Girls Club
Escondido Tables of Hope and Justice
Hope Through Housing - Multiple Feeding San Diego
The Fellowship Center Indian Health Council
The Foundry Church North County Food Bank
Interfaith Community Services Wings Recovery Center
San Diego Youth Services
Encinitas Operation HOPE North County
Community Resource Center o
North County Mutual Aid
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church Boys & Girls Club Vista
St John Catholic Church Leah's Pantry
Southern California Tribal Chairman's
Chula Vista
Association
CRF South Bay
Boys & Girls Club Bressi Ranch
ECS Head Start
Southern Indian Health Council
Monthly Bounty/ MarketShare Partner
6 GENEROUS
DONORS
Thank you to our Gving
Tree of individual and
Evergreen Orchard Blueberry Bounty
family donors who
$30,000 Giving Level $5,000 Giving Level sustain our programs Kirk Gilson Ronald Eng & Emilie Yanagi and community impact The Hervey Family Jim Putnam year on year.
The Hunter-Wellborn Family Carole & Jerry Turk
Golden Valencia
$10,000 Giving Level DUCE PRODU Orange Blossom
Paul and Margaret Citron $1,000 Giving Level
Roger & Brenda Cole Sarah Smith
Maxine Hesse Beatrice Shushan
Patricia Moore & Helmut Kiffman Susan Robinson
Carol & Vann Parker 4 Julia Rogers
Angela & Sonia Steinway Mimi Plouf
Claire & Michael Taulbee Christine Shore-Fitzgerald
Maureen Hoffman Roger Johnson
Steve & Kathleen Hollenbeck
Plum Harvest Beverly Goodman
$2,500 Giving Level Cynthia & Larry Fields
Anthea & Gary Beletsis Trisha Lansing
Nita Kurmins Gilson Karen MacLeod
Jo Ann Ross
Caitlin & John Holleran
Karen & Eddie Lare Stephanie Bergsma
Pietro Rotundi Family Tiffany Hornsten
Ruth & Ben Simon Anne Caney
Benjamin Weiss Holly Hoffman
Alexandra White & Mark Picard
Jerilyn & Clarke White Giving Tree Donor 7
Key Lime
Up to $1,000 Giving Level
Shane Stahl Habib Hariri Stephanie Brown Pamela Spain
Sang Lineback Alma Montes Calvin Eng Satoda Family
Sammy Crane-Solis Marjorie Fox Casandra Davis Y Navi Parmar Tracey Franks Daniel Allevato Cynthia Acree Susan Namba Julia Hess Hilary Haskell y Vishal Patel John Sandahl
Babu Jayaraman Mitchell Nguyen Gail Stevens Cristi Page Paulette Schindele Yanira Alonso Kellin Nicolleti James Linn Felicia Tobias Susan Kobara Christi White Denise & Paul Fejtek Amy McClenahan Dana Withall Stacey White & Martin Matthew Lum Y Stephanie Van Zant Mimi Plouf Katzmann Vidya Murthy
Paige DeCino Tomoko Matsubayashi Nicole Squires Courtney Svaijan Scott Matney Marilyn Cohen Janey Mason Noel Carr
Terry Gaasterland Lisa Schmidt Fiona Hardy Judy Fitzgerald Sheri Pascal Shelly Lewis Justin Joseph Wendy Darling
Michael Willliams Phyllis McClure Melissa Lee Sara Westermann Dennis Frate Merle Lambeth Heather Gorgura Judy Randall Y Kindra Mitchell Margaret Cahill Brett Cornelius Linda Riles Jessica Williams Susan Wortmann Joan Campognolo Jamie Keyser Cindy Sanchez Jay Evarts Julie Miller Diana Ambrose
Corabelle Zeleste Montes Wes & Kathy Anderson Eduardo Carnalla Phyllis Williams Ricardo Montes Chris Frederick Amy Lerner Jaquilyn Venstrom Susan Bedford Kathleen Henry Richard Jaross Donald Abel Alejandra Santana Betsy McHenry Gordon Li Yuri Kaneda
Dominique Dashwood Renee Juarez Cosette Lare Wayne Williams Drew Keske Donna Nauss Hayley Hirsh Nancy Shimamoto
Tina Sach Mayra Benitez Morgan Justice-Black Ashley Mullen JL Gonzalez Mike Juarez Maryanne & John Phillips y PK Aaron Jhobany Garcia Cristian Manzano Melanie Spiegelman Ariel Anderson Branden Patterson Dylan Imlay Abbey Chamberlain Paul & Marie Cascone Clare Cornelius Camille Pederson Katie McEvilly Sandy Cornelius Ann Pederson
8 COMMUNITY
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PARTNERSHIP
Sponsors/Donors Grant Makers
Precision for Medicine CalRecycle Edible Food Recovery
US Bank USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture North County Association of Realtors San Diego Foundation SDG&E/SEMPRA City of San Marcos Covid Relief
Athena Foundation The Hervey Foundation
Bristol Farms/Lazy Acres The JEM Project
Insights 4 Results Kroger/Ralphs - Zero Waste/Zero Hunger Jennings Charitable Fund SD County Supervisors
Pioneer Church SDG&E Environmental Champions
ToucanEd Inc. Solana Beach Eco Rotary
The Harbaugh Foundation
Satoda Family Fund
In-Kind Supporters First Pick and Special
Partnerships
Local Roots Kombucha
Costco SDG&E
Jimbo's Rancho Valencia Resort
Thorn Brewing North Park HandsOn San Diego
Lazy Acres Marriott Hotels
ImpactCubed- The Hive Deloitte
GelatoLove Dentsu
Populist Pops Lytx
Isabelle Brien's French Pastry Cafe ASCM San Diego Chapter California State University San Marcos UCSD Professor Lerner Simon Tanksley City of San Diego
Bro-Am Teen Volunteers in Action Encinitas
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GRATITUDE FOR OUR...
