A Year in Review: From Emergency Food Response Towards Collective Impact for Systems Change

The Vancouver Neighbourhood Food Networks (VNFN) are a network of community organizations committed to promoting health and well-being through a range of food security programs in neighbourhoods across the City of Vancouver each responding to the unique needs and cultures within their respective communities. This past year, many networks continued providing emergency food distribution programs […]
Bold actions for a food crisis
Filling unmet community food needs during COVID-19 Fostering food-secure neighbourhoods Over 25 years, Vancouver Neighbourhood Food Networks have learned to support people in growing and accessing nutritious and culturally familiar foods close to home, in neighbourhoods throughout the city. We promote access to food with dignity, and without barriers. Many of our actions and principles […]
Celebrating 25 years of community food
As 2019 comes to a close, the Vancouver Neighbourhood Food Networks continues to celebrate 25 years of delivering food programs for our neighbours. In 1993, Strathcona Community Centre started their first breakfast program and from there, we have grown to a coalition of 15 Neighbourhood Food Networks across Vancouver to meet the needs of those […]