About Us

After successfully launching Prince William Food Rescue as a new program under Action in Community Through Service (ACTS) in August 2019, ACTS supported the creation of Northern Virginia Food Rescue (NOVA-FR) as a separate non-profit that would offer programs in each county in Northern Virginia.

NOVA-FR is leveraging our experience partnering with 412 Food Rescue in Pittsburgh, PA, and successfully implementing the Prince William Food Rescue program to establish individual county Food Rescue Programs (FRPs) and redistribution operations to improve food resiliency and accessibility for the entire region.

In October of 2018, the ACTS Board approved the new Prince William Food Rescue (PWFR) program, and it officially launched in August 2019. Just a few months later and COVID-19 would drastically change the food insecurity landscape. Little did we know just how vital the Food Rescue Hero app would be for our community. Just eighteen months after we launched PWFR, we had rescued over 1.2 million pounds of food, redirected another 13 million pounds of food, and completed over 3,000 direct food deliveries to shut-in families.

In response to the pandemic, we created the Community Feeding Taskforce while simultaneously trying to figure out the best way to provide the same technology and model to surrounding counties experiencing severe food insecurity issues. Because ACTS’ mission is to be a local community organization that provides crisis and human services for just the residents of Greater Prince William, they voted to create a separate non-profit, Northern Virginia Food Rescue. ACTS created this non-profit so the purpose and mission could focus on the entire Northern Virginia region.

Northern Virginia Food Rescue was launched on March 14, 2021. In November 2021, we launched Fairfax Food Rescue and in May 2022 we launched our newest program Fauquier Food Rescue. Our team continues to grow, and we have an outstanding Board of Directors.