Reducing in-school food waste, one meal at a time.
We pack sealed, unopened food from schools’ share tables into cold, insulated boxes, walk it to a convenient food bank/community fridge, and post the impact.
Now delivering with 3 partner schools. Looking for more schools to join!
Updating live
89 lbs
Every delivery is checked by an admin and posted to our public delivery log.
3
Partner Schools
20+
Student Volunteers
4
Successful Deliveries
89
Lbs of Food Waste Eliminated
Deliveries and pounds update live from our delivery log
880,000
school meals served every day in NYC
4%
of NYC school buildings donate their leftover food
3
Partner Schools
Four steps take food from a school’s share table to a community fridge the same afternoon.
Food safety is our top priority. Every box stays at or colder, from the school to the fridge. On this sample trip the box got too warm at the handoff; press Add ice pack to see how we keep it safe.
Too warm once: 43°F at 2:28 pm
simulated, not measured
Sample trip · box 0447
an example, not a real delivery
In 13 of New York City’s 59 community districts, more than 30% of residents use SNAP (food stamps) to buy groceries. With SNAP being cut, more families are turning to food banks and community fridges to fill the gap. That’s where our food goes.
Darker areas have more residents on SNAP. Pins show our partner schools, the community fridges they deliver to, and the schools we’re talking to next. Press play to see how we got here and where it could go.
8 schools on the map: 3 delivering, 3 in talks, 2 planned. See the full list →
The shading and the school pins are real. The spread you see when you press play is a “what if”: it shows what a student-run network could look like across the city, not anything that has happened. None of the pale dots is a real school.
Shading shows the percent of residents getting SNAP in each community district, from NYC Council Data Team analysis of NYC Human Resources Administration and NYC Department of City Planning data, September 2025. It is not a map of where we operate.
School pins are placed from public campus addresses and have not been checked against a
geocoder; run tools/geocode.mjs to regenerate them from a live service. The Brooklyn community
fridge’s exact location is not published yet, so its pin is borough-level. Street map © OpenStreetMap
contributors.
Built by students from:
Whether you’re a student who wants to join, a school, or a food bank/community fridge, tell us who you are and we’ll get back to you with next steps.
Rather email? stockingtheblock@gmail.com
How we track every box, why this matters now, who we are, and how to start at your school.
How we track every box
The sealed box, the temperature loggers, and the public delivery log anyone can check.
See the trackingWhy this matters now
SNAP is being cut. What that means for NYC, and what rescued food can and can’t fix.
Read whyMeet the team
The students behind this, the schools they come from, and what each role does.
Meet usStart it at your school
Step-by-step setup, the health code memo, the box plans and printable paperwork.
Get started