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Your organization can make a meaningful difference today fighting hunger in our community. You may have seen The Ottawa Mission's food trucks in neighborhoods like Westboro, Carlington, and Little Italy, bringing vital support far beyond our downtown shelter. These trucks aren’t just about meals—they’re about hope. With grocery prices soaring by 22% and rent increasing 20% since 2020, many people in our city are being forced to make the impossible choice between shelter and food. The Ottawa Mission’s food truck program is helping to ease that burden, serving thousands of meals weekly in 38 underserved communities across Ottawa. One grateful food truck client shared, “The price of everything is going up. I’m 70 and retired...I need these meals to get by.” Your support today can directly impact the neighborhoods where your employees and clients live, work, and thrive. By partnering with The Ottawa Mission, you’re not just providing meals—you’re investing in the well-being of our community. Learn more about how your organization can get involved. Together, we can nourish our city. #CorporateResponsibility #OttawaCommunity #SupportLocal #TheOttawaMission #MoreThanAShelter

We have a story in the latest issue of Neighbourhood Media detailing all the work we do via Addison Road Food Pantry Camperdown, our low-cost grocery store which makes use of rescued, donated and purchased food to support the local community and its needs. The story (link below) shows how we help feed people from Mission Australia's Common Ground housing project and the nearby Johanna O’Dea Court, a multi-storey NSW Family and Community Services apartment block. It also explains how we serve people living on a tight budget in Camperdown and Glebe, as well as people who come to the pantry from right across the City of Sydney LGA. Most of all, the story is a celebration of our monthly Addi Road 'Let's Get Cooking' sessions (AKA "the Cook-Up"), which offers 260 free hot meals for Mission Australia and Joanna O'Dea residents, as well as those shopping at our Addi Road Food Pantry Camperdown. These sessions involve a monthly cooking demo inside the Common Ground building. Food literacy is the ultimate goal behind Addi Road's Let's Get Cooking program. As well as simply providing a free hot meal (and dessert) each month, we look at helping people to shop AND cook with often very limited funds. Each month there are easy recipes on offer (and ready to be tasted) along extra tips for stocking people's kitchen cupboards; a list of essentials to facilitate simple, inexpensive and nutritious recipes that will match whatever Addi Road Food Pantry might have in stock. It's about building an integrated food ecology for people battling. With a few extra special ingredients over a shared meal as the community comes together: camaraderie and connection. + #Addiroad #cityofsydney #foodrelief #foodjustice #housing #inequality #Camperdown #Glebe #MissionAustralia #homeless #battling #costofliving #poverty #resilience #mentalhealth #wellbeing #nutrition #diet #charity #community #freemeals #cookingworkshop #volunteers #caring #education #connection #letsgetcooking #neighbourhoodmedia https://lnkd.in/gs7vVEvM

999? It’s an emergency! 🚨 Millions of pumpkins are in danger. 🎃 The average family throws away £80 of food every month. Halloween is no exception. Last year, over 12 million pumpkins ended up in the bin. 😱 Each one could have been a delicious feast: a risotto, muffins, or pumpkin mac and cheese. 🧑🍳 So save the knives for later and don't carve your pumpkin: decorate it instead. Less mess, less stress, and you can eat the whole thing after. 😋 Have you tried decorating it yet? Check the new promo film below and catch it on All4 throughout the month as part of our Eat Your Pumpkin campaign. ++ P.S. I'm CEO of environmental charity Hubbub. We create campaigns with business, government and civil society that inspire environmental action. Follow me - Alex Robinson - for insights on environmental change, leadership and more. #environment #sustainability #EatYourPumpkin #PumpkinRescue #FoodWaste

⭐Community involvement⭐ This was something that drew me to Yeo & Yeo CPAs & Advisors and they have not let me down. We are out in the community with non-profits, local businesses, and colleagues NON STOP! #YeoAndYeo #LetsThrive #financialservices #taxconsulting💙

Did you know that food insecurity affects rural America in the following ways: *In 2021, 11% of rural households were food insecure. *9 out of 10 counties with the highest food insecurity rates are rural. *Rural communities make up 63% of all U.S counties, but 87% of counties with the highest food insecurity rates. *Food insecurity is linked to a wide range of negative health outcomes, and rural Americans are at higher risk for poor health outcomes than their urban counterparts. *Although food security is slightly higher in rural areas than in urban areas, 12.5% of individuals living in rural communities were food insecure in 2019. Your dollars make a difference. Every $1 = 2 meals. Start your new year off right and donate today!

Something every cold storage facility (even more so if you are in an area with high cost for electricity) should be considering.

Managing the logistics and volunteers for the 9/11 Day Meal Packing Event was no small feat, but incredibly rewarding! With over 1,000 volunteers, multiple shifts, and thousands of meals to pack, there were a lot of moving parts to ensure everything ran smoothly. #LogisticsManagement #VolunteerManagement #ServiceDay #911Day #TeamWork #LeadershipInAction

Did you ever think you’re Food Truck could be called upon in an emergency? Guess what? It can and it will. Shortly after the Lahaina fire, I mentioned this to Treena. Not long after they had tornadoes in Michigan. They called her to use her Food Truck and it was all paid for. However, she was ready. Her business structure was in place. So, are you ready? Comment yes or no 👇#foodtrucklife #foodtruckbusiness # foodtruckstartup #emergencies #businessplan #foodie

What do food deserts, food security, #nutrition, water, drought, flooding, groundwater depletion, industrial agriculture, urban farming, planetary health and people health have in common? Friends and colleagues outside of the USA are usually quite shocked when I share the state of humanitarian and environmental crisis we are currently experiencing here. It's taken decades of degenerative practices by local, state and federal government, financial institutions and industry to fall to the low extremes we find ourselves today. What makes matters worse is we've simultaneously spread those degenerative practices abroad over the past 4 decades. This article highlights a negative result from one area of our degenerative practices in our #foodsystems but it falls short in covering holistic solutions. There are approximately 28 million #foodinsecure people in the USA and this article does well in acknowledging the large number of #fooddeserts which exist here. Allocating funds for local #foodaccess infrastructure is important but how is it a wise use of tax-payer dollars if those grocery stores close their doors within several years of opening or cannot insure a steady supply of nutrient dense food due to long distance importing and/or the food has been grown in nutrient poor soils? Given that approximately 55% of the world's population now lives in urban areas (with that number projected to reach just under 70% by the year 2050), would a better use of funds be the education of individual families, neighborhoods and #communities to learn how to grow at least of portion of their own healthy foods where they live, work and play? Utilizing #greenroofs, alleyways, vacant lots, apartment and condo balconies, backyards, schoolyards, government and corporate campuses, etc. to grow a portion of the needed food in a #community would go a very long way in increasing #foodsecurity and #communityhealth. Added benefits can include spending more time outside, in nature, as well as increasing face-to-face social interactions while increasing community practices. We can also stack functions and create a multi-benefit system when we expand beyond a single-focused outcome. While we increase local food security in the aforementioned ways, why not add #rainwaterharvesting to aid #stormwatermanagement and help reduce #waterloss down drains, #groundwater drawdown and #drought? This also helps to #rehydratelandscapes, repair the small #water cycle and build the soil sponge to help reduce #flooding. I've only scratched the surface of #possibilities here. Let's move toward more #holistic solutions and #systemsthinking so that we're increasing our regenerative capacity. #Plantaryhealth = #PeopleHealth.