eden community food bank Annual Report 2013

We’re in it together!

is committed to increasing access to good food in a digni-

fied manner, developing food skills to encourage healthy eating

and empowering the community through education, outreach and

advocacy.

Approved by the Board of Directors, December 10th, 2013

New Vision and Mission Statements

Vision Statement:

Good Food for All!

Mission Statement:

Executive Director’s Message

2013 Board of Directors: Michelle Martin, President Bhanu Kohli, VP Tim Scott, Treasurer Steve Cogan, Secretary (Jan-Sept) Maria Glidden (Jan-May) Karen English (Jan-April) Beth Barnes Vanna Boghossian Trivéa Isaacs Lisa Last Bob Sjolin Benjamin Ferrie (May-Dec) Naz Zarifian (May-Dec) Gaynor Feltmate (Nov-Dec)

Food banks are changing – they must – to better respond to the needs of hungry families in Canada. The traditional food bank model of primarily collecting food and distributing it is no longer enough to help someone move beyond poverty. Eden Community Food Bank has never been a “traditional” food bank. Our advocacy services have long provided support in areas other than food that encourage families to take steps out of poverty.

In the last decade, there has been a growing evolution to transition from the traditional concept to a more long-term, sustainable approach that further engages food bank clients and the greater community; a model that includes awareness, education, skills development and practical experience. The “community food centre” model brings integrated programming in the areas of healthy food access, food skills development and education and engagement to address intractable problems of hunger, poverty and poor health.

In the last year, our Board of Directors began a process of transitioning to a community food centre model by adopting new vision and mission statements, and re-organizing our program structure into three main program areas: Food Skills, Food Access and Community Engagement and encouraging program development that supports the new model.

Over the next year, we will be sharing this new model with our many community stakeholders (clients, volunteers, donors, community organizations and major fun-ders) to encourage buy-in and receive feedback as we more fully develop the model for a full roll-out next year because we’re in it together.

Eden Community Food Bank is committed to increasing access to good food in a dignified manner…

Food Access 25% Fresh Food given

to food bank clients

Good food for all! In 2013 we began our Fresh Produce Box program. $10 and $20 boxes are sold to anyone in the community to help people increase their fresh produce intake. This program allows the food bank to become a place for people from all walks of life to engage with one another and make the food bank a place anyone can easily walk into.

1,341 Fresh

Produce Boxes

sold from May

— December

12,436 food bank visits

344,671 lbs distributed to clients

80,109 lbs shared with community groups &

other food banks "I didn't know where to turn, then I found Eden." - food bank client

4 summer staff hired to provide

2,740 healthy lunches to kids from low-income

families.

Our Community Learning Kitchen began operating in July and officially opened in October 2013.

Food Skills

ECFB is committed to …developing food skills to encourage healthy eating ...

31 corporate volunteer groups

produced more than 10,000 healthy meals

for distribution through our food bank.

Approximately 850 portions of

homemade soup given to food bank clients visiting our Unity location from October—December.

Approximately 167 attendees at our

Youth Nights

A Taste of Eden 300 Attendees $43,000 raised

Riders Against Hunger 100 Participants $23,000 raised

United Way Kick-Off 1 chef

700 volunteers 5,700 portions of

soup prepared

Community Engagement

ECFB is committed to …empowering the community

through education, outreach and advocacy.

ECFB represented at more than

35 community events Hunger Awareness

Breakfast 75 attendees

More than 250 attendees at our

Family Nights

We work with dozens of other local agencies

such as Legal Aid, SEVA and Ecosource

Locations ECFB provides food advocacy and practical skills training to hungry individuals and families in western Mississauga. We have been serving the Meadowvale and Streetsville neighbourhoods for 25 years. Our original location, the Battleford Client Centre, is located in the basement of Eden United Church on the corner of Winston Churchill Blvd and Battleford Rd. Our second and now primary location for the last five years, the Unity Client Centre, warehouse, Community Learning Kitchen and office, is at 3185 Unity Drive off of Winston Churchill Blvd just south of Highway 403.

Clients In 2013, ECFB served 350—400 families per month. 40% of whom were children, 2% were infants. Each person re-ceived an average of 28 lbs per visit. On average, our clients spend 75% of their income on rent & utilities. Too many of our clients have to chose between a roof over their heads or food for their family because they can’t afford both.

