Who We Are and What We Do

Rock and Wrap It Up! is an anti-poverty think tank working to reduce poverty.  Using greening tactics, we recover food and other assets to be given to agencies fighting poverty, increasing their operating budgets. This allows the agencies to hire more services such as tutors, social workers, job placement counselors and mental health counselors to attack the root cause of poverty. We have helped feed countless millions who hunger in the United States of America.

Music

-Since 1994, we have partnered with over 150 bands that tour and include a stipulation in their contract requiring that food that is prepared but not served not go into landfill. We develop close relationships with bands who work with our development department.

Schools

-Since 1997, over 300 schools nation-wide have started Rock and Wrap it Up! School Programs to empower students to recover food and other assets from their schools for distribution in the local community. Snack Wrap! encourages younger students to share unopened snacks with children in latchkey programs. High School and College students recover food that is prepared but not sold in their schools and share them with agencies in their community who fight poverty. Our asset recovery program recovers assets from graduates and shares them with the local poverty-fighting agencies.

Sports

-Since 2003, 30 sports franchises in the NFL, NBA, WNBA, MLB, NHL and AFL have partnered with Rock and Wrap It Up! to participate in Sports Wrap! Food that is prepared but not sold from home games concessions is recovered to feed the indigent.

Advocacy

-In 2003, Rock and Wrap It Up! was adopted by resolution to serve as a think tank for the United States Conference of Mayors, developing tactics and strategies to help fight hunger. In 2006, Rock and Wrap It Up! formed a Public Advocacy Corp. In November 2007, after researching, writing and introducing an Act to exponentially increase excess food into the national pipeline, the Federal Food Recovery Act of 2008, passed unanimously in the House and Senate. The Act encourages federal buildings to donate food from their restaurants, cafeterias and from outside rentals to feed our nation’s hungry. It was signed into Law by President George W. Bush on June 19th 2008.