Help Feed a Family This Summer

 Join our Hunger Awareness Challenge! From May 31st to June 11th, we challenge you to help us create awareness about hunger and purchase fresh and nutritious food for people in need.

In addition to donated food, Daily Bread spends over a million dollars each year purchasing nutritious food and distributes over 72,000 food hamper boxes a month across Toronto.

With the current increase in food prices, Daily Bread faces a challenging year ahead. We want to ensure that what is being distributed to people in need consists of adequate amounts of protein, dairy, grains and fresh produce.

Help us reach our goal of $25,000 by joining the challenge. Find out how you can make a difference by pledging to raise funds to feed a family of four for two days with one hamper box, feed 10 people with casseroles made by our kitchen trainees, provide fresh produce to our member agencies, or purchase some of our most need items such as peanut butter, eggs or canned tuna.  

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Real Voices for Real Change - People's Blueprint Conference

In early April, the results of the research conducted by the People's Blueprint Panel was presented at a conference held in Toronto. The conference was an opportunity for the Blueprinters to discuss their observations from the research with others with lived experience of poverty, government representatives and service workers.

Regardless of people's experience or relationship to the system, many came away from the conference with a fresh perspective and new knowledge. One attendee commented that "many of the issues and problems identified by the peer researchers coincide with those identified by other kinds of experts". Notes from the conference (an overview of what was discussed) will be released this summer on the Peoples Blueprint website and submitted to the Ontario Social Assistance Review as it conducts its own review of the social assistance system.

Learn more about what the Blueprinters found out and join the discussion >>

6th Annual Gala Raises Over $140,000

On April 29th, Daily Bread Food Bank held its 6th Annual Gala at the Arcadian Court in Toronto. The event brought together over 250 people committed to helping fight hunger through our Community Action Fund. The Community Action Fund was created to help support Daily Bread's member agencies by providing funds to help improve food programs. This year the gala raise $141,336 and has raised $1.3 million dollars over the past six years to help support member agencies. CBC Radio's Mary Ito hosted an evening which included dinner, a live and silent auction as well as a presentation by Matt Galloway on some of the videos and research results from the People's Blueprint project.

This year our presenting sponsor was Campbell Company of Canada, who continues to be an active supporter of Daily Bread's work to fight hunger. Other sponsors who helped make this gala a success include Rogers, Sodexo, Kraft Foods, Hewlett-Packard, Custom Colour Imaging and Printing and Simpson Printing.

Learn more about Campbell Company of Canada and how they're helping in the fight against hunger.

Missed the gala? Check out the photos on our Facebook page>>