Find, Claim, and Track Food Donations in Your Community
Careit makes it easy to discover available food donations near you, claim pickups, coordinate your team, and document the impact you are making.
The challenges that turn available food into missed meals
Nonprofits need dependable food, fast coordination, and clean records. The work gets harder when donor relationships, pickup details, and impact data all live in different places.
Finding consistent donations takes time
Outreach, follow-up, and relationship management can eat into hours your team needs for community service.
Food supply can change without warning
When donor relationships sit outside your control, a single program change can disrupt food you counted on.
Impact reporting gets scattered
Funders need clean numbers, but weights, pickup notes, and donor history often live in separate places.
Most tools were not built for nonprofits
Generic software can be too expensive, too complicated, or missing the food rescue workflows your team actually uses.
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Find more food, serve local communities, and show your impact
Careit connects your team to local food donors, keeps pickups organized, and tracks the rescue data funders and stakeholders want to see.
Step 1 of 4
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See and claim available food donations near you
Careit gives your organization a live feed of nearby donations posted by local businesses, with the details you need before you commit.
Browse available donations from businesses in your area.
Get notified when nearby donors post food that matches your needs.
Reserve donations directly or receive assigned donations from preferred donors.
Set your radius and food type preferences so alerts stay useful.
Your team can find relevant food faster and claim it with less back-and-forth.
Step 2 of 4
02
Stay in control of the relationships that feed your community
Build direct relationships with local donors, keep partner details organized, and formalize the relationship without paperwork drift.
Connect with local businesses and keep donor history in one place.
Become a preferred partner for recurring pickups and trusted routes.
Use digital partnership agreements and liability waivers when needed.
Post your own surplus food for other nonprofits in the network to claim.
Recurring donor relationships become easier to maintain and document.
Step 3 of 4
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Show the full picture of everything your team has rescued
Every completed rescue adds to your documented impact, so reporting to funders, donors, and boards is much easier.
Log food type, weight, date, donor, pickup status, and recipient details.
View running totals by day, week, month, year, or all time.
Track environmental impact, including emissions avoided and water saved.
Export rescue data for grant applications, reports, and compliance needs.
Grant reports and stakeholder updates get backed by cleaner data.
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Claim a donation, assign a driver, and keep the pickup moving
Careit keeps pickup coordination simple with assignment tools, schedules, statuses, and donation-level communication.
Assign drivers with the address, pickup window, and instructions.
View scheduled assignments in list or calendar views.
Track pickup status from claim to completion.
Cancel when needed so another nonprofit can claim the food.
Everyone can see what is claimed, who is picking up, and what still needs attention.
Source reliable supply, below retail
Donations are opportunistic, and that is not always enough when a program needs specific items in known quantities. The Careit Marketplace lets your organization buy exactly what you need, when you need it, at below-retail prices.
Every purchase is backed by seller ratings, refunds, and dispute protection, with pickup and delivery scheduling built in. Available now for non-taxable grocery items in Washington and California.
Buy what your program needs
Purchase specific items in known quantities, below retail, instead of waiting on what gets donated.
Pickup and delivery scheduling
Coordinate how and when each order reaches your team with built-in scheduling.
Ratings, refunds, and protection
Seller ratings, refunds, and dispute protection give your team confidence on every order.
What Our Partners Say
Food rescue teams use Careit to strengthen donor relationships, coordinate pickups, and make impact easier to document.
A Simple Gesture
"Careit has played a pivotal role in helping A Simple Gesture scale our food rescue operations. We look forward to expanding our collaboration with Careit which will allow us to strengthen partnerships within our community; and connect food businesses, volunteers and nonprofits in a shared effort to fight hunger."
Laura Oxner
A Simple Gesture Director of Food RecoveryDaily Bowl
"We were looking for a food rescue software solution that bound donors, recipient agencies and volunteers. As we started testing Careit, we found that its functionality was precisely what we had envisaged. The Careit team has been extremely helpful in guiding and walking us through the rich functionality of the app."
Paddy Iyer
Executive DirectorEBF
Entouch Betterment Foundation
"As a small nonprofit, Careit really helps me to streamline our process, and easily track food weights and impact to feed more hungry people."
Michael Longshore
DirectorStart free. Upgrade when you need more tools
Find and claim donations free. Add Basic for recurring tools—or explore specialized ops plans for food runs and home delivery.
Nonprofit account
Free
to start rescuing
For food banks, pantries, shelters, and community groups ready to find and claim nearby donations.
Browse and claim donations from the marketplace
Get notified when nearby food is posted
Assign staff or volunteers to claimed pickups
Track pickup status, rescue history, and basic impact
Manage donor relationships, onboarding requests, and agreements
Post surplus food for other nonprofits to claim
Basic
$19
per month
Upgrade from free for recurring tools, inventory management, and exportable records.
Everything in the free nonprofit account
Recurring donations and scheduling tools
Inventory management
Export to CSV/Excel
Advanced analytics
Need ops tools beyond Basic?
Specialized plans live on their own pages so you only compare what matches your program.
Food recovery (food runs)
Coordinate donor pickups, multi-recipient routing, and drivers with Food Mover Lite or Pro.
Food Mover Lite $199/mo
Food Mover Pro $500/mo
Home Delivery add-on +$250/mo
Home delivery
Household routes, available-runs map, and driver boards for meal and grocery delivery programs.
Food Delivery Pro $250/mo
Or +$250/mo on any Food Mover plan
A simpler path from local donation to documented impact
The everyday workflow stays simple for staff and drivers, while the records stay organized for your whole organization.
Create a free account
Sign up online or in the app and set up your nonprofit profile.
Find donations near you
Browse the marketplace or get notified when nearby food is posted.
Claim and pick up
Reserve a donation, assign a driver, and coordinate the pickup.
Track your impact
See food weights, donors, environmental metrics, and rescue history.
Powerful features that help you rescue more food
Practical tools for finding donations, coordinating pickups, keeping donor relationships healthy, and proving your impact.
Live donation marketplace
See available donations near you in list or map view.
Notification preferences
Set your radius and food types so alerts match your needs.
Preferred partner status
Get priority access from trusted donors with recurring needs.
Auto-generated agreements
Create and keep digital partnership agreements organized.
Surplus redistribution
Post extra food for other nonprofits in the network to claim.
Impact metrics
See pounds rescued, meals provided, emissions avoided, and water saved.
Driver notifications
Assign a pickup and send drivers the details instantly.
In-app chat
Message donor partners directly at the donation level.
Local businesses have food to give. Careit connects you with them.
Sign up for free and start claiming, coordinating, and tracking food donations in your area.
Find local donations
Browse available food and get alerts that match your preferences.
Coordinate pickups
Assign drivers, share instructions, and track pickup status.
Show your impact
Keep pounds, donors, food types, and environmental metrics organized.