Leveraging the Sharing Economy to End Hunger – Unsung.org
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2016
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Food isn't something most Americans think about because for most, food is over abundant.
It's surprising to hear that over 49 million Americans live with food insecurity (meaning these people don't know where their next meal is coming from). Meanwhile, Americans throw 500 billion dollars of food each year!
UNSUNG is leveraging the sharing economy to solve this hunger problem. With the unsung app, if you're a restaurant or a catering service or you just have extra food, log on to their app, describe the food you have available, and it will be picked up and delivered to the needy (you'll get a tax deduction, and save money on your garbage bill, too.
Every meal donated can be seen on their Live Feed. People can view the good deeds being done in their community in real time transparently. Leaderboards and badges show you the most active unsung heroes in your community.
UNSUNG is growing rapidly and has been growing 10% WEEKLY in 2016.
In 2016, Unsung has delivered over 12,000 meals to people in need.
Listen to this exciting story of UNSUNG and don’t forget to share and subscribe to the podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey this is Richard Jacobs with the Future Tech Podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | And today I've got a very interesting guest, Jason King, executive director of Unsung.org,S-G.org. |
| 0:15.0 | Un-S-G-O-O-S-G-O-G-O-G-O-G-O-G-O-G. Un-S-G-O-G. Un-S-G is a non-profit that is trying to bridge the gap |
| 0:18.2 | between hunger and people that are, you know, |
| 0:20.6 | plenty well-fed in the United States States and they're doing this by an app |
| 0:24.3 | that allows people that have food to get it to people that need food but we'll go |
| 0:29.6 | more in depth into that welcome Jason how you doing. |
| 0:31.8 | Hey I'm doing good man. Thanks for having me on the trail. Yeah, I don't know if I described your company nearly as well as you could. Can you get folks to brief rundown of what you do and why? Yeah, sure. |
| 0:44.0 | So I've been a homeless rights advocate for the last four or five years, and in the course of helping |
| 0:49.4 | those in need, I just became blatantly aware of how terrible the food waste situation was in the US and |
| 0:57.0 | the brass tax numbers are that we throw away 537 billion dollars food every year. |
| 1:05.0 | While at the same time we have 49 million Americans living in food insecurity. |
| 1:10.6 | So it's really, it's like the stupidest problem you could have. It's be throwing away half a trillion dollars in food like 50 million people starve. |
| 1:17.0 | So, and un-sung we just tried to make it as easy as possible for restaurants or grocery stores, catering services, |
| 1:26.0 | anyone with excess food to connect that food to people in need. |
| 1:30.0 | And they do that through our network of volunteer drivers. |
| 1:34.6 | So it's the tagline for Unson would be like Uber for feeding the homeless or something like that. |
| 1:41.2 | And that's what we do. |
| 1:41.8 | Okay. That's amazing. |
| 1:44.0 | When you say 49 million Americans have food insecurity, what does that mean? |
| 1:49.0 | Does that mean they're starving or they're hungry or what does that mean? |
| 1:53.0 | So the definition of food insecurity means that for at least one meal of the day, |
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