Second Harvest Toronto

Second Harvest is Canada's largest food rescue charitable organization with a dual mission of environmental protection and hunger relief. They recover and redistribute perishable, nutritious, unsold food before it becomes waste to a broad network of 1200 social service organizations. Their service helps nourish people through school programs, seniors' centres, homeless shelters, food banks, and regional food hubs. In 34 years, Second Harvest has rescued over 155 million pounds of healthy food, preventing 192 million pounds of greenhouse gases from entering the atmosphere.

Second Harvest
FoundedApril 1985 (1985-04)
FoundersIna Andre and Joan Clayton
Registration no.13386 5477 RR0001
Location
Area served
Canada
CEO
Lori Nikkel
Board chair
Bernie Allion
Revenue (2019)
$57,867,895
Expenses (2019)$57,482,543
Websitesecondharvest.ca

Second Harvest created FoodRescue.ca, a free tool for businesses in Ontario to donate excess food, lessen environmental impacts, and nourish local communities.

Second Harvest organizes several special events each year, the largest of which are Toronto Taste and Second Harvest Hero, to add to their fund-raising base.[1]

History and timeline

Second Harvest was founded in April 1985 in Toronto by Ina Andre and Joan Clayton.[2] Under the direction of Andre and Clayton, the organization began small and consisted of picking up waste food in a hatchback from restaurants and grocery stores and distributing it across the city.[3]

In 1994, the Ontario Legislature passed the “Donation of Food Act”[4] or Good Samaritan Legislation releasing those who donate food or distribute donated food from liability in the event that an individual is affected by the consumption of that food, provided that due diligence is exercised. This act enabled Second Harvest to accept donations from large food corporations, helping the organization to grow substantially.[5]

April 2015 — Second Harvest marked 30 years of delivering fresh, surplus food to Toronto's hungry.

July 2, 2018 — Lori Nikkel becomes the organization's first chief executive officer.[6]

October 26, 2018 — Second Harvest launches FoodRescue.ca, a free tool for business to donate excess food, lessen environmental impacts, and nourish local communities.[7]

January 17, 2019 — Second Harvest releases The Avoidable Crisis of Food Waste, a world-first report co-authored Value Chain Management International, identifying the amount of food that is lost and wasted across the Canadian supply chain and the approximately 30 root causes of food loss and waste and over 100 solutions to limit the amount lost and wasted. This report identifies that in Canada 58% of all food produced for Canadians is lost or wasted and over 11MM tonnes could be redirected to support communities in need. [8]

June 11, 2019 - Second Harvest expands food recovery efforts with foodrescue.ca to British Columbia [9]

March 2020 - Second Harvest expands nationally to support Canadians during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

September 2020 - Second Harvest publishes its COVID-19 Impact Report https://secondharvest.ca/impact/

Notes
  1. http://www.secondharvest.ca/events/index.php
  2. "Harlequin Honours Joan Clayton and Ina Andre of Windfall" Toronto Star, March 31, 2009. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2010-01-25.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) accessed January 25, 2010.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-04-04. Retrieved 2010-01-19.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Ontario Donation of Food Act, 1994". ontario.ca. Archived from the original on 2019-01-17. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
  5. Robins, Abby, ed. Second Harvest Times, "Volunteer Reception 2005." July 2005. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2010-01-19.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Accessed January 19, 2010
  6. "Second Harvest names new CEO". Canadian Grocer. 2018-07-18. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
  7. "Second Harvest's New Food Rescue Tool Will Fight Food Waste Responsively". HuffPost Canada. 2017-04-06. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
  8. Manzocco, Natalia (2019-01-09). "The food industry is unsustainable". NOW Magazine. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
  9. {{Cite news|url= https://www.grocerybusiness.ca/news/watch-loblaw-helps-food-waste-diversion-program-launch-in-b-c

See also
  • Archer, Bert. "Giving food a second chance: Leftovers and Gas" The Edible City: Toronto's food from farm to fork. Christina Palassio and Alana Wilcox, eds. Coach House, Toronto: 2009.
  • Tarasuk, Valerie and Joan M. Eakin, "Food assistance through “surplus” food: Insights from an ethnographic study of food bank work." Agriculture and Human Values Springer Netherlands. Volume 22, Number 2 / June, 2005, p. 177-186. ISSN 0889-048X (Print) 1572-8366 (Online).

Phillips, James. "Ontario's Donation of Food Act," Viewpoint. Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, p. 3-8. http://journals.sfu.ca/philanthropist/index.php/phil/article/viewFile/769/613%5B%5D Accessed January 19, 2010.

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