Filed Under : Food Charities by FS Coordinator
Oct.2,2012Check out our new, up to date guide to donating fruit in Winnipeg – hot off the press! Sharing the Harvest 2012
Click here for an up to date map of the locations included in the guide.
Filed Under : Food Charities by FS Coordinator Sep.4,2012We’ve recently added a whole bunch of new charitable organizations and other community groups to our list of places that would love to receive excess fruit. Here is an updated list, with addresses, for a quick reference. Just click on the name of the charity to go to find out more information about what they do and how you can donate.
Yet another organization doing great work that would be happy to receive donations of excess fruit.
North Point Douglas Women’s Centre
North Point Douglas Women’s Centre exists to create opportunities for women to develop their potential and engage fully as citizens of their community. Their vision is a safe, healthy, vibrant community for women and families in which all forms of violence against women are addressed by engaging the community in prevention and care.
Donated fruit would be eaten fresh and used for programming in their community kitchen or cooking programs or given out to women as emergency food.
Contact Information
Street Address
221 Austin Street.
Phone:
(204)947-0321
E-mail:
Website:
www.northpointdouglaswomenscentre.org
Donations Accepted
Fruit
Rhubarb, Sour cherries (eg. nanking or evans cherries), Crab apples, Big eating/baking apples, Grapes, Berries (eg. strawberries or raspberries), Apricots or Plums
Other Food Items
Canned Fruit Preserves (eg. jam, jelly, sauce, juice, etc.), Frozen Fruit, Home baked products (eg. fruit crisp, pies, breads, etc.). Dates and labels would be nice. Also, garden vegetables would be much appreciated.
Non-Food Items
Just about anything
Donation Logistics
When
Office hours are Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm, closed from 12pm to 1pm for lunch. Open Saturdays 1pm to 4pm.
Where
Drop off at 221 Austin Street, there is no buzzer so just walk inside and staff will help if needed.
Lighthouse Mission
Lighthouse Mission feeds between 200-300 homeless and at risk people daily. Their clients typically have no access to any other missions or agencies in the area because of severe addictions or Mental Illness
Donated fruit would be used to prepare meals and food hampers, and processed for future use.
Contact Information
Street Address
669 Main St
Phone:
204-943-9669
Website:
www.lighthousemission.ca
Donations Accepted
Fruit
Rhubarb, Sour cherries (eg. nanking or evans cherries), Crab apples, Big eating/baking apples, Grapes, Berries (eg. strawberries or raspberries), Apricots or Plums
Other Food Items
Canned Fruit Preserves (eg. jam, jelly, sauce, juice, etc.), Frozen Fruit, Home baked products (eg. fruit crisp, pies, breads, etc.). Other canned goods especially Tuna/Salmon/ Klik.
Donation Logistics
When
Monday-Friday 9am to 1:30pm
Where
Drop offs at rear receiving door. Enter backlane off of Logan, behind Mitchell Fabrics. There is signage on the door, ring door bell top left corner of door.
Special Notes
Call before coming.
Teen Stop Jeunesse
A drop-in centre in St. Vital. The centre houses a youth drop in, adult education, literacy and EAL programs and child care so any food donations are greatly appreciated.
Donated fruit would be used to prepare meals, put in food hampers and processed for future use
Contact Information
Street Address
533 A St. Anne’s Road
Phone:
204-254-1618
Website:
www.teenstop.ca
Donations Accepted
Fruit
Rhubarb, Sour cherries (eg. nanking or evans cherries), Crab apples, Big eating/baking apples, Grapes, Berries (eg. strawberries or raspberries), Apricots or Plums
Other Food Items
Canned Fruit Preserves (eg. jam, jelly, sauce, juice, etc.), Frozen Fruit, Home baked products (eg. fruit crisp, pies, breads, etc.). Items should be dated and labelled. No peanut contact please.
Non-Food Items
Everything except clothes.
Donation Logistics
When
Our office is open Monday-Friday 8:30 am-4:30pm at 533A St. Anne’s Road.
Where
Front Door at 533 A St. Anne’s Road
Special Notes
Volunteers are busiest Mondays, as there is a food bank that day. Please phone 254-1618 and someone will help unload.
If you have too much fruit, consider donating to Jubilee Mennonite Church, another charity Fruit Share shares its fruit with.
Jubilee Mennonite is a church, reaching out to those in its community. The church runs a community kitchen, together with Donwood School, the local elementary school, where community members come (from many different backgrounds) and learn/swap recipes and make a meal for their family to take home.
They also have a community garden and use any leftover food to make a meal from this and invite the gardeners to come and eat and share in the extra harvest.
Donated fruit would be used eaten fresh, used to prepare meals and processed and preserved for later use.
Contact Information
Street Address
365 Edelweiss Crescent
Phone:
204-668-9933
Website:
Donations Accepted
Fruit
Rhubarb, Sour cherries (eg. nanking or evans cherries), Crab apples, Big eating/baking apples, Berries (eg. strawberries or raspberries), Apricots or Plums
Other Food Items
Canned Fruit Preserves (eg. jam, jelly, sauce, juice, etc.), Frozen Fruit, Home baked products (eg. fruit crisp, pies, breads, etc.). Must be dated, labelled and have ingredient list. Also, garden vegetables and emergency food pantry supplies.
Non-Food Items
Used baby & children’s clothing
Donation Logistics
When
Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. except in July & August when the office hours are 9 – 12. Arrangements could be made for after-hours drop off by phoning the church office 204-668-9933 during office hours and talking to Donna.
Where
Drop off at the main door (west door) where there is a doorbell to access, if someone is here.
Special Notes
Please phone ahead at 688-9933 to indicate the type and quantity of fruit you have to ensure there is space.
A very important part of Fruit Share is making sure that as many people as possible benefit from the fruit (and vegetables!) that we harvest. This year, we donated fruit to 19 Winnipeg-based organizations:
The above are a list of the official organizations we donated to - but we also shared the fruit among friends, family and neighbours who would not otherwise have had access to fresh, local and (mostly) organic produce. It was a pleasure to share fruit with everyone!
Teen Challenge is a 12-month, faith-based, residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation program. The program has a strong faith-based approach and offers spiritual, academic and vocational training that helps equip individuals to return to society as responsible citizens.
Contact Information:
Street Address: 414 Edmonton
Phone: 949-9484 ext. 2011
Website: www.teenchallenge.mb.ca
When
Monday to Saturday 7:00 am to 9:00 pm
Where
- back door of 414 Edmonton Street
- park in back lane by door while unloading
- ring buzzer (high on a silver pad on the red brick wall)
Special Notes
Please phone ahead to 949-9484 ext. 2011 or try Mike at 232-2905 or Jane at 688-7605.
Cannot accept heavily bruised fruit.
Teen Challenge has a freezer and refrigerator for storing perishable food.
We’d like to help. We’re working on developing a complete list of organizations that accept food donations and all the details about when, how much, where, etc. All this information will be collected and published in an online and printed guide that we call Guide to Backyard Fruit.
Thanks to funding from the Manitoba Alternative Food Research Alliance and the Canadian Home Economics Foundation, this guide will be completely free of charge to charities, libraries, community organizations and neighbourhood associations.
Here’s who we’ve been in touch with so far. If you know of other organizations that should be on our list, please let us know or forward this post to them along with this link Food Charity Registration Form.
Agape Table
Siloam Mission
Salvation Army
Union Gospel
Lighthouse Mission
Teen Challenge
Winnipeg Harvest
Behavioural Health Foundation
Forward House
Main Street Project
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