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Please note that the dates mentioned on this page refer to the dates that the updates were added to the website and not the dates of the events in question

Sep 20, 2007  - The 2007 Hungry Moose Parade is all set to go  Please click here to see more

Sep 18, 2007  - The 2007 Fall Food Drive gets underway  Please click here to see more

Sep 14, 2007  - Take the Kraft Hunger Challenge  Please click here to see more

Sep 14, 2007  - Our Tribute cards are now available  Please click here to see more

Sep 10, 2007  - Our Making Connections program is now in its ninth year of operations  Please click here to see more

Jun 07, 2007  - Our 2007 Annual General Meeting is held at our facility in North York  Please click here to see more

Jun 07, 2007  - The Food Bank is once again participating in the 5th Annual Toronto Paradise Comicon  Please click here to see more

Jun 07, 2007  - Our free tax clinics come to an end  Please click here to see more

Jan 29, 2007  - The 9th annual Curves Food Drive gets underway  Please click here to see more

Jan 29, 2007  - The Toronto Sun profiles our Executive Director Loren Freid  See more here

Dec 15, 2006  - The Toronto Star publishes an OpEd piece by our Executive Director Loren Freid  See more here

Sept 19, 2006  - A review of our 20th Anniversary Annual General Meeting featuring the Hon. Bob Rae as guest speaker  See more here

May 25, 2006  - The Food Bank is presented with a financial gift from a couple of students from the Vaughan Road Academy See more here

May 19, 2006  - The third year Media Studies students from the University of Guelph-Humber held the Spring Tractor Run :Can the Hunger parade event to generate awareness of the North York Harvest Food Bank See more here

May 18, 2006 - The St Joseph Communications Group sends four volunteers to the North York Harvest Food Bank to help spruce up our location  See more here

May 18, 2006  - The annual Canadian Association of Food Banks Conference is held in Vancouver, BC  See more here

April 14, 2006 - An op-ed piece from the Toronto Star by Food Bank Executive Director Loren Freid talks about the Annual Spring Food Drive and its roots in the multicultural makeup of our city  See more here

March 15, 2006 - Thank you Toronto for all your help during the past year  See more here

Dec 08, 2005 - The Toronto Star publishes an op-ed piece by our Executive Director, Loren Freid  See more here

Nov 30, 2005 - Shoeless Joe's Restaurants across Ontario ask local communities to raise 35,000 lbs. of food  See more here

Nov 14, 2005 - The Spanish Villas Summer Food Drive was once again a roaring success  See more here

Oct 19, 2005 - Young Adam Klar had a novel idea in helping out the Food Bank on the occasion of his fifth birthday  See more here

Oct 18, 2005 - Get a relaxing massage while helping out the Food Bank at the same time  See more here

Oct 14, 2005 - The Ice Gardens and Toronto Firefighters present their annual Food Bank Party with  proceeds coming to the North York Harvest Food Bank  See more here

Oct 14, 2005 - Shoppers Drug Mart has thought of a novel way to help the Food Bank through their Optimum Points Program for Charities  See more here

October 14, 2005 - On Thanksgiving Monday (October 10) the North York Harvest Food Bank hosted the Hungry Moose Parade  Please click here to see more

Sept 8, 2005 - The Food Bank honours the mainstay of our organization, namely our dedicated group of volunteers Please click here to see more

Sept 7, 2005 - The Food Bank receives a cheque for $2,500 from the BMO Fountain of Hope  Please click here to see more

Sept 7, 2005 - We were the charity of choice for the Delta Bingo Anniversary Special Event  Please click here to see more

August 31, 2005 - The Bayview Glen Church conducted its first ever food drive.  By any standards, it turned out to be a great success.  Please click here to see more

August 25, 2005 - The North York Harvest Food Bank's 19th Annual General Meeting took place on Tuesday, June 7th at our location in North York.  Please click here to see more

August 25, 2005 - Staff and students of German Mills Co-Op Nursery School have embarked on an ongoing relationship with the North York Harvest Food Bank  Please click here to see more

August 25, 2005 - On Sunday, June 26th, volunteers rolled through a north Toronto neighborhood, knocking on doors and asking for donations of food  Please click here to see more

June 7, 2005 - the Toronto Star publishes an op-ed piece written by the Chairman of the Board of the North York Harvest Food Bank on the 20th anniversary of our organization  Please click here to see more

May 19, 2005 - The Toronto Long Line is once again supporting the North York Harvest Food as part of their "Star Wars Episode 11: Attack of the Clones" Food Drive.  Please click here to see more

Mar 16, 2005 - Curves (fitness centres) are holding their 7th Annual Food Drive.  The food raised from the three North York locations will be passed on to the North York Harvest Food Bank  Please click here to see more

Mar 15, 2005 - Enjoy "The Song is You" Gala Evening at the Hummingbird Centre with proceeds, in part, going to the North York Harvest Food Bank  Please click here to see more

Mar 15, 2005 - Paradise Cards and Comics presents the Toronto Comicon, a celebration of comic books, at the Exhibition Place with benefits from many of the proceedings going to the Food Bank.  Please click here to see more

Mar 14, 2005 - The Spring 2005 Food Drive gets underway.  Please click here to see more

Dec 18, 2004 - The First Donation Nation Youth Initiative School Food Drive is launched at the Food Bank.   Please click here to see more

Dec 17, 2004 - Il Fornello Restaurants donate $10,000 in gift certificates to the North York Harvest Food Bank.  Please click here to see more  Please click here to see more

Dec 17, 2004 - Periwinkle Flowers turns flowers into food.  Please click here to see more

Oct 11, 2004 - The 2004 Fall Food Drive has now come to an end.  We put together a little analysis of the campaign  Please click here to see more

