- Partner with groceries, restaurants, and event venues to set up regional redistribution centers.

- Redirect daily edible surplus food to shelters, schools, and community kitchens.

- Mobile food distribution unit that brings fresh groceries, hot meals, and resources directly to underserved areas and elderly populations.

- Community “hunger-free zones” in every city block — based on repurposed phone booths, libraries, or bus stops into smart micro-pantries.

- Stocked daily by volunteers, restaurants, and groceries using a real-time restock app.
- Open 24/7, anonymous access

- The ZERO app is designed to guide both volunteers and people in need to our food checkpoints, communal kitchens, and all other logistics and questions.

- Community kitchens open on weekends.

- Uses nearly-expired or surplus ingredients from partner stores.

- End the day by distributing containers to those who couldn’t attend.

- Low-tech phone and SMS helpline that connects elderly or tech-limited people to food aid, deliveries, and services — in multiple languages.

- The ZERO Map is a live, collaborative map of a city showing every food support checkpoint, community kitchen, and ZERO partner location.
- It’s both a tool for people in need and a hub for donors, partners, and volunteers.

- A reloadable debit-style card for families & individuals.

- Can be used to “buy” groceries from surplus partners or Zero Markets.

- Privacy-respecting, stigma-free, donation-funded.

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