Growing Partners
Join other food producers...
For more than 40 years, Canadian food producers have contributed to a world without hunger by partnering with Canadian Foodgrains Bank.
You can become a Growing Partner too!
Whether you grow crops, farm livestock, or harvest a vineyard, individual growers like you can make a difference. As you contribute to our growing partners fund, you’ll become part of a nationwide community of food producers who believe in the mission of ending global hunger – while staying rooted in the work you do every day!
How will your donations be used? During a time of crisis, such as a violent conflict or severe drought, your donation helps people access food. In places with more stability, donations are used to help improve livelihoods, such as training small-scale farmers on how to improve their yields while dealing with erratic weather.
If you’re interested in becoming a growing partner, you can donate online or through participating grain elevators. If you would prefer to mail in a cheque, please write “Growing Partners” in the memo line and send to the address below.
Growing partners join the fight against hunger
Ontario couple Elaine and Gerry Van den Hengel started supporting the Foodgrains Bank in the mid to late 1980’s when they joined the Seaforth Foodgrains Growing Project. For many years, they were involved in the growing project, which started as a collaboration among six or seven church communities and closed in the early 2000’s. Since then, they’ve continued to donate the proceeds of their own crops as growing partners.” Foodgrains Bank seems to live their faith by helping in any way possible those who are experiencing food shortages,” says Elaine. “My contribution is a very small part of the overall needs – but every bit helps.”
Become a Growing Partner
From British Columbia all the way across the country to Newfoundland and Labrador, it’s because of people who choose to share their harvest with the world that we’re able to help people who are living with hunger.
How does this work?
Individual food producers set aside a portion of their product and donate the proceeds when they sell.
What’s your impact?
Lives are changed! You may never meet the people you help, but we hear their stories. Stories of mothers who no longer worry about what they will feed their children when their crops are failing because of a prolonged drought. Fathers who don’t need to live away from the family to try and send money home, because now their yields are abundant.
Thanks for being a Growing Partner.
