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North York harvest food bank helps the community with delivering millions of meals throughout the year to people in need. Last year they had donated over 2.3 million pounds of food, with 22% of that being fresh produce throughout the community. They feed thousands of hungry mouths weekly and are beginning to put an end to hunger in northern Toronto.

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How efficiently do they use the money they make?

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How efficiently do they use the money they make?

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The majority of money that the food bank makes is from recipient donations (39%) and gifts from other charities (35%). Their expenses mostly go towards charitable programs(67%) to help fund what the charity does. The rest of the money goes towards fundraising(25%) and the management and administration(8%) for the charity. In 2017, the charity came out with a surplus of 54,753 dollars.

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Ability to meet its goals and serve its clients

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Ability to meet its goals and serve its clients

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The North York harvest food bank serves an average of 16,000 people every month. In 2017, the food bank donated over 2.3 million pounds of food to people of all ages and is one of the largest food banks in the GTA. They have surpassed many goals and have been able to decrease the amount of hungry people in Toronto.

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The North York Harvest Food Bank has a very good reputation for what they do. The North York harvest food bank has a selective volunteering process, meaning that volunteers are carefully chosen based on past experience and other jobs. They are well known throughout Toronto for all of their achievements. Families across northern Toronto received 180,000 healthy food packages donated to the people through their many member agencies. Many previous volunteers have had nothing but positive things about the charities work and the environment that they provide. “Suddenly, kindness becomes the motive for raising my ambitions. Here is the center for volunteering and making an impact of changing lives-- without you knowing it.” is a very positive quote from somebody who had the opportunity to volunteer at the food bank and had nothing but positive things to say about it. There are also other quotes from people who have volunteered. “This is a great place to volunteer. Kind people doing the right thing.” overall in my opinion the quality of work from the charity and the people they help make it a high quality program.

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North York Harvests use of volunteer and paid staff

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North York Harvests use of volunteer and paid staff

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The North York harvest food bank utilizes their volunteers to help with packaging, sorting and shipping their food to partnering food banks for further distribution. Volunteers are carefully selected and usually will be put with somebody with more experience and they will learn off of them. As for paid staff, there are 12 full time paid staff members and 41 part time employees working at the North York Harvest food bank.

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The North York harvest food bank makes a significant portion of their money from government grants, but a large majority of money comes from various donations. The food bank also cooperates with larger companies to help with getting their name out and to collect donations. For example, the north york harvest food bank partnered with metro to help raise money for the charity. In metro, customers would be asked at the cash register if they would like to donate to the North York Harvest Food Bank.

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Services, Programs Provided and Achievements 

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Services, Programs Provided and Achievements 

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With North York harvest food bank being one of the largest in northern Toronto, they deliver food daily through 77 local community programs. Their food comes from various donors throughout the GTA, and is then sorted by type in their warehouse by volunteers and is then shipped off daily to feed the people. In 2017, they had successfully given over 2.3 million pounds of food the over 162,000 people. They have also had the opportunity to work with other large grocers such as metro. When checking out countemers were given the option to donate to the north york harvest food bank by purchasing grocery bags.

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North York harvests mission is “To engage our community in meeting the food needs of northern Toronto by providing dignified food assistance, education and long-term food solutions.“ In the future, the North York harvest food bank is looking to create more permanent food solutions for the thousands of people in Toronto in need. They are also looking for more partners to link with to grow and expand their charity. The food bank helps thousands of Torontonians every year to meet their basic food needs and provide place for people to help in their community with their volunteer program.

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The North York harvest food bank was founded in 1986 by Loren Freid. The charity was founded in the North York ontario and is now the primary food bank in the north of Toronto. The current CEO of the charity is named Josh Neubauer. In the 1980’s after the previous owner Loren Freid had gone to a blue jays game, he had wondered where all of the hot dogs that had been cooked but not bought would go when there were thousands of people scattered around the city in need of food. That was where the idea for the North York harvest food bank came from. The North York harvest food bank is now currently one of the largest in Toronto!

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A community where all members are able to meet their food needs

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Address: North York Harvest Food Bank, 116 Industry Street, Toronto, ON, M6M 4L8

Telephone: 416-635-7771

Fax: 416-635-5599

Email: info@northyorkharvest.com
Registered number:  11906 2495 RR0001