60 & 61. Lisa Helfman & Dr. Shreela Sharma — Cofounders of Brighter Bites
Non-profit Brighter Bites aims to fight childhood obesity in low-income communities by providing free produce, recipes, and bilingual nutrition education.
Since its inception in Texas in 2012, the organisation has provided over 18 million pounds of free produce — donated or reclaimed from food growers, distributors, and food banks — to more than 265,000 people across 125 sites in Houston, Dallas, Austin, New York City, the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, and Southwest Florida.
Using schools as pick-up spots, the founders claim Brighter Bites is the only evidence-based program that both reduces food waste and addresses the public health issue of childhood obesity by increasing access to healthy food and nutrition education among underserved children and their families.
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