GFB Program Review Presentation
Transcript: Recommend Volunteer Appreciation event for Volunteer Appreciation Week in April. It is nice to have a separate event to recognize all of the ACT volunteers and celebrate them. Recommend exploring options for offering a volunteer subsidy on boxes, as referenced in GFO principles. This year we had a goal of 4 new Host Sites: Chic Baby Boulevard is now an official Host Site South Cochrane Addiction Services completed their trial and decided not to continue recommend that strengthening current Host Sites be priority met with each Host Site this year to discuss future growth and promotion ELEMENTS * Covenant United is the IDEAL SPACE given that it allows for up to 200 boxes, perhaps more, to be packed and only costs us $50/month. However, the possibility always exists that they will need the space last minute for a funeral. The goal for the year was to establish a Committee of 3-5 members, including a Chair and Vice Chair and to collaborate on a Terms of Reference. This goal was met, however it was determined that this kind of advisory role was not entirely necessary. The Board may consider this as insurance policy if you should lose funding for a Coordinator or Executive Director. Especially if the program grows larger. From March 2016 until now we have cut costs by: switching our Delivery Van rentals from Enterprise to Discount eliminating the Complimentary Boxes better maintaining the margins on BOTH boxes using a different pack site 2/12 months * however this $100 was still given to Covenant as a donation This program operates best with at least 10 volunteers at each pack and 1-2 delivery drivers. most months we have between 8-15 people at the pack including employees, Board members and PHU partners support from local teachers has been amazing, in the summer months we have had lots of help from students at the packs an annual Volunteer Appreciation takes place to thank each person for their time, in 2016 it was combined with the AGM in June Recommend a more comprehensive method of tracking donations. Donations recorded this year: CDSSAB - $3500 Kinettes - $1000 Anon - $100 Tylor Howson - $100 Nordic Bearings - $200 (fuel) Large Box: 2015 avg. 89.58 2016 avg. 81 Small Box: 2015 avg. 17.25 2016 avg. 20.67 recommend monthly work plan to be created to ensure that certain program goals are met and information flows between the Board, Executive Director and Coordinator monthly report on GFB provided to ED tracking of local/provincial food costs as a means of understanding how well, or not so well, the program is circumventing rising food costs to begin in 2017 rated on a scale out of 5, ideally each of our sites would achieve an 80% or higher. realistically only 8/14 of our sites are operating this successfully. revisiting a commitment to PROMOTE the program with each site, as well as providing an incentive to increase sales for example, the Host Site with the most sales could receive one of the extra boxes each month, or a subsidy the next month important to consider this scale when choosing a new Host Site * The number of low income individuals accessing the program is up 10% from 2014 (according to population surveyed) and a contractual goal was to increase orders from vulnerable communities having host sites in more buildings or within organizations that are focused on poverty reduction may help to increase this number, although if ACT is concerned about a stigma surrounding the program this will likely not be ideal posts are made from the Good Food Box page, don't garner a lot of interest recommend a basic promotion of the entire GFB page each month ($5 a month for a standard ad) posters and flyers are kept up to date, however they are not very eye-catching although the program is pretty widely known, individuals are not always seeing the value up front - recommend exploring a subsidy for volunteers or low-income people as it would help with this recommend a more savings based marketing pitch The goal this year was to gain an additional 10 volunteers for the program, not including students we have gained over 15 new volunteers to date. evaluated according to space, capacity for boxes and people, time allotted for us and cost for rental one major thing is that with Covenant United we get many volunteers who are part of the church and may not move with us each month recommendation to have a back up pack site average amount of large boxes sold per month has decreased, where the average amount of small boxes has increased due to this decrease, our $ spent on local produce has also gone down unless you are looking at Ontario produce which we began tracking in 2016 in order for the program to grow, recommend solidifying such aspects as: delivery van and driver, committed volunteers, reusable boxes/bags, re-branding and online purchase It makes sense that the first year would yield minimal orders, but we have to ask ourselves if selling 100 each time ($2000 revenue) is our goal and if it feasible given these
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