| Offer Kindness is a volunteer-driven initiative working to reduce food waste while improving access to healthy food. Each week, we provide fresh produce to approximately 3,000 individuals, including families in need, foster homes, food banks, school districts, and community-serving organizations throughout the Fresno area. By redirecting surplus produce that would otherwise go unharvested or discarded, we help ensure that nutritious food reaches the people who are in need of it. Where We AreCurrently, we are saving more than 15,000 pounds of fruit every week that would otherwise go to waste. Through our expanding network of volunteers and partners, we are reaching around 3,000+ neighbors throughout the Fresno area via food pantries, community-serving organizations (Poverello House, Central California Food Bank, The Ronald McDonald House Charity, The Big Red Church, Wesley Methodist, Our Father’s Foster Care), school districts (Parlier School District), and many more places. Since launching in December 2025, Offer Kindness has quickly built a strong network of volunteers, growers, and homeowners eager to participate. Many homeowners we work with have fruit trees but are unable to harvest the fruit themselves, and they are grateful to see their fruit put to good use instead of going to waste. Our volunteer gleaning days, both small residential harvests during the week and larger commercial harvests on Sundays, have become meaningful outdoor service opportunities where families and community members can work together to help others.The need for this work in the Central Valley is significant. This region produces roughly 40 percent of the nation’s fruit, yet there is currently no dedicated gleaning organization coordinating large-scale recovery and redistribution of surplus produce across the area. As a result, enormous quantities of nutritious food go unharvested while many families struggle to access fresh fruits and vegetables.Fresh produce is important to health outcomes, and with rising costs, more people are finding it out of reach. Fresno and Madera counties have a 16-17% food insecurity rate according to Feeding America’s Map the Meal Gap–meaning they don’t have healthy food that is affordable, or easy to get at their local stores. We believe a healthy diet leads to a healthy life and provide fresh produce to our partners who distribute these for free to food-insecure neighbors.Offer Kindness is currently operating at maximum capacity, and demand from community partners continues to grow. Our goal is to expand our operations to serve 10,000 people each week and increase rescued produce to 20,000–25,000 pounds per week. |
Reducing waste. Spreading kindness. Helping the community.
We started this organization because our fruit trees in our backyard were producing more than we could eat. We saw that our neighbors and friends were in a similar situation, where every year many delicious and healthy fruits were falling to ground uneaten. So we started collecting and distributing fruits to those in need, first from our yard then from our community and local small farmers and now we are expanding our reach every day to keep even more food from going to waste.
Picking and reducing waste
If you have fruit trees and don’t have the ability or time to pick the fruit yourself we will come to you and pick it – easy and hassle free!
Just contact us with your location and we will coordinate a time that works best to pick!
Volunteers at food distribution reaching hundreds of FAMILIES
fruit distribution
We work with a variety of food banks and organizations to get fresh healthy food to those who need it most.
Please contact us if you are part of an organization that needs fresh produce.
One of our volunteers setting out on a route with drop offs at homes, apartments and a food bank
Volunteering and helping the community
As we grow we are so blessed to be getting help from amazing people who are volunteering in many ways
If you would like to volunteer please contact us and let us know your availability and if you want to help with picking or distribution.
At El dorado park community distribution
We started this organization because our fruit trees in our backyard were producing more than we could eat. We saw that our neighbors and friends were in a similar situation, where every year many delicious and healthy fruits were falling to ground uneaten. So we started collecting and distributing fruits to those in need, first from our yard then from our community and now we are expanding our reach every day to keep more food from going to waste.