2024 AGO International Gleaning Symposium�Track 2: Building Your Skills�

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Software

Roberto Casanueva

Software + Gleaning

A 3 part story

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Roberto Casanueva

Alyson Schill

Tony Zappia

Katrina Siks

Today’s Presentation

• Who am I
• Software in use today by you
• Time saver tools
• Innovators within the industry
• Careit
• Common Fruit
• Wrap up
• Questions and discussion

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Goals for Today

• Unpack the software space for all operations from your feedback.
• Give you some tips and tricks for operations efficiencies.
• Learn about companies within the space you have not heard of yet.
• Continue the conversations and work towards more solutions for your Organizations in the future.

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My History in Gleaning

On a tricycle in Portland

B-Line Urban Delivery

• Using the freight when it was empty on the return route
• Partnering with local groceries
• Delivering directly to food distributors.

My Career in Software

• Onboarding Specialist
• Account Manager
• Product Development
• Six years of software experience with small businesses

Outdoorsy.com

• Manager of Strategic Projects
• Product Enhancement features
• Voice of the customer
• Three years experience growing the product working with small businesses.

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Operations Efficiency

Working with Food Forward

• Modeling operations what work.
• Gleaning in Los Angeles and surrounding counties.
• What can be learned from all of the success and failures?
• Can it be replicated?
• Doing interviews and learning a lot!

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What I’ve learned?

The industry is ultimately nuanced

• Spaces in software that are competitive have a one size fits all product.
• The gleaning world is multifaceted and the needs each of your organizations today are not all the same.
• There is overlap but only so much

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It is evident and you confirmed it with your answers this week.

What tools you are using

• Google Suite (mentioned 16 times)
• Excel (mentioned 15 times)
• Canva (mentioned 15 times)
• Salesforce (mentioned 11 times)
• Microsoft Office Suite (mentioned 9 times)
• MailChimp (mentioned 6 times)
• Zoom (mentioned 4 times)

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• Little Green Light (mentioned 4 times)
• Asana (mentioned 4 times)
• Sign Up Genius (mentioned 3 times)
• Zapier (mentioned 2 times)
• Eventbrite (mentioned 2 times)
• Wix (mentioned 2 times)
• Whistle (mentioned 2 times)
• Expensify (mentioned 2 times)

42 Responses

• ChatGPT
• Slack
• Square Point of Sale
• Duplie Volunteer Software
• JotForm
• Neon
• Adobe Pro
• SignUp Genius
• Jobber
• Calendly
• ArcGIS
• Monday
• Dialpad
• CoreNexa

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• Publisher
• The Point App
• Airtable
• Todoist
• LastPass
• Fluxx Grantseeker
• Pointapp.org
• Galaxy Digital
• Link2Feed
• SignUp.com
• EmailMe.com
• Gusto
• Meta
• FlashNewsWire
• Food Bank Manager
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Access

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• Gleanweb (Dick Yates creation--Salem Harvest)
• ConvertKit
• Food Rescue Hero
• Squarespace
• Eventbrite
• Microsoft Outlook
• 1Password
• Microsoft OneDrive
• My Better Impact
• Network for Good
• Microsoft SharePoint

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What tools you are using

Takeaways

Only 1 org is using ChatGPT

Only 1 org is using Calendly

Only 1 org is using Slack

No orgs using Google voice?

No orgs using social media posting software?

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11 orgs are using Salesforce

15 orgs using Canva

6 orgs using Mailchimp�4 orgs using Asana

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42 Responses

Innovators

on today’s call

Utilizing The Platform Revolution

for Successful Food Donation Programs

Experience Shapes Outcome

2. Stakeholder Accessibility

is free

Nonprofit Accessibility

Nonprofits only accept donations they want based on time, distance, food type, and donation size.

Paid staff or volunteers use map and contact features to pick up. Then log weights and temperature.

Weights added

The Food Mover Account

35 Food Movers actively track daily runs and drivers through the dashboard and Careit mobile app.

Food donation crosses jurisdictional boundaries

Municipal Accessibility

Over 6000 organizations are using the platform across over 40 states, and Canada.

Contact Us

Share it with Careit.

Website

www.careit.com

Innovators

on today’s call

Katrina co-founded Hidden Harvest Ottawa in 2012

Tony built Hidden Harvest’s app that has been running harvests since 2018

~ a platform for urban gleaning organizations ~

The pain points

People management

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Coordinating events

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Reporting

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commonfruit.org

Our approach

Automate the common tasks!

commonfruit.org

Your time is spent best

under a tree in your community

The gleaning model

Trained harvest leaders

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Fruit sharing

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Email invitations

commonfruit.org

The plan

Beta testing starting soon

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Limited launch this summer

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Support for other models

commonfruit.org

https://commonfruit.org

To learn more and apply for the beta program, visit

Wrap Up

I’ll email you all the responses so you can continue to share best practices and help each other.

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Also my recommendations of all time saving software and why.

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There is a new software company born every day so it’s important to continue to stay abreadth.

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Best Practices

Common Fruit - Sign up for Beta

https://commonfruit.org

Thank you

Keep In touch

Roberto Casanueva

roberto.casanueva8@gmail.com

Sliding scale software consulting

Website

www.careit.com