Donate Food and/or Assets to help feed the hungry
Do you have assets to donate that could help feed the hungry and fight poverty?
If you are a sports team or league, hotel, music company or band, film crew or television network, school or university or any other organization that could donate food and other assets to help fight poverty, please contact us via the form below or call Diane Mandelbaum at 1 (877) 691-FOOD
NOTE: Contributing organizations will...
- incur no additional financial costs
- incur no human resource commitment
- be protected by law to donate food without liability. (Details below)
Rock and Wrap It Up! encourages donation of the following categories of goods:
- Food
- Paper Products
- Baby Items
- Toiletries
- Cleaning Products
We award the Rock and Wrap It Up! Seal of Distinction to companies and corporations who work with us towards reducing their carbon footprint, while fighting poverty. We encourage consumers to look for our logo and support establishments who proudly display it.
US and Canadian Food Donors: You are protected by the law!
The Good Samaritan Law
On October 1, 1996, President Clinton signed the Good Samaritan Food Donation Act to encourage the donation of food to non-profit organizations for distribution to needy individuals. This Act:
- Protects donors from civil and criminal liability should the product donated in good faith later cause harm to the needy recipient
- Standardizes donor liability exposure across all 50 states
- Sets a liability floor of “gross negligence” or intentional misconduct for persons who donate grocery products
- States that the provision of food close to recommended date of sale is, in and of itself, not grounds for finding gross negligence
Donation of Food Act (Canada, 1994)
The director, agent, employee or volunteer of a corporation that donates food or that distributes food is not personally liable for any damages resulting from injuries or death caused by the consumption of food unless:
- (a)The food was adulterated, rotten or otherwise unfit for human consumption; and
- (b)In donating or distributing the food, the director, agent, employee or volunteer:
- (i)Did not act in good faith
- (ii)Acted beyond the scope of his or her role; and
- (iii)Intended to injure or to cause the death of the recipient of the food or acted with reckless disregard for the safety of others
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