Williams Recovery of All Perishable Surplus
(WRAPS)
Shifts
Sunday - Pick-up 7:30-8pm
Monday - Pick-up 7:30-8pm
Packaging 8-9pm
Tuesday - Packaging 8-9pm
Wednesday - Pick-up 7:30-8pm
Thursday - Packaging 8-9pm
Friday - Delivery 1-2:30pm
All pick-up and delivery shifts leave from the parking garage behind Greylock.
All packaging shifts meet in the Paresky kitchen behind Grab & Go.
News
In the 2018-19 school year, WRAPS packaged and delivered 92% more meals than in the 2017-18 school year. See more statistics and a recap from this past year in our 2018-19 report .
In April, Josh, Katrina, Marco, and Taylor had the opportunity to attend the Campus Kitchens Pop-Up event at Merrimack College.
In February, WRAPS leadership attended an annual YMCA meeting in Williamstown.
At the meeting, the Berkshire branch of the YMCA awarded WRAPS its Community Outreach Award.
About us
Williams Recovery of All Perishable Surplus (WRAPS) is a student volunteer organization associated with the Center for Learning in Action (CLiA) at Williams College. Our mission is to simultaneously combat food insecurity in the Berkshires and reduce food waste on campus. Williams students established WRAPS in the early 2000s. In 2017, WRAPS formally integrated with The Campus Kitchen Project , an organization that works with campuses across the country to reduce food insecurity. We pick up excess food from Williams's three dining halls three days a week. The following days, we package this food into individual frozen meals. Every Friday afternoon, volunteers deliver excess produce from a local grocery store and 120+ frozen meals to three community partners in North Adams, MA.
Our Partners
Mohawk Forest is a subsidized housing development in North Adams and WRAPS's oldest community partner. This year, WRAPS delivered more than 1,700 meals to Mohawk Forest.
The YMCA in North Adams has a large freezer where WRAPS donates many of its meals. The meals are open to anyone in the community, including residents from the nearby Brayton Hill Apartments.
Wild Oats is a cooperative grocery store in Wiliamstown. Wild Oats donates excess produce every week, which our volunteers deliver to Mohawk Forest on Friday afternoons.
The Berkshire Food Project
serves free hot meals on weekdays in North Adams. This year, WRAPS raised more than $800 across two fundraisers
for BFP.
The Campus Kitchen Project is a national organization that supports food recovery missions across dozens of high school and college campuses. As of August 2019, the Campus Kitchen Project has merged with the Food Recovery Network, another national oganization with a similar mission.
