Mission Success: Here’s How Easy It Is to Do Good

August 20, 2025

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Roughly $473 billion worth of food is thrown away in the U.S. every year. Bridget Foley with Move for Hunger tells MHN’s Laura Valean what you can do to fight waste and feed the hungry.

One in eight Americans go to bed hungry each day, while 92 billion pounds of food are wasted annually. Hunger is a blind disease, and food insecurity is rampant across the country. But the multifamily industry can play a key role in combating this phenomenon.

Since 2017, national nonprofit organization Move for Hunger has been teaming up with multifamily owners and managers to reduce food waste by delivering nonperishable surplus food to local communities in need.

When people move, they tend to throw away a lot of food. This is when onsite staff can provide them with a food collection bag and encourage them to donate the items they don’t plan to take with them. A Move for Hunger partner from a transportation company will come to pick it up and deliver it to a local food bank. Doing good is that easy!

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For Bridget Foley, altruism is part of her DNA. She was a Girl Scout, volunteered during high school, and later studied health sciences and public policies. Everything she did led her to a nonprofit career. Today, she’s the director of multifamily memberships for Move for Hunger. “Doing good in my life has always been my driving force,” she told Multi-Housing News Senior Editor Laura Valean during this month’s Mission Success: Women in Multifamily podcast.

Move for Hunger is a support system that helps property owners and managers give back to the communities they serve. The products collected from their residents are redistributed locally to food banks or food pantries that provide meals for neighbors in need.

Here’s what Foley and Valean talked about in this episode: