Burlington Food Bank News

What's Going On at the Burlington Food Bank

Robin Bailey

Fresh produce!

We’d like to remind everyone about our community gardens and how well they have been doing. Thanks to Lisa Dubik and her team, our own

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De-escalation

Yesterday we learned about de-escalation which can be an issue at the best of times and during the covid crisis its showing up more and

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Manage Compassion Fatigue

The Burlington Food Bank is learning about burnout and compassion fatigue thanks to Feed Ontario training. (Compassion fatigue is a condition characterized by emotional and physical exhaustion leading

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Compassion Fatigue

The Burlington Food Bank is run by a group of volunteer Board of Directors who give their time and energy to the day to day

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Spread the Word…

Burlington Food Bank participates in the annual Feed Ontario conference which will happen this week online in a virtual format. Today’s course is about “Getting

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Healthier Food Choices

After looking over the Daily Bread Food Bank’s report, we recognize of course that we are facing similar issues such as the mental health of

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Update – August 7

After our month end last week we noticed that overall the number of families using us is up again. Its surprising to us because our

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Keeping our clients Safe!

Recently, there was news all over social media outlets identifying an outbreak of salmonella poisoning for red onions from the U.S. We want everyone to

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Update – August 4

Usually the first day back after a long weekend we are very busy but it’s summer and we’ve seen our numbers level off a bit

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Update – July 31

Our Food Bank volunteers have been doing a tremendous job and look forward to this holiday weekend! We have seen an increase in the number

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