Thank you to Azucena Flores and the Amazon Local Good team for sharing this valuable opportunity with NFRA members, and thank you to all members who shared updates, resources, and successes.

We returned from the ReFED Summit with exciting news: NFRA is now officially a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization! We're also thrilled to welcome new board members, share key takeaways from the Summit, and announce the launch of our new website and resource hub.

For the National Food Recovery Association (NFRA), this year’s conference is about deepening relationships, welcoming new voices into the conversation, and sharing what’s ahead for our growing network.

Learn about our plans for dinner on Wednesday, breakfast on Thursday, and 1:1 conversations with NFRA board members throughout the summit.

The goal isn’t just to stop saying “food waste.” It’s to stop thinking of recoverable food as waste — to see surplus food as a resource, not a problem, and recovery as responsible operations, not an afterthought. When disposal is assumed, recovery becomes optional. Changing our language shifts that expectation.

Jennifer England, from the National Food Recovery Association, is hosting a breakout session at the 2025 ReFED Food Waste Summit titled: Reimagining Food Rescue: How to Strengthen Food Recovery in a Complex Climate