Everyday Greatness: Maria Rose Belding
Guideposts|February 2020
Her high-tech innovation is helping feed the hungry
Evan Miller
Everyday Greatness: Maria Rose Belding

Who she is Maria Rose Belding, 24, co-launched and runs MEANS, an online platform connecting businesses that have surplus food with pantries and soup kitchens that need it. MEANS stands for Matching Excess and Need for Stability, a name Maria Rose came up with as a teenager while volunteering in her Pella, Iowa, church’s food pantry. She graduated from American University in May 2019 and plans to go to med school.

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