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Empowering families: how our program works
When I Can for Kids (iCAN) initiated our grocery gift card program in 2020, we soon recognized how the income-based nature of our approach led to a greater sense of resilience, trust, and community belonging among families struggling with food insecurity. We also realized that continuing our cross-sector collaboration was key to maximizing our impact. This approach allowed our grassroots charity to reach vulnerable children through a cohesive and centralized response to food insecurity across Calgary and the surrounding area.
Empowering families: how our program works
When I Can for Kids (iCAN) initiated our grocery gift card program in 2020, we soon recognized how the income-based nature of our approach led to a greater sense of resilience, trust, and community belonging among families struggling with food insecurity. We also realized that continuing our cross-sector collaboration was key to maximizing our impact. This approach allowed our grassroots charity to reach vulnerable children through a cohesive and centralized response to food insecurity across Calgary and the surrounding area.
As a parent, you really want to set up the absolute best blueprint that you can for your children.
Few people recognize that individuals and families living with disabilities often endure food insecurity.
The power of choice
When you’re just handed food, you’re expected to take what is given to you. When you’re able to shop and meal plan with a grocery gift card, it just makes you feel human.
We can double your donation in May!
It’s back! Save-On-Foods is once again partnering with I Can for Kids to help provide healthy futures for food-insecure children in Calgary.
The right to food or the right to be fed?
Few people recognize how charitable food programs create a completely separate – and inequitable – food system.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. So let’s make sure all families can afford to buy apples
Your donations help food-insecure families stay healthy and out of hospital. This means your support not only benefits...
Grocery gift cards improve the quality of kids’ diets
We’re inspired to learn that our new approach empowers food-insecure families to improve the quality of food they feed...
Food insecurity impacts kids’ emotional well-being as much as their physical health
Our grocery gift card approach bolsters the mental health of everyone living in the same household.
The benefits of a targeted approach to food insecurity
I Can for Kids (iCAN) receives questions from stakeholders who ask if our grocery gift card program can effectively...
A new paradigm to tackle the ever growing issue of food insecurity in Calgary and beyond
A new paradigm to tackle the ever-growing issue of food insecurity in Calgary and beyond.