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Arizona Charitable Tax Credit
Donate Now and Get Up to $400 (Single) or $800 (Couple) Back From Your AZ Tax Refund.
Donate Now and Get Up to $400 (Single) or $800 (Couple) Back From Your AZ Tax Refund.
Donate Now and Get Up to $400 (Single) or $800 (Couple) Back From Your AZ Tax Refund.
For the past 27 years Borderlands Produce Rescue has been creating awareness of the importance of rescuing produce through their many initiatives. As one of the leading produce rescue organizations, Borderlands can count on a call from one of their partner organizations when there is an excess of fresh produce. It is because of these relationships, Borderlands has been able to rescue 32 MILLION pounds of fresh produce annually.
Through our Veggies “R” Us program we make fresh produce available for pick-up by community members or organizations internationally. Anyone, whether you live in Mexico, or throughout Arizona, is able to take advantage of this program. All of the agencies and individuals served through Veggis “R” Us must be enrolled with Borderlands.
Produce on Wheels With-Out Waste (P.O.W.W.O.W.) works with local churches, universities, civic organizations and community groups to host weekend distribution sites. Active weekly markets hosted in Metro Phoenix, Metro Tucson, Sierra Vista, Casa Grande, Safford and many other cities.
At each site, community members can donate $15 to support out non-profit, and take home up to 70lbs of produce.
Through Produce on Wheels after hours, our newly launched Veterans Exact Thanks (VETs) program and our partnership with the Arizona Department of Corrections, Borderlands is able to ensure that our mission is served by creating opportunities for community members to be engaged on issues of food insecurity, food waste and produce rescue.
We are not always able to distribute all of the produce we rescue. Instead of sending this excess produce to a landfill, Borderlands partners with local ranchers and composting programs to recycle any unusable produce.
During the 2020/21 produce season 13% of our rescued produce was no longer usable, however 90% of this was sent directly to our recycling partners, and not the landfill.
Thank you Mayor Garino for recognizing Borderlands’ hard work and dedication to support the citizens of the City of Nogales and Santa Cruz County.
More than one thousand commercial trucks cross the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Ariz. every day, many of them filled with produce. Much of that food would go to waste if not for the efforts of one nonprofit. Borderlands Produce Rescue saves 32 million pounds of produce annually and redistributes it to families in 26 U.S. states. That’s doing good work!
Borderlands’ vision is keep as much produce out of the landfills as humanly possible, helping our environment and distributing this produce to those in need, helping our community.
CNN honored Borderlands by designating them as “The Big Story”. Watch the Segment.
Every produce season Borderlands delivers 32 million pounds of fresh rescued produce annually to thousands of families. We are only able to do this work through partnering with amazing host sites each weekend throughout the season. Check out the amazing faces of so many we have helped. Find the closest produce site to you, or better yet contact us to help host your own site!
Borderlands Warehouse
270 W. Produce Row
Nogales, AZ 85621
520-287-2627
infobpr@borderlandsfoodbank.org
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