Tufts Food Rescue Collaborative Records

Collection

Call Number: MS264

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Content Description

This collection contains administrative records including the group constitution, minutes, and logo; infographics and data about food collection; photographs; and related newspaper articles.

Dates

2016 -- 2019

Creator

Tufts Food Rescue Collaborative

Access

Open for research. Meeting minutes are closed for 20 years from the date of their creation.

Conditions Governing Use

Some material in this collection may be protected by copyright and other rights. Please see “Reproductions and Use” on the Digital Collections and Archives website for more information about reproductions and permission to publish. Any intellectual property rights that the donor possesses have been transferred to Tufts University.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of the Tufts Food Rescue Collaborative, accession number MS-2020-015.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged into four series: Administrative records, Infographics and food collection data, Photographs, and Publicity. The Administrative records series has a subseries for minutes, which is closed for 20 years from date of creation. Received order has been maintained.

Extent

22.24 Megabytes (30 files.)

30 Digital Object(s)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Overview

This collection contains the administrative records of the Tufts Food Rescue Collaborative, a volunteer group that aims to mitigate food waste on the Tufts campus and in the community. Materials include the group constitution, meeting minutes, data and infographics, and photographs.

Biographical / Historical

Tufts Food Rescue Collaborative (TFRC) was founded in the fall of 2016 as a partnership between Tufts Dining, the Cambridge non-profit Food For Free (FFF), a number of Tufts academic departments including Enviromental Studies and Tisch College, and Tufts students. Through daily volunteer shifts, TFRC's aims to mitigate the food waste on campus and in the community, as well as to combat food insecurity by providing meals to those in need. TFRC includes two programs: Family Meals in Dewick and Carmichael, and the Leonard Carmichael Society (LCS) Food Rescue program in supermarkets.

Processing Information

Processing of this collection was completed by Margaret Peachy in 2019. Materials were arranged in four series, and received order maintained. Materials open for research were made available in the Tufts Digital Library, and restricted records were deposited in the Dark Archive. An item-level inventory and series-level description were created, and the finding aid was also created at the time of processing.