13.5 million
American households are food insecure.
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
There are three impacted parties.
Food Banks
These are wholesale distributors who serve up to 60,000 pantries nationwide.
Food Pantries
The neighborhood sites with a selection of foods for locals to utilize.
The Community
Your next door neighbor, who fights to make ends meet and feed their family.
However, under the surface...
Food Banks struggle to...
- Collect and understand data to better serve the community
- Heavy reliance on understaffed personnel to communicate with partner agencies, resulting in long lead times & lost relationships
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Food Pantries are faced with...
- Difficulty in getting and retaining volunteers
- Maintaining engagement with their donor base
- Manually applying to lengthy grant applications
- Replacing phone calls/emails/paperwork with one intuitive digital experience
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The Community is left helpless due to...
- The lack of up-to-date information about their local pantries and food agencies
- Inevitably long & haphazard lines at distribution locations due to poor client scheduling and slow intakes
- Vastly varied check-in procedures pantry to pantry
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This is where Bag/Get comes in.
We are Cal State Fullerton CS majors developing custom solutions for this ecosystem - So that our communities can Bag their troubles and Get one step closer to food security.
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Rohan Kunchala
Product Lead & Backend Developer
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Alan Cortez
UI/UX Fullstack Developer
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Cesar Rojas
Financial & Outreach Lead
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Michael Chhun
Backend Developer
See how far we've come.
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Engineering Social Justice
CSU, Fullerton ·
3/16/2023 ·
1st place
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Student Research (SCAR) Day
CSU, Fullerton ·
4/17/2023 ·
1st place category
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Sunstone
San Jose ·
5/5/2023 ·
3rd place
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Titan Fast Pitch
CSU, Fullerton ·
11/11/2023 ·
1st place
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Engineering Social Justice
CSU, Fullerton ·
3/16/2023 ·
1st place
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Student Research (SCAR) Day
CSU, Fullerton ·
4/17/2023 ·
1st place category
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Sunstone
San Jose ·
5/5/2023 ·
3rd place
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Titan Fast Pitch
CSU, Fullerton ·
11/11/2023 ·
1st place
We need your help.
To truly create an impactful solution we need to hear everyone’s perspective. If you or someone you know has helped orchestrate Food Banks or Pantries - or if you just want to talk to us! Then we would love to...