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Our Food Future named a top recovery project in Canada
 

For Immediate Release - November 27, 2020

The Future of Good named Our Food Future as  one of Canada’s Top 100 Recovery Projects at the Future of Good Summit  yesterday.  

The Future of Good is Canada’s fastest-growing digital publication covering the  social impact world focusing on how technology, money, places, work, and inclusion  are changing social impact post-pandemic — from social services to philanthropy,  international development to social enterprise. The Top 100 Recovery Projects are a  way to celebrate local projects that not only help communities return to normal, but  build back better, answering the rallying cry of the United Nations Sustainable  Development Goals, ‘Leave no one behind’ by 2030.  

“We’re delighted that Our Food Future has been named a top 100 recovery project  within Canada,” says Scott Stewart, Guelph’s Chief Administrative Officer. Grow  Back Better continues to be the plan our community needs to address food  insecurity and economic instability within the food system during this crisis, while at  the same time ensuring we are future ready by making our community stronger  and more resilient as we look to 2030.”  

“It’s exciting to see Our Food Future receive national recognition,” said Scott  Wilson, Wellington County’s Chief Administrative Officer. “COVID-19 has impacted  families and businesses across our region, and highlighted issues around food  access and insecurity, food chain and supply issues and even production and  distribution. No part of the system has been untouched. However, by working  together we are creating a sustainable circular food system that can take us  through this health crisis and position us well for our future.” 

“Issues around food insecurity and food access are not new, and they are complex,”  says Barbara Swartzentruber, Executive Director, Smart Cities Office. “Solving them  takes innovative thinking and a willingness to try something new. That’s what our  community is doing, together. On behalf of the Smart Cities team, I want to thank  our collaborators, champions and partners for their continued dedication to our  common vision, the creation of Canada’s first circular food economy.” 

The SEED’s Emergency Food Delivery project has also been named one of Canada’s  Top 100 Recovery Project. In response to COVID-19, The SEED rapidly scaled up an  Emergency Food Home Delivery program to deliver 100,000 nutritious food boxes  to community members in need between April and December 2020.  

Guelph-Wellington’s Harve$t Impact fund is matching one-to-one the first $90,000  in individual cash donations raised in support of The SEED’s Emergency Food Home 
Delivery program. Harve$t Impact is a social financing program of 10C and a core  pillar of the Our Food Future initiative. 

All donations over $20 will receive a charitable tax receipt from Guelph Community  Health Centre. Donations can be made online and via cheque at harvestimpact.ca

The full list of Canada’s Top 100 Recovery Projects is available at  100recoveryprojects.futureofgood.co. Community members can also vote on  projects they would like to see featured throughout 2021.  



About Our Food Future - Inspired by the planet’s natural cycles, a circular food economy reimagines and  regenerates the systems that feed us, eliminating waste, sharing economic  prosperity, and nourishing our communities. In Guelph-Wellington, we are working  to build Canada’s first tech-enabled circular food economy that will achieve a 50%  increase in access to affordable nutritious food, 50 new circular economy  businesses and collaborations, and a 50% increase in circular economic benefit by  unlocking the value of waste. 

About Grow Back Better  - Grow Back Better: Our Food Future’s 10-point COVID-19 recovery plan is part of  the City of Guelph’s and the County of Wellington’s overall COVID-19 economic and  social recovery efforts. For information on the City and County response and  recovery efforts, visit guelph.ca/covid19 and wellington.ca/en/covid-19.aspx.  


Our Food Future one of the ways the City of Guelph is contributing to a sustainable,  creative and smart local economy that is connected to regional and global markets  and supports shared prosperity for everyone.  

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