February 1st - 28th
Burger It Forward is a national celebration of Canadian beef burgers with community heart!
The goals of Burger It Forward:
Canada Beef is a not-for-profit organization that represents the 60,000 beef farming and ranching families across the country, providing promotion, information and advocacy for beef that's raised right here — Canadian beef.
Canada Beef is proud to lead the Burger It Forward campaign to help relieve food insecurity through food bank contributions.
For every campaign featured burger purchased, Canada Beef will donate the equivalent of 1 meal to Food Banks Canada.*
*up to a maximum of 20,000 meals (based on Food Banks Canada's meal metric: $1 = 2 meals).
Manitoba Beef Producers represents all beef producers through communication, advocacy, research, and education to governments, consumers and others, to ensure a sustainable present and future.
As part of Burger It Forward, Manitoba beef ranchers and farmers are helping to 'beef up' regional food banks by donating $500 to Harvest Manitoba.
Harvest Manitoba is a not-for-profit charitable organization committed to ensuring that no Manitoban goes hungry. Currently, Harvest Manitoba feeds over 100,000 Manitobans every month through its community food network of more than 400 food banks and partnered agencies across Manitoba including soup kitchens, schools and daycares. Almost half of the Manitobans served by Harvest are children.
For more information visit: www.harvestmanitoba.ca
Food Banks Canada is the leader in addressing food insecurity in Canada. Our mission is to provide national leadership to relieve hunger today and prevent hunger tomorrow in collaboration with the food bank network from coast to coast to coast. For over 40 years, food banks have been dedicated to helping people living in Canada with food insecurity. Over 5,500 food banks and community organizations come together to serve our most vulnerable neighbours, who — this year — made close to 2.2 million visits to these organizations in one month alone, according to our HungerCount report. Since 2010, Food Banks Canada has shared over $1 billion in food supports and over $275 million in funding to help maximize collective impact and strengthen local capacity—while, backed by leading research, advocating for meaningful actions from governments to counter hunger and its root causes. Our vision is clear: create a Canada where no one goes hungry.
Visit foodbankscanada.ca to learn more.
Recognizing the challenges local restaurants have faced over recent years, participation in Burger It Forward is offered to restaurants with no registration fees.
Restaurants are encouraged to give back what they can to their local food banks as part of their contribution to the program. All Burger It Forward profiled burgers feature Canadian beef in support of local cattle farmers and ranchers.