Parkdale Community Food Bank
1499 Queen Street West M6R 1A3 Toronto, ON, Canada

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Happy Sunday friends and neighbours! A heartfelt thank you to everyone who's brought in a donantion item to the store for the Parkdale Community Foodback's Tri...ck or Treat Food Drive so far! There's still 2 weeks to go and pleanty of time to help us and the other participating locations continue sending full bins for all our friends in need Beyond the foods drive, the foodbank is in dire need of supplies and food stock. Please visit their page www.pcfb.ca/ directly to see what's of the greatest need. Thank you for reading this post. Have a wonderful and restful Sunday evening!

Welcome to the first day of our Trick or Treat Food Drive, a super fun and festive October event in support of feeding the Parkdale/High Park community!!! Running from October 1st - October 31st! Join in for a chance to win a $50 Visa Gift Card! HOW TO PARTICIPATE:... 1. Stop by any 3 (or more) locations on the map 2. Take a photo with our Trick or Treat bin; participants are encouraged to donate a non-perishable food item at each stop 3. Post all 3 (or more) photos to Instagram or Facebook and tag us to enter to win a $50 Visa Gift Card. 4. Costumes optional!! Please wear proper PPE while participating, and ensure you keep safe distance! This is meant to be a fun COVID19 safe Halloween event. To purchase more raffle entries & check out our interactive Trick or Treat map check out https://www.pcfb.ca/october-events *Dutch love is a 19+ establishment; if you are under 19 please attend another bin location

Hi Community! We are currently looking for volunteers available to deliver grocery boxes using a personal vehicle within the Parkdale/High Park/Downtown-West areas in Toronto. We deliver grocery boxes to clients unable to leave their homes due to COVID19. We are particularly looking for volunteers available on Saturday between 9 am - 2 pm; but can also take on volunteers Wednesday/Thursday 9 am - 3 pm or Fridays 9 am - 2 pm. Our grocery boxes make up a weeks worth of food fo...r an individual/family. They are quite large which can make for some difficulties for cyclist volunteers, so we suggest using a car. However, if you are confident in your ability to transport on a bike/e-bike/motorcycle we would also love to have you! If you are interested, please email our coordinator at [email protected] with the subject line 'Delivery Volunteer'. Thanks!! See more

Call for volunteers!! We are currently looking for volunteers available on Wednesdays, Thursdays or Fridays; mornings & afternoons. The open positions we currently have are: 1. Packing grocery boxes... Within this position, volunteers will pack grocery boxes in teams of 2 or 3 both for our drop in program & for our scheduled pick up program. 2. Packaging bulk food items We often receive bulk food items for our clients. (eg. eggs, bread, treats etc.). We need volunteers to pack these items into individual packages to go inside our grocery boxes. 3. Client Service Assistants & Runners We need volunteers to assist in distributing our grocery boxes to clients & bringing boxes up from our packing area to our client service area- in elevator. Our space is accessible. If you are interested please reach out to our volunteer coordinator at [email protected]!

Today we picked up some delicious produce from the Rockliffe Demonstration & Teaching Garden!! Fresh, organic produce is such an amazing resource for our clients. We go out of our way to ensure that all of our clients have access to an abundance of fruits and veggies year round. Do you have a garden with excess ripe produce & don’t know what to do with it?? Our clients would love to have it in their weekly grocery boxes. Donations can be dropped off: Wednesday/Thursday 9 am -... 3 pm Friday/Saturday 9 am - 1:30 pm See more

Wow!! Thank you so much Nicki Iskander, RMT what an amazing initiative! Here’s to hoping more businesses will follow your lead. We our community!

A few weeks back, one of our superstar volunteers posted a photo of our empty warehouse. Since the beginning of the COVID19 pandemic the need for our services have gone up by 33% (2000 clients monthly up to 3000). It is no secret that we have struggled to keep up with the huge increase in demand. Thankfully, our amazing community came together in order to stock up our warehouse to what it currently is, we are so grateful for the help. However, the need is ongoing and we are confident as emergency assistance begins to run out the need for our services will continue to rise. Thank you so much to all of our amazing donors. It is amazing to see such a tangible result of your direct assistance! Our clients have an abundance of food for the time being. Thank you. Photo 1: Our warehouse today Photo 2: Our warehouse a few weeks back.

Hi everyone! The Parkdale Community Food Bank is in need of milk crates and reusable grocery bags to use for our grocery box program & our delivery program. If you have extra milk crates to donate, please drop them off during the hours we can receive donations: Wednesday/Thursday 9 am - 3 pm Friday/Saturday 9 am - 1:30 pm Thank you!

Hi Community! We will be closed Canada Day (Wednesday July 1st) and will reopen on the 2nd for our regular hours. If you use our programming on Wednesdays, please feel free to attend tomorrow (this Saturday June 27th) even if you have already attended this Wednesday.