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Community Food Centres Canada And Second Harvest Case Study

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Community Food Centres Canada and Second Harvest are organizations that are food-focused. While both organizations seek to mainly address the issue of food insecurity in Canada, they do not share the same mission and use different approaches. Using the Toronto Community Knowledge Centre’s website and each organization’s main website, this analysis will provide brief descriptions of both organizations then delve into comparing and contrasting their missions, visions, programs, and webpages. Community Food Centres Canada is an organization that creates and assists other vibrant food-focused organizations located in “low-income communities in Toronto and across the country that bring people together to grow, cook, share, and advocate for good …show more content…

I thought that the use of the term “social justice” was funny in the sense that providing social justice within a low-income community is not only about food. True social justice in a low-income community would involve making sure these communities are not of low-income in the first place. Concerning vision, the organization sees “a Canada where food is treated as a basic right, central to health and everyone has the means, knowledge, and voice necessary to access good food with dignity” (Community Food Centres Canada, 2017). For Second Harvest, its goal or mission is to reduce the amount of good food lost or wasted while making sure that hungry individuals have access to food that is healthy and nutritious in order to flourish (Second Harvest, 2017). Its vision is short and simple, “No Waste. No Hunger” (Second Harvest, 2017). While both organizations share the same theme of striving for the well-being of every person, their missions and visions are noticeably different. Community Food Centres in Canada tries to use its model to address several issues apart from food insecurity at once, whereas Second Harvest’s only other mission and vision focus apart from food insecurity is food …show more content…

While Community Food Centres Canada focus is on a national scale, Second Harvest’s is on a more local scale, the Toronto community. Another difference is how the two organizations try to accomplish their core goals. Community Food Centres Canada actually owns many physical structures that provide services apart from its partnerships’ locations (Community Food Centres Canada, 2017). In contrast, Second Harvest fulfills its main goal by using trucks to collect surplus food and then drops it off at social services partnership locations (Second Harvest,

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