{"id":49117,"date":"2026-07-02T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foodbankscanada.ca\/?p=49117"},"modified":"2026-06-29T13:51:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:51:41","slug":"standards-of-excellence-ambassadors-how-volunteers-helped-to-champion-the-standards-at-pictou-county-food-bank-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodbankscanada.ca\/fr\/standards-of-excellence-ambassadors-how-volunteers-helped-to-champion-the-standards-at-pictou-county-food-bank-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Standards of Excellence Ambassadors:\u00a0How\u00a0Volunteers Helped to Champion the Standards at\u00a0Pictou County Food Bank East\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>In early 2024, Food Banks Canada&nbsp;launched a set of national&nbsp;standards&nbsp;covering&nbsp;all areas of food bank operations.&nbsp;These benchmarks&nbsp;strengthen accountability&nbsp;and trust, ensure good practices, and equip food banks to serve their communities as effectively as possible.&nbsp;So far, over&nbsp;360&nbsp;food banks have achieved accreditation in&nbsp;the&nbsp;Standards of Excellence.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>It\u2019s&nbsp;a&nbsp;major&nbsp;endeavour, but nobody&nbsp;has to&nbsp;undertake it&nbsp;alone:&nbsp;food&nbsp;banks&nbsp;are encouraged&nbsp;to&nbsp;ask&nbsp;questions, learn about opportunities to apply for funds,&nbsp;or&nbsp;request&nbsp;assistance&nbsp;at&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"mailto:standards@foodbankscanada.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>standards@foodbankscanada.ca<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;Also willing to lend a helping hand are&nbsp;<\/em><strong><em>Standards Ambassadors<\/em><\/strong><em>:&nbsp;people&nbsp;who have&nbsp;been through the&nbsp;accreditation process and who have generously offered&nbsp;to&nbsp;share&nbsp;their&nbsp;experiences,&nbsp;tips,&nbsp;and&nbsp;templates&nbsp;with the&nbsp;broader&nbsp;food bank&nbsp;network&nbsp;on&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/theexchange.foodbankscanada.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Exchange<\/a><em>.*<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overwhelm is a common&nbsp;initial&nbsp;reaction&nbsp;to the Standards of&nbsp;Excellence, and Pictou County Food Bank East in&nbsp;New&nbsp;Glasgow, Nova Scotia,&nbsp;was no&nbsp;exception. But as chair Barb O\u2019Hearn led her board into the process, that sharp intake of breath changed to an exhale&nbsp;pretty quickly. \u201cOnce I started it, I was surprised that a lot of the stuff&nbsp;was&nbsp;what we&nbsp;were already doing,\u201d she says, adding that a stepwise approach helped to prioritize standards. \u201cWe went through the checklist item by item in meetings and made it a conversation.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Founded in 1989, Pictou County Food Bank East has an&nbsp;eight-person board and 60+ volunteers, some of whom have been active for over 30 years. They serve hundreds of clients from the surrounding communities,&nbsp;40&nbsp;percent of whom are children.&nbsp;It\u2019s&nbsp;a busy place, especially on Wednesdays when they serve up to 120 households while receiving donations and making deliveries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To implement the Standards of Excellence, the food bank designated&nbsp;lead volunteers for each area and had&nbsp;them&nbsp;take charge&nbsp;of coaching&nbsp;their fellow volunteers.&nbsp;\u201cHaving a peer coaching a peer rather than a&nbsp;\u2018big bad board\u2019&nbsp;seemed to really work,\u201d she says.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O\u2019Hearn says the effort&nbsp;of achieving Standards of Excellence accreditation&nbsp;was worth it. \u201cThe value was consistency, not just with&nbsp;food&nbsp;banks&nbsp;across Canada&nbsp;but internally. There are&nbsp;no more grey&nbsp;areas,\u201d she says.&nbsp;The achievement even led to a regular volunteer newsletter to keep the team on track.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Pictou County Food Bank East has&nbsp;accomplished&nbsp;accreditation, O\u2019Hearn has empathy for those still working through the process.&nbsp;Not everyone has&nbsp;the same resources,&nbsp;she&nbsp;acknowledges.&nbsp;Asking&nbsp;for&nbsp;assistance&nbsp;from an accredited food bank&nbsp;could help to bridge the gap, she suggests, adding&nbsp;that her USB stick with&nbsp;Pictou County Food Bank East\u2019s&nbsp;Standards&nbsp;documents is always at the ready to help another food banker.