The app that matches surplus food with the hungry Plenty of businesses throw a ridiculous amount of catering into the garbage every day, often as people go hungry on the streets outside their office buildings. What if there was a push-button way of matching the surplus with the demand? What if an app could actually be useful in this situation? That's the premise behind Copia, a service for on-demand food donations. It offers an easy way for businesses to provide their uneaten food to nearby shelters and other nonprofits that provide food to people in need. For each donation, Copia creates a report that details exactly where the food went, and how many people it fed. Copia charges businesses a fee per each pickup; in return the companies making the donation receive a tax write-off. Copia is operating in the Bay Area only for now — with deliveries up an running San Francisco, Oakland, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Berkeley, San Jose, Santa Clara and Emeryville. The organization says it hopes to expand globally by 2017. See http://ift.tt/293JTdE
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