While I didnât email the Hunger Site to find more concrete info, I did look more into their website for answers. What I saw seemed...sketchy, although more detailed info from an email might have offered satisfactory answers.
Their results page measures success in âcups of foodâ. They have a list of âcharitable partnersâ: GreaterGood.org, Mercy Corps, Food Recovery Network, Millenium Promise, and Partners in Health. Mercy Corps does include food help on its list of things it does, but that food work is mostly about helping poor people create sustainable agriculture and other things like that, that donât involve actually donating food. Food Recovery appears to be about scrounging surplus food and giving it to other food charities.
All in all, that gives me the impression that âcups of foodâ has little or nothing to do with actual cups of food. Instead, I think itâs a proxy for âwe donated X dollars to partner charities, and they did whatever with it that they usually doâ.
That doesnât *have* to be a deal-breaker, since those charities are still doing good things, probably worth donating to. But it does make me feel like I canât trust Hunger Site to accurately portray what itâs doing. Furthering that, the chart on the results page has a column ambiguously labelled âpoundsâ, without any indication of what that means. Pounds of food donated (if so, through which charity, and where)? Money donated in U.K. pounds (unlikely, b/âc I think itâs a U.S. charity)? That column is stuck off on the side as if itâs the black sheep in a family photo. I donât know what to make of that.
Also, if you do this, please come back and tell us what you discovered :)
While I didnât email the Hunger Site to find more concrete info, I did look more into their website for answers. What I saw seemed...sketchy, although more detailed info from an email might have offered satisfactory answers.
Their results page measures success in âcups of foodâ. They have a list of âcharitable partnersâ: GreaterGood.org, Mercy Corps, Food Recovery Network, Millenium Promise, and Partners in Health. Mercy Corps does include food help on its list of things it does, but that food work is mostly about helping poor people create sustainable agriculture and other things like that, that donât involve actually donating food. Food Recovery appears to be about scrounging surplus food and giving it to other food charities.
All in all, that gives me the impression that âcups of foodâ has little or nothing to do with actual cups of food. Instead, I think itâs a proxy for âwe donated X dollars to partner charities, and they did whatever with it that they usually doâ.
That doesnât *have* to be a deal-breaker, since those charities are still doing good things, probably worth donating to. But it does make me feel like I canât trust Hunger Site to accurately portray what itâs doing. Furthering that, the chart on the results page has a column ambiguously labelled âpoundsâ, without any indication of what that means. Pounds of food donated (if so, through which charity, and where)? Money donated in U.K. pounds (unlikely, b/âc I think itâs a U.S. charity)? That column is stuck off on the side as if itâs the black sheep in a family photo. I donât know what to make of that.