Leading Through Crisis With Kirstin Beardsley, CEO, Food Banks Canada

17/09/2025 38 min Temporada 10 Episodio 3

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Episode Synopsis

With food insecurity and waste getting worse year by year, food banks are becoming a crucial necessity in saving people’s lives. Kirstin Beardsley, CEO of Food Banks Canada, shares how they are coordinating a national network to serve local communities and save them from severe hunger. In this conversation with Douglas Nelson, she explains how food banks are mainly operated through volunteerism, their biggest problems in recruitment, and the major hurdles being faced by their frontliners. Kirstin also opens up about the challenge of staying committed to addressing the unsustainable demand for food – even when they have to make impossible choices.

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