Podcast appearances and mentions of maria rose belding

This week we travel back to 2019 to revisit an acoustic-ish and bluegrass-esque show featuring The Infamous Stringdusters and Molly Tuttle. Nick also has a chat with Maria Rose Belding about the value of donating food and paying employees a living wage. That's all this week on eTown!   Visit our Youtube Channel to see artist interviews, live recordings, studio sessions, and more! Be a part of the audience at our next recording: https://www.etown.org/etown-hall/all-events/ Your support helps us bring concerts, tapings and conversations to audiences while fostering connection through music, ideas and community. If you'd like to support eTown's mission to educate, entertain and inspire a diverse audience through music and conversation, please consider a donation: https://www.etown.org/get-involved/donate-orig/.  

This week we travel back to 2019 to revisit an acoustic-ish and bluegrass-esque show featuring The Infamous Stringdusters and Molly Tuttle. Nick also has a chat with Maria Rose Belding about the value of donating food and paying employees a living wage. That's all this week on eTown!   Visit our Youtube Channel to see artist interviews, live recordings, studio sessions, and more!   Be a part of the audience at our next recording: https://www.etown.org/etown-hall/all-events/

Maria Rose Belding joins us again with one of her mentors, Robert Egger, who founded one of America's most acclaimed food programs for hungry people. Robert used to run nightclubs but now he's devoted to helping the poor. He and Maria Rose argue that corporations have taken over many of the nation's food programs - not always helping the people they serve. 

… after you meet Maria Rose Belding. It's corny but true: Maria Rose is not quite 26, she's exuberant and seemingly tireless, and her path-breaking app that helps hungry people is used across the nation. But Maria Rose's inspiration for this great idea came from a troubling place.

The high energy, Grammy-winning bluegrass band The Infamous Stringdusters returns to eTown this week in this “back by popular demand” re-airing. Also with us: California native Molly Tuttle. After performing from a very young age as a member of her family's band, The Tuttles, Molly has moved to Nashville and launched her own solo career. She's won a number of acknowledges, including the IBMA's coveted Guitar Player of the Year Award (she's the first female recipient of that, as a matter of fact!). We'll also share an eChievement Award story about a young founder of an international online database that connects food donors with organizations that feed the hungry, saving incredible amounts of edible food from the landfill in the process.

In this episode of All the Best, we celebrate the inaugural presentation of The George H.W. Bush Points of Light Awards, which took place in September of 2019 in New York City. Neil Bush, who chairs the Points of Light Board of Directors, speaks on the importance of the organization and continuing the legacy of his father. Gala co-chair Lauren Bush Lauren shares a few special moments from this year's event. You will also hear from two of the very first George H. W. Bush Points of Light Award recipients, Khloe Thompson and Maria Rose Belding. Khloe was just eight years old when she started Khloe Kares to address the issue homelessness in Los Angeles. Maria Rose Belding, meanwhile, created the MEANS Database as a freshman at American University — and has since helped reroute nearly 2.8 million pounds of excess food to communities in need across the United States. To learn more about these inspiring Points of Light, listen now and then visit https://www.pointsoflight.org/.

The high energy, Grammy winning bluegrass band The Infamous Stringdusters return to the eTown stage this week for their third visit, bringing a fresh crop of original songs. Also with us is Molly Tuttle, a California native who moved to Nashville a few years ago. Molly's been performing since a young age (as a member of her family's band, The Tuttles) and in more recent years she's gone on to start her own solo career. Despite only being in her mid-twenties, she's already won several awards, including as the first female recipient of the IBMA's coveted Guitar Player of the Year Award. Rounding out the hour is an award story about a young woman who founded an international online database that connects food donors with organizations that feed the hungry, saving edible food from the landfill in the process.

                                    Kate T. Parker Photography/Special K After a tip from my sister and a little friendly stalking, I scored a killer interview with CNN Heroes award recipient, Maria Rose Belding. Above and beyond her work providing food for […]

                                    Kate T. Parker Photography/Special K After a tip from my sister and a little friendly stalking, I scored a killer interview with CNN Heroes award recipient, Maria Rose Belding. Above and beyond her work providing food for […]

                                    Kate T. Parker Photography/Special K After a tip from my sister and a little friendly stalking, I scored a killer interview with CNN Heroes award recipient, Maria Rose Belding. Above and beyond her work providing food for […] The post Podcast 59: There Are No Words For This T1D Trailblazer | Maria Rose Belding appeared first on Diabetes Daily Grind | Real Life Diabetes Podcast.

