Thanks so much for bringing this program back. I did receive the confirmation after I sent the alert. And, the system worked well. We attracted enough students to take care of the event’s leftovers. Especially as many caterers now have minimums for orders, it is good to know food will not go to waste. It is also nice to have a system which encourages folks to wait to be invited to help themselves to food from events they have not been invited to!

The Free Food Alert (FFA) that [our staff] including myself, have posted this semester, Fall 2023, have been quite successful in terms of the mission of the initiative. We have connected healthy foods/meals to students through FFA, which we could not have realized otherwise.

In short, I find FFA greatly satisfying, and I feel quite proud that JHU has this service on campus. I hope that FFA continues to expand its use and reach throughout our community. It certainly serves as one of the many ways that we can increase sustainability, equity, and justice in our campus community.

Thanks for following up on my first FFA! Honestly, it was SO easy to use on the posting end. We had about 10-12 students show up [our giveaway] and they rescued nearly all the remaining food. The only things left were some scraps of lettuce from a salad and a few noodles from a gluten free dish.

I love the Free Food Alert app. It is much easier to navigate than [V1.0 of FFA]. Although I set the alert up for an hour, all the food was gone in 30 minutes, so I had to go back in and close out the alert... it’s an awesome system, and I look forward to using it again in the future. We had about 10 people show up.