Daily Bread

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Thank you for considering Daily Bread Food Bank for your event. In order for Daily Bread Food Bank to provide you with adequate guidance throughout your event planning, please fill out the information below. Please also ensure before completion of this form that you have read the Third Party Event Guidelines.

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Under 25 26-40 41-64 Over 65

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Please make all monetary donations made payable to Daily Bread Food Bank

Community based research begins with the principle that research must be action-oriented. It must be able to make change. Community based research must also be about participation. For Daily Bread Food Bank, that means that people who access food banks must be able to participate fully in the research, not as subjects to be studied, but as partners helping to define the questions we ask and how we ask them. The research produced may not take the form many people are used to, such as academic reports. It can come in the form of art, storytelling, theatre or in other ways that allow people to convey their experience and empower them to tell their stories.

Daily Bread's Community Action Network is an entity that enables food bank clients to share information and support, network and build capacity, and address issues of social policy with respect to poverty and hunger across the GTA and Ontario.

Community Based Research Workshops
In early 2008 Daily Bread's Community Action Network provided a series of workshops to develop individual and group skills in Community Based Research. Individuals were recruited from the community to participate in a series of capacity building workshops that included how to conduct interviews and focus groups, analyze transcripts and plan a project.

"The Voice" Research Project
A group of graduates from the Community Based Research Workshops chose to develop their own research project that examined community perspectives on causes of poverty and how to alleviate it. The project also explored the strategies that respondents themselves used to get by economically. Report to be released soon!

"Developing a Poverty Measure from the Ground Up" Project
The purpose of this project was to develop a statistically valid set of indicators for adoption by the Ontario government as a component of its official measure of poverty. Food bank clients were recruited to participate in a series of focus groups that asked them what they felt was necessary to live in Ontario today. Graduates from the Community Based Research workshops were invited to co-facilitate these focus groups, and they were responsible for drawing out people's ideas, as well as offering their insights on what they heard. The focus groups and insights from the co-facilitators enabled a creation of a list of indicators that was incorporated by Statistics Canada as an add-on to their Labour Force Survey, with the results being used by the Ontario government as a "Deprivation Index" to measure their progress in their poverty reduction strategy.

Report to be released soon!

Ontario's "Breaking the Cycle" Poverty Reduction Strategy Full Report: http://www.growingstronger.ca/english/report/report_mobile.asp
Chapter 5: "Measuring Our Progress": Measurement number 8, Standard of Living Indicator http://www.growingstronger.ca/english/report/report_mobile.asp#5

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