Making an Impact on Hunger
Achieving our potential together
Make a gift today.
A donation to Food Banks Canada helps to ensure families, seniors and children struggling with food insecurity get the nutritious food they need.
Join us at our inaugural summit
June 18, 2025
Hotel Bonaventure Montréal
900 Rue De la Gauchetière O, Montréal, QC H5A 1E4
Corporate support
Create a corporate campaign, make a donation, or engage your employees in a great cause – discover all the ways to engage with Food Banks Canada.
Vision & Mission
Our vision and mission guide us in our work to end food insecurity in Canada by addressing immediate needs and understanding the root causes of hunger.
Making a collective impact
We’re focused on maximizing our collective impact, strengthening local food bank capacity and researching ways to reduce food bank demand.
The Network
Food Banks Canada supports a network of 5,500 food banks and community organizations across Canada. We all do our part to contribute to the collective impact.
Hunger in Canada
Hunger isn’t reserved for strangers or the unhoused.
Food insecurity can affect your neighbours, colleagues or family. Our research is helping to look past the stigma to uncover the root causes of hunger.
HungerCount 2024
Year over year, food bank use in Canada continues to rise. View the stats, read our policy recommendations and help us drive change.
Poverty Vulnerability Map
Poverty can be hard to see, which makes it harder to address. Our interactive map gives insight into the geography of poverty and the factors behind it.
Researching
the Root Causes
Read our research reports for snapshots of food bank use and insights into what’s happening on hunger’s front line.
STORIES THAT FEED US
Real people making a real difference.
Learn how Food Banks Canada and the network of food banks and community organizations is helping reduce food insecurity.
The Standards Scoop – Standards of Excellence Spotlight
If you’ve seen one food bank, you’ve seen … one food bank. Food Banks Canada collaborates with a network of over 5,500 organizations, each of which serves a community with distinct needs and operates in its own way. A shared set of values and best practices underpins this healthy diversity: every network member upholds Canada’s Ethical…
Get out to vote!
How to vote in the Canadian election with food insecurity as your priority Voting is a powerful tool that can help address food insecurity in our communities. This election comes at a critical moment when we need immediate action to support people in need today, but also long-term policy solutions that address the root causes…
The Standards Scoop – Standards of Excellence Spotlight
If you’ve seen one food bank, you’ve seen … one food bank. Food Banks Canada collaborates with a network of over 5,500 organizations, each of which serves a community with distinct needs and operates in its own way. A shared set of values and best practices underpins this healthy diversity: every network member upholds Canada’s Ethical…
Free tax clinics at food banks achieve massive “returns” on investment
In the spring of 2024, when “Marlice,” a single mother of one, walked into the Saskatoon Food Bank & Learning Centre, she simply expected to get some help filing her taxes. What she didn’t yet know was that this free service would help to change her life situation dramatically. Marlice had never filed taxes before,…
This spring, help us feed more families than ever before
It’s time for the Loblaw Companies Ltd. annual Spring Food Drive to Feed More Families across Canada. From March 13th to April 2nd, 2025, you can support by donating non-perishable food items in-store or by making a monetary donation at checkout. With over two million visits to food banks this month, the need to donate…
Partner milestones: A celebration of contributions and collaboration
Collectively, Canada’s network of over 5,500 food banks and related community organizations will receive over two million visits this month. That’s a historic high, but thankfully, food banks are not facing this challenge alone. The support of Food Banks Canada’s partners has never been more crucial, and there couldn’t be a more fitting moment to…
Walmart’s Fight Hunger Spark Change campaign is “a bedrock of vital support” for Canadian communities
A lot has changed since Walmart Canada and Food Banks Canada joined forces on their first Fight Hunger Spark Change campaign in 2017. For one thing, the need for food banks in Canada has soared from around 1.1 million monthly visits eight years ago to over 2 million today. However, the impact of the annual…
The Standards Scoop – Standards of Excellence Spotlight
If you’ve seen one food bank, you’ve seen … one food bank. Food Banks Canada collaborates with a network of over 5,500 organizations, each of which serves a community with distinct needs and operates in its own way. A shared set of values and best practices underpins this healthy diversity: every network member upholds Canada’s Ethical…Help End Hunger.
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Your generous support will ensure that families, seniors and children struggling with food insecurity get the nutritious food they need to reach their full potential.
