Our App: Tech Innovation
The VFR app (powered by Food Rescue Hero™) can mobilize thousands of volunteer food drivers with the touch of a screen. The app is an end-to-end system that matches food donors to nonprofit beneficiaries and engages a community of volunteers to transport food efficiently and cost-effectively between locations.
How it Works
Our innovative Vancouver Food Runners app (powered by Food Rescue Hero™) is an end-to-end system that matches food donors to nonprofit partners and mobilizes volunteers to efficiently and cost-effectively transport food between locations.
Once there is a match between a food donation and a nonprofit partner that would like to receive it, the Vancouver Food Runners app alerts nearby volunteers of the available food rescue opportunity.
The app guides volunteers through the rescue, providing built-in navigation and delivery verification, so volunteers can easily complete their rescue.
We provide Vancouver food businesses with a free and simple way to redirect their surplus to those who are food insecure.
From the businesses that generously donate their surplus food, to the dedicated volunteer drivers that provide the transportation, to the nonprofit partners who help us distribute the food to those in need, our food recovery program is a true community effort.
Tracking Our Impact
The Food Rescue Hero platform combines technology, last-mile logistics, and community engagement to create a new food recovery and redistribution network that effectively delivers fresh and highly perishable food directly to those who need it most.
We can easily measure our impact through the VFR app, which tracks the following metrics at the overall program level and at the individual volunteer level:
Pounds of food delivered
Equivalent meals provided
Type of food provided
CO2 equivalent mitigated from the environment
All food business, nonprofit partner, and volunteer data
Volunteering has Never Been This Easy
Watch our step-by-step tutorial on how to claim your first food rescue.
With the Vancouver Food Runners app, you can volunteer as much or as little as you’d like. You can claim a weekly food rescue that allows you to volunteer every week at the same time, or you can claim a one-time food rescue that suits you schedule.
Going away? No problem! Through the VFR app, you can easily request a substitute driver.
Ready to Become a Food Rescue Hero?
Download the VFR app for free to get started!
