I can't sleep, so

Thought of this thing I'm going to start, I guess, right now. I've been thinking for a while, especially since moving to Bed-Stuy, a more residential and poorer area than where I was before, of how to go about giving something back to the community somehow.

I've been in NY for 13 years now, and it's been pretty good to me. These days, I have more time available to me than most to do something, so I am.

Just got this email address: foodforfolks@gmail.com. That's also the name of the thing (without the @gmail.com, obviously).

The idea is pretty simple: "you email. we pick up. done." That's the slogan. Catchy, right?

What's that mean? Anyone in the city, available on the subway or bike-able from my place, can email me their address, and we (me for now) will come by and pick it up. Bring it all back to my house, box it up and take it to food pantries, etc. (not sure exactly how this part will work). Simple, huh?

No real cost to me or anyone else other than time. Besides the subway fare, which I usually have unlimited rides, anyway, there'd be the occasional taxi to get the stuff from my place to whatever place could use it.

What do we pick up? Food.

Please:
- no large containers: things that normal people buy at normal stores for themselves, I'm hoofing it non-carbon, here.
- non-perishables (think that'd be obvious, but)
- the healthier the better; we are trying to help people, after all.
- NO money. This is strictly a resource based project, word.

Have been a messenger in the past both bike and foot, so have the bag for it, at least. Good for me too, because it's mostly a solo venture. As much as I like other people, having to work with them can be problematic. I'll still get to deal with people, presumably (hopefully) quite a few--just not for too long, for any period of time either of us want to.

Makes sense to me. It's reverse-delivery or delivery donating; instead of supplying something demanded, the demand is to supply the provider of a service--and all for a good thing: feeding hungry people. It's the ease of delivery culture in major cities, that I'm so much a believer in, plus doing something good brought to your door.

I'm posting publicly as I write this for, at least, 3 reasons. One, to see if any of you have any ideas, comments, critiques, suggestions, etc.; another, to show the positive things that come from insomnia; the last, to force myself to follow through on it, after waking up later to day.