February 1st - 28th
Burger It Forward is a national celebration of Canadian beef burgers with community heart!
The goals of Burger It Forward:
Canada Beef is a not-for-profit organization that represents the 60,000 beef farming and ranching families across the country, providing promotion, information and advocacy for beef that's raised right here — Canadian beef.
Canada Beef is proud to lead the Burger It Forward campaign to help relieve food insecurity through food bank contributions.
For every campaign featured burger purchased, Canada Beef will donate the equivalent of 1 meal to Food Banks Canada.*
*up to a maximum of 20,000 meals (based on Food Banks Canada's meal metric: $1 = 2 meals).
For more than 95 years, the British Columbia Cattlemen's Association has represented beef cattle producers in the province of BC with a priority to produce quality beef for consumers through its volunteer membership and environmental stewardship practices.
As part of Burger It Forward, British Columbia's beef ranchers are donating $5000 to the Food Banks BC.
Food Banks BC is committed to supporting the need to for urgent hunger relief services now, while taking the necessary actions to eliminate the need for these services altogether and working towards a hunger-free British Columbia.
Food Banks BC is the provincial association of food banks. Our membership is comprised of 110 hunger relief agencies collectively supporting hundreds of thousands of food-insecure families and individuals throughout BC.
Food Banks BC supports our members and other agencies through the provision of resources that assist their efforts to tackle hunger in communities they represent. This is achieved through the distribution of food and financial donations, providing access to training and networking, and serving as a representative voice for BC's hunger relief charities and the many people they support.
For more information visit: www.foodbanksbc.com
Food Banks Canada supports a network of 10 Provincial Associations and more than 4750 hunger relief organizations from coast to coast to coast, in every province and territory. Together, they work collaboratively towards a Canada where no one goes hungry.
All contributions made by Canada Beef from the Burger it Forward effort to Food Banks Canada go towards our national mission of relieving hunger today, and preventing hunger tomorrow, and are dispersed across the country. Food Banks Canada works at the national level to support food banks and community organizations across the country. We do this through food and funds. Through programs such as our capacity and access grants, which provide funding to food banks at the local level to make significant changes within their infrastructure and logistics. Our food programs distribute to food banks in the network equitably, based on food insecurity and poverty data and supplement the food that the food banks acquire locally. This is in addition to our government advocacy work and research.
Visit foodbankscanada.ca to learn more.
Recognizing the challenges local restaurants have faced over recent years, participation in Burger It Forward is offered to restaurants with no registration fees.
Restaurants are encouraged to give back what they can to their local food banks as part of their contribution to the program. All Burger It Forward profiled burgers feature Canadian beef in support of local cattle farmers and ranchers.
