Coalition Members
Association of Neighbourhood Houses
604-875-9111 / central@anhbc.org
Sector: Community-based social services general
Mission: Weaving together diverse communities to create a just, equitable and caring society, where people experience a sense of belonging.
Core Activities: ANHBC is the network of neighbourhood houses through which we operate more than 500 community-based programs and services for a diversity of participants. Together with community, we build strong and supportive relationships at welcoming and inclusive sites throughout Metro Vancouver.
BC Poverty Reduction Coalition
chantelle@bcpovertyreduction.ca
Sector: Poverty Reduction Policy Advocacy
Mission: We aim to improve the health and well-being of all living in British Columbia. The Coalition advocates for a targeted and comprehensive poverty reduction strategy that prioritizes equity-seeking groups, and a whole government, cross-ministry approach to ending poverty. Our work is grounded in the foundation of universal human rights
Core Activities: government lobbying, policy research and writing, peer support and training
Carnegie Housing Project
carnegiehousingproject@gmail.com
Sector: Housing Advocacy
Mission: We work with residents and community organizations to secure a future for the neighbourhood that serves the needs of its residents.
Core Activities: Community-based research and organizing on issues related to social housing, income, and gentrification in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood of Vancouver
Centre For Family Equity
viveca@centreforequity.ca
Sector: Family Justice and Equity
Mission: We propose evidence-based public policy solutions to poverty that create opportunities for families to thrive. We carry out research, community engagement, advocacy, and support programs. Our programs and initiatives are led by the communities we serve, ensuring they reflect the real and evolving needs of families across BC.
Core Activities: Research, advocacy, community engagement, law reform, support programs for families.
City Reach Care Society
info@cityreach.org / 604-767-1240
Sector: Food recovery and redistribution
Mission: Helping People Prosper by meeting tangible needs.
Core Activities: Food for Families; Club Freedom, Adopt A School, Back to School Blast, Boxes of Love
Columbia College
604 683 8360 / admin@columbiacollege.ca
Sector: Education
Mission: Equip students to become responsible global citizens who can communicate, think critically, and make a positive impact in communities around the world.
Core Activities: Associates Degrees (in a range of humanities, social sciences, and STEM areas); Community Connections (workplace learning partnerships with local not-for-profits); Collaborative Education Lab, or CoLAB (funding opportunity and community of practice for campus-community partnerships related to innovative community development/research/teaching); Refugee and Resettlement Bursary Program (full and partial fee waivers for students with lived experience of forced displacement, including Canada–Ukraine CUAET visa holders)
DUDES Club
604-486-1121 / info@dudesclub.ca
Sector: Indigenous Men’s health and well-being
Mission: To facilitate a participant-led community for men’s wellness with activity-based clubs that prioritize supportive relationships, engagement in healthcare, and local Indigenous worldviews
Core Activities: Cultural based teaching and activities, community wellness fairs, health practitioners, connecting with elders and mentors, social network community building, getting out on the land, annual retreats
Downtown Eastside Right to Food Network
604-215-2030 / admin@dtesnhouse.ca
Sector: Community food programming, Neighbourhood House, Vancouver Neighbourhood Food Network
Mission: The secular, grassroots Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House (DTES NH) aims to provide meaningful opportunities for our neighbours to engage with and contribute to their community in an equitable atmosphere of sharing and learning.
Core Activities: Mobile nutritional outreach, community meals, community kitchens, community fridge and pantry.
Eternal Abundance
604-707-0088 / info@eternalabundance.ca
Sector: Food retail
Mission: We have strong ethics around the food we derive from the soil, put into our own bodies and serve to members of the community. We prioritize local and fair trade whenever possible, and seek out direct purchasing relationships with local farmers and artisan producers.
Core Activities: All-organic grocer and vegan cafe. Food preparation classes on preparing raw & cooked plant-based meals; literature on various healthy living topics; as well as hosting numerous community events.
