PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Brown University men’s water polo players Will Collier (Sr., Darien, Conn./Hopkins School) and Aidan Reilly (Jr., Los Angeles, Calif./Loyola) along with tennis athlete Ben Collier join Bears’ Social Media expert Scott Cordischi to talk about how they have made a difference during the Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic via The FarmLink Project.
Since the group started in April, it has grown to a team of 20 students and recent graduates from University of Southern California, Dartmouth College, Stanford University, the Harvard School of Business and Cornell University, along with a network of volunteers.
So far, the group has moved more than 239,000 pounds of food from farmers to food banks and paid more than $4,500 in wages, according to its website.
FarmLink is helping to reduce food waste by raising money to purchase the excess food from farmers, and rerouting the deliveries to food bank distributor partners. In April, the group completed its first delivery, which consisted of 50,000 pounds of onions from a farm in Oregon.
As of May 8, FarmLink has moved food in Idaho, Oregon, Utah, California, North Carolina, and Virginia and has plans to start working in Texas, Wyoming, New York, Michigan and the New England area. The group is aiming to move at least one million pounds of food by the end of May and five million pounds by the end of the summer.
To donate, visit https://thefarmlinkproject.org/.
For more information on the project, email contact@thefarmlinkproject.org
