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Provide 450 million pounds of food annually to reduce food insecurity and hunger in America.   

Today home food donation programs provide about 4.5 million pounds.   Our objective is to get that to 450 million pounds by the end of 2030.   There are two ways to get this done;  

1. Open 900+ chapters across the country, making the program accessable to >70% of Americans.  Today only about 1% of Americans have access in their area.   
2. Increase density (the % of participation) across all chapters so that 8% - 12% of households in each community are registered and participating.   

One in three single parent households are food insecure right now; We don’t have time on our side, which is why we need to move fast.   Its been said that when you are hungry nothing else matters.     

The solution needs to be sustainable;  it cannot rely on federal funding or big donations.   We need a grass roots system that has ‘near zero cost’ and supported at the household level;  neighbors helping neighbors in their own community.    

Our name says "Simple", we hope you agree its a good word for how it all works.  

1. A donor registers on our site or by scanning a QR code displayed around their community.
2. Our Web App sends the donor an email reminding them the day and time to have the bag on their doorstep.
3. On pick-up day the donor places a bag of shelf-stable pantry foods on their doorstep.   One of our volunteer drivers picks up that bag and leaves an empty reusable bag in its place.
4. That driver takes the bag to a nearby pantry in that same community.

Register;  Donors might receive an email from a friend, neighbor, or a community organization asking them to register.   They click the link and register, which takes about 2 minutes.  

Get the bag ready;   Starting a few days before the pickup date, the donor will get a friendly reminder.   If they wish they can click a link to 'opt out' or they can start filling that bag with foods from their pantry.  

Put the bag on the doorstep;   On the morning if the pickup, set the bag on the doorstep.  If you have a gate or the bag is hidden behind a pot, put that in your Profile Page and the driver will have that information on their route app.  

Driver takes the bag to a nearby pantry;  Some events have dozens of drivers, some more than 100.   The ASG Web App makes that easy.   It provides the driver turn-by-turn directions to complete their route, update the # of bags at each stop, and then directs each one to a specific pantry.   We can deliver to one or one-hundred different pantries during the same event in the same community. 

How effective can something this simple be?    The results are staggering;   In many communities the pantries get 100% of their food from these free programs.   One example is Greensboro, NC where 80,000 lbs of food is donated every month.   Last year 45,000 donors helped these programs bring in more than 4.5 million pounds of food nationwide.      

There are three vital participants to make these programs work;  each play a critical role;

• The donors are any household or business that wants to get involved.   Donors register on our site www.asgeventmanager.com.   Once registered they are reminded about the next pickup day and the specific needs of there nearby pantry.    
• Drivers come from the pool of donors.   As a donor registers we ask them to consider driving.  About one in ten agree, which is more than enough to get the job done.
• Operating Partners are business and social clubs, church groups, or just a group of friends that want to oversee the “Simple Gesture Chapter”.   They use our ‘ASG-helps App’ to plan and operate the pickup events, and run ‘donor drives’ to bring more donors into the programs.