Running Room

Running Room - Edmonton Food Bank

IN 2023 EDMONTON’S FOOD BANK...
• Served 417,908 people with food hampers. This representing 75,476
unique individuals compared to 67,046 different people in 2022.
• Served record number of people through our hamper programs:
August 37,462 people and November 36,643 people.
• Provided, on average, 400,000 meals and snacks monthly to partner
organizations. This represents 350 different partners including soup
kitchens, shelters, schools, and other community organizations.
• Collected and shared 5,583,294 kilograms of food (12,308,930 pounds).
• Purchased $3.5M worth of food (a 16.6% increase from $3M in 2022).
• Continue to purchase $9,000 worth of eggs weekly.
• Volunteer hours increased from 118,400 (2022) to 141,233 (2023) hours.
• Opened our third warehouse in June, NISO, a Cree word meaning “two”.
It resides between our main warehouse and our Annex building.
• Implemented special NISO depots for clients to pick up their festive
hampers during the holiday season serving 16,974 people.