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Find the latest updates, reports, and tools from Right To Food. Stay informed about the work happening across our network.
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Food Centres
Search our network across Canada
Explore our interactive map to discover Community Food Centres and Good Food Organizations across Canada. Learn more about each location and find out how to get involved in the movement for the right to food.
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Organizations
Our Indigenous Network
As a non-Indigenous organization, Right To Food recognizes our unique role in supporting a wide range of Indigenous-serving programs. We are committed to meeting organizations where they are at, offering diverse program options to foster reconciliation and resurgence.
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Commons
The Learning Commons at Right To Food
The Learning Commons was created to support and strengthen the sector. Through a range of learning opportunities, peer networks, resources, and gatherings, The Learning Commons offers practical, ongoing support to support organizations that sustain their work and amplify their impact.
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Our network of Good Food Organizations
Right To Food resources and strengthens the community food sector’s capacity for impact. We do this by supporting organizations that are carrying the right to food movement forward!
How to join
The Good Food Organization (GFO) network includes 450+ community-based organizations that share a commitment to building health, belonging, and greater equity through food. The program is guided by the Good Food Principles, and invites each member to identify how their current work and long-term goals put each of the five principles into action. The program is free to participate in, and provides a space for partners to learn and to share their expertise, knowledge, and experience.
With the mounting crisis of food insecurity, frontline organizations are facing increasing demands. In these challenging times, there is nothing more powerful than connecting with leaders from across the sector who relate not only to the day-to-day challenges, but also to the shared commitment to work towards a country that delivers on the right to food for all.
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Strength in numbers! Many of us work in isolation with limited funding and resources. Being a GFO gives us the opportunity to network with groups across Canada, and offers us learning materials and access to program funding that has been really helpful to moving the organization forward.
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Good Food Organization
The Good Food Organization program is for:
- Community organizations or charities that run dedicated food programming—or want to develop food programming—on: food access, food skills, education and engagement, or a combination of these.
- Organizations that are aligned with the Good Food Principles or are working toward implementing them in their organization.
Benefits of joining the program
Community: Our offerings include learning and sharing opportunities tailored to GFO interest in program areas such as food access, fresh food markets, Indigenous food programs, community gardens and growing, community meals, fundraising, organizational leadership, and more. Through virtual and in-person gatherings, and a dedicated online Partner Portal, we have multiple pathways for you to connect with like-minded organizations to network, learn, and share.
Resources: Gain access to helpful programming tools and tips, including program manuals, research summaries, evaluation frameworks, communications planning tools, and fundraising tip sheets.
Virtual training: Take part in small group training sessions focused on program development (healthy food access, food skills, food bank transformation, evaluation, and advocacy) and capacity building (communications, evaluation, and fundraising).
Check out some examples of our course content.
Mobilize: Join a national movement! Through policy solutions, collective advocacy, and campaign materials, we collectively demand better federal income and social policies.
Funding: Throughout the year, we seek opportunities to support the work of our partners through microgrants, bursaries, and larger funding programs. These funding opportunities are made exclusively available to those in our network. The options vary from year to year and are subject to availability. Most recently, they have included funding for gardening and land-based programming, emergency food funding, older adults food programming, and election organizing.
How to join the program
Applications for 2026 are now closed. If you wish to be notified when the next intake opens up, please fill in this form.
For more information, please reach out to [email protected].
Note: We accept a limited number of non-Canadian applicants annually.
