What We Do

A Community Food Centre (CFC) is a vibrant space where people come together to grow, cook, share, and advocate.

Walk into any Community Food Centre and you’ll feel it right away. A friendly greeting, lots of natural light, and the smell of something delicious coming from the kitchen.
 
To build a Community Food Centre, Community Food Centres Canada (CFCC) partners with local non-profit organizations that are aligned with our approach. These partners receive core funding to support their programs.

This is a place that values community. And it’s a place that uses good food to build it. 

At a Community Food Centre, people access food that’s fresh, nourishing, and culturally appropriate. They build skills, improve their health, make social connections, contribute to their communities, and take action on the issues that affect their lives.


Meet the CFCs

Community Food Centres Canada also works with a community of like-minded nonprofits from across the country called Good Food Organizations (GFOs).

A Good Food Organization can be a health centre, a food bank, a teaching farm, or an anti-poverty group. Each offers programs that build health, belonging, and social justice through the power of food, connected by a core philosophy of Good Food Principles. 

Meet the GFOs

How Good Food Organizations are supported

Community Food Centres Canada tests and invests in new approaches to health promotion in low-income communities. 

FoodFit, Market Greens, and Mind Your Food focus on access to nourishing food and opportunities to build skills and knowledge in a supportive environment.

How we innovate

Food insecurity isn’t a food problem. It’s an income problem.

We develop policy solutions, build capacity for advocacy at the community level, and mobilize for federal income and social policy changes to address food insecurity.

How we mobilize