George Canyon with Daily Bread staff after filming for CMT’s Gift of Giving special.
Country Music Television’s holiday special, CMT’s Gift of Giving, will be airing on tv for the first time Thursday night on CMT at 8 p.m. Hosted by George Canyon, with special guests including Chantal Kreviazuk, Barenaked Ladies, Great Big Sea and Jimmy Rankin, this musical special will also be helping to raise awareness about food banks and hunger.
Daily Bread was lucky enough to have George Canyon onsite at our food bank and warehouse in early November, learning more about how hunger is affecting families and what Daily Bread is doing about it. You can see for yourself some of the great work staff and volunteers are doing Thursday night, but the special will be repeated during the month of December on CMT, OWN, YTV and W Network. You find out more about when and where it’s airing here: CMT Gift of Giving Holiday Special Air Times.
The Gift of Giving CD includes the performers mentioned above, as well as holiday-themed tracks from performers such as Rascal Flatts and Darius Rucker. Proceeds from the sale of this CD will benefit food banks across Canada. The CD is available for purchase on iTunes and your local music stores.
The Law Firm Challenge kicked off on November 28th, spearheaded by Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP. This challenge is Daily Bread’s biggest employee drive over the holiday season, bringing in over $250,000 per year, last year it raised over $280,000, an amazing feat! It consists of 40 to 70 law firms competing to see which firm can raise the most money and food in a three week time span, for those struggling with hunger in our community. Last year, the winning firm was McCarthy Tétrault LLP, raising over $40,000 for Daily Bread Food Bank. Good Luck to all firms!! For more information please contact Kristin Thomas, Development Officer at kristin@dailybread.ca.
Date Added: November 29, 2011 | Filed under: Events — Jessica @ 10:46 pm
The Law Firm Challenge kicked off on November 28th, spearheaded by Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP. This challenge is Daily Bread’s biggest employee drive over the holiday season, bringing in over $250,000 per year, last year it raised over $280,000, an amazing feat! It consists of 40 to 70 law firms competing to see which firm can raise the most money and food in a three week time span, for those struggling with hunger in our community. Last year, the winning firm was McCarthy Tétrault LLP, raising over $40,000 for Daily Bread Food Bank. Good Luck to all firms!! For more information please contact Kristin Thomas, Development Officer at kristin@dailybread.ca.
Breakfast Television/Home Depot Christmas Tree Sale – December 9
On December 9th, come down to Yonge-Dundas Square to pick up a Christmas tree and help support Daily Bread Food Bank. Trees are available starting at 5:30 a.m. Come early to pick up yours and meet some personalities from Citytv’s Breakfast Television. Trees are available for a minimum donation of $10. Remember, all proceeds go to Daily Bread so if you want to donate more we certainly won’t stop you.
Citytv’s Christmas Party: Spirit of the Season – December 16th
Next up on December 16th at the Sheraton Centre is the annual BT/CityNews Spirit of the Season live event. Citytv will be filming live from the lobby of the hotel all day. Bring a donation, a non-perishable food item, put on your best pair of pajamas and meet some on-air personalities from Breakfast Television and CityNews.
On December 15th, see some of your favourite CBC personalities and listen to some great musical guests at the annual Sounds of the Season fundraiser for local food banks in the GTA Listen to 99.1 FM all day on the 15th or come down to the Glenn Gould Studio to listen live.
A great article from The Chatham Daily News highlighting an Ontario Works Forum lead by one of thePeople’s Blueprint coordinators – Pat Capponi from Voices from the Street.
The Holiday Drive will officially kick off this afternoon at 1:30 p.m. during the 5th annual Food Sort Challenge where teams compete to sort through donations of food the fastest.
With a shortfall of 140,000 pounds of food and $85,000 from the Fall Drive, Daily Bread is looking to raise 1.2 million pounds of food and 1.2 million dollars by January 4 in order to ensure that food continues to go out over the winter months to families struggling with hunger. You can help by dropping off non-perishable food donations to your local fire hall, or donating online right now.
Go the extra mile and help organize a food drive at your school or work! It’s an easy way to make a difference in people’s lives.
Most needed food items include peanut butter, rice, dry pasta and sauce, baby formula and food, dried or canned beans, canned tuna and meat, canned fruits and vegetables.
The perfect holiday gift. All proceeds from sales will go to support Daily Bread’s mission of providing food and resources to hungry people. Contact us to order yours today at 416-203-0050 ordayana@dailybread.ca
Date Added: November 17, 2011 | Filed under: Blog — Jessica @ 4:03 pm
You can now help Daily Bread by purchasing items you want anyway from www.giveget.com/DailyBread and a free donation will be made to the Daily Bread on your behalf.
• Shop hundreds of items including gas, merchandise, sporting equipment, cookware, toys, jewelry, etc.
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It’s easy, convenient and the donations really add up fast! Shop online now atwww.giveget.com/DailyBread and help raise money for people in need.
A sincere thank you for continuing to support Daily Bread Food Bank.
Date Added: November 10, 2011 | Filed under: Blog — Jessica @ 4:04 pm
Canstruction is an annual event that helps fight hunger by bringing together Toronto’s architectural and engineering community to create structures out of canned food that are then donated to Daily Bread Food Bank. Since 1999, Canstruction has helped raise almost 700,000 pounds of food. From today until Friday, you can see these amazing structures on display in a number of buildings in downtown Toronto, including the TD Tower and the Design Exchange. For more information, check out the Canstruction website.
Bert and Ernie
Date Added: November 8, 2011 | Filed under: Blog, Events — Jessica @ 10:48 pm
George Canyon with Daily Bread staff after filming for CMT’s Gift of Giving special.
