2017 2018 ANNUAL REPORT Our Mission Founded in 1984 by Pierre Legault, Frédéric Sawyer, Brian Martin and Peter Gantous, Moisson Montréal is now Canada’s largest food bank. Our $1 $15 charitable organization’s mission is to maintain an optimal food supply for community agencies serving Montréal’s most vulnerable people AN ORGANIZATION and to participate actively in creating sustainable solutions to promote WITH IMPACT food security. Because of our extraordinary multiplier effect, Moisson Montréal distributes over $15 Moisson Montréal believes that access to a healthy and sufficient food worth of food for every dollar supply is a necessity for social reintegration and society as a whole. received in donations. Our values RESPECT INTEGRITY FAIRNESS SOLIDARITY PERSONAL for the people we in all aspects and in the decisions made to maximize COMMITMENT help, the coworkers, actions undertaken for all of our partners Moisson Montréal’s on a long-term and volunteers and by volunteers and in the sharing role and impact within daily basis to the fight partners and staff of food the community against hunger SOURCE OF MONETARY SUPPORT Food donations Events and Companies and other in-kind Monetary Campaigns and associations donations TYPESRÉPARTITION OF donations received 25% 15% 94% DONATIONSDES DONS 6% Foundations Governments RECEIVEDREÇUS and religious 7% communities Other sources 24% 6% Individuals Deferred revenues 19% 4% DISTRIBUTION 94% 4% 1% 1% OF DONATIONS Distribution Operations Philanthropic devlopment Administration of food and services and financing activities to organizations 6880 Chemin de la Côte-de-Liesse, Saint-Laurent, QC H4T 2A1 | T 514 344-4494 | [email protected] Message from our Leaders Richard Blain – President Richard D. Daneau – Executive Director I am thrilled to share with you that Moisson plant and purchase a fourth refrigerated What an extraordinary year! To summarize Montréal ended 2017–2018 in good finan- truck to ensure the roll-out the Food briefly: Moisson Montréal collaborated cial health, despite the scale, complexity Recovery in Supermarkets Program. even more closely with our accredited and continuous nature of our challenge: to organizations; we were able to make a Moisson Montréal’s Board of Directors has bring food security to everyone in Montréal. surplus contribution of more than $5 mil- revised its strategic governance policy by lion of food and we became more actively Moisson Montréal has increased its efforts implementing a development and evalua- involved in the Montreal food ecosystem. to find sustainable solutions to ending tion system for directors. The Board wel- hunger. The organization works closely comed two new recruits: Brunilda Reyes, Our work meetings with our partner com- with other Moisson food banks in Quebec from a community agency, and Adélaïde munity agencies, Les Grands Échanges, and the other provinces on various projects Israelian. I am proud and grateful for the sparked great interest and even greater and funding campaigns. It has cemented profound and consistent commitment of participation. Together, we addressed relationships with its 241 accredited the members of our Board of Directors. complex issues in order to find lasting community agencies to understand their They all play an important role in Moisson solutions. specific issues and meet their needs. This Montréal’s success. The renewed support of our volunteers year, Moisson Montréal has also invested I would also like to extend my deepest permitted us to improve considerably our in Montréal’s community life by partici- thanks to the employees of Moisson level of service and to reduce our opera- pating in a series of 20 round tables on food Montréal. Day after day, their dedicated ting costs. We are now working to develop issues. Further, receiving the mandate work helps Moisson Montréal fill empty different types of “professional” voluntee- for the Diagnosis of Current Practices in plates. I also thank our volunteers for ring opportunities to complement the Food Assistance in Montréal speaks to our their unwavering support, as well as our traditional volunteering activities that take organization’s involvement in our society monetary and food donors. You are outs- place at our workstations. and its ecosystem. tanding partners! Moisson Montréal’s positive environmental While food donations rose by 8% this year, impact keeps improving. This year we in a survey given to our partner organi - saved 16 million kg of food from waste, zations as part of our strategic planning half of which would have been destined shows that we are only meeting 60% of for landfill. Not only was $86 million of their food needs. These worrisome results food donated directly to community reveal the true scale of food insecurity organizations, but this contribution also in Montréal. helped foster social reintegration and Counteracting this concern was our joy at facilitated the provision of care and essen- receiving a gift from the Society for the tial services to nearly 137,000 people in Celebration of Montréal’s 375th Anniversary Montreal