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grow a row

Grow a Row Burlington

This is a group of volunteers in Burlington that came together to help support marginalized families in our town – putting fresh produce on their

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Robin Bailey

Make the Rent

One of the biggest hurdles for our clients to manage their budgets is rent. Did you know that the average rental cost in our City

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Our Top 10

Our Top 10 most needed items https://www.burlingtonfoodbank.ca/most-needed-items/ … is something that we update on a regular basis. What’s important to us – other than that

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Hours of Operation

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

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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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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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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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Update – July 30

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

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Update – July 29

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

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Update – July 28

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

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Update – July 27

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

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Robin meets with Lisa Lunski

Update – July 24

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

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Update – July 23

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

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Update – July 22

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

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Update – July 17

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.

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Update – July 16

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

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Update – July 14

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

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Update – July 13

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

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Update – July 10

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

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Update – July 8

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

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Update – July 6

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

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Update – July 3

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…)

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Update – July 2

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

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Update – June 30

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

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Update – June 29

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

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Update – June 25

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

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Update – June 24

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

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Update – June 23

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

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