Jasmine Crowe-Houston, Founder & CEO, Goodr - Solving food waste and hunger (with the same app)

Every year we throw away nearly 40% of our nation's food supply – perfectly edible – leaving it to rot in landfills and release harmful greenhouse gasses. Meanwhile, more than 10% of U.S. households are food insecure. Why do we throw this food away instead of getting it to people in need? Hunger isn’t a scarcity problem, it's a logistical one. That’s according to Jasmine Crowe-Houston, the founder and CEO of Goodr, an Atlanta-based startup that’s using technology to fight both battles: food waste and food insecurity. Jasmine joins the podcast to explain how Goodr has built a mobile app that uses delivery partners (like Uber Eats, Roadie, and DoorDash) to redistribute millions of surplus meals from businesses to nonprofits that feed people from Atlanta to Dallas to Denver. She also shares her fundraising experience as a Black female founder and gives advice to social entrepreneurs on how to raise money, pitch a solid business case, scale, and, ultimately, become “a company that can do well by doing good.” 

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