Second Harvest is Canada’s largest food rescue charity with a dual mission of environmental protection and hunger relief.
Through direct delivery and our online platform FoodRescue.ca we recover nutritious, unsold food from more than 1,200 donors and redistribute it to a broad network of 1,080 social service organizations in Ontario and BC. Our free, essential service helps nourish people through school programs, seniors’ centres, shelters, food banks, and regional food hubs.
In 35 years, Second Harvest has rescued over 155 million pounds of healthy food, keeping it out of landfills and preventing 192 million pounds of greenhouse gases from entering our atmosphere.
Our vision: No Waste. No Hunger.
Learn more about how we’re bringing food to people who need it every day through our programs below:
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Sodexo Foundation's Feeding Our Future initiative is Canada's largest free summer lunch program.
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The Harvest Kitchens program trains adults and youth with barriers to employment in food preparation, while providing healthy, prepared meals to Torontonians in need through our agency network.
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Second Harvest is committed to supporting our community through training, certification and on-going best practice workshops.
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Our online platform makes it easy for businesses with excess food to donate to social service organizations.
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Our ground-breaking research on food loss and waste is available as 'The Avoidable Crisis of Food Waste'
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