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).
The Saskatchewan Cattlemen's Association works to develop and promote the your local beef. Their mandate is to provide a united voice for beef farmers and ranchers across all regions of the province.
Saskatchewan beef farmers and ranchers are helping to 'beef up' regional food banks by donating $500 worth of ground beef to both Regina Food Bank, and Saskatoon Food Bank & Learning Centre.
The Regina Food Bank is a charitable community-based organization working to fight food insecurity through nutritious food distribution, education, and support programs.
The Regina Food Bank restores dignity, health and hope for their clients. Addressing food insecurity is their first step as part of a larger collective impact, connecting people with community partners and their programs that will help meet their needs holistically. They also build community to make Regina a more fair, caring, and dynamic city.
For more information visit: www.reginafoodbank.ca
Saskatoon Food Bank & Learning Centre is a progressive and collaborative organization that uses a systems approach to develop programs, services, and initiatives that address the underlying causes of food insecurity and poverty in our community.
For more information visit: saskatoonfoodbank.org
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.
