Our Minimal Viable Product (MVP)
What is an MVP? It provides early users with just enough features. Those users guide future development. We're early in our life span, with time and opportunity for improvement.
Volunteer Management
Volunteers sign up for available shifts through a mobile friendly interface. On a shift, they can log the types and weights of food.
Flexible Scheduling
Need to schedule a shift every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month? We modeled our scheduling feature after Google calendar.
Data Tracking
On shifts, volunteers have the opportunity to log the type of food and weight they pick up & deliver. Export the data to a spreadsheet of your choice.
Multiple Rescue Models
We cover hubs, decentralized, and hybrid models. Setup shifts with as many pickups and dropoffs as needed.
Our pricing plans
Rootable is a donation-based, fair exchange software that provides logistics to any community-based group, regardless of ability to pay. Inspired by the SAME Cafe in Denver, CO we offer the following opportunities in exchange for the software:
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Write a grant.
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Participate in design.
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Join a decision-making committee.
About us
Rootable is software as movement building - a mechanism to practice open, flexible, cooperatively-owned systems to build collective power.
User Ownership
We're becoming a platform coop. That means the software is jointly owned and democratically controlled by the organizations that use it.
The future of the software is not in any one organization's hands. There is not "one right way" to operate.
Collective Power
How might we use data to highlight communities & promote equitable resource distribution? One idea is shared donor receipts.
Streamlining data collection with smaller localized orgs may increase national donations.
Relationship-based
"The food system is not broken; it's working ... as a caste system based on demographics, economics, & race." Logistics alone won't solve hunger.
Software streamlines logistics so organizations can build and leverage relationships.
Contributing Organizations
The following organizations have contributed ideas, inspiration, and time to Rootable.
Alternatives
Rootable strives to be a collaborator, not a competitor, with other applications in the space. Ideally, sharing protocols and data to collectively impact issues around food insecurity in an open network. We also can't meet every organizations needs. Consider these other options for your organization:
Fresh Food Connect
Tackling food insecurity by linking home gardeners with hunger relief organizations.
MEANS Database
Donating to nearby nonprofits can save food donors money with tax deductions while feeding those in need in their communities.
Food Rescue US
Fill plates. Not landfills.
Contact us
Questions, comments, collaborations?
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Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A
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software@foodrescuealliance.org