Empire to launch the Second Harvest Food Rescue app nationally at major banner stores and warehouses to divert surplus food to support local charities
Hunger Relief
Food Safety for Non-Profits
Food safety is a crucial part of food rescue. Click to learn how we’re helping our non-profit partners stay healthy – and get some at-home tips, too.
Second Harvest Presents to the House of Commons
Second Harvest’s CEO Lori Nikkel presented to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs on the topic of Food Security in Northern Communities, along with National Chief Elmer St. Pierre of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, and Grand Chief Garrison Settee of Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak Inc.
RISING INSECURITY: Canada’s Food Nutrition & Education Issue
For March’s National Nutritional Month, we’re diving deep into the link between food insecurity and nutrition in Canada. How big is Canada’s nutrition problem and what are some solutions according to the experts?
HEARTY, YET HUNGRY: Northern Food Shipment Arrives in Aklavik, NWT
When he saw the Buffalo airlines charter approaching the Aklavik airstrip, swaying and bobbing in the wind, Michael Greenland surely felt relief. Michael is the president of the Ehdiitat Gwich’in Council (GTC) in Aklavik, Northwest Territories.
Support to Go: How Takeaway Meals Help Agencies Cope with COVID
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent public health guidelines designed to minimize in-person contact, many community-dining and meal programs had to close or pivot their programs to provide food hampers and take-away meals.
Using Healthy Food and Goodwill to Feed the Future
Before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, one in six Canadian children under the age of 18 lived in food insecure households, while rates of household food insecurity have since been exacerbated by the pandemic. School nutrition programs often bridge the food gap for families throughout the school year, but what happens during the summer months?
Ice Roads, Planes and Groceries: The Challenge of Feeding the North
Food insecurity in Canada’s remote North is at an all-time high—57% of community members in Nunavut are food insecure. The high cost of good, nutritious food in the North is too expensive for most and shipments are weather-dependent and infrequent.
TRUE NORTH: Food Shipment to Whitehorse Brings Smiles as Wide as the Lands
With salmon numbers at historic lows on the Yukon River in 2020, it was good fortune and good timing for the First Nations families to hear the news of a massive shipment of food arriving from Second Harvest …
BRINGING HOLIDAY CHEER: Your Support Helped Us Provide 10,500 Turkeys & Hams!
Throughout November and December, you donated, teamed up with friends and family and shared Turkey Drive on social media. It is because of you that we are proud to share that Second Harvest surpassed our goal for 2020!
GIFT IDEAS: 9 Ways to Give Back This Holiday Season
The 2020 Giving Gift Guide gives you the opportunity to get gifts for your loved ones while giving back in substantial ways. Second Harvest is fortunate to have the support of these gracious and giving partners who share in our goal of helping those who need help, need food and need hope.
Second Harvest Helping to Bring Thousands of Ready-to-Heat Meals to Canadians in Need
The hugely successful Bringing Toronto Back to Its Feet program is back and feeding communities and people in need over the holiday season and winter months.
HOLIDAY SPIRIT: Toronto Maple Leafs’ Mitch Marner Fundraises 120,000 Meals For Canadians In Need
When Mitch Marner announced his foundation’s virtual holiday fundraiser One Team United hockey fans got to see his philanthropic side and big heart.
RECIPE: Chilled Beet Soup by Covenant House Toronto
For the Covenant House Toronto, food is a powerful tool to reach homeless and troubled youth. Through food they establish trust and start a conversation. Please see the latest recipe provided to Second Harvest, a delicious Chilled Beet Soup.
GIFT OF GROCERIES to 5.6 Million Canadians Facing Food Insecurity
This Giving Tuesday, the “global day of giving” rallies the world to focus on charities. The goal for Second Harvest, along with the incredible matching partnership by the Liu Fu Yu Foundation, is to raise enough funds to provide 40,000 meals to Canadians.
UNBALANCED: The Growing Food Inequality Gap in Canada
Millions are hungry while millions of tonnes of good surplus food go to waste every year in Canada. Making that connection is part of the solution. Pandemic aside, food insecurity is a daily reality for too many.
HUNGER AT HOME: 1 in 7 Canadians are Food Insecure During COVID-19
In the first two months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada lost almost 3 million jobs and 1 in 7 Canadians became food insecure. That’s nearly five million people who struggle to buy food or go hungry.
A PRAYER ANSWERED: Second Harvest’s Call to NWT Changes the Fortunes of Two Remote Communities
When Alex Pryor, an Anglican pastor in the remote northern community of Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, received a call from Second Harvest food rescue asking if the community needed nearly 6,000 pounds of frozen protein, he nearly fell off his chair.
MOVING MOUNTAINS: Uber Freight Delivers Over 2M lbs of Rescued Food Across Canada
Expecting to reach three million pounds of food distributed to food shelters and charities across all provinces by the end of the year, Second Harvest is thrilled to have such a capable distribution partner.
RECIPE: Roasted Sweet Potato, Cauliflower & Garlic Soup
Providing nutritious food to the vulnerable and needy is at Second Harvest’s core. This month’s recipe comes from Sistering, an incredible multi-service agency who supports women in Toronto who are at risk, socially isolated, homeless or precariously housed.