July 13, 2000 | Read Time: 1 minute
America’s Second Harvest has received a multimillion-dollar grant to improve its technology infrastructure.
Over the next three years, the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, in Las Vegas, will give the network of more than 200 food banks and food-rescue programs $7-million for its Enterprise Project.
Through the project, America’s Second Harvest will replace the 10-year-old software system that the national office currently uses to allocate food donations and coordinate transportation, and will provide new inventory and financial-management software to each of its affiliates.
The goal of the Enterprise Project is to use technology to decrease the amount of time it takes to process, allocate, and transport large food donations to affiliates — and to make it easier for food companies to make such donations.
With the charity’s current phone- and fax-based system, it takes an average of six or seven days after a food company calls America’s Second Harvest for a truck to arrive at the company’s warehouse to pick up the donation. The charity expects to cut that down to four days or less by automating the donation-processing system.
To get there: Go to http://www.secondharvest.org.
