Unprecedented’ number of Niagara residents using food banks: Brock University brief
A Brock University professor finds that more Niagara residents are using food banks than ever before. ByKevin WernerNiagarathisweekcom Tuesday, April 9, 2024 More Niagara residents are being forced to use food banks than ever before, according to a report by Brock...
The 2024 World Rowing Championships Announce Partnership with FEED Niagara to Fight Food Insecurity
April 10, 2024 St. Catharines, Ontario - The 2024 World Rowing Senior, Under 23, and Under 19 Championships (Mega Worlds) proudly announces a partnership with FEED Niagara, a local organization dedicated to stopping hunger in the Niagara Region through its network of...
Community Care of West Niagara receives $74,800 to strengthen FEED NiagaraFunded by the Government of Canada’s Community Services Recovery Fund
Monday, December 18th 2023 Lincoln, Ontario - As a follow up to the Government of Canada’s Public Announcement on August 17th 2023, Community Care of West Niagara is a very grateful recipient of a $74,800 investment that was recently awarded by the Government of...
$90K raised for Community Care West Niagara as Christmas nears
ByAbby Green, Local Journalism Initiative ReporterGrimsby Lincoln News Monday, December 18, 2023 During the time of year when need is at its highest, west Niagara is there to help. The first fundraiser in honour of Debbie Ecker managed to raise $90,000 for Community...
Big Food Boost Update
December 6, 2023 | Rhiannon Fleming CAA Niagara’s Big Food Boost Pledge is hard at work, driving positive change in the community. One significant way this is happening is through the bulk purchase of food to stock the shelves of FEED Niagara’s 10 affiliate agencies...
Food Banks in Niagara feeling the pinch as holiday season approaches
Inflation is impacting how people donate - that is the concern expressed by several Feed Niagara partner food banks who are seeing bare shelves even as the need for help increases. Several Niagara region food banks, part of the Feed Niagara group, are bending under...
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FEED Niagara Manager – full-time contract position, 1 Year, with possibility of renewal. Feed Niagara, a consortium of 10 Food Bank agencies across Niagara, is seeking a dynamic, collaborative and inspiring innovator to advance their strategic...
Kids and cookies come together to support West Lincoln Community Care
A Smithville based food bank is getting a spring boost with two major events that will raise money and help restock the agency’s shelves. Tim Hortons’ Smile Cookie campaign has moved from its usual fall timing to a spring date. In Smithville proceeds from the cookie...
GROW food literacy centre, Project SHARE named Smile Cookie recipients for 2023
People biting into those tasty Smile Cookies at local Tim Hortons restaurants next month will also be taking a bite out of hunger and helping others to eat more healthy food. That’s because the Niagara Falls Tim Hortons owners have selected the GROW Community Food...
There is no Stanley Cup for being biggest food bank in town
It isn’t pretty, the increasing pressures of very real and growing poverty. It’s not trendy or stylish, and it’s not found front and centre on social media. It’s clear that as a society we don’t want to talk about things that make us uncomfortable; and poverty, well...
3rd Annual “NRPS Spring Food Drive” Kicks Off Next Week Across Niagara
The Niagara Regional Police Service (NRPS) is proud to announce it will be hosting the 3rd annual “NRPS Spring Food Drive”. The NRPS will be partnering with nine local food banks and 12 local grocery stores in an effort to help support the demand for food and...
Newark Neighbours food bank visits more than double
The demand for food banks continues to rise and there is no sign of it slowing. Use of food banks has been increasing for the past six years, according to Feed Ontario’s 2022 Hunger Report. And Newark Neighbours in Niagara-on-the-Lake is no stranger to this increase —...