Jasmine Crowe, an HBCU alumna who is working to make the world a better place by reducing food waste and ending hunger. She has hosted activations in more than 20 US cities and the UK, South Africa and Haiti and has has collected and donated over 2 million items to causes worldwide and fed over 80,000 people through the Sunday Soul Homeless feeding initiative. Through her years of work feeding vulnerable populations she saw a great opportunity for technology to solve a real problem – hunger. She found that nearly 75 billion pounds of perfectly good food is wasted every year in America – which amounts to about $218 billion a year spent in the U.S. on food that people never eat.
“Hunger is not an issue of scarcity; it’s a matter of logistics.” — JASMINE CROWE - FOUNDER & CEO, GOODR, INC.
In January of 2017, she created Goodr, a tech enabled sustainable food waste management company with a goal to eliminate hunger and reduce food waste. Goodr is a startup that leverages blockchain technology and Google Maps to bring surplus food from the businesses that have it to the nonprofits and people that need it. Under Jasmine’s direction, Goodr has now diverted nearly two million pounds of food from landfill and serves clients including: Atlanta’s Hartsfield Jackson Airport, SAP, NFL, The Georgia World Congress Center, Netflix and more. The mission of Goodr is simple, Feed More, Waste Less. The company now operates in six cities and growing with a goal to be in 20 cities by 2020.
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