Fast Facts

The Calgary Food Bank is neither a government nor United Way agency. We rely solely on the generous support of donors like you! The following numbers reflect the Food Bank’s fiscal year of September 1, 2010 to August 31, 2011 ( ↑↓refer to changes from last year to this year).

About our clients

146,947 Calgarians received food from our Emergency Food Hamper Program (↑4.6%).
Client visits have increased by 70% since the start of the recession (↑ since 2006/07).
33% of households requesting a food hamper had at least one employed person.
42% of clients were children.
81% of clients visited us three or fewer times. 40% visited only once.
22,365 clients were referred by other service providers.
We provided 12,061 families and individuals with referrals to 266 agencies.
We welcomed 17,313 new clients (↑3%).

About our volunteers

80 to 100 people volunteer every day.
4,379 individual and group volunteers gave 112,330 hours (↑16,382 hours).

We distributed …

17,909 Hampers for the Homeless (↑15%).
56,338 Emergency Food Hampers - an average of 255 per day (↑3%).
1,366 Prenatal Hampers to low-income expectant mothers.
5,361 Baby Hampers to families with children under 3 years old.
Approximately 120 Celiac Hampers to clients with Celiac Disease.
4.5 million pounds of food to 62 food banks in south and central Alberta, Whitehorse and Yellowknife through our Regional Food Distribution Program (↑40%).
3.2 million pounds of food to 99 Calgary-based charities through the BP Food Link Program (↑23%).
Milk to 13,507 adolescents 13 to 17 years old through the Norton Rose Milk for Teens Program (↑7%).
68,860 litres of milk and 2,821 containers of infant formula to 1,974 homes through the Children’s Milk Program (a total of 7,898 deliveries made by our refrigerated Moo Juice Van).
21,934 litres of milk to children participating in community programming through the Agency Initiative of our Children’s Milk Program (↑20%).
$25.3 million worth of quality emergency food with $5.4 million of funds.