FoodForCause

What does Food For Cause do for the community?

Problem

• Kansas City does not have a resource to connect food suppliers and organizations that provide food stuffs to the community.

• Many grocery stores, and restaurants throw away food that could go to good use.

  • Some of these items will expire soon.
  • Others items may have damaged packaging or other small defects that do not affect the quality of the product, but the store is still unable to sell the items.

• A large amount of food is unnecessarily wasted.

• Our community needs food assistance programs to thrive and care for those in need.

Solution

• Food For Cause provides a platform to connect local community outreach programs, like food banks and kitchens, with companies that have food to donate.
• This will help to reduce food waste, put the food to good use, and strengthen the community.

How Does it work?

• Grocery Stores, restaurants, and other businesses login and then post their available food items (including quantity, and expiration date).
• Food banks, and kitchens may reserve and pick up items.
• Unreserved items that are nearing expiration will be tweeted and text (SMS) to let the community know about their availability.

What powers FoodForCause?

• Node/ Express
• MySQL
• Sequelize
• Heroku
• Passport.js User Authentication

Updates

Please Feel Free To Submit A Pull Request!

ISSUES WITH DESIGN

• These issues seem to stem from the way that the info is centered on the top image.
  • Possible solution: Make the FoodForCause text at the top a permanent part of the img, or fixed position, and then have the rest of the stuff centered in the remaining space. (Thoughts, Meg?)
  • OCT.21: Perhaps remove the bio section at the bottom of every page and add an about us page with the pics/bio, also add a link for bug reporting, and a problems/soution/detailed description of the site (it should match the readme, and there is a sectiona about that below).
  • add.html
    • top of page is cut off, can't see 'food for cause' title
  • available.html
    • The papge starts further down than 'view.html' ... maybe an extra div?
• Oct.21:
  • The Food For Cause title and the menu bar are not fixed, and they get pushed up and cut off when there are more than a few results (a problem on all pages)
  • The search results overflow and break the page style

Nice To Have:

• Calculate remaining time until items expire, and display it use it for twilio / tweets
• Allow users to reserve a certain amount (lbs.) of an item
• Display the remaining amount of goods
• Alerts:
  • https://www.twilio.com/
    • Send Texts for notifications about specific items
  • Tweets to notify of available items that will expire soon
• Authentication
  • Reestablish (Disabled for ease of Presentation)
• Testing