Subject:	Short "pitch" you can use as you are reaching out to your network 


In the one minute it will take to read this, America will lose 190K lbs. of food.

Over the next 24 hours, the loss will fill the Rose Bowl.

Half will be fresh produce

Meanwhile....

One in six families rely on a food pantry.   Food pantries cannot get fresh produce. 

This is contributing to the skyrocketing growth of Type II diabetes, childhood obesity and cardiovascular 
disease which impact the nation to the tune of $1.03 trillion per year. 
  
Getting excess locally grown fresh food into the local food safety net is the low hanging fruit to start 
attacking these costly chronic problems.  

AmpleHarvest.org, founded by a CNN Hero, found a way to make it happen. 

It is bridging America’s 42 million home/community gardeners to nearby food pantries, enabling them 
to donate their excess produce for the first time.

Because of its innovative design, distributed logistics and leveraging legacy infrastructure, no other 
program comes close to offering the same multiplier effect.

An economist from Cisco recently valued the organization’s impact on the economy in 2012 at $197M.  
 
AmpleHarvest.org has game changing consequences for the future of the country at a far lower cost 
than any other program because instead of just feeding people, it’s actually solving a problem – enabling 
excess supply to meet demand by permanently and sustainably opening up the flood gate of freely 
available locally grown fresh food.

AmpleHarvest.org has been lauded by the White House, received numerous awards and extensive 
media coverage.  

While you were reading this, America lost $306K worth of food.



Contact information:
Gary Oppenheimer
AmpleHarvest.org Founder/Executive Director
973-409-4093
gary@AmpleHarvest.org