Annual Report 2010/2011
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FIGHTING photo by lindaaslund by photo HUNGER ANNUAL REPORT 2010/2011 www.dailybread.ca Hunger is not about food, it’s WHO WE ARE Whether it’s driving the trucks, supporting our member agencies, We’re more than just a food bank. We’re working hard to make an about poverty. running the onsite food bank, coordinating volunteers, conducting impact in the community by not only providing food and resources research, educating youth, fundraising for money or food, crunching the to the people who need it most but also by looking at ways to numbers, making meals for the homeless or sending the orders out in solve the issues that lead to hunger in the first place. We bring the warehouse, Daily Bread’s staff is dedicated to fighting hunger. individuals, companies, schools and community groups together to LETTER FROM THE ChAIR OF THE BOARD AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR learn about hunger and how they can help. We provide information With eight trucks and over 50 full-time staff, we work hard every day and resources to clients who are here because they’re hungry, but to provide food and resources to a network of approximately 170 are hungry as a direct result of poverty. Daily Bread Food Bank runs Our staff and board continue to dedicate themselves both personally maximize the amount of space available. Our storage space, and our food banks and community agencies that distribute food through a number of programs designed to empower individuals on low and professionally to the fight against hunger. In addition to raising and capacity to store food, has now increased substantially. over 200 programs. With the invaluable assistance of volunteers, we incomes and build community engagement and interest in issues of distributing enough food to provide for 794,000 client visits and over sort, pack and distribute up to a million pounds of food a month. poverty and hunger. 150,000 nutritious meals, we’ve accomplished a lot in the fight against • The number of corporate groups to volunteer over the past year hunger this past year. Below are just some of the highlights: increased by 58 per cent as we expanded not only the types of volunteer opportunities we have available, but also revamped the Food Drive Results • Committed to supporting our member agencies, Daily Bread program to ensure we were creating a great experience for volunteers held a conference called Fighting Hunger: Inviting Change that that would last far beyond one afternoon at Daily Bread. explored how to create safe, respectful and welcoming food 1,300,000 lbs $1,300,000 • We are continuing to advocate for all three major Ontario programs for all clients. 1,200,000 lbs $1,200,000 political parties to support the adoption and implementation of an • With a generous donation from Tim Hortons we secured a new Ontario Housing Benefit, which would go a long way to supporting 1,100,000 lbs $1,100,000 1,000,000 lbs $1,000,000 hybrid truck; helping to continue our environmental sustainability people on low incomes. Please take a look at www.dailybread.ca to Food (in pounds) efforts and allowing us to distribute and pick up more food. find out more about this initiative and how it will help the fight 900,000 lbs $900,000 Funds (in CDN$) against hunger. 800,000 lbs $800,000 • With gas costs continually rising, we also implemented new planning software in our transportation department that has Hunger is not about food, it’s about poverty. Hunger is about not 700,000 lbs $700,000 allowed us to decrease the cost of distributing food by maximizing having enough money at the end of the day to buy nutritious food for 600,000 lbs $600,000 our time on the road. you and your family. Poverty is vicious, cyclical and devastating to the 500,000 lbs $500,000 physical and mental well-being of so many in the community. Many of 400,000 lbs $400,000 • The Peoples Blueprint Review Conference in April mixed influential the people who come to food banks and meal programs for help need 254,700 lbs $279,300 300,000 lbs $300,000 policy makers, poverty advocates and the chairs of the current more than just food – they need affordable housing and good job Commission for the Review of Ontario Social Assistance with opportunities, retraining or educational opportunities, affordable child 200,000 lbs $200,000 people with lived experience of poverty who discussed their care, mental health and medical care. For many of us, being able to 100,000 lbs $100,000 research findings on how poverty and the current social assistance 480,000 lbs $335,000 1,169,000 lbs $1,300,000 afford food is a privilege. It should be a right. 