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Two nonprofits, one front door.

GreenSteam is co-built by the DreamSteam Foundation and the Green Guru Project. Two registered 501(c)(3) nonprofits. One shared aim: give students a clear path into real food rescue work.

Across the country, students need verified service hours for the National Honor Society, Bright Futures, college applications, and graduation requirements. Across the same country, good food goes to waste every day: restaurants, cafés, and grocers throw out perfectly good surplus while food banks, shelters, and community fridges go short.

These two worlds barely connect. Most students don't know which local businesses give away surplus food, or which programs need it. GreenSteam is the bridge, a curated directory of food sources and donation programs, so a student can find surplus nearby, arrange a pickup, and deliver it where it's needed, documenting real service along the way.

GreenSteam is the bridge.

Surplus food · Students · Communities in need

See it in action

From surplus to service, in real time.

Students find local surplus food, connect with programs that need it, and document every rescue. This is what the bridge looks like on the ground.

Equal billing, equal authorship

Co-founded by two nonprofit founders

GreenSteam is built jointly by Arjun Bajpai (founder of the DreamSteam Foundation) and Shaan Guru (founder of the Green Guru Project). It operates under the 501(c)(3) status of both organizations, not one with the other as a sponsor. Two nonprofits, equal billing.

DreamSteam Foundation

Founded by Arjun Bajpai · 501(c)(3)

DreamSteam Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded by Arjun Bajpai, running STEAM education and youth-service programs across India, Florida, and the Caribbean. The work spans STEAM awareness drives in India, school funding initiatives, donations in Punta Cana, FusionFest with Rotary, intergenerational projects at HarborChase, and donated technical contributions. A recipient of the Vidya Anjali Award from the Government of India and featured on WESH 2 News, DreamSteam brings multi-region program operations to GreenSteam's student-facing pipeline.

IN, FL, Caribbean regions served · Vidya Anjali Award recognition

Green Guru Project

Founded by Shaan Guru · 501(c)(3)

Green Guru Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2024 in Orlando, Florida. It runs food rescue, financial literacy, and climate-action programs across four continents through 13 active members and partnerships with Panera, Windermere Prep, Ecotone Renewables, and Bears Outreach. That partner-vetting experience shapes the GreenSteam directory standards.

1,750+ pounds of food rescued · 6+ active partners

Neither nonprofit is the "parent". GreenSteam exists because both decided it should.

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