Farm to School BC
Online contact form
Sector: School food
Mission: Working with communities and partners, Farm to School BC seeks to empower and support schools in building comprehensive farm to school programs that support vibrant, sustainable, regional food systems, develop student food literacy, and enhance school and community connectedness.
Core Activities: Annual grants program for schools, School Garden Mentorship/Monthly webinar series, Individual school/district/teacher support as needed, Resource development/hub, connecting community (e.g. connecting teachers to organizations, programming opportunities, etc.)
Farm to Plate Marketplace
Sector: Food Markets/Distribution
Mission: Farm-to-Plate Marketplace is a tool for communities to collectively support local food producers. F2PM encourages eating locally and seasonally, promotes community development, and facilitates communal problem solving. Food is a powerful connector that can bring people together to better understand and support one another..
Core Activities: Virtual farmers market, networking and social dinner events
Farmers on 57th
Online contact form
Sector: Urban Agriculture
Mission: We nurture life, soil, vegetables, flowers, new growers and connectedness through educational and therapeutic growing programs, ecological growing practices and community partnership.
Core Activities: Urban farming, community shared agriculture, workshops and events
First Baptist Church
604-683-8441 / info@firstbc.org
Sector: Faith
Mission: We are a community following Jesus with a heart for the city and beyond.
Core Activities: Community meals
Flavours of Hope
Online contact form
Sector: Newcomer / Cultural Food / Retail and Entrepreneurship
Mission: We build programs based on peer knowledge and deep relationship, centring women’s wisdom, culture, and food for meaningful connection and community-building.
Core Activities: Food entrepreneurship/business training, food workshops, food social events
Food Stash
604-862-9701 / director@foodstash.ca
Sector: Food recovery and community food
Mission: Food Stash Foundation has a twofold mission: to prevent good food from going to waste and provide dignified food access to promote a thriving planet and a healthy community
Core Activities: Food rescue, delivering food to other orgs, delivery food to low-income and disabled households, running a weekly market, supporting a community fridge
411 Seniors
604-684-8171 / info@411seniors.org
Sector: Seniors community food
Mission: 411 Seniors Centre Society provides senior-led programs and services that mobilizes older adults’ diverse strengths, talents, interests and expertise to the benefit of fellow older adults and the community at large, and in collaboration with like-minded organizations.
Core Activities: Community meals and social events, community kitchens, kitchen rental, information and referral, tax filing, workshops, drop-in support, research, advocacy
Food Mesh
1-844-888-6374
Sector: Food Recovery and Redistribution
Mission: 411 Seniors Centre Society provides senior-led programs and services that mobilizes older adults’ diverse strengths, talents, interests and expertise to the benefit of fellow older adults and the community at large, and in collaboration with like-minded organizations.
Core Activities: Surplus food recovery and redistribution, digital marketplace, waste diversion services,
Food System Lab
info@foodsystemslab.ca
Sector: Education
Mission: Food Systems Lab is a research and innovation hub at Simon Fraser University. We work on solutions for equitable collaboration to reduce food waste and support a sustainable food system that enhances ecosystems, conserves natural resources, and mitigates climate change..
Core Activities: Education and research, community based research, advocacy,
Fresh Roots
778-764-0344 / sherry@freshroots.ca
Sector: Education, Youth leadership, Community food
Mission: We cultivate educational farms and place-based programs where youth develop healthy relationships with food, land and community through growing and sharing food that nourishes themselves, their communities and the planet!
Core Activities: Youth Leadership (Sustainable Opportunities for Youth Leadership); Experiential Learning (school field trips and summer camp on schoolyard farms); Sustainable Agriculture - using underutilized urban land (schoolyards) transforming them to productive, ecological space for growing food, traditional medicines, native plants, etc. (includes Community shared agriculture and local farmers market and providing locally grown food to school programs); Community building - volunteering, teambuilding, community events, etc.
Gather Gardeners
hello@gathergardeners.com
Sector: Urban agriculture
Mission: Cultivate confidence in gardeners & to ensure they feel supported during the process of growing their own food from design ➡️ set-up ➡️ plan ➡️ seed ➡️ harvest & 🔁.
