TNDF
About Us
Providing access to good food is just the beginning of our work.
Connecting people to nourishing food and supportive resources.
The Nourish and Develop Foundation (TNDF) opened its doors in Cannington, Ontario in 2011. Upon opening, our work was focused on community food systems and food security in Brock Township and surrounding communities.
Over the years, we've deepened our understanding and impact, acknowledging that food insecurity is a complex issue requiring complex solutions. Therefore, in 2023, we formally established two branches of service: Food Services and Social Services. Across these two branches, in deep collaboration, and using a low-barrier approach, we are able to provide wrap-around supports to those in need.
Food Services
Our Food Services branch is dedicated to not only alleviating hunger in a dignified and low-barrier way, but also advancing household and community food security.
Social Services
Our Social Services branch goes beyond addressing immediate needs, offering trauma-informed programs and services to support and sustain growth for individuals, families, and the community as a whole.
Our Mission
To connect people to nourishing food and supportive resources, empowering the community to come together to develop lasting change.
Our Vision
A thriving community in which everyone is food secure, safely housed, and well supported.
Our Values
Curiosity
Connection
Advocacy,
Responsiveness
Equity
Our Values
Curiosity
Our team is geared towards learning and non-judgement; we ask questions and listen to the answers, recognizing that everyone has something valuable to contribute to the work we do.
Connection
We build reciprocal relationships with and between community members and partners to facilitate inclusion and belonging.
Advocacy
We influence change at a local level by amplifying the lived and living experience of community members and pushing for systemic solutions to poverty, injustice, and social isolation.
Responsiveness
In conversation with our community, we identify and address service gaps in innovative and collaborative ways.
Equity
We meet people where they are at, emphasizing the right for community members to determine and meet their own needs in a dignified way.