With ongoing concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 virus locally and abroad, The Burlington Food Bank has had to consider a range of actions

We wanted to thank our summer student Samantha Zulian! We hired her at the beginning of July. She was recommended to us by Lesley Fox

Deliveries from The Burlington Food Bank happen Monday to Friday mornings from 9am till noon and also on Thursday evenings between 5pm and 7pm. If

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

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

Announcing Robin Bailey’s appointment to the Board of Feed Ontario. Their 2020 AGM concluded, and they announce the addition of two new directors to Feed

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

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

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

If you are planning to run a food drive for us please go to our website and register your event – or call us to

Jo Brant’s President and CEO Eric Vanderwall mentions that their front line workers managed to donate over 750 lbs of food to help people in

One of the adverse effects of the covid crisis is the financial stress that most of us are feeling and that’s not good for your

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

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

One of the things people ask about charities is “where do you get your funding from?” We do not receive any government funding and completely

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

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

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

Our Food Bank volunteers have been busy and just in the last week we have found that a number of our student volunteers have managed

Our Food Bank driver has been busy lately going out to pick up the purchases that we have been making recently. Today he was out

We just received our annual survey request from Feed Ontario asking us for our self reporting of policies and procedures. Feed Ontario is truly supportive

In the fall of 1992, twenty eight years ago, six hockey wives formed BOWSER (Burlington Oldtimers’ Women Supplying Emergency Relief) with a mandate to help

Right now we are in the middle of our slowest season for the food bank. The deliveries keep going although right now we’ve seen a

Today Robin meets with Lisa Lunski, coordinator of the Wellington Square Meal Bag Program. Their Community Friday night social and dinner turned into a three-day

Today we received a bountiful harvest from our own Garden plots – Thank you Lisa Dubik! BurlingtonTogether’s Grow a Row initiative plans to bring in

We would like to thank Freshco on Brant Street for stepping up to help us out during the pandemic – every time we’ve called, they’ve

One of the things that we do at the Food Bank and certainly throughout the covid crisis is to stick to our main mission –

One of the things that people don’t know about food banks is that we are in the business of trying to put ourselves out of

Just wanted to let everyone know that we updated our Top 10 most needed items recently as there are a few food drives starting up.

We would like to thank our Seniors in Burlington who decided to pass along their government cheques of $300 to us here at the Burlington

As the Pandemic continues we all feel the stress and its effects, at the Burlington Food Bank we try to focus on the positive where

Since we operate out of a confined space at the Burlington Food Bank we make sure that all of our volunteers wear masks when physical

Most Food Banks in the past were distributing mainly non-perishable food so we were basically distributing the types of food items you would see in

We live in one of the best cities in Canada and as we watch the covid reports each day we take pride in the low

We would like to say thank you to the innovative, thoughtful people at BurlingtonGreen (https://www.burlingtongreen.org/) for dropping off their donation of fresh produce yesterday. They

Just a reminder that the Burlington Food Bank is here to help anyone that needs it whether that be families with kids or individuals or

We want to say thank you to a few community partners who have stepped up recently to help us out. The Moms who Run (http://www.mumswhorun.com/north-shore…)

The Burlington Dads came together online in a Canada Day challenge to raise $250 for us and ended up with a commitment of $2,800 –

Sometimes as we go about serving families in Burlington we forget how well our volunteers are doing keeping up with the pace! We run our

We want to make sure that our volunteers are feeling appreciated. So we’ve taken a number of comments from our clients recently and Diane Gris

The Burlington Food Bank is closed this Wednesday for Canada Day. We are looking for some volunteers that can help out Lisa, our Garden Coordinator

The Burlington Food Bank has seen an increase in the number of families we serve and we have noticed that the intake calls have been

We would like to thank the Burlington Chamber of Commerce for hosting the 2020 Business Excellence Awards Gala last night – what a great virtual

We were recently contacted by Feed Ontario to help the provincial government get a better understanding of the effects of the Pandemic on Food Banks

We are excited to have people here in our community growing fresh food for us through Burlington Together’s Grow a Row initiative and now Burlington

We act fast when it comes to frozen food. We source it directly from local grocery stores that support us. When meat products reach a

Things are going well and we have been consistently busy. We are thankful that we have Feed Ontario supplying extra food hampers to us so

A big thanks to our current volunteers that are doing a great job in serving the need here in Burlington! Whether packing hampers, picking/packing orders

There’s a few items outside of food that we are always in need of and one of those is personal hygiene products such as feminine

Thanks to everyone for helping us out with masks. All of our volunteers wear them or the visors when working with us. But we are