Food insecurity is an ongoing issue where people have little to no access to high-quality food. Food banks were formed to counter this, and play a large role in assisting people in accessing food. Our team worked with the Worcester County Food Bank (WCFB), a local food bank looking for ways of improving its current inventory check-out process. We did independent research, made observations, and interviewed employees from both the WCFB and other food banks until we reached a proposal of recommendations. This included introducing a scanner and barcode system to the WCFB’s check-out process in the near future, introducing the Agency Express software system that other food banks use for online orders, and introducing some combination of the “push” and “choice” models that food banks use.

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Creator

• Kowalski, Marcus
• Pu, Yuancen
• Sukthankar, Ashwin
• Badhwar, Annika

Subject

• Health
• Learning
• Food
• Culture
• Project-Based Learning
• Infrastructure
• Community

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-062824-133945
• 123099

Advisor

• Roberts, Laura

Year

• 2024

Center

• Worcester Community Project Center (Massachusetts) - IQP

Sponsor

• Worcester County Food Bank

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 2 - Zero Hunger
• 3 - Good Health and Well-being
• 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities

Date created

• 2024-06-28

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Source

• E-project-062824-133945

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Última modificación

• 2024-09-20