2013 Staff Donna Behmer, Food Bank Manager Maureen Sawicki, Office Admin Bill Crawford, Executive Director Chris Szypulewski, Operations Supervisor Peter Costello, Director of Operations, Community Learning Kitchen

Feed an Individual ($500+) - AEI Canada Inc., Air Transat, Algonquin Power and Utilities Corp, Amgen Canada Inc, Anagni Homes, Bentall

Kennedy, Christ The King Elementary School, Deepa Kumar Medicine Professional Corp, Dimension Data Canada, Divine Mercy Elementary School, Dunnhumby, Eden United Church Women, Edenwood Middle School, EMKAL, Enbridge Gas Distribution, Garland Commercial Ranges Ltd, GlaxoSmithKlein, Grace Community Church, Intact Insurance, Investors Group Financial Services Inc., Jacox Harley-Davidson, JET Equipment & Tools Ltd., John Fraser Secondary School, Keystone Pub, Knights of Columbus, Kronos Canada, Kruger Products, Leeswood Design Build Ltd, Levi Creek Public School, M and M Meat Shop, Mantralogix - Matheson, Maple Key Health Group Ltd, Marcom Group, Master Mechanic, Meadowvale Bible Baptist Church, Medtronic of Canada Ltd, MiGroup, Motorcycle Enhancements, Peel Regional Police (PCLC), PHH Arval, PriceWaterhouseCoopers PWC, RBC Contact Centres, River Grove Seniors Friendship Club, Shree Ganeshyag Pariwar, St. Edith Stein, Stantec Employees, Streetsville Secondary School, Streetsville United, The Auto Spa, TransCanada PipeLines Ltd., Virelec Ltd, Vision Transportation, Wakefield Canada Inc.

Feed a Couple ($1,000+) - ADM Milling - Streetsville, Alphora Research Inc, Alterna Savings, Bell Canada, Bldg.Workshop Inc, Domin-ion In Christ International Ministries, Ecosource, Edward Lifesciences, Erindale Midget 114, Guscon Enterprises, Harvest Family Church, Lions Club of Streetsville, Mattel, Meadowbrook Construction Inc, Meadowvale Community Christian Reformed Church, Mis-sissauga Central Lions Club, Mississauga Festival Choir, Mondelez Canada Inc, Pandora Jewellery, Rand, RBC Royal Bank, Robert Bosch

Inc, Roche Canada, St. Mark Catholic Elementary School, Thomas St. Middle School, TierOne OSS Technologies, Tim Hortons - Financial Dr., Vista Heights Public School

Feed a Family ($2,500+) - Bridge System Investments, Comark Inc., Erinwood Ford, HRSDC, La Cie McCormick Can-ada, Meadowvale Lions Club, Morguard Investments Limited, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Richards-Wilcox Canada, Region of Peel, Rotary Club Streetsville, Service Filtration of Canada Ltd., Sir Joseph Flavelle Foundation, St. Aloysius Gonzaga S.S., Tim Hortons Advertising and Promotion Fund, Toskan Casale Foundation (YPI)

Feed a Neighbourhood ($25,000+) - Community Foundation of Mississauga, Ontario Trillium Foundation, United Way of Peel Region

Feed a Community ($100,000+) - Homelessness Partnering Strategy (Gov’t of Canada)

Supporting Organizations

A big thank you to all of our 2013 financial donors. We also appreciate all the individuals, community and faith groups, service clubs and corporations who have generously given of their time, energy and food to help us in our food collection efforts.

Robert Scott Addison, Ibrahim Al Kuttab, Anthony Alexander, Gayle Alexander, Sandra Ancic, Joseph and Lina Andrea, Peter Andrew, William and Mao Chen Armitage, Coreen Arseneault, Ayoub Azab, Thomas and Patricia Bain, Francois Balet, Kathy Bannon, Pat and Judy Bardon, Steve Barger, Suleman Barmania, Beth Barnes, Ricardo and Rossy Aragon Barrientos, Heather Bartlett, Russell and Linda Begin, Rainer and Donna Behmer, Marc Beisheim, Dan Bemmann, Bryan Bennett, Olga Berenstein, Danielle Bergeron, Thurstan and Karen Berke-

