Fundraise for Second Harvest

Run a successful fundraising campaign by setting clear goals, crafting a compelling story, and engaging your community through suitable platforms. Establish a realistic timeline, offer donor incentives, and express gratitude consistently. Adapt and monitor your strategy for optimum impact.

The Second Harvest fundraising campaign runs year-round, from September 1 to August 31, so you can hold your workplace campaign whenever works best for your team.

Except for the Truck Pull Challenge, where teams must raise a minimum of $2,500 to participate, there is no fundraising minimum to take part in any other facet of the campaign.

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You can run your campaign for as long as you like! Whether it's a one-day event, or a campaign that is active for a week, month, or a year!

None at all! There is no fee to register your campaign and all fundraising materials are free to order and have delivered to your home or workplace.

Yes! Please get in touch with us at P2P@secondharvest.ca to arrange a visit!

The funds you raise directly support our food rescue operations. Whether it's supporting maintenance for our food rescue fleet, maintaining the costs associated with our food rescue and donation web platform, or costs associated with our warehouse, your funds allow us to maintain and eventually expand all aspects of our food rescue operations, allowing us to increase our capacity for rescuing more fresh, healthy food. This, in turn, will allow for more food to be redistributed to our social service agency partners and allow for more meals to be provided to those in need.

Second Harvest supports communities through training, education, certification, and best-practice workshops. Our training and education programs are available to our non-profit network, our donor network and the public and are built on these three areas of learning:

• Food waste prevention
• Food safety
• Food literacy and nutrition

Learn more on our Training and Education page.

Please register your event and a member of the Second Harvest Events Team will be in contact for more information.

If you don't have all the fine details yet, that's okay! Please provide us with a general overview of your event vision to help us get started and fill in all required fields as best you can. This information can be updated as you finalize the event with a member of the Second Harvest event team.

Absolutely! Second Harvest is happy to offer a wide range of marketing and promotional benefits that correspond with your event size and reach. Your event will be listed on our website, you'll have use of our name and logo and be eligible for a Charitable Acknowledgement Receipt in accordance with Canada Revenue Agency guidelines.

Though we wish we could attend every event in support of Second Harvest, we cannot guarantee a Second Harvest representative will be there. If you would like a Second Harvest representative, please submit a request on your event registration form and we will try our best to accommodate.

Second Harvest is not able to provide any funding to event partners. However, when possible, we are more than happy to provide advice or guidance that may help you save on event costs.

The Second Harvest Event Team is happy to explain the best way to approach sponsors however we can't reach out to potential event sponsors on your behalf. If you need help developing the tools or resources to approach potential sponsors, please connect directly with your Second Harvest event team representative.