alone. and its Board of Governors. Their grant Together, we make a profound difference of over $800,000 allowed us to conduct in the lives of many of the most vulnerable two feasibility studies and will enable us people in the metropolitan area. It is with to build a fruit and vegetable processing passion and humility that we undertake to better respond to the needs of our partner community agencies. They are, after all, the very reason that we exist. Élise Guilbault – Spokesperson Serving as the official spokesperson for Moisson Montréal for a second year has helped me better understand the issues and the impact of food insecurity in Montréal. I was particularly moved by the magnitude of the problem of hunger in our society. All levels of society are affected, from newborns—who face devastating repercussions—to school children, the working poor and seniors. No segment of society is exempt from the impact of food insecurity. Since I believe we can make a difference when we work together, I have decided to continue my hands-on involvement with Moisson Montréal and I invite you to do the same. 03 1 2 3 4 5 6 Board of Directors 7 8 9 10 11 12 1. Richard Blain, MBA, CRHP 5. Robin Deveaux, CPA, CA 9. Donald Boisvert PRESIDENT DIRECTOR DIRECTOR Lecturer, Human Resources Chief Financial Officer Executive Director Management EDF Renewables Canada Inc. La Corbeille Bordeaux-Cartierville HEC Montréal 6. Patrick Dumais, CRHP 10. Glenn Acton 2. Pierre G. Brodeur, CPA, CA DIRECTOR DIRECTOR VICE PRESIDENT OF FINANCE Division Head, Vice President, Discount Partner Labour Relations and Social Benefits Promotions and Allocations, Maxi and Deloitte Société de Transport de Montréal NoFrills for the Loblaw Companies 3. Jean-Guillaume Shooner, M.FISC 7. Jean-Pierre Haché, ENG. 11. Brunilda Reyes SECRETARY DIRECTOR DIRECTOR Partner, Lawyer Vice President of Quality, Executive Director and founder Stikeman Elliott LLP Health and Safety Les Fourchette de l’Espoir Bonduelle North America 4. Richard D. Daneau 12. Adélaïde Israelian EX-OFFICIO 8. Eddy Jr. Savoie DIRECTOR Executive Director DIRECTOR Partner Moisson Montréal President Deloitte Construction Groupe Savoie Les résidences Soleil AMBASSADORS’ CLUB: UNITED TO FIGHT FOOD INSECURITY The Ambassadors’ Club began in 2012 as a tribute to those individuals who have gone to great lengths to fight hunger through their involvement with Moisson Montréal. The club is a group of exceptional people whose exemplary commitment promotes the organization at all levels. The Club now has over 60 members. In 2017, Moisson Montréal welcomed 13 new members to the Ambassadors’ Club. Karine Mondor Hélène Matte President’s Choice Children’s Charity Regular volunteer since 2014 Distinguished ambassador Claude-Michel Bleau Christine Beaulieu Panache Studios Many thanks to the Moisson Montréal Ambassadors! Former Director Attendees at the appreciation event on November 6, André Bernier and Yvan Martin 2017. First row, from left to right: Christian Lamarre, Christine Beaulieu, Karine Mondor, Luc Briand, Stéphane Demers Petrie Raymond Hélène Matte, Isabelle Fafard, Jennifer Kirby. Second Former spokesperson row, from left to right: Robert Brossoit, Claude-Michel Jennifer Damiani Bleau, Stéphane Demers, Yvan Martin, André Bernier, Jamie Orchard Labatt Breweries of Canada Guy Lecavalier, Anne-Marie Bourassa, Yolanda Maradiaga, Daniel Handfield. Former spokesperson Denise Deveau, Anne Dongois Daniel Handfield and Isabelle Fafard Regular volunteer since 2013 Media’s Big Food Drive 04 RECORD AMOUNTS 57 OF FOOD REDISTRIBUTED employees ONE OF THE 10 CHARITIES While we have only been able to meet 60% of our accredited organizations food WITH THE GREATEST IMPACT needs, Moisson Montréal was able to Charity Intelligence Canada named increase its food offer by 8%, for a total Moisson Montréal one of the Top 10 Impact close to 16 million kilograms of food Charities in Canada, with the highest distributed to its entire network. These 97,352 impact per dollar received. It is with great donations represent savings of nearly pride that we accepted this prestigious $86 million for Montréal’s vast food sup- volunteer recognition, which reflects the extent of port network. They also have a significant hours Moisson Montréal’s social impact and it environmental benefit as they have pre- demonstrates that the donor makes a real vented millions of kilograms of perishable difference with its gift. foods from ending up in landfills. MOISSON MONTRÉAL IN NUMBERS According to the last Hunger Count conducted in March 2017, Moisson Montréal A HUGE SOCIAL SOLIDARITY and its 241 accredited organizations fulfill over 654,000 requests for food assistance UNDERTAKING each month, and come to the aid of nearly No one is immune from the situations 137,000 Montrealers in need, of whom that can lead to food insecurity, wether 41,500 are children. Despite our healthy Highlights through unemployment, family breakdown economy, food insecurity remains a pro- or otherwise. Moisson Montréal enters blem in Montréal. The sociodemographic people’s lives when they most need help.