Core Activities: Garden coaching, school garden education, garden workshops
Gordon Neighbourhood House
604-683-2554 / welcome@gordonhouse.org
Sector: Community food / Neighbourhood House
Mission: Building connection and opportunity in our neighborhood – for today and tomorrow.
Core Activities: Community lunch, seniors food delivery, convening of the West End Connectors, United Way food hub, Farmers’ Market Coupon Program, community gardening, food recovery and redistribution, community kitchens, community based research, special events, Right to Food BC Regional Network.
Grandview Woodland Food Connection
604-718-5895 / gwfcnetwork@gmail.com
Sector: Community Food
Mission: GWFC is a Neighborhood Food Network supporting the health & well-being of all residents, especially, our vulnerable, under-served, and low-income neighbours. We address food security by providing a broad spectrum of programs that connect & strengthen our community.
Core Activities: Britannia Bulk Buy Food Club, School Gardens, Community Gardens, Harvest Stand, Community Kitchens, Community Food Events, Off the Grill, GWFC Advisory Committee, Networks & Coalitions
Hastings-Sunrise Community Food Network
604-254-5401 local 1434 / info@hscfn.com
Sector: Community Food / Vancouver Neighbourhood Food Network
Mission: Together we collaborate on initiatives that build the food security of our neighbourhood through enhancing the food programs we offer, growing our network and amplifying the food justice work of our partners, and helping create the conditions required for our neighbourhood’s food sovereignty.
Core Activities: Community meals, food markets, community gardening, food skills workshops, community kitchens, networking and information sharing.
hua foundation
604-868-2001 / christina@huafoundation.org
Sector: Cultural Food
Mission: GWFC is a Neighborhood Food Network supporting the health & well-being of all residents, especially, our vulnerable, under-served, and low-income neighbours. We address food security by providing a broad spectrum of programs that connect & strengthen our community.
Core Activities: Consulting services - policy analysis, multilingual communications, business engagement; research - Asian food systems; advocacy and education - language access, knowledge mobilization, chinatown, anti-racism
Jewish Family Services
604-257-5151 / info@jfsvancouver.ca
Sector: Community Food / Cultural Food
Mission: Guided by the Jewish value of Tikkun Olam (repairing the world), JFS supports the social, physical and emotional wellness of all people.
Core Activities: Food hub, grocery program, community kitchen, food events, farm to plate marketplace, workshops, holiday meal assistance.
Living Wage BC
236-885-7583/ info@livingwagebc.ca
Sector: Income policy / poverty reduction
Mission: A province where every worker can thrive. A living wage is the gateway between surviving and thriving. It is a modest budget, that allows workers to overcome severe financial stress, move beyond working poverty and participate in the social, civic and cultural aspects of life. We need to expand our work to look at all of the conditions that affect workers earning a Living Wage, focusing not just on income. We recognize our unique role as a convenor and catalyst. We can collaborate with workers, employers, unions, and governments, we will leverage our tools and collective strengths to advance our mission..
Core Activities: Research and knowledge exchange, advocacy, awareness, engagement, organizational capacity.
Little Mountain Riley Park Neighbourhood Food Network
604-879-7104/ info@lmnhs.bc.ca
Sector: Community Food / Vancouver Neighbourhood Food Network
Mission: Our mission is to create a local, community-led food system. We aim to reduce food insecurity in our community, and increase access to healthy food in a way that promotes dignity, equity and respect. We are dedicated to providing space to grow food, build community, and care for the lands on which we live, work, and play. Our Food Hub focuses on two priorities in our community: Growing Our Food and Feeding Our Community.
Core Activities: Food hub, community garden, Yard Garden Harvest Project, food distribution,
Marpole – Oakridge Neighbourhood Food Network
info@villagevancouver.ca
Sector: Community Food / Vancouver Neighbourhood Food Network
Mission: Village Vancouver is the official Transition Initiative for the city of Vancouver and a hub for communities throughout the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. Village Vancouver coordinates, organizes and facilitates individuals, neighbourhoods and organizations to collaborate in taking actions that build just, sustainable and resilient communities, cities and bioregions.
