OUR MOVEMENT IS GROWING
Low-income Canadians struggle with high levels of food insecurity, poor health, and social isolation. Thanks to our generous donors, we invested $3.6 million in the community food sector in 2016, reaching 280,000 low-income Canadians from coast to coast to coast.
Building Community
Food Centres
We work with partners to build dignified, welcoming places in underserved neighbourhoods where rates of poverty and poor health are high, good food is hard to find, and there are few community spaces where people can come together.
Two new Community Food Centres opened in 2016, in Calgary and Hamilton. There are now 8 Community Food Centres across Canada.
Community Food Centres offered
3,800
program sessions that increased access to healthy food, taught food skills, increased belonging, and provided ways for people to become engaged in making change in their communities.
Examples of Community Food Centre programs:
- Community Meals
- Good Food Market
- Community Action Training Program
- Seniors' Community Kitchen
- FoodFit
- Seed, Feed, and Lead
- Women In The Garden
- Social Justice Club
- Family Harvest Kitchen
PARTNER COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRES
- The Stop CFC
Toronto, ON - The Table CFC
Perth, ON - The Local CFC
Stratford, ON - Regent Park CFC
Toronto, ON - NorWest Co-op CFC
Winnipeg, MB - Dartmouth North CFC
Dartmouth, NS - The Alex CFC
Calgary, AB - Hamilton CFC
Hamilton, ON
EMPOWERING
ORGANIZATIONS
We believe that collaboration leads to bigger impact so we act as a central knowledge exchange hub for our partner Community Food Centres, Good Food Organizations, and the broader community food security sector.
We supported this growing network of organizations with
$700,000
in grants in 2016
We also offered
34
training sessions and workshops
online and at our national Food Summit that facilitated shared learning, networking, and mutual support.
There are now
100+
Good Food Organizations
working from shared good food principles to provide health- and equity-building programs to their communities.
They’re located in more than
60+
cities and towns, including:
- Baddeck, NS
- Brampton, ON
- Burnaby, BC
- Iqaluit, NU
- Lethbridge, AB
- Lloydminster, SK
- Medicine Hat, AB
- Montreal, QC
- North Bay, ON
- Ottawa, ON
- Surrey, BC
- Vancouver, BC
- Windsor, ON
- Moncton, NB
CHANGING
THE CONVERSATION
Through public education, outreach, and engagement activities, we create opportunities for Canadians to talk about the important role food plays in building healthy and inclusive communities.
We also engaged
150,000+ Canadians
in progressive conversations
about health, equity, inclusion, and solidarity, and how we can work together to build a future where access to healthy food is a basic right.
WEBINARS
- Reducing diet-related illness through fruit-and-vegetable prescriptions
- The causes and solutions to social isolation
- Health regulation in the age of processed food