{"id":110,"date":"2025-08-21T19:57:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.gleanersfoodbank.ca\/?page_id=110"},"modified":"2025-10-02T20:06:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T20:06:37","slug":"ethical-food-banking-code","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dev.gleanersfoodbank.ca\/index.php\/ethical-food-banking-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethical Food Banking Code"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gleaners Foodbank is committed to aligning its practices with Food Banks Canada&#8217;s Ethical Food Banking Code. In accordance with this Code, Gleaners will:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Provide food and other assistance to those needing help regardless of race, national or ethnic origin, citizenship, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, income source, age or mental or physical ability.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Treat all those who access services with the utmost dignity and respect.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Implement best practices in the proper and safe storage and handling of food.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Respect the privacy of those served, and will maintain the confidentiality of personal information.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Not sell donated food.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Acquire and share food in a spirit of cooperation with other food banks and food programs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Strive to make the public aware of the existence of hunger, and of the factors that contribute to it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Recognize that food banks are not a viable long-term response to hunger, and devote part of their activities to reducing the need for food assistance.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Represent accurately, honestly and completely their respective mission and activities to the larger community.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gleaners Foodbank is committed to aligning its practices with Food Banks Canada&#8217;s Ethical Food Banking Code. In accordance with this Code, Gleaners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page_fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-110","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.gleanersfoodbank.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.gleanersfoodbank.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.gleanersfoodbank.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.gleanersfoodbank.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.gleanersfoodbank.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dev.gleanersfoodbank.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/dev.gleanersfoodbank.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.gleanersfoodbank.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}