Core Activities: Food hub, community garden, Yard Garden Harvest Project, food distribution,
Mission Possible
office@mission-possible.ca /
Sector: Employment and job skills
Mission: Mission Possible transforms lives through meaningful work. We walk alongside people facing barriers to employment by providing supportive, transitional work experience and community for those who are ready to enter the workforce.
Core Activities: Employment Readiness, Street Cleaning, Property Maintenance, Community Safety, Peer Support Training
Pacific Immigrant Resources Society
604-298-5888 / info@pirs.bc.ca
Sector: Newcomer / Settlement Services
Mission: to deliver accessible, inclusive, low-barrier programs for immigrant and refugee women and their children that create a sense of belonging, meaningful participation and leadership.
Core Activities: One on one support, parent children supports, foodskills, nobody's perfect, english classes, early childhood education assistant training
Quest Outreach Society
604-602-0186 / info@questoutreach.org
Sector: Food Recovery and Redistribution
Mission: By bridging the gap between food banks and grocery stores, Quest provides a shopping experience for those in need based on principles of dignity, access and sustainability..
Core Activities: Food markets.
Renfrew Collingwood Neighbourhood House Food Justice
604-602-0186 / info@questoutreach.org
Sector: Community Food / Vancouver Neighbourhood Food Network
Mission: To promote the well-being of the Renfrew-Collingwood community by providing leadership and working collaboratively with individuals, families, agencies and other groups to develop and support inclusive, innovative, sustainable initiatives and services that respond to the community’s social, educational, economic, health, cultural and recreational needs.
Core Activities: Community Care Harvest Box, Community Fridge & Pantry, Free Food Program, Farmers Market Nutrition Coupon Program, Cheyenne Community Garden & Collingwood Community Garden, Norquay Community Food Forest, CNH Rooftop Garden, Food Skills Workshops,
Roots on the Roof
rootsontheroof@gmail.com
Sector: Food production and redistribution
Mission: Food Sovereignty • Community • Equity • Skill Sharing
Core Activities: Garden Mentorship, Food Distribution, Food Rescue, Farm to Plate Hub, Seed Library
Sole Street Street Farms
604-324-6212 / info@southvan.org
Sector: Urban Agriculture
Mission: Sole Food Street Farms transforms vacant urban land into productive agricultural landscapes and one of North America’s largest urban farm social enterprises, producing hyper-local produce sold to the public and donated to community partners. We train and employ residents of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood who are facing complex barriers to employment. Individuals are given the opportunity to work with living soil, grow fresh food, develop new skills, and spend their days in an environment that supports the healing of body, mind and soul.
Core Activities: urban farming, markets, CSAs, job training
South Vancouver Family Place
604-324-6212 / info@southvan.org
Sector: Urban Agriculture
Mission: Sole Food Street Farms transforms vacant urban land into productive agricultural landscapes and one of North America’s largest urban farm social enterprises, producing hyper-local produce sold to the public and donated to community partners. We train and employ residents of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood who are facing complex barriers to employment. Individuals are given the opportunity to work with living soil, grow fresh food, develop new skills, and spend their days in an environment that supports the healing of body, mind and soul.
Core Activities: urban farming, markets, CSAs, job training
South Vancouver Neighbourhood House Food Network
604-324-6212 / info@southvan.org
Sector: Community Food / Vancouver Neighbourhood Food Network
Mission: SVNH plays a leadership role in building healthy and engaged neighbourhoods in South Vancouver by connecting people and strengthening their capacity to create change.
Core Activities: Community food hub, free food program, Farmers Market Nutrition Coupon Program, food skills workshops,
Strathcona Community Centre Food Security Program
604-324-6212 / info@southvan.org
Sector: Community Food / Vancouver Neighbourhood Food Network
Mission: SVNH plays a leadership role in building healthy and engaged neighbourhoods in South Vancouver by connecting people and strengthening their capacity to create change.
