food bank support & enhancement

To ensure everyone in need can access nutrition, we collaborate with the food banking network to enhance capacity and support service delivery. Through funding, promoting best practices, data analysis and promoting standards, we’re committed to ensuring no one in Canada goes hungry.

Program Areas

Access

We make strategic investments to remove barriers–geographic, physical, cultural and systemic–to ensure everyone in Canada can access food support.

Network Capacity Development

We support the evolution of the food bank network by investing in organizational capabilities, systems and infrastructure.

North

We support community-led food solutions and network development in the North, and other underserved regions.

Innovation & Knowledge Sharing

We foster innovation, collaboration and learning across the national network.

Standards of Excellence

We accreditate and support food banks to promote service, quality and consistency.

Program Initiatives

We’re doing our part to address immediate need, promote food banking excellence and ensure no one in Canada goes hungry. Some of our initiatives include:

Addressing food insecurity in the North

Residents of Canada’s North have long faced the burden of high food costs. Here’s how we’re helping ease the problem.

Helping Nunavut hunters and fishers distribute their harvest

Learn about the Angunasuktiit land program we helped fund at Ittaq, in Clyde River, Nunavut.

Standards of Excellence

Our standards of Excellence set the bar for safety and dignity in food banking across Canada.

Boosting food bank capacity

Read about our investments in the national network to expand the distribution of nutritious food across the country.

Accessibility and Equity Guide

Learn how peer researchers are bringing lived experience to our first accessibility and equity guide.


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