Volunteer
News & Blog
- Getting food to those who need it most
- Our generous neighbours helped us exceed our Spring Drive goal
- Mississauga Tim Hortons Owners have an appetite to improve the lives of their hungry neighbours
- Meet our new Friend Sponsor – Nissan Canada Foundation
- Chris Hatch honoured with Diamond Jubilee Medal
- Help us reach our Spring Drive goal
- Spring Drive Update
- Spring Drive starts Monday!
- Member Agency Event: Free Seniors Information & Active Living Fair
- Unitarian Congregation Church’s Creative Food Drive!
Thank Yous

Congratulations to this year’s most significant contributors!
Volunteer Recognition Levels
Volunteers contributing over 10 hours in the previous year are recognized at our annual Volunteer Appreciation BBQ.
Special recognition is given to the following groups according to individual contribution:
- Bronze Volunteers: 50-99 hours served
Each bronze volunteer receives a Certificate of Appreciation
- Silver Volunteers: 100-199 hours served
Each silver volunteer receives Certificate of Appreciation and gift certificate
- Gold Volunteers: 200+ hours served
Volunteer of the Year
Our Volunteers of the Year (individual and group) are selected by both the hours they contributed and their exhibition of the true ‘spirit’ of The Mississauga Food Bank.
Individual Volunteer of the Year 2012: Melanie Borho-Persechini
Group Volunteer of the Year 2012: Pepsico
Specially Recognized Volunteers 2012
Gold Volunteers
- Melanie Borho-Persechini (290 Hours)
- Nancy Creede (219 Hours)
- David Davidson (236 Hours)
- Faye Falconer (356 Hours)
- Fred Gotzmann (407 Hours)
- Christopher Hart (271 Hours)
- Eric Laapotti (652 Hours)
- Carolyn Parrish (498 Hours)
- Pepsico (378 Hours)
- Mark Sekenda (207 Hours)
- Suncor (241 Hours)
- Beth Taylor (1525 Hours)
- Sandra Travis (361 Hours)
Silver Volunteers
- Brad Butt (150 Hours)
- Leonard Courneyea (188 Hours)
- Doreen De Mello (130 Hours)
- David Elliott (167 Hours)
- Sam Feuer (136 Hours)
- Debra Friendly (113 Hours)
- GE Capital (116 Hours)
- Intuit (129 Hours)
- Colleen MacNeil (124 Hours)
- Dan Meadowcroft (125 Hours)
- Veronica Miranda (157 Hours)
- Robert Mitchell (107 Hours)
- Ron Nisbet (160 Hours)
- