EMPTY BOWLS

AUCTION

At the Delta Winnipeg -Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Why Support Harvest with your money?

Twenty times ROI !Winnipeg Harvest is able to

distribute twenty dollars worth of food for every one dollar received. That’s a 20x return on donations !

Supporting Harvest . . . Supports MANY Organizations

Winnipeg Harvest supplies surplus food, not only to their clients directly, but to 323 agencies, including soup kitchens (such as Siloam, Agape Table), food banks, daycares, meal/snack programs, group homes, community kitchens, and walk-in

clients. There are 106 meal share and snack programs in Winnipeg with many schools on a waiting list. With our newly donated refrigerated truck we are now able to expand this program to better meet the needs.

Volunteers Augment Your Contribution

In 2011, over 380,000 hours were donated at Winnipeg Harvest by 18,385 volunteers. That’s equivalent to 190 full-time roles. On any given day the volunteer to staff ratio is 9:1. That’s one big reason why Harvest can leverage so much success from money received.

Volunteers are involved in the warehouse, food sorting, assembling food kits, truck deliveries, order filling,

event support, and our call centre, where volunteers take between 400 and 800 calls a day from people looking for food assistance.

Family NightsOver 500 kids, parents and

grandparents come out to our family nights held twice each month during the year. Together they bag rice, flour and pasta and sort potatoes and onions and help us get ready to distribute food to hungry families the next day.

Celebrity

Doug Stephen, Jordon Van Sewell, Joanne Vaderhorst, Bob Friesen, Marnie Strath, Jan Shute, Ian Wallace, Judith Harris, and  Doug Harvey

Facts & FiguresHow Your Money Helps

Winnipeg Harvest does much more than distribute food:

Last year Harvest worked with 630 different organizations who held events to raise awareness and to raise food and funds to combat hunger.

Tools for School Program

Often the cost of school supplies has an effect on a family’s food budget. Tools for School provides school supplies to Winnipeg Harvest clients who cannot afford them. Last year we were able to supply school supplies to over 2000 requests.

Training ProgramsWinnipeg Harvest

provides a safe and nurturing environment to help people entering the workforce for the first time or re-entering the workforce. Training programs include: Safe Food Handling

Certification courses, Forklift Training, Computer, Cooking Classes, Nutrition Classes, Gardening, Non-Violent Crisis Intervention, Hunger and Poverty Awareness courses and more.

Mentorship and Apprenticeship Program

All Harvest staff in all areas of our operations provide mentorship and apprenticeship to volunteers and clients.

Blue Box Gardening Program

Volunteers and school children are taught how to grow food in blue recycling bins. Many clients do not have space for a garden. Blue Box Gardening provides the opportunity to learn about growing food outside of a traditional garden.

CSI ProgramThe CSI program is a

program of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Winnipeg. It is designed to combat

summer learning loss by providing five free weeks of quality summer

programming in a safe and caring environment. Winnipeg Harvest

supplies food for the program.

Elementary, Middle Year & High

School ProgramsThere are Food Drive

Challenges in over 100 schools. Human Rights courses are taught in several schools in Winnipeg educating students on poverty and hunger.

Community Volunteer Income Tax program

Winnipeg Harvest filed over 2700 income tax returns last year for low income Manitobans at no charge, making it possible for them to receive the GST credits and/or child tax benefit.

Operation DonationIn partnership with the

Manitoba Teachers Society and Manitoba Public Insurance over 70 schools in the province undertake food drives for Winnipeg Harvest in March. All food donations

are matched pound for pound by Safeway and Peak of the Market.

Kids Who CareThe Kids Who Care

program recognizes youth in our community who have made an extraordinary effort to donate time, food and/or money to Winnipeg Harvest.  Kids collect food or money instead of presents at birthdays, celebrations and activities.

More Than ShoesThis program outfits

children in need with new proper fitting shoes and boots.

Halloween for HarvestTrick or Treaters are

encouraged to collect non perishable food items on Halloween.

All of this, and more, happens because you contribute to the Empty Bowls Celebrity Auction Gala.

Cesar Millan

The Royal CanadianAir Farce

Robert Munsch

Marco Andretti

Steve Nash