March 2025 Posts

This spring, help us feed more families than ever before

March 13, 2025

It’s time for the  Loblaw Companies Ltd. annual Spring Food Drive to Feed More Families across Canada. From March 13th to April 2nd, 2025, you can support by donating non-perishable food items in-store or by making a monetary donation at...
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Walmart’s Fight Hunger Spark Change campaign is “a bedrock of vital support” for Canadian communities 

February 20, 2025

A lot has changed since Walmart Canada and Food Banks Canada joined forces on their first Fight Hunger Spark Change campaign in 2017. For one thing, the need for food banks in Canada has soared from around 1.1 million monthly...
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The Standards Scoop – Standards of Excellence Spotlight

January 28, 2025

If you’ve seen one food bank, you’ve seen … one food bank. Food Banks Canada collaborates with a network of over 5,500 organizations, each of which serves a community with distinct needs and operates in its own way.  A shared...
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The Standards Scoop – Standards of Excellence Spotlight

January 7, 2025

If you’ve seen one food bank, you’ve seen … one food bank. Food Banks Canada collaborates with a network of over 5,500 organizations, each of which serves a community with distinct needs and operates in its own way.  A shared...
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Spread the spirit: Rewarding ways to support food banks this holiday season

December 2, 2024

When the holidays return each year, they remind us of the joys that can be found in giving. Whether gifts are big or small, they show others that we care. Supporting food banks is a meaningful way to give back...
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The Standards Scoop – Standards of Excellence Spotlight

November 28, 2024

If you’ve seen one food bank, you’ve seen … one food bank. Food Banks Canada collaborates with a network of over 5,500 organizations, each of which serves a community with distinct needs and operates in its own way.  A shared...
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More needed than ever: Loblaw’s 15th holiday food drive to help stock local food banks 

November 28, 2024

For 15 years, Loblaw Companies Ltd., its employees and its shoppers have helped food banks across Canada to feed more families through its biannual food drives. So far, this sustained commitment has resulted in more than 70 million meals for...
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Food Banks Canada has one of Canada’s Most Admired™ Corporate Cultures. Here’s why!

November 21, 2024

In November 2024, Waterstone Human Capital recognized Food Banks Canada for embodying one of Canada’s Most Admired™ Corporate Cultures of the year. This award celebrates best-in-class Canadian organizations with cultures that have helped them enhance performance. Food Banks Canada aims...
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The Standards Scoop – Standards of Excellence Spotlight

November 6, 2024

If you’ve seen one food bank, you’ve seen … one food bank. Food Banks Canada collaborates with a network of over 5,500 organizations, each of which serves a community with distinct needs and operates in its own way.  A shared...
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After the Bell brings necessary relief to families with children

October 10, 2024

Recent research released by Statistics Canada indicates that 23% of Canadians are worried about needing the help of a food bank in the next six months. The most stressed were families with young children. Over half of households with children,...
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