The 3000 Club Tucson
4515 East 22nd Street
Tucson, AZ 85711
Tel. 520-373-5256
Email: pam@the3000club.org or 3000tucson@gmail.com
The 3000 Club Tucson
4515 East 22nd Street
Tucson, AZ 85711
Tel. 520-373-5256
Email: pam@the3000club.org or 3000tucson@gmail.com
The 3000 Club Tucson
4515 East 22nd Street
Tucson, AZ 85711
Tel. 520-373-5256
Email: pam@the3000club.org or 3000tucson@gmail.com
The 3000 Club
Home of Market On the Move
Currently, 37 million Americans are food insured, 6 million children go to bed hungry at least once a week. 1/3 of all food is wasted and ends up in our landfills.
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It seems unreal that in one of the wealthiest nations of the world, little children are still going hungry.
Our Mission:
Simply, nothing useful should end up in a landfill. Through diligent stewardship, we can redirect, repurpose, refurbish, reuse or recycle and use these resources to the betterment of our communities and our serve our under-privileged.
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Our Goals:
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To rescue 30,000,000 pounds of fresh produce from being thrown away in the landfills at Nogales, Arizona.
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To distribute $45,000,000 worth of fresh produce to our hungry families, children, elderly and homeless throughout Arizona.
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To provide 25,000,000 nutritious meals of fresh produce.
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To serve 600,000 hungry families and individuals with nutritious produce.
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To help 1,800,000 disadvantaged children.
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To collaborate with other organizations of similar vision for actual distribution of fresh produce to recipients.
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To provide 10,000 Tucson/Southern Arizona's school-aged children with working computers for their educational purposes.
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To grow and utilize volunteers, professionals, organizations with their expertise to help support our mission.
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To share the vision of rescuing and distribution of produce, medical supplies, computers and electronics, household goods, etc. to those in need.
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To respond and share relief aid to those in need.
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To grow the mission throughout the region; nothing useful should be thrown away but utilized to help our communities and our peoples.
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Since 2008 with our staff and volunteer support, we have consistently generated the resources to accomplish our goals.
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USDA Stats​
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Annually, 1/3 of ALL food is wasted and ends up in our landfills. That's over 40,000,000 pounds per year; 300 pounds per person per year.
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20% of ALL food going to the landfill can be composted which leaves a large amount that can be rescued and redistributed through programs like our MOM and our Community Food Banks.
In 2021:
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33.8 million people lived in food-insecure households.
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8.6 million adults lived in households with very low food security.
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5.0 million children lived in food-insecure households in which children, along with adults, were food insecure.
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521,000 children (0.7 percent of the Nation's children) lived in households in which one or more child experienced very low food security.
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For more information, see Food Insecurity in the U.S.: Frequency of Food Insecurity.
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Food Insecurity by Household Characteristics
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The prevalence of food insecurity varied considerably among household types. Rates of food insecurity were higher than the national average (10.2 percent) for the following groups:
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All households with children (12.5 percent).
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Households with children under age 6 (12.9 percent).
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Households with children headed by a single woman (24.3 percent) or a single man (16.2 percent).
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Women living alone (13.2 percent) and men living alone (12.3 percent).
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Households with Black, non-Hispanic (19.8 percent) and Hispanic reference persons (16.2 percent; a household reference person is an adult household member in whose name the housing unit is owned or rented).
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Households with incomes below 185 percent of the poverty threshold (26.5 percent; the Federal poverty line was $27,479 for a family of four in 2021).