Project Goal
- Assist the Worcester County Food Bank in diagnosing and addressing issues with their checkout system
Project Objectives
- Determine the benefits and challenges of the current checkout system, if any existing solution solves these problems well and if it can be incorporated into the WCFB.
- Make recommendations for utilizing Ceres more effectively or for implementing software that integrate with Ceres well.
Project Sponsor
Worcester County Food Bank (WCFB) is one of three Feeding America member food banks in Massachusetts.
“We’re dedicated to engaging, educating, and leading Worcester County, Massachusetts in creating a hunger-free community – and we do this in two ways.
First, we partner with others – food and fund donors, volunteers, business and community leaders – to provide donated food to neighbors who need it. Last year, we and our network of 115 local pantries and community meal programs helped to distribute nearly 6.1 million lbs. of donated food (enough for 5.1 million meals!) to 75,000 people from all 60 cities and towns in Worcester County.
Second, we advocate. We help grow support for policies and programs that decrease hunger and increase access to healthy food. You can learn more about advocacy here.”
Student Researchers
Yuancen Pu
Ashwin Sukthankar
Arden Badhwar
Mavis Kowalski