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2902\" height=\"1411\" src=\"https:\/\/content.foodbankscanada.ca\/wordpress\/2026\/06\/20190724_10205426-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49120\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>During a virtual drop-in session&nbsp;hosted by Food Banks Canada,&nbsp;O\u2019Hearn&nbsp;shared an honest account of the challenges and&nbsp;benefits&nbsp;the Standards of Excellence brought for&nbsp;Pictou County Food Bank East<\/em>&nbsp;<em>and offered guidance that included<\/em>:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>-Appoint&nbsp;volunteer&nbsp;champions:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>Finding&nbsp;lead volunteers&nbsp;to help coach others&nbsp;in&nbsp;maintaining&nbsp;the&nbsp;new standards&nbsp;took the pressure off the core team, plus gave the volunteers a sense that they were contributing to a larger goal.&nbsp;The food bank has gone on to apply&nbsp;this same approach to&nbsp;the board,&nbsp;moving&nbsp;it&nbsp;from an advisory&nbsp;role&nbsp;towards a working board with directors&nbsp;who take on specific&nbsp;portfolios and&nbsp;jobs,&nbsp;from secretary to media relations.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>-Work around busy times:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>Wednesdays are a powder keg at&nbsp;Pictou County Food Bank East, so adopting workarounds,&nbsp;such as&nbsp;weight&nbsp;estimates for common food donations,&nbsp;helps volunteers focus on the priority task of&nbsp;serving&nbsp;their&nbsp;clientele. Key to this shortcut is knowing the baselines already;&nbsp;for example,&nbsp;the weights&nbsp;of common food donations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;<strong><em>Pick&nbsp;the&nbsp;low-hanging fruit first:<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;To gain an early sense of progress,&nbsp;Pictou County Food Bank&nbsp;decided to&nbsp;first&nbsp;address standards they&nbsp;were already meeting or close to meeting. Governance was a strong suit.&nbsp;Some other areas&nbsp;took more work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that her food bank is accredited, O\u2019Hearn invites others to connect, as&nbsp;she\u2019s&nbsp;happy to share approaches and documents that worked for them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>To access recordings and resources from&nbsp;previous&nbsp;virtual&nbsp;sessions with Standards Ambassadors, contact&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"mailto:knowledge@foodbankscanada.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>knowledge@foodbankscanada.ca<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>*To register for accounts on The Exchange,\u202fa digital\u202fsharing\u202fplatform\u202ffor eligible food\u202fbanks,\u202fwrite to\u202f<\/em><a href=\"mailto:knowledge@foodbankscanada.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>knowledge@foodbankscanada.ca<\/em><\/a><em>.\u202f<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early 2024, Food Banks Canada&nbsp;launched a set of national&nbsp;standards&nbsp;covering&nbsp;all areas of food bank operations.&nbsp;These benchmarks&nbsp;strengthen accountability&nbsp;and trust, ensure good practices, and equip food banks to serve their communities as effectively as possible.&nbsp;So far, over&nbsp;360&nbsp;food banks have achieved accreditation in&nbsp;the&nbsp;Standards of Excellence.&nbsp; It\u2019s&nbsp;a&nbsp;major&nbsp;endeavour, but nobody&nbsp;has to&nbsp;undertake it&nbsp;alone:&nbsp;food&nbsp;banks&nbsp;are encouraged&nbsp;to&nbsp;ask&nbsp;questions, learn about opportunities to apply for funds,&nbsp;or&nbsp;request&nbsp;assistance&nbsp;at&nbsp;standards@foodbankscanada.ca.&nbsp;Also&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":49122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":"","_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-description":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-image":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-image-id":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-description":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-image":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-image-id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - 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