ley, A. K. Bhabha, Tony and Maria Biasutti, Greta Blance, John Blazenko, Steve and Vanna Boghossian, Abry Bourgeois, Tommy and Michelle Branco, Perry and Judi Brinkert, Fran Bunting, Paul Burton, Bradley Butt, Luisa Caccamo, Rob and Lori Cannataro, Frank Caridi, Susan Carson, Flavian and Judy Castelino, Tony and Joanne Cellucci, Anthony and Shirley Champion, Sai Wan Chan, Willy and Helen Chan, Craig Francis Christensen, Connie Chryssoulakis, Cindy Church, Brian Clements, Ken Cleveland, Paul Clouthier, Alec Coish, Lynne Colaco-Desouza, Linda Colquhoun, Pauline Contrasty, Tay and Lisa Cook, Raymond Court, Bill and Natalie Crawford, Sheila Critchlow, M. Cruikshanks, Sebastian and Tilia Cruz, David Culham, Jack and Caitriona Cussen, Cindy Cyr, Carlos Dalgas, Tony D'Attoma, Phillip Davey, Tammy Dawson, Dennis and Lesley Deller, Jeanne Deller, Mike and Jody Derry, Parveen and Ritu Dhupar, Christopher Doner, Jack and Barbara Duff, Dale and Ann Dunning, Doug Dunning, Gene Dy, Paul Earl, Thomas Eigl, Maxine Fawcett, Laura Fehr, James Fernihough, Werner and Margot Fieguth, Jody Fleck, Monica Forbom, Frank Formoso, Keith and Ingrid Fox, Kelly Frigstad, Ron and Diana Funk, Ruben Gar-cia, Mark Garrett, Jason Georgie, Krista Ghanekar, Jason Gibbs, Lori Gibbs, Joyce Giddings, Laura Giesbrecht, Paul and Kane Gillis, Maria Glidden, Ian and Grieda Graham, Doris Grbic, Sharon Grewal, Wayne and Rita Gunsten, Rakesh and Margaret Gupta, Somaya Haffajee, Bilal Haffejee, Rabiya Haffejee, Neil Haldane, Robyn Harris, Doreen Harvey, Howaida Hassan, Donald and Margaret Helsdon, Glenn Heshka, Dale Hester, James and Jean Hill, Dwight and Janette Hitchins, Jeremy and Pauline Hopwood, Michael Horner, Gordon Houser, John and Jayne Hurdis, Wanda Jackson, Kazeem Jaffer, Hans Jambrovic, Christina Jenkins, Janine Jensen, Don Jorgensen, Chuck Jung, Sandra Kamenz, Jay Kang, Marion Karol, Gerald Kaspard, Sumble Kaukab, Ian and Marian Kelland, Saleha and Aslam Khan, Shahnawaz Khandwala, Esther King-Williams, Hans and Sheena Klaassen, Ann and Garry Klassen, Patricia Kluge, Marlys Kosmalski, Raj Krishnamoorthy, Michael Kronen, Paramesh Kunda, John Kunzler, Andrea Kurowski, Heather Kurtin, Ursula Lad-ner, Minnie Lam, Suzie Lapierre, Melicent Lavers-Sailly, Gerry and Valerie Leddy, Rick Leja, Annette Li, Shirley Lobach, Beth Longland, Alex and Anne Lorimer, Colin and Edith Lorimer, Karen Lynch, Melissa MacIntyre, Edward and Beverley Maciuk, Terry Mack, Shirley MacLeod, Karen Mann, Rezmi and Rehana Markar, Glenn and Anya Martin, Ken and Michelle Martin, Steve and Pam Martin, Faith and Zac Martins, John and Janice McBride, Hugh and Betty McGeach, Brian and Judith McInnis, Lisa McLellan, Clarke McLeod, Lisa Menezes, Pirkko Mikkola, Ron Mikulicic, Rodney Minden, Ramash Mistory, Gayle Morais, Michael Moran, Daniel Morgan, Michael Morris, Wasee Munim, Richee Nagasundaram, Tammy Nancoo, Patel Narendra, Dawinder Naru, Peter Nasson, William and Elizabeth Anne Needs, Joseph and Margaret Nieradka, Lisa Noakes, Erin Nolan, Patrick and Paula Nolan, Alain and Nicole Normand, Carol Norwood, Tim and Charlotte O'Keeffe, Cathy Page, Paulette Paquin, June Paradis, Jean Parker, Mike and Debbie Parker, Joesph Pasquini, Brian Pedro, Robert and Eileen Petersen, Alan Petterson, Jim Piper, Tom Podobnik, Tony Poldrugovac, Melanie Poulin-Costello, Dave Pratt, Peter Quesnelle, Tahir Iqbal Qureshi, George Radchenko, Edward Reeves, Naeen and Tahmina Rehman, Merle Reist, Norris Reynolds, Nancy Ritchie, William and Genevieve Roach, David and Joanne Rogers, Steven Sage, Ron and Pat Saito, Marilyn Savage, Joe Savoie, Rick & Maureen Sawicki, Lorraine Schneller, Daniel and Rita Schulze, Tim and Stephanie Scott, Paul and Julie Semak, Sajay and Manjit Sharma, Frances Shearim, Neil Shevlen, Steven Simpson, Wayne Simpson, Wayne Simpson, Randy and Tricia Sistili, Melissa Skof, Bill and Diane Sloper, Philip and Joy Slous, Bunny Smilde, Vincent Soares, Stephane and Kiara Sol, Victoria Soto, Marc and Connie Speir, Mike Standing, Tom Stanley, Allan Stroud and Lisa McNevin , Sarah Stuart, Gail Summers, Rafal Swietlik, Tony Tai, Carole Tamulionis, Mukesh Tanna, Patricia Tassone, Massimo and Kimberly Tatone, Ruthanne Thain, Elsie Thompson, Dave Toycen, Alan and Astrid Trim, Marie Tromba, Emmanuel and Lorraine Tucker, Andy and Jean Tweddle, Howard Tzeng, Paul and Mary Ulrick, War-ren and Adrienne Utting, Ahmed Vahed, Rashaad Vahed, Mike Vavalo, Madhusudhan Venkatachari, Lillian Walker, Debbie Weston, Angelica Wettlaufer, Donald Will, Ron Wilson, Tammy Wong, Grant and Pat Wood, Kristie Woudstra, Susan Yee, Nan Zhang