0 lbs $0 system is affecting low income Ontarians. Find out more about this Spring Fall Holiday project, done in partnership with Voices from the Street, at Thank you for continuing to support Daily Bread Food Bank, and the www.peoplesblueprint.com. fight against hunger in our communities. Food In / Food Out • In our production hall we have expanded our working area and Sincerely, created two new sorting areas for fresh vegetables and other 80% perishable products. We have also better designed our warehouse to Eric Meerkamper Gail Nyberg Chair of the Board Executive Director 70% Food In* (total: 11,050,000 - 100%) 60% Food Out* (total: 11,050,000 - 100%) 50% *in pounds 40% 000 30% 2011 KEY STATISTICS ABOUT HUNGER 6,891,000 1,753,000 2,333,000 6,744, 1,808,000 828,000 20% 000 10% 73,000 377,000 152,000 107,000 678,000 482,000 794,000 -126, 0% client visits 36% 19% 40% 72% $925 Banks to Daily Bread member of food bank of children go of adults go of income median monthly Waste Schools Prenatal Prenatal & Hostels Programs Programs Programs Inventory agencies between April clients are income for a food Change In hungry at least hungry at least is spent on Purchased Other Food Other Food Food Banks Food Food Drives Food Tenant Food Food Tenant Food Staples Staples Food 2010 and March 2011 children once a week once a week bank client IndustryFood housing Meal Programs Outside Toronto Outside Neighbourhood PROGRAM LISTINGS TREASURER’S REPORT Community Development to respond calmly and effectively hot meals a year to hostels, empowering individuals who face I am happy to report that Daily Bread has had another successful financial year despite ongoing and Engagement in conflict situations. We also ran shelters and community centres. barriers to employment by challenges. A $408,000 operating fund surplus allowed us to transfer $243,000 to the Food Fund Our Advocacy Program trains 18 Food Safety Training courses These programs provide a safe providing training opportunities to meet the continuing high food needs of our clients, as they gradually recover from the recent volunteers and provides support for staff and volunteers across the place for marginalized and to learn job and life skills in our economic downturn. We also increased support to our member agencies by $39,000, up 17% over to our clients who require city. The Community Action Fund vulnerable people in Toronto. 4,500 sq ft kitchen. This program 2010 and 25% over the average of the last three years. Overall we finished the fiscal year with a information or need help in such is an emergency grant program Clients can enjoy a complete benefits approximately 30 people surplus of $20,000. areas as housing, education, that provides funds for food healthy meal based on the each year in an intensive, 16-week employment or social assistance. programs to develop and expand Canadian Food Guide Standard. training period. To improve communications and transparency with our stakeholders, this year we have adopted This includes provision of Income their infrastructure. Last year 28 the functional basis of financial reporting that is available to charities under Canadian generally Hungry City Research Tax Clinics in partnership with the agencies benefited from this fund accepted accounting principles. This shows that approximately 30% of our program expenditures Educating youth about who is Why are people going hungry Institute of Chartered Accountants with over $150,000 distributed. hungry in our communities and and what can we do to find went to services other than food distribution – supporting Toronto food banks, our Food Services of Ontario and budget planning Food Bank and Distribution why is the first step in the fight long-term solutions? We know Training Program, and public education and policy – up from 27% last year. Food purchases came in sessions. The Growing For Change In addition to collecting and to end hunger. Daily Bread’s providing food to people at approximately 23% (2010 – 24%) despite a 9% reduction in the number of food bank client visits Community Garden provides distributing food to our network educational program, Hungry struggling with hunger is only a compared to 2010’s all time high – note, however, that 2011 visits were still 6% over 2009 and 16% people on social assistance with of 170 member agencies, we are City, educates, engages and temporary solution. Our research over 2008. valuable life skills. also a distribution hub for the empowers students to learn program focuses on finding Creating Better GTA and a provincial distribution more about the root causes of innovative solutions by building Daily Bread continues to be in good financial health. Unrestricted cash reserves stand at the $2 Neighbourhoods centre assisting Ontario poverty and hunger through our knowledge base through our million mark, representing somewhat less than four months’ operating costs, allowing us to weather Provides information and Association of Food Banks in our educational website annual Who’s Hungry survey as the summer months and handle any other contingencies that might occur.