To support this work, and in response to requests for guidance, programming support, donations and food from a growing number of schools and grassroots community partners, Save-On-Foods has mobilized the talent of partner organizations known for their skills and well-established best practices in delivering these services in British Columbia year-round. From procurement to program delivery to logistics, the team has assembled quickly to assist in accelerating the delivery of a sustainable solution.

Breakfast Club of Canada
Accredited by Imagine Canada for its effective governance, the Club provides much more than breakfast; its approach is based on commitment, self-esteem and capacity development using an optimal formula adapted to local needs. Breakfast Club of Canada helps feed more than 243,500 children and youth in 1,809 schools across the country.

For more information:
Nathalie Rochette, Communications Director, Breakfast Club of Canada
nathalie.rochette@breakfastclubcanada.org | 514-404-5660

The Grocery Foundation
The Grocery Foundation is a registered not-for-profit charity committed to fundraising for student nutrition programs (SNPs) and to elevating the public’s awareness around the importance of providing nutritious breakfasts and mid-morning meals for at-risk students in stigma-free environments. Over 40 years, with the support of a community of industry partners and public donations, The Foundation has raised over $90M including over $22M through its Toonies for Tummies campaign benefiting over 1.1M school-aged children.

I Can For Kids
I Can for Kids supports children and youth impacted by hunger over the summer break. By working closely with their frontline agency partners and other local experts, they have developed a unique understanding of local kids’ evolving needs and a unique approach to meeting those needs. They are thoughtful in their approach, committed to quality, and focused on giving kids better access to the food they need with a greater sense of dignity and belonging. Their ‘CAN-do’ attitude is part of who they are, as is their passion to help ensure local kids are fed, stay healthy, and have the opportunity to reach their full potential.

Backback Buddies
Backpack Buddies is a BC Charity that helps hungry children by filling the “weekend hunger gap”. The organization discreetly provides backpacks full of meals to young students over weekends, when they typically can’t take advantage of school-based meal programs. Operations began in 2012 when a mother-daughter duo joined forces to provide 20 backpacks to children in need. Since then, Backpack Buddies has expanded into partnerships with more than 72 recipient schools, delivering more than 1450 backpacks per week to hungry families in Metro Vancouver and Vancouver Island.

BC Agriculture in the Classroom Foundation
BCAITC is a non-profit, charitable organization that works with educators to bring local agriculture to BC’s students. Together with farmers, teachers, and agriculture specialists, they teach students about the story of our food in BC.
With support from its partners in industry and government, BCAITC delivers the BC School Fruit and Vegetable Nutritional Program of locally grown fruit and vegetable snacks to Kindergarten to grade 12 students in 90% of B.C. schools. The program also delivers milk to students in Kindergarten to grade 2 and is unique in many respects, including how it increases access, knowledge and awareness of locally grown foods for BC students; supports BC’s economy; and builds relationships between industry partners.

Food Banks BC
Food Banks BC exists to support, assist and empower 100 BC member food banks. Each year, they facilitate the delivery of over $4 million dollars of donated food to these food banks across the province as well as running the Food Banks BC Sharing Coupons — a partnership with grocery stores that gets fresh, healthy, perishable food to the hungry. The program raises close to $1 million dollars and 100% of the donation stays with each local food bank.

FoodMesh
Mesh Exchange (known as FoodMesh) is a Vancouver-based, tech social enterprise building scalable food recovery solutions. They build apps and programs for food businesses and organizations to safely connect, coordinate and track the sale or donation of surplus food, helping reduce waste, save money and feed more.