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Rich Armenia - The World Doesn't Have a Food Shortage. It Has a Logistics Problem
Rich Armenia - The World Doesn't Have a Food Shortage. It Has a Logistics Problem
<p><i>A conversation with Rich Armenia, Executive Director of Feeding Charlotte.</i></p><p>Nearly 40% of the U.S. food supply ends up in a landfill. In Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, roughly 120,000 people are food insecure. Rich Armenia calls that "the dumbest problem we could possibly have," and he built an organization around fixing it.</p><p>I sat down with Rich on the Funding the Future Now podcast to talk about food rescue, volunteer retention, and why he refuses to tell donors he is ending hunger.</p>