Oct 11, 2004 - The Sixth Annual Hungry Moose Parade starts up at a firehall in North York  See more here

Oct 2, 2004 - The 5th Annual Harvest Festival took place at at Scadding Court's Diversity Garden in Alexandra Park in support of the national program 'Plant a Row Grow a Row' and the North York Harvest Food Bank.  See more here

July 20, 2004 - A look at the community project geared towards the picking up of fresh produce from local-area farms Please click here to see more

July 6, 2004 - The Toronto Star publishes an opinion piece written by our Executive Director, Loren Freid  Please click here to see more

May 6, 2004 - The North York Harvest Food Bank offers monthly training and information-sharing workshops for community food program coordinators  Please click here to see more

Apr 30, 2004 - The Spring 2004 Food Drive comes to a close  Please click here to see more

Mar 27, 2004 - Harry Snider, and his parents celebrated his bar mitzvah.  Instead of the traditional flowery centrepieces, Harry decided to do something a little different.  Please click here to see more

Feb 23, 2004 - We are pleased to announce the creation of our brand new PowerPoint presentation.  It is an informative overview of Food Bank activities that we would be pleased to present at your next formal function. Please click here to open or to download or contact us for further details.

Feb 23, 2004 - The Apartment Building Food Drive makes waves across Ontario.  Please click here to see more

Feb 12, 2004 - We welcome 3 new programs into our network of member agencies.  Please click here to see more

Dec 31/2003 - A little promo for our campaign with beer stores across North York.  Please click here to see more

Dec 29, 2003 - The Toronto Star published an editorial written by our Executive Director, Loren Freid.  Please click here to see more

Dec 11/2003 - We host a very special occastion at the Food Bank in order to honour our volunteers.   Please click here to see more

Dec 9, 2003 - On December 9, 2003, the Food Bank received an interesting letter from the Fieldstone Day School.  Please click here to see more

Nov 9, 2003 - On November 12, 2003, the Food Bank commemorated our first year in our new facility at the former Bathurst Heights Secondary School.  Please click here to see more

Nov 9, 2003 - Superheroes come to the aid of the Food Bank.  Please click here to see more

July 12, 2003 - We were the charity of choice for the Delta Bingo Anniversary Special Event  Please click here to see more

July 7, 2003 - We receive a cheque for $1,000 from the Zellers store located in the Yorkgate Mall    Please click here to see more

July 7, 2003 - We are visited by volunteers from the New Covenant Alliance Church  Please click here to see more

June 14, 2003 - The North York Harvest Food Bank is one of six charities chosen to be a beneficiary of the 2003 Annual Hope Volleyball tournament  Please click here to see more

June 3, 2003 - We host our first Annual General Meeting in our new facility   Please click here to see more

May 6, 2003 -  The North York Harvest Food Bank hosts the first ever Joint Agency Workshop  Please click here to see more

December 21, 2002 -  Kraft Canada and Brebeuf College make two incredible year-end contributions to the Food Bank   Please click here to see more

November 14, 2002 - We visited the Loyalty Group, a company which conducted a hugely successful food drive during Thanksgiving to examine some of the reasons behind that success  Please click here to see more

October 24, 2002 - We visited Lansing United Church to take a closer look at the fascinating story of Jacob Di Domenico, a young man who challenged his teammates to raise food on behalf of the Food Bank. Their subsequent response even exceeded Jacob's wildest expectations.  Please click here to see more

September 14, 2002 - Kimberly Bloker, a young student at William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate, drops by the Food Bank to give us the food she had raised on her own in another inspirational story Click here to see more

September 14, 2002 - Ari Zuckerbrot, a nine year-old boy, dropped by the Food Bank to give us the money he had raised in a manner that should be an inspiration to all  Click here to see more

August 30, 2002 - With great pleasure we are announcing our renewed partnership with Scotia Capital as they continue to support our Agency Relations Program.  Click here to see more

July 13, 2002 - We just put a whole new section entitled the "Early Years" focusing in on the formative years of the North York Harvest Food Bank from 1985-88.  Click here to see more

June 30, 2002 - The 2001 Annual Report is now up. Click here to see it

May 24, 2002 - Many new newspaper articles put up.  Click here for more details

April 15, 2002 - On Saturday, March 29, 2002 the North York Harvest Food Bank hosted a press conference to present the findings of a survey conducted with food bank users earlier in the year  Click here for more details.

March 28, 2002 - The Food Bank conducts a total of eight free tax clinics during the month of March 2002 in association with the Chartered Accountants of Ontario.  Click here for more details

Feb 14, 2002 - The Food Bank received an unexpected donation of $300 from the Greater Toronto Apartments Association.  Click here for more details

Jan 22, 2002 - Temple Sinai made a donation of almost $8,000 to the North York Harvest Food Bank.  A representative of the synagogue was at the Food Bank to make the donation in person.  Click here for more

Dec 21, 2001 - The National Academy Orchestra in conjunction with the Elmer Iseler singers performed Handel's Messiah at the Toronto Centre for the Arts.  A food drive was conducted on behalf of the Food Bank at the performance.  Click here to see a picture from the event

Dec 17, 2001 - We had a little get-together for our faithful volunteers right before the Christmas holidays.  Nina McGuiness, our Volunteer Coordinator, put a great deal of time and effort into organizing the day.  Click here for a picture from the event

Dec 06, 2001 - We visited St. Andrews Jr. High School, located in the Bayview/York Mills area, to learn more about their phenomenal ability to organize highly successful food drives.  See more in our December Newsletter

Nov 13, 2001 - John Smith, our volunteer truck driver, took home the award for 'Outstanding Achievement' at the First Annual Food and Hunger Action Committee Volunteer Recognition Awards   See more in our Recent Events section

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