Staff
Alexandra White, Co-Founder, Co-ED
Nita Kurmins Gilson, Co-Founder, Co-ED
Shannon Pritchett, Resource Program Lead SUNSHINE
Mackenzie Anderson, Program Development Lead
Clare Cornelius, Community Engagement Lead
Dominique Dashwood, Upcycler Program Lead (2023)
Service Providers
Tomoko Matsubayashi, Photography/Web
Nathan Wauthier, Accounting
Janard Sutton, Videography
Munger & Associates, CPAs Board Members & Advisors
Claire Taulbee, President
Steve Hollenbeck, President Emeritus
Navjyot Parmar, Vice President
Angela Steinway, Treasurer
Ronald Eng, Secretary
Caitlin Holleran, Director
Morgan Justice-Black, Director
Derrick Robinson (Ph.D.), Director
Yanira Frias Alonso, Director
Matthew Lum, Director
Casandra Davis, Director
Jerilyn White, Donor Gratitude Advisor/PG Co-Founder
Maxine Hesse, Grower Ambassador Advisor
Makana Rowen, Gov and JEDI Advisor
Namita Thakker, Legal Advisor
10 Karen Osgood, HR Advisor
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How do we ProduceGood?
Our Bumper Crop Our CropSwap
program gives program gives
volunteers the volunteers the
opportunity to work with opportunity to glean
farm staff to learn how to fresh fruit donated
properly pick, handle and by homeowners for
prepare produce to transport and
benefit designated distribution by our
feeding organizations. participating feeding
partners.
ORENGE
On the farm In the field
Our Market Share Grocery Gleaning
program gives teams gives volunteers the
of volunteers the opportunity to sort
opportunity to recover and glean fresh fruits
unsold produce from and vegetables from
participating market local grocery store
vendors and ensure its locations weekly and
delivery to local food deliver this bounty to
pantries. our partner agencies
in Diego County.
At the market I Grocery gleaning
How can YOU help ProduceGood?
VOLUNTEER TIME
If you are looking for a meaningful way to give back, volunteer with ProduceGood. It's a fun, fulfilling opportunity to build community and help food-insecure children and adults in San Diego County!
SPIRITE
SHARE BOUNTY
If you have fruit trees, or excess produce, and hate seeing the waste, donate your surplus to Produce Good for supply to our Charitable Fresh Produce Provision Network. Your tax-exempt harvest will be divert- ed from the landfill and provided to hungry San Diegans!
GIVE MONEY PRODUCE
If you love our mission, make a financial contribution at GOOD www.producegood.org. Your tax-deductible donation will help fuel the programs that reduce waste and hunger throughout San Diego County! Sharing has never been sweeter! www.producegood.org
[email protected]
Funded by a grant from the Department of 760.492.3467
CalRecycle 2 Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) ProduceGood is a 501(c)3 nonprofit #47-2289712
Too Much Fruit?
Feed Your Community!
Sharing has never been sweeter!
If you have too much fruit on your trees,
consider donating your bounty to
ProduceGood, a San Diego food
recovery nonprofit. Contact us via email
or phone and we will work to get you
on our schedule. Our volunteers will
glean your fruit and donate to a local
food bank.
And if you have neighbors with
low-hanging fruit, feel free to hang this
on their door!
PRODUCE
GOOD
www.producegood.org
[email protected]
760.492.3467
ProduceGood is a 501(c)3 nonprofit # 47-2289712
Funded by a grant from the
Department of Resources Recycling
CalRecycle 2 and Recovery (CalRecycle) through
California Climate Investments
PRODUCE
GOOD
Mackenzie Anderson
Community Orchard
Program Lead
760.492.3467
[email protected]
www.producegood.org
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