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COOKSMART Community Alliance does not have charitable status yet. We are in the process of applying for it. Receipts can be issued for amounts of $100 or more upon request, and will not be recognized as a charitable donation for tax purposes until this application is accepted.

Let’s Get Cooking !

Send a kid to Camp or Sponsor a class for Food Literacy Field Trip

Why give?

  • ✽We are in it together

    Because everyone has to eat.

    Regardless of your skin colour, what language you speak, how your brain functions, who you love or where you live, we all have a favourite veggie and fruit.

  • ✽Kids need role models

    Not everyone has a family member who can teach them to cook, bake and be self-sufficient. Home-economics hasn’t been taught since 1989, and there is a whole generation of parents who struggle to cook and eat nutritious foods.

  • ✽Food is expensive

    Learning to cook with affordable protein sources and produce to make simple meals can be lifesaving. Jamie Oliver says ”if you teach a child to cook ten recipes, it can save their life.” Food literacy and financial literacy are connections we need to make.

  • ✽Growing food is good for the soul

    Even kids can start to grow food at home, which can ease grocery bills and increase understanding of stewardship of our land.

    Social and emotional health is blooming with our programs too.

  • ✽Community starts here

    Learning that each person, no matter their size can make a difference. If you can feed yourself, you can feed your family, your friends, and your community.

  • ✽Food is a cycle

    With Indigenous teachings we learn the circle of life, the cycle of nutrients, the water cycle, and that the food we eat and food we waste all returns to the soil with the help of lots of critters. Future generations depend on us caring for the soil now.

Make a donation.

COOKSMART Community Alliance will find funding to support vulnerable populations such as newcomers, youth with disabilities, youth at risk or low income families, and possibility seniors to be educated in food literacy and life skills.  This education will be done by community partners that offer learning that includes but is not limited to nutrition, basic cooking, baking, gardening, indigenous ways of doing and being for basic food production, as well as employability skills such as food safety certification, social and emotional skills, financial literacy and other useful skills.


Can you help us bring more programs to kids this year?

COOKSMART Community Alliance does not have charitable status yet. We are in the process of applying for it. Receipts can be issued for amounts of $100 or more upon request, and will not be recognized as a charitable donation for tax purposes until this application is accepted.

 FAQs

  • We’re too new to have that figured out yet. Give us a break and send us your questions. We’re happy to answer them!