The Wood Buffalo Food Bank will soon offer basic cooking lessons to anyone who wants them out of the organization’s downtown location. Construction ...
Fort McMurray non-profits struggling to find volunteers
Fort McMurray non-profits are seeing fewer volunteers coming out for fundraising events this year, with at least one seeing half the typical number of...
Children are more than one-third of Wood Buffalo Food Bank clients as demand rises
More than one-third of clients at the Wood Buffalo Food Bank are children as more people in Canada use food banks than ever before, according to local...
Wood Buffalo Food Bank’s new building ready to tackle growing community demands
CRB replaced the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) in Sept. 2020. CRB initially provided $1,000 every two weeks—or half of what CERB offeredâ...
Wood Buffalo Food Bank moves into new location as service demands continue rising
The Wood Buffalo Food Bank (WBFB) opened its doors to its new downtown facility on Monday as the organization continues facing rising demand for its s...
Wood Buffalo Food Bank moving into new location on Centennial Drive
The Wood Buffalo Food Bank (WBFB) will be moving to a new downtown location, with renovations expected to be finished by late February or early March....
WB Food Bank Purchases New Location in Downtown
The Wood Buffalo Food Bank is close to opening a new location downtown. The non-profit has been operating out of two temporary sites after their bui...
Wood Buffalo Food Bank Numbers Continuing To Rise
Many people across the RMWB continue to use the Wood Buffalo Food Bank. That’s according to Dan Edwards, Executive Director of the WBFB, who says fr...
Food bank braces for surging demand as CERB payments end
The Wood Buffalo Food Bank is expecting a surge in demand this fall as government supports introduced at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic end. In a ...
Hundreds of people put in thousands of volunteer hours for post-flood recovery
FuseSocial saw more than 750 people volunteer more than 6,000 hours during the 21-day period following April’s flooding. Based on current statistics...
Firefighters association makes $35,000 in donations to local non-profits
The Fort McMurray Firefighters Charity Association is donating $35,000 to local social profits. The Fort McMurray Boys and Girls Club, Fort McMurray S...
With fundraisers cancelled and buildings damaged by floods, non-profits hope for more support
Many of Fort McMurray’s non-profit organizations were already struggling to keep operating as low oil prices and the COVID-19 pandemic created an ec...
Food bank demand increases by roughly a third, virtual food drive raises $101,836
A combination of a second global collapse in oil prices, an economic shutdown triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic and last month’s flooding has led t...
Food Bank opens up temporary locations in Thickwood and Gregoire
The Wood Buffalo Food Bank is opening two temporary locations on May 4. The food bank’s permanent location was forced to close after water flooded t...
Food Bank gets temporary space, waiting on shipment from Alberta Food Banks
With their downtown location under water and inaccessible, the Wood Buffalo Food Bank has secured a temporary location to pack emergency hampers as th...
Wood Buffalo Food Bank preparing to distribute 100 hampers a day
The Wood Buffalo Food Bank has started to receive shipments of food and water to help replenish their stock. Yesterday Alberta Health Services approve...
Wood Buffalo Food Bank hosting month-long virtual food drive
The Wood Buffalo Food Bank is hosting a virtual food drive with Northland Forest Products. Starting April 1, the month-long fundraiser will accept cas...
Rogers pledges 1M meals to Food Banks Canada
As the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic deepens, the need for food for many Canadians becomes an ever growing concern. While providing food...
Northland Forest Products and WBFB host virtual food drive
Northland Forest Products and the Wood Buffalo Food Bank (WBFB) have teamed up for their first ever Virtual Food Drive. The decision to run a virtual ...
Non-profits prepare for increased demands as fundraisers postponed or cancelled
Social non-profits must navigate an increased demand for their services, even as they cancel or postpone fundraisers that were expected to bring hundr...