Thousands attended the concerts held at the Skyline Stage, including a sold-out first night. Sharing Excess requested fans donate healthy nonperishable items, and they delivered, bringing in lots of soup, granola bars, pasta, and more.
Sharing Excess hits a major milestone with their partner the Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market. The pair has collectively saved over 10 million pounds of produce from reaching landfills..
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The funds will allow Sharing Excess to expand its footprint to Baltimore and Washington, D.C., and make key hires in sourcing, fundraising, and technology development...
Heights Philadelphia and Sharing Excess will use the grants to expand their reach in college and career readiness, and in tech-enabled food access, respectively...
As a college student in Philadelphia, Evan Ehlers began sharing his excess meal passes in 2018. Four years later, Ehlers and his cofounder, Victoria Wilson, have built Sharing Excess to a regional non-profit that collects surplus food from grocery stores...
Sharing Excess, a nonprofit that Evan Ehlers and Victoria Wilson launched in 2018 to fight hunger in Philadelphia by diverting food from landfills, is helping more communities than ever...
Sharing Excess, a nonprofit focused on fighting food waste, is giving away thousands of avocados in Philadelphia. Founder Evan Ehlers talks about the effort...
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A nonprofit group in Philadelphia passed out hundreds of thousands of avocados on Wednesday to everyone who drove up in a car at FDR Park and asked for a case...
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The nonprofit Sharing Excess has redistributed 11 million pounds of surplus food that would have gone to landfills...
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Sharing Excess hosts First Lady Frances, Governor Tom Wolf, and PA Secretary of Agriculture Russell Redding at their wholesale rescue operation in the Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market..
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Through their ongoing partnership, Sharing Excess is able to recover edible food and bring it directly to communities. Their volunteers set up pop-up events where community members can choose what they take home...
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Sharing Excess came to be when a Drexel student gave away 50 meals left in his dining account to people in need. He inspired others to join his efforts, which grew to include excess “food rescue” from a network of grocers, restaurants, farmers, and wholesalers.
Last March, as Philly scrambled to adjust our lives to Governor Tom Wolf’s new shutdown orders, Drexel alum and Sharing Excess founder Evan Ehlers realized something: Restaurants prepared for a busy week would suddenly find themselves awash in leftover food. Sharing Excess, the fledgling food rescue nonprofit...
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PHILADELPHIA — After nearly six months of collaborating to provide free fresh produce to low income Philadelphians, the Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market and Sharing Excess have been able to donate 2,039,323 pounds of food back to the community. With food insecurity continuing to impact 38 million...
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Evan Ehlers, an alum from the Charles D. Close School of Entrepreneurship, built Sharing Excess, a nonprofit organization with a mission to address food insecurity in Philadelphia and around the country. Dragons are extraordinary and making a difference in this changing world. Because community can't wait...
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On November 30th, we joined the student-run NGO “Sharing Excess” in their mission of tackling the problem of food insecurity. In communities everywhere, food is going to waste while people suffer from food insecurity. This is a disconnect created by the logistical barriers between excess and scarcity. If solved, this connection...
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Meet the 24-year-old founder of Sharing Excess that is getting good food to the people that need it most during the coronavirus pandemic. (Source: QuickTake)
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On Monday, Philadelphia restaurants responded to Mayor Jim Kenney’s order that they restrict operations to pickup and/or delivery. While some partnered with third-party carriers or prepared to offer curbside delivery, other establishments decided to temporarily close — which creates the potential for a massive amount of food...
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A group of Philly nonprofits has joined together to give back to the community during the coronavirus pandemic. ‘Sharing LOVE’ is providing meals to anyone in need. Philly Live’s Aunyea Lachelle talks to Evan Ehlers about how you can help.
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Sharing Excess is an organization working to fight food insecurity and address the root causes of hunger in Philadelphia, PA. The new nonprofit serves the Philadelphia through its chapters on college campuses across the city. And Sharing Excess is especially devoted to helping college students improve their food security...
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The waste going on in America is immense. Approximately 1/3 of all food produced in the United States (126 billion pounds) is thrown in landfills each year. This waste is due to a variety of reasons like non-standardized expiration dates, aesthetic imperfections, and supply chain inefficiencies.
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Two years ago, the Drexel student donated 50 uneaten dining hall meals to the homeless. Now he’s started a company to share college food excess citywide
