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The Impact of Every Donation

It is not just the leverage you enable - distributing $4 worth of food for every $1 donated... it is the bredth and depth of the impact your donation makes in our community.

Clients

124,713 Calgarians fed through Emergency Food Hampers. Over 85% of clients came to us three or fewer times. 41% of these people are children. 15,607 of these people were referred to the Food Bank by partner agencies. We provided 9,825 families and individuals with referrals to over 262 community agencies to address the underlying causes of their need for food.

Programs

Emergency Food Hamper Program: distributed 49,054 food hampers (an average of 222 per day). Hampers for the Homeless Program: 14,254 food hampers were distributed to those living with inadequate housing. Regional Food Distribution: 3.7 million pounds of food was distributed to 26 food banks in south and central Alberta. (note: all the food distributed through this program comes from the food industry - it is not donated food from individual Calgarians.) BP Food Link Program: 2.6 million pounds of food was distributed to 94 Calgary agencies (including women's shelters, children and youth programs, community health care, community resource centres, emergency housing, and more) Children’s Milk Program: 57,342 litres of milk and 2,346 containers of infant formula were distributed to 800 homes. Children received fresh milk through 6,665 individual deliveries by the refrigerated Moo Juice Van.

Volunteers

80 - 100 people volunteer per day. 4,074 individual and group volunteers gave an incredible 93,201 hours.

Resources

The Calgary Food Bank distributed $20 million worth of quality emergency food with $4.3 million in funds. For every $1 donated we can distribute $4 worth of food to those in need. We are neither a government nor United Way agency.

For every $1 donated, the Food Bank can distribute $4 of food.
How does this happen?

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• Juice (1 litre)
• Baby Formula with Iron
• Pasta
• Pasta Sauce
• Canned Tomatos
• Peanut Butter
• Canned Beans in Tomato Sauce
• Cereal
• Canned and Dry Soup
• Baby Food (jars)
• Canned Fish
• Macaroni and Cheese
• Canned Vegetables
• Rice
• Canned Meat
• Canned Fruit
• Processed Cheese Spread (jar)