Keep a route moving
Support transportation, scheduling, safe-handling supplies, and documented distribution.
Six-month capacity campaign
Fund the food rescue network
Help turn the first load into a dependable system.
NEEDS has received its first 24-pallet distribution load into Los Angeles cold storage. The next step is not a bigger promise. It is the people, routes, storage, receiver capacity, and reporting needed to move food responsibly.
What has already happened
A real load. Real costs. A real operating decision.
24Pallets received in Los Angeles
$1,810Initial transport, handling, and two weeks of storage
$250KNet six-month capacity objective
5Markets in the staged roadmap
The first Los Angeles costs were funded privately. NEEDS is now building the operating capacity to distribute responsibly, establish receiver routes, and stop relying on personal funding.
Net use of funds
Every dollar has a job.
This is the six-month deployment plan for $250,000 retained by NEEDS. Fundraising and processing costs are reported separately and do not count toward the goal.
Staffing costs$70,000
Bookkeeping and administration$10,000
Governance, legal, accounting, insurance$20,000
Los Angeles operations$55,000
Confidential restaurant pilot$35,000
Dallas and Oklahoma City readiness$30,000
Website, CRM, and reporting$15,000
Operating reserve$15,000
Total net deployment$250,000
Fund an outcome
Choose the capacity you want to unlock.
Stabilize one market
Help fund people, storage, receiver onboarding, and the first repeatable operating cycles.
Build the network layer
Underwrite leadership, multi-market readiness, reporting, and a six-month operating bridge.
Give once or monthly
Unrestricted support covers the gaps restricted grants and donated inventory cannot.
Major gifts and sponsorships
Start with a practical funding conversation.
NEEDS can coordinate ACH, check, donor-advised-fund recommendations, company contributions, restricted sponsorships, reporting expectations, and appropriate recognition.
- One founding network partner at $100,000 net
- Two market partners at $50,000 net each
- Five route or receiver-capacity partners at $10,000 net each
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How funding is reported
Gross is not the same as usable.
Gross received
Cash deposited and settled through NEEDS-approved channels.
Fundraising costs
Processing and any approved relationship-specific acquisition costs are shown separately.
Net available
The amount that counts toward the $250,000 operating roadmap.
Readiness gates
Money alone does not activate a market; storage, transport, receivers, safety, leadership, and reporting must also be ready.