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The Food Sharing Project would like to engage the services of a fund development professional to help us develop a comprehensive but manageable fund development strategy, building on our reputation and goodwill for 40 years. The strategy will include several specific deliverables and outcomes leading to increased opportunities for sustained fundraising. Please review the following document and submit a proposal as indicated by April 9, 2024.
About The Food Sharing Project
The Food Sharing Project is the charity that provides nutritious food to schools in KFL&A for their in-school breakfast, lunch and hearty snack programs, as a partner in the Ontario Student Nutrition Program. Each week, coordinators at 88 schools place online orders from a list of food that meets nutritional criteria. We purchase the food and our team of a dozen volunteers pack 450 boxes of food, a value of $20,000, which our staff deliver to all schools in the region every week of the school year.
About the challenge we are facing
One in six families in KFL&A experience food insecurity (2023). With the rising prices of rent, utilities, gas and food, an increasing number of families are relying on nutritious food offered at in-school student nutrition programs (SNPs). Both the volume of food and the price of food has increased significantly over the past few years, and The Food Sharing Project is finding it difficult to continue to provide the level and quality of food required at the 88 schools in the region.
In addition, Provincial core funding for the Student Nutrition Program (a program of MCCSS) has not increased since 2015, and the move toward a federal cost-shared national school food program did not come to fruition in the 2023 budget. Along with the withdrawal of temporary additional “pandemic” funding from 2020-2022, FSP was able to continue its new increased level of service by drawing from its accumulated reserve funds.
To maintain the increased demand for nutritious food at schools, FSP needs to strengthen its toolkit of fund development resources and grow its pool of donors. Thanks to a generous grant from the Resilient Communities Fund of the Ontario Trillium Foundation, FSP is in a position to engage the services of a fund development professional to develop resources for that toolkit. A set of specific outcomes and deliverable are outlined below.
Our response
As a small charity with limited human resource assets, we are seeking a fund development professional who will provide us with tools and skills that we can easily implement to grow our donations and fundraising revenue. Specifically, we have established the following activities and outcomes:
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