Artist and Member of the Share My Meals Community Joins Inclusion Program

Princeton, NJ — June 23, 2020 — Marina Vorojeykina Ahun, a Princeton fine art artist born in the former Soviet Union, has always managed to rebuild her life. Once, after being persecuted for her Christian Orthodox faith in Uzbekistan and immigrating to the U.S., and again, after a fire destroyed everything she owned. With the […]

Video: Why Volunteering for Share My Meals? Meet Glenn

  Gleen Wright is one of the 40 volunteers working for Share My Meals.In this video, we meet him as he’s picking-up trays of prepared meals from the Trattoria Procaccini, one of the three restaurants cooking for the Princeton community in need. Glenn has been delivering food for Share My Meals since April 2020.He said […]

Update on the Share My Meals Operations:

Share My Meals, which only started its activities in January 2020, became a mid-size organization run by seven board members and a team of 35 volunteers. As our workload has considerably increased, we are currently working on a plan to include talented people from the community we serve to our daily operations and to make […]

Update on the Community we Serve

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We are delighted to inform you that some of the people we have helped at the peak of the pandemic have temporarily withdrawn themselves from our program or have asked to reduce the frequency of the meals delivered now that they are back to work and less in need.  At the same time, we are […]

Discover our Innovative Onboarding Process

At Share My Meals we have designed an innovative onboarding process to help volunteers join our nonprofit organization. Stan has designed several digital tracks to ease the volunteers’ application. We use online solutions such as Google Form, Zapier’s automation for web services integrations, Trello, and Mailchimp automation to streamline the initial volunteer communication and document […]

Princeton Restaurants Contribute to Share My Meals Fundraising

Since the pandemic and the closing of corporations and university cafeterias, Share My Meals had to rely on fundraising to compensate for rescued meals. In less than a week the generous customers of the Meeting House have contributed to providing 13 family menus for five people, the equivalent of 65 meals. The Meeting House is […]

Princeton Nonprofit Share My Meals Launches a Fundraising for Memorial Day

1000 Meals before the End of Memorial Day Weekend Princeton, NJ – Wednesday, May 13, 2020 — Princeton, known for its prestigious university and diversity of businesses, hides an unfortunate reality: a significant food insecure population, who are being disproportionately affected by the COVID-19. Every day Share My Meals distributes over 300 meals to more than 60 […]

Princeton Nonprofit Share My Meals Addresses Food Insecurity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Princeton, NJ — Tuesday, May 5, 2020 — Share My Meals, a Princeton NJ based organization, is purchasing 300 meals per day from Princeton restaurants to distribute to people in the community who are experiencing food insecurity. Founded in January 2020, the Share My Meals original model involved rescuing and distributing healthy cooked meals from […]