It facilitates the donation of food waste from farms, restaurants and grocery stores to shelters and charities that can use it.
The nonprofit was founded in 2011 by Kiran Sridhar, then a 12-year-old 7th grader at a Bay Area school, as a way to improve the distribution of food and reduce waste.
Sridhar received the Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes in 2014, at the age of 16.
[3] PayPal provided funding and engineers to help launch the initiative, which also had partners in Appcelerator and Winwire.
[5] Waste No Food was initially focused in the Silicon Valley area and expanded to San Francisco.