Island Harvest + Trellus
Delivering More Than Food Across Long Island
Every day, Island Harvest works to ensure individuals and families across Long Island have access to nutritious food. As the demand for food assistance continues to grow, dependable regional delivery has become essential to fulfilling that mission.
Through its partnership with Trellus, Island Harvest has expanded its ability to move food efficiently across the region with reliable Same-Day Regional Delivery, allowing its team to spend more time focused on serving the community.
About Island Harvest
Founded in 1992, Island Harvest Food Bank is Long Island’s largest hunger relief organization, working to end hunger and reduce food waste by providing nutritious food to a network of food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, schools, and community organizations across Long Island.
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The Challenge
Delivering Food Efficiently Across Long Island
As demand for food assistance continued to grow, Island Harvest needed a regional delivery partner that could help move food reliably and efficiently across Nassau and Suffolk counties.
Their delivery partner needed to:
• Support recurring regional delivery routes
• Deliver fresh and shelf-stable food reliably
• Reach multiple community partners across Long Island
• Provide visibility into deliveries
• Reduce the time spent coordinating transportation
• Scale with increasing community demand
Reliable delivery isn’t just an operational need—it’s essential to ensuring food reaches the people who depend on it.
The Solution
A Regional Delivery Partner Built for Community Distribution
Trellus partnered with Island Harvest to provide:
• Scheduled Regional Same-Day Delivery routes
• Route optimization
• Professional, vetted driver network
• Real-time tracking
• Proof of Delivery
• Flexible scheduling
• Dedicated operational support
• Reliable recurring multi-stop deliveries
By simplifying regional distribution, Island Harvest was able to focus more of its time and resources on serving the community.
The Results
Greater Efficiency. More Meals Delivered.
Since partnering with Trellus, Island Harvest has strengthened its regional delivery operations through dependable routing, operational visibility, and dedicated support, helping ensure food reaches community partners efficiently and reliably.
“Trellus has become an extension of our team. Their dependable regional delivery network allows us to spend less time coordinating transportation and more time focused on our mission of feeding Long Island communities.”
– Randi Shubin Dresner, Island Harvest
Key Benefits
Reliable Regional Same-Day Delivery
Professional vetted driver network
Route optimization
Dedicated operational support
More time focused on community impact
Why It Matters
Food access depends on more than food.
It depends on getting that food where it needs to go quickly, reliably, and consistently.
By helping organizations like Island Harvest move food efficiently throughout Long Island, Trellus supports stronger food access, healthier communities, and a more connected regional food system.
Because when dependable delivery supports organizations serving their communities, everyone benefits.
