FoodShare Toronto has grown from 0.5 staff and a $30,000 budget to 55 staff and a $6.3 million budget. It is Canada's largest food security organization and nonprofit food hub. It operates mobile and stationary good food markets, supplies bulk fresh produce to schools and community agencies, and facilitates over 700 student nutrition programs serving 175,000 kids daily. FoodShare also focuses on community food animation, food justice, urban agriculture, and using community kitchens and meals to promote social cohesion.

1. October 2015
Alvin Rebick
Kitchen & Good Food Program Senior manager

2. FoodShare Toronto
Canada’s largest Food Security organization and non-profit Food Hub
From 0.5 staff to 55 staff, from $30,000 to $6.3million

3. Fresh Produce: Good Food Programs

4. Mobile and
Good
Food
Markets

8. Bulk Fresh Produce for Schools and Community Agencies

9. FoodShare Principles:
• Delicious, healthy,
affordable, culturally
appropriate
• Local and Seasonal
wherever possible
• Organic if it is the
same price
• Fair Trade

10. Community Food Animation, Food Justice,
and Urban Agriculture

11. FoodShare and the Toronto Partners for Student Nutrition
facilitate 700+ Student Nutrition programs in which
175,000 kids eat healthy snacks and meals daily

13. Good Food Café healthy school cafeteria

15. Community Kitchens and Community Meals as Social Cohesion