Core Activities: Breakfast Program, food workshops, canning club, backpack buddies program, community kitchens, special events
Trinity Grace United Church
604-879 3412 / office@tgucvan.com
Sector: Faith
Mission: For over 100 years, our church has been focusing on feeding bodies and souls. Its history includes hosting the first food bank in Vancouver, now becoming the current Community Breakfast with it’s heart for Jesus’ ministry of table hospitality. Simply, we've a strong tradition of welcoming strangers and neighbours to break bread together and to create spiritual community. Change continues being part of church experimentation, innovation and adaptation. At Trinity Grace it is an engrained tradition alive and flourishing today.
Core Activities: meals, farm to plate marketplace
UBC Food Hub
604-324-6212 / info@southvan.org
Sector: Community Food
Mission:
Core Activities: UBC Food Asset Map, Agora Cafe, community meals, roots on the roof csa, food workshops
Union Gospel Mission
604-253-3323 / info@southvan.org
Sector: Community Food
Mission: Through a compassionate continuum of care grounded in outreach, recovery, and housing, we share God’s love with our neighbours.
Core Activities: Community meals
United Way of the Lower Mainland
604-294-8929 / info@uwbc.ca
Sector: Funding
Mission: We strengthen vital connections that support people in need in our local communities.
Core Activities: Regional food hub funding, food link initiative, infrastructure grants
Vancouver Community Fridges
Sector: Food Redistribution
Mission: Building caring communities and addressing food insecurity.
Core Activities: Free food pantries
Vancouver Fruit Tree Project
Sector: Food Gleaning / Urban Agriculture
Mission: We’re a grassroots organization on a mission to strengthen Vancouver’s food security by harvesting backyard fruit trees and delivering it to organizations serving members in our community who typically have reduced access to fresh produce.
Core Activities: urban fruit tree gleaning, food surplus redistribution, food workshops
Vancouver Food Runners
236-479-0478 / info@vancouverfoodrunners.com
Sector: Food recovery
Mission: At VFR, we use app technology and partner with volunteer drivers to redirect healthy surplus food from businesses to organizations operating neighbourhood community programs and providing comprehensive social services.
Core Activities: Food recovery, delivering food to other orgs, hub and spoke delivery, community meal program in partnership with chef TJ Conwi,
Vancouver Neighbourhood Food Networks
604-253-6281 / info@vancouverfoodnetworks.com
Sector: Community Food
Mission: VNFNs are a network of community organizations committed to promoting food security in neighbourhoods across the City of Vancouver. The VNFN is committed to food equity and access, education, skill building, and advocacy, particularly for community members who are struggling economically. This work is based on the principle that all members of society have the right to quality food. VNFN provides a space for networks to collaborate, share best practices and advocate for food equity & justice, ecologically & culturally sustainable food systems, and community food resilience with a unified voice..
Core Activities: Essential food access, food community development (food markets, gardens, food skills workshops, community development, seed libraries, food celebration, community meals), advocacy and political action
Vancouver Urban Food Forest Foundation
info@vufff.org
Sector: Urban Agriculture
Mission: VUFFF’s mission is to transform Vancouver’s neighbourhoods into the nourishing spaces we need them to be. We work to amplify and prioritize Indigenous ways of knowing and marginalized voices in our public parks and green spaces. We transform our environment through community knowledge-sharing, food forests and by creating hubs for mutual aid and exchange.
Core Activities: Creating food forests, Indigenous land back, workshops, community events
Village Vancouver
ross@villagevancouver.org
Sector: Community Food
Mission: Village Vancouver inspires individuals and organizations to take actions that build resilient and sustainable communities. We are one of several hundred official Transition Town Initiatives spreading across the globe.
Core Activities: Community gardens, potlucks, events, seed libraries, food and garden workshops
Yarrow Society
info@yarrowsociety.ca
Sector: Community Food, Cultural
Mission: To remove barriers to health care, housing, and income access and provide services, advocacy, and education that develops youth and senior leadership and builds community power in Chinatown.
Core Activities: hot meal delivery for seniors, food redistribution, food literacy workshops