Another Successful Spring Hope Food Drive is in the Books!

With Spring now firmly upon us, there are certain touchstones we come to embrace – the return of birds, buds on trees and Skyliners digging deep to help the communities in which we live and play.

The annual Spring Hope Food Drive, a Skyline Living tradition, has wrapped for another year and once again, tenants and staff from across the organization dug deep to help those experiencing food insecurity in their communities. 

Together, with our staff and tenants, we raised a grand total of 41,560 lbs of food, essential items, and monetary donations. 

• Food and essential items were dropped off to food banks in our communities

• Monetary donations were made to Food Banks Canada’s After the Bell program.

But there’s more: Skyline is matching this total with an additional $41,560 monetary donation to Food Banks Canada, for a grand total of 83,120 lbs. in donations! (using the calculation of $1 = 1 lb.) 

Spring Hope Food Drive

“This is a wonderful tradition at Skyline Living, reaching out to the communities where we do business, where many of our employees live, to help those who have fallen on hard times and need a hand,” said BJ Santavy, Vice President of Skyline Living. “The way our employees and tenants embrace this program really helps support of PRIDE values. I am so proud that we were able to help those who need it most.”

Each year the Spring Hope Food Drive inspires a friendly competition amongst Skyline Living buildings across Canada. John Counter Place in Kingston, Ontario raised 3,050 lbs. of food and goods to help their local community. Georgian Manor in Owen Sound, Ontario donated 22.57 lbs per door!

The Top 20 Skyline Living buildings, their totals and the charities that benefited were:

TOP 20 BUILDINGS BY LBS/DOOR
BUILDING NAME	CITY	PROVINCE	LBS.	LBS/DOOR	CHARITY SELECTED
Georgian Manor	Owen Sound	ON	1264	22.57	Salvation Army Owen Sound
Time Square	Peterborough	ON	2206	14.51	Kawartha Food Share
John Counter Place	Kingston	ON	3050	14.3	Kingston Food Bank
560/570 Notre Dame Street West	Azilda	ON	645	11.12	Chelmsford Food Bank
Fort Street Townhomes	Tilbury	ON	501	10.02	Tilbury Information & Help Centre Foodbank
Regal Tower	Chatham	ON	712	9.49	Outreach for Hunger
M3 Condos A Louer	Mirabel	QC	150	9.38	La grande collecte
The Huron Apartments	Port Elgin	ON	260	8.96	Salvation Army Owen Sound
Town & Country Apartments	Welland	ON	429	7.66	The Hope Centre, Welland
Glenwood Apartments	Windsor	ON	252	7.64	Stone Soup Kitchen
Sunray Manor	Windsor	ON	296	7.22	Stone Soup Kitchen
Tecumseh Terrace	Tecumseh	ON	661	6.68	The Stone Soup Kitchen
Lakehead Properties	Thunder Bay	ON	280	5.83	Regional Food Distribution Association
The Kensington	Dartmouth	NS	563	4.94	Feed Nova Scotia
Grandview Apartments	Chatham	ON	360	4.74	Salvation Army
Karita Tower	Windsor	ON	192	4.68	Stone Soup Kitchen
The Graham Bell	Brantford	ON	1261	4.44	Brantford Food Bank
Addison Square	Winnipeg	MB	300	4.35	North End's Women Center
Bay Court	North Bay	ON	209	3.87	North Bay Food Bank

About Skyline Living

As one of Canada’s most prominent apartment rental providers, Skyline Living exists to provide safe, clean, and comfortable places for its residents to call home. Providing homes in dozens of communities across Canada, Skyline Living is an industry leader in customer service, environmental stewardship, and community giving. It works to create and maintain thriving, vibrant communities for its residents, employees, and the neighbourhoods in which they live and work.  

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James Harrison
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E: jdcharrison@skylineliving.ca
T: (519) 826-0439