Press Room

Media Contact: Anna Cloutier anna@willinghands.org or 802-698-0265

What We Do

Willing Hands recovers fresh food from farms, grocery stores, restaurants, and wholesalers and delivers it year-round, for free, to approximately 80 social service organizations across the Upper Valley of Vermont and New Hampshire. Our work is made possible by a strong and wide network of volunteers, food donors, and recipient organizations. Together, we serve about 30,000 individuals annually with four million servings while mitigating nearly one million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions from food that would have otherwise gone to waste.

2024 by the Numbers

942,854

pounds of food moved

76

recipient organizations

748

volunteers

Willing Hands in the News

Delivering Food and Hope: A Letter from the Executive Director

Welcoming Four New Board Members

A Safer, More Efficient Water Park

Board Member Applications Are Open

Announcing the Sunny Fields Fund

Farmacy Garden: A Collaborative Effort to Foster Food Security

Hanover Co-Op and Willing Hands Earn Award for Hunger Relief Work

CATV Closer Look: Interview with Executive Director Gabe Zoerheide

Media Kit

We are happy to provide additional images upon request!

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Volunteers tend the Willing Hands garden at Cedar Circle Farm in East Thetford. Photo by Brian Wagner

Willing Hands gleaning volunteers harvest surplus broccoli, cabbage and cucumbers at Crossroad Farm in Post Mills, VT. Photo by Carolyn Frye

Operations Manager Chris Castles delivers food to the VA in White River Junction, VT. Photo by Frank Easton

A Hanover Co-Op employee prepares produce for donation to Willing Hands

Willing Hands delivers fresh food year-round to over 80 social service organizations in the Upper Valley. Photo by Frank Easton

Willing Hands gleaning volunteers harvest surplus winter squash at Riverview Farm in Plainfield, NH. Photo by Carolyn Frye