MEANS Database is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit committed to remediating the discrepancy between food insecurity and food waste. While more than 10% of Americans face food insecurity, almost 30%, or 67 million tons, of food in the United States is wasted or uneaten every year. The systemic issue at hand is the failure to capture excess production deemed unfit for traditional market sale - whether that is overestimation in production and orders, insufficient access to labor or transportation, a distribution center failing to manage space for a perfectly good product, or some other supply chain error. This happens every day in every city and town across the country, and it indicates there is a severe lack of infrastructure established to remediate excess food. Our online platform automatically connects food businesses with extra food to nearby nonprofit organizations serving their community. There should be no food insecurity in towns or cities where a nearby business is throwing away high-quality, nutritious food. This juxtaposition of excess and need is a reflection of a system that fails logistically to reroute food to where it’s needed rather than a true food shortage. MEANS’ goal is to combat this. In these past seven years, our network has expanded to over 3,000 partners across the country, including local and state governments, corporations, fellow nonprofit organizations, and mutual aid groups, with which we’ve recovered over 4.8 million pounds of food.