Maria Rose Belding is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the MEANS Database, a food pantry communication system that connects food suppliers and users together. This year alone, MEANS Database has delivered over 1.7 million pounds of food to those who truly, truly needed it. By supplying centers, shelters, and other non-profit agencies with food, MEANS Database allows these places to use more of their budget to help, and focus on, those in need. Learn more about Maria and her story on today’s show!    Key Takeaways: [4:05] Nobody wants food to go to waste. So why does it? Maria set out to change that with MEANS Database.  [4:40] How did MEANS get started? [10:00] Maria and her interns made 10,000 phone calls from a list that was supposed to be food pantries. Well, more than 20% of those numbers were disconnected. They were only able to reach about less than 10% of those 10,000 numbers. [14:00] The crazy thing is that the United States has the food. We are not in a humanitarian disaster. But for some reason, we are unable to supply unused food to the people who need it the most.  [15:10] In April of 2018, Maria and her volunteers have moved 1.7 million pounds of food throughout 49 states and territories.  [15:55] What was the first year at the MEANS Database like?  [17:35] How does MEANS Database work? [23:05] What kind of impact does this kind of work have on the food pantry volunteers,  Maria’s food partners, and her volunteer team?  [30:20] Maria feels so blessed and grateful that she gets to work with so many people on this project and make a difference.  [37:15] Who are the people who supply the food?  [37:50] What’s next for Maria?    Mentioned in This Episode: Giving Back Podcast MEANS Database.org Email: Hello@Meansdatabase.org Means Database on Twitter Maria Rose Belding on LinkedIn

Can we match excess food with need to better help people escape poverty? American University college student Maria Rose Belding, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Matching Excess And Needs for Stability (MEANS), discusses food waste and hunger with celebrity chef David Guas on a special episode of Add Passion and Stir made possible by generous support from the Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation. At age 12, Belding imagined a better system for getting excess food to emergency food providers and the people that need it. She founded her nonprofit a few years later. “Food is really the key that unlocks the door to all of these other social services that help people actually leave poverty, but until we deal with the food, we can’t deal with anything else,” she says. Long-time Share Our Strength supporter Guas has always understood the importance of donating leftover food from his restaurants to local organizations. “At Bayou Bakery, since the beginning we work closely with A-SPAN [a homeless services organization and shelter in Arlington, VA]…it’s been a great partnership,” he says. Belding wishes every chef and food organization thought about food waste the same way. “That’s money the shelter doesn’t have to spend on food… and that means they can funnel it into AA or mental health programs,” she notes. A volunteer in food pantries since age six, she recognized very young the instability of food resources at these establishments. Pantries are often in simultaneous feast or famine mode – with way too much of one item they cannot use and not enough of another item they really need. Today, MEANS addresses that problem by connecting thousands of food banks, shelters, soup kitchens and other providers with food donations in real time, and has recovered more than 1.65M pounds of food over the last five years. Both guests understand that recovering food waste is only one piece of alleviating hunger and poverty. Host Billy Shore asks Belding how much of the hunger problem in the United States could be addressed by food waste? “Mathematically speaking, if you just look at this like a calculus problem, food waste can solve all of it. Hunger is not a calculus problem. Hunger is much more complicated than that,” says Belding. She explains the important role programs such as SNAP and WIC play in solving hunger. Guas recently took to Capitol Hill with two other celebrity chefs to champion these federal food programs. “We just banged down doors, chewed people’s ears and stressed the importance of protecting this [SNAP] program,” he relates. Be inspired by this impactful conversation among these social activists with real-time solutions to hunger in America.

Americans waste 40% of their food. How did we become so wasteful and what can we do about it? Dr. Ariela Zycherman is joined by Dr. Irina Feygina of Climate Central, Jason Turgeon of the Environmental Protection Agency, and Maria Rose Belding and Grant Nelson from the MEANS database for a discussion about what parts of food we waste, why we waste, and what we can do to reduce waste across a variety of social, natural and built systems.   Participants: Host: Ariela Zycherman, Ph.D. Anthropologist 2015-17 Executive Branch Fellow at the National Science Foundation Irina Feygina, Ph.D. Social Psychology Director of Behavioral Science at Climate Central 2013-2014 Congressional Branch Fellow Twitter Handel @ClimateCentral Jason Turgeon Environmental Protection Agency, Region 1 Maria Rose Belding Co-Founder/Executive Director, MEANS Database Grant Nelson, JD Co-Founder, CTO, MEANS Database Twitter Handel @MEANSDatabase   Producers: Carlos Faraco, Ph.D. Nueroscience 2016-2017 Executive Branch Fellow at the National Institute of Justice Joseph Kliegman, Ph.D. Biophysics 2016-2017 Executive Branch Fellow at the National Science Foundation Beth Linas, Ph.D. Epidemiologist 2015-17 Executive Branch Fellow at the National Science Foundation   Image courtesy of Flickr user Katie Campbell EarthFix/KCTS9. The opinions and views expressed at or through this website are the opinions of the designated authors and do not reflect the opinions or views of AAAS or any USG agency, its employees or partners.

In the United States, 40 percent of the food supply is wasted. College student Maria Rose Belding created a web-based solution that saves tens of thousands of pounds of food each year.