Individuals

Good Food In—Good Food Out! Major Food Donors: Ontario Food Terminal, Mississauga Central Lions Club Farmer’s Market, Loblaws Erin Mills, No Frills, Metro Derry, Metro Meadowvale, COBS Bread, Ar-tisano Bakery, The Bagel House, Tim Hortons—Meadowvale & Tim Hortons—Erin Mills Major Food Drives: United Way events, Peel Police Cram-a-Cruisers, Churchill Meadows, Merciful Redeemer, GE, Bentall Kennedy & McKesson Pharma. Top ten PDSB & DPCDSB school food drives: Ruth Thompson MS, St. Elizabeth Seaton, Plum Tree Park, Churchill Meadows, St. Joan Of Arc, St. Aloysius Gon-zaga, John Fraser, Streetsville, Meadowvale, Village Public & Vista Heights

“This place is my lifeline. Without this food bank I would be very hungry. The people here are great and do a wonderful job. I thank all the volunteers and sponsors for their help.” – food bank client.

In 2013, here’s what happened because of your support.

425,949 lbs of food donated (that’s worth $1,064,873!)↑6% from 2012

27,975 lbs of fresh food such as milk was purchased

212 tons distributed to hungry families↑9% from 2012

An average 1,036 people visit the food bank each week

Each food bank client received an average of 28lbs per visit ↑5 lbs from 2011

It is because of your support that we could help more than 12,000 people – Thank You!

Fresh Produce is our Focus In our efforts to provide more fresh produce to our clients throughout the year, we have grown our connection with the Ontario Food Terminal. In 2013, we received 79,139 pounds of donated food from OFT vendors. We also purchased needed produce for below wholesale prices. We also started a Fresh Produce Box Program with food purchased at discounted prices from the OFT.

Donations from Ecosource, local farmers including those from the Mississauga Central Lions Club Farmers Market continues to be an important source of fresh produce.

Financials

For every $2 donated to the food bank in 2013, we distributed the food needed to make

four healthy and nutritious meals.

Our fiscal year follows the calendar year—January 1st to December 31st. Our revenue was $624,257 in 2013. Our expenses were $537,732. The surplus of $86,525 will be used to cover the continued development of our Food Skills programs and expansion of our Community Engagement into 2014.

Donations from a variety of sources and a number of fundraising events made it possible to fully fund our programs in 2013!

www.edenfoodbank.org Unity Client Centre, Warehouse Community Learning Kitchen & Office: Battleford Client Centre: 2-3185 Unity Drive 3051 Battleford Road Mississauga, ON L5L 4L5 Mississauga, ON

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