Links

Canada’s Food Guide to Healthy Eating
A link to Canada’s Food Guide to Healthy Eating; available in PDF, MP3 and WAV format.

Breakfast for Learning
Resources on the Breakfast for Learning site include: how to obtain grants for nutrition programs, how to build community partnerships, and best practises.

Impact of School Breakfast on Children's Health and Learning
Check out the new report, Commissioned by the Sodexo Foundation

Food For Learning: Nutrition Matters
A resource of studies on nutrition highlighting the remarkable benefits of Student Nutrition Programs.

Nutrition Guidelines for SNP
A handy one-page outline of nutrition guidelines for Student Nutrition Programs.

Student Nutrition Programs
The primary source for information on Student Nutrition Programs in Central Western Ontario including Halton, Peel, Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph, and Waterloo.

Food For Learning
A wealth of information and pictures on student nutrition programs in over 50 York Region schools.

Eat Well to Excel
The website of Eat Well to Excel, supporting breakfast clubs, nutritious snack and lunch programs in 150 schools in Simcoe County.

Peterborough Family Resources
This site details the numerous programs and services of the Peterborough Family Resources, the lead administrative agency of Student Nutrition Programs in Central Eastern Ontario.

Four Info
Four Info provides information on volunteer opportunities and community services available in the four counties of Haliburton, Northumberland, Peterborough, and City of Kawartha Lakes (formerly known as Victoria County).

Ontario Public Health Association - Foodnet
A resource listing school food programs across Ontario, provided by FoodNet, a project of the Ontario Public Health Association.

Dietitians of Canada
This site includes tips, facts and FAQs, as well as a ‘find a dietician’ feature care of the 5000-member Dietitians of Canada.

Foodland Ontario
This site for Foodland Ontario includes seasonal recipes, colouring pages, links to growers’ associations, and facts on produce.

Health Canada - Nutrition
Providing national leadership in nutrition since the 1930s, this Health Canada site offers topical information on food safety, as well as information on diseases and conditions.

Choices 4 Health
A Halton region initiative, offers a wealth of practical information on how to be healthy by choosing to eat well, exercise, be smoke free and reduce stress.

5 To 10 A Day
Aiming to reduce the risk of cancer and cardiovascular disease, 5 To 10 A Day offers delicious tips along with fun ways to increase your intake of fruit and vegetables, recipes, and useful facts from health care professionals.

Ontario Ministry of Child and Youth Services
This site of the Ontario Ministry of Child and Youth Services is a portal to information on child welfare programs, children's community support services, children's mental health services, and child care.

North American Community Food Security Coalition
Resources on this site of the North American Community Food Security Coalition include “Tools for Promoting Local Purchasing & Farm to School Activities.”

Regional Health Units

Peterborough County-City Health Unit
The website of the Peterborough County-City Health Unit, including information on: Dental Health, Food Safety, Immunization, Nutrition, and School Health.

Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit
The site of the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit with information on: Communicable Diseases, Dental Health, Immunization, Active Living, Healthy Eating, and Food Safety.

Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit
The website of the Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit, with offices in Brighton, Campbellford, Haliburton, Lindsay, and Port Hope.

York Region Public Health Services
The website of York Region Public Health Services, which includes Child and Family Health, Healthy Lifestyles, Dental Health, Nutrition and School Services, Health Protection, Infectious Diseases Control, Pregnancy, Parenting & Family Health, and School Health Programs.

Region of Durham Health Services
The website of The Region of Durham Health Services, which includes Child and Family Health, Durham Lives!, Food, Pregnancy, Parenting & Family Health, and School Health Resources

FUNDRAISING TIPS

Fundscrip
The website of FundScrip is a Canadian fundraising program that asks supporters of your group to pay for their everyday purchases (i.e., groceries, gas, gifts and household items) with gift cards bought through the FundScrip program.

Breakfast Clubs of Canada
The website of Breakfast Clubs of Canada is a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing services and funding to school breakfast programs. We do this with the help of individual and corporate partners, all committed to the cause of feeding our children’s future.

Fundraising Central
The website of Fundraising Central is a list of fundraising links in Ontario.

101 Fundraising Ideas for schools
This is a PDF document listing some great fundraising Ideas.

Aviva Community Fund


Shoppers Drug Mart
The goal of our community involvement at a national and local level is to help Canadians enjoy their health and live life to the fullest. So we focus our giving on health-related programs – ones that promote good health and prevent diseases.

If your charitable organization has great programs or ideas that will help Canadians lead stronger healthier lives, we may be able to help.

Coca-Cola Sponsorship and Grants
At The Coca-Cola Company, we recognize that we cannot have a healthy and growing business unless the communities we serve are healthy and sustainable. As a global beverage company, we have committed ourselves to improving the quality of life in the communities where we do business. Our community investment priorities reflect the global and local nature of our business and focuses on those global pillars where The Coca-Cola Company can make a unique and sustainable difference: water stewardship, active healthy living, community recycling, and education.

Breakfast for Learning
This is the website for Breakfast for Learning, the leading national non-profit organization solely dedicated to child nutrition programs in Canada. We know that when a child is well-nourished, they perform better in school and we work to ensure that students receive the healthy breakfasts, lunches and snacks they need to succeed.

Grocery Foundation
The Grocery Foundation began almost 30 years ago when a handful of Ontario grocery leaders decided it was time for their industry to make a meaningful difference in the lives of Ontario children who needed a hand-up in life. Out of that small group of retailers, manufacturers and food brokers grew an industry-wide charitable foundation we call The Grocery Foundation.

Mazon Canada
MAZON Canada is the national Jewish Response to Hunger. MAZON Canada raises funds primarily from within the Jewish community and distributes those funds, on a non-denominational basis, to Canadian organizations battling hunger on the front lines. Based on the tradition of "tikkun olam" (healing the world), our organization strives to link public awareness about the issue of poverty and hunger with the mitzvah (obligation) of tzedakah (justice/charity).

Heart and Stroke - Spark
Spark is in communities across Ontario supporting local groups that are making a real difference to the children of today and tomorrow.

Hellman’s
Supporting Real Food Hellmann's® is committed to making it easier for Canadians and their families to enjoy the pleasure of real food. As a result, Hellmann’s® is providing $100,000 in Real Food Grants to support initiatives that bring Canadian families and kids together with real food in their community.

Canada Bread – Dempster’s Feeding Kids’ Potential
Contact Patric Duclos at 613-298-2531

MONEY SAVING TIPS

The Steven System

Video One
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Whole Sale foods

http://www.freshstartfoods.com
http://avronforkids.com/index.php?
http://www.empirecheese.ca/


Donoghue's Wholesale Foods
705-748-9381