{"id":1743,"date":"2010-09-15T07:59:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T19:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2011-12-31T09:37:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T20:37:48","slug":"this-is-kaibosh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1743","title":{"rendered":"This is Kaibosh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kaibosh.org.nz\/\"><img src=http:\/\/profile.ak.fbcdn.net\/hprofile-ak-snc4\/hs442.snc4\/50236_261191273732_6310_n.jpg><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My friends George and Robyn have been hard at work the last few years on starting a charity. I think it&#8217;s pretty amazing. They are behind <a href=\"http:\/\/kaibosh.org.nz\/\">Kaibosh<\/a>, and what they do is collect surplus food from retailers (so it doesn&#8217;t get chucked into landfill) and deliver it to charities working with people who could do with a bonus meal. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s pretty much the whole deal &#8211; there is leftover food at place A, and hungry peeps at place B, so they make the connection. Simple premise, but (as always) a complex mission in the real world.<\/p>\n<p>George sez:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We wrangled a few friends to become members of our board of trustees and have spent the last 18-months trying to raise funding to increase the scale of our efforts. Our main support has come from Wellington City Council and the Lotteries Commission. With their help we&#8217;ve leased an office on Holland Street and hired a part-time Operations Manager. We&#8217;re now able to step up our operations (to date we only pick up food from Simply Paris and Wishbone) and hopefully expand our volunteer base (currently sits at six non-trustees).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is how you walk the walk in this world. I give this whole enterprise one mighty double-rainbow-all-the-way thumbs up. Kaibosh is having a launch party at their HQ tonight at 6pm &#8211; come along if you&#8217;re in W-town, and eat some of the food, which is of course donated from local businesses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kaibosh.org.nz\/\">Kaibosh website<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/Kaibosh.nz\">Kaibosh on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friends George and Robyn have been hard at work the last few years on starting a charity. I think it&#8217;s pretty amazing. They are behind Kaibosh, and what they do is collect surplus food from retailers (so it doesn&#8217;t get chucked into landfill) and deliver it to charities working with people who could do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1743\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is Kaibosh<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[33,179,182],"class_list":["post-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-small-group-action","category-wellington","tag-activism","tag-small-group-action","tag-dubtown"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-s7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2823,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions\/2823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}