Charity Challenge

Calgary Corporate Challenge provides fun, engaging team-building events throughout the year, highlighted by the annual Calgary Corporate Challenge September Games. The Charity Challenge component gives teams a series of opportunities to give and engage in meaningful ways so they can do good and be good (and also earn points in the standings). We are excited to be celebrating 20 years of being a Calgary Corporate Challenge Charity partner. Since 2005, more than $515,000 in food and funds has been raised by Calgary Corporate Challenge participants to help feed Calgary.

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Give More

Donate Funds

Hunger is not experienced only by those experiencing homelessness in our city; it could be the family next door, the child who goes to school with your son or daughter, the person next to you on the bus going to work, classmates from college or university, or the person who serves you at your local business. These are our friends, family members and neighbors who face a life set back and need our help and compassion. 

The Calgary Food Bank is community owned; community supported. It takes community action to provide healthy and nutritious food, to help one family, one person at a time. In partnership with the food industry and companies like you, for every $1 received we can distribute $3.50 worth of food.  

Give what you can, to help us help your neighbors, your friends, your family members.  

Donation Methods: 

  • Online
  • Benevity: Calgary Corporate Challenge – Charity Challenge 2024 
  • Cheque:  Calgary Food Bank | Attn: Yasmin Hassan | 5020 12A Street SE  Calgary, Alberta  T2G 5K9 

*MUST INFORM YASMIN DIRECTLY OF ALL DONATIONS SUBMITTED TO RECEIVE POINT*

 

Tax Receipts:  To qualify for a charitable tax receipt, please ensure monetary donation have the following information:

  1. Full Name (first & last) of individual donor or Company Name
  2. Mail Address
  3. “Company Name” – CCC Company the donation is in support of
  4. Amount ($) of monetary donation.

Please note, we use Canada Helps to facilitate our online donations. Once your donation is made you will automatically receive a receipt to your email from Canada Helps.

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Give Awareness

OPTION #1: Attend a Presentation and Tour of our Warehouse  

The Calgary Food Bank has grown in response to the increasing need for food support in Calgary. Come spend an hour to an hour and a half learning about the programs we offer while witnessing the hustle and bustle of our active warehouse and distribution zone. Learn the steps taken from the moment a neighbour, friend or family member reaches out to us for a hamper, to the moment we can pass that hamper over to them and, everything in-between.  

  • Minimum participants from a company: 4  
  • Maximum participants from a company: 10  

Email yhassan@calgaryfoodbank.com to book tour/presentation

OPTION #2: Watch Our Informative Video

COMING SOON!

Please note this video is in production and completion date is expected to be early summer but at this time is not confirmed. 

Reach out to Yasmin through yhassan@calgaryfoodbank.com to receive the informative video. Once watched, inform Yasmin to receive the point.  

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Give Back

Volunteers make up 40% of the warehouse workforce at the Calgary Food Bank. 800 volunteer shifts must be filled each week. Help feed fellow Calgarians by giving the gift of time. Our organization would simply not exist without the time and talent of our dedicated volunteers, so we are offering you the opportunity to be a part of this dedicated team!

  • Minimum number of participants is 4 per company
  • Maximum is based on availability

How to Book: Please reach out to yhassan@calgaryfoodbank.com for more information and to view available volunteer shifts  

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Bonus Point: Go Above and Beyond

OPTION #1

Double your help, double your donation! 

Our clients need your support, now more than ever as the cost-of-living skyrockets around the city.  

Your double donation means the world to our clients, your neighbours, your friends, or your family.  

“It is hard to move forward when you are just trying to survive… you can’t find stability and don’t feel stability in your life… So having a stress removed – which is insecurity with food – helps me move forward instead of moving me back, everyday stuck in survival mode.” Calgary Food Bank Client

OPTION #2

Themed Food Drive

The Calgary Food Bank loves to pull the community together in our mission to fight hunger and its root causes because no one should go hungry. Host a themed food drive at your office this Calgary Corporate Challenge season and earn an extra point at the same time!  

Please email Yasmin at yhassan@calgaryfoodbank.com for further details

 

Themed Food Drive ideas can include: 

  1. Battle of the Breakfast Cereals: Collected as many boxes of your favourite cereals as you can!  
  2. Mac and Cheese, if you please: Collect as much mac and cheese as you can! Create a giant KD Domino, make sure you film the dominos falling!  
  3. You’re all Soup-er Stars: Collect cans and cans of shelf-stable soups! 
  4. Fill the boss’s office or another designated area with food, be sure to send us a picture!  
  5. Baby Items Drive – Collect using our Baby Hamper Wishlist consisting of Diapers, Wipes and Formula  
  6. Birthday Kit Drive – Collect using our birthday kit Wishlist consisting of cake mix, icing, toys, etc  
  7. Get Creative! Select an item on our emergency food hamper Wishlist and collect as many of that item as you can! 

2024 Fast Facts

$107,104

funds raised

80,315

pounds of food

3,195

volunteer hours

Get In Touch

Contact Yasmin Hassan at 403-253-2059 Ext. 204 or email

In the spirit of reconciliation, the Calgary Food Bank acknowledges that we live, work and play on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), the Tsuut’ina, the Îyâxe Nakoda Nations, the Métis Nation (Region 3), and all people who make their homes in the Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta.

CALL TO REQUEST A HAMPER
403-253-2055

Monday to Thursday: 8:15 am – 7:00 pm
Friday: 8:15 am – 4:00 pm

Or book online

 

Calgary Food Bank
NEW!
FOOD DONATIONS ONLY AT
Donation Centre, Door 7

Monday to Thursday: 8:00 am – 7:30 pm
Friday and Saturday: 8:00 am – 3:00 pm

Closed at noon on Christmas Eve.
Closed December 25th - 27th
Closed January 1st

 

MAIN LOCATION (WAREHOUSE)

5000 11 Street SE
Calgary, AB T2H 2Y5

Administration
new!
donations of funds gratefully accepted only during business hours:

 

ANNEX HOURS

Monday to Thursday: 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
Friday: 8:30 am – 4:00 pm

Closed at noon on Christmas Eve.
Closed December 25th - 27th
Closed January 1st

 

ANNEX LOCATION

5020 12A Street SE
Calgary, AB T2G 5K9

 

CONTACT

Reception: 403-253-2059
info@calgaryfoodbank.com

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