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Building stronger communities, together
In this Impact Report, you’ll learn not only who you are helping today, but how we are working alongside our community to fight for long-term solutions to food insecurity.
Emergency Food Support
Between September 2024 – February 2025 we distributed 1.4 million lbs. of food across our network, ensuring each of the 30,000 clients we support every month received nutritious food.
October was our busiest month, reaching 31,224 client visits.
Our caring neighbours rallied together to hold 124 food drives to supply essential non-perishable foods like pasta, cooking oil, and canned meat and vegetables!
We also worked with 33 partner organizations including bakeries and manufacturers to procure additional food such as fresh produce.
Advocacy Actions!
With 1 in 10 Torontonians turning to a food bank, we know more food won’t solve food insecurity. That’s why our Community Engagement team was busy advocating for policy changes and mobilizing our network for real change.
Some highlights include:
(September) We held our Final Community Advocacy Open House, where clients were invited to discuss the issues that are making it the most
challenging for them to meet their food needs, and how we can work together to make our voices heard and demand solutions.
(October) Our Community Connector Daffodil spoke at Queen’s Park ahead of the Raise the Rates Rally, calling for an end to legislated poverty by doubling social assistance rates.
(November) Community Engagement delivered over 300 postcards from FeedOntario’s postcard campaign from clients who wrote to their MPPs about the affordability crisis and how it is impacting their ability to meet their basic needs.
(November) Executive Director Ryan Noble speaks with CBC, says crisis is being ignored by those in power
(December) North York Harvest’s Senior Specialist of Advocacy, Chiara Padovani, joins a Feed Ontario panel to bust myths about food banks and the people who use them.
(December) North York Harvest clients joined together for a Community Art Build where they made signs, buttons and posters to use at upcoming rallies.
(January) North York Harvest deputes at the Toronto City Budget Committee, calling for increased funding for drop-in meal programs that serve life-saving meals all across our city.
(February) Ryan joins Mayor Olivia Chow to call for an expanded student nutrition program to fight child hunger. 
(February) Our Community Engagement team rented a bus to help mobilize 60+ clients to attend the City Budget Rally. Afterwards, we headed inside City Hall to hand-deliver our petitions calling for City Council to support a TTC Fare Freeze, more support for renters, an expansion of the student nutrition program, and increased funding for drop-in meal programs. Together we won all those things!
(February) Ahead of the provincial election, we set up Election info tables at our food spaces to share information with our community members on how, where and when to vote, and to provide non-partisan information on where the four main parties stood on some of the issues that impact our community members most.
None of this would have been possible without your support; thank you for being there for our community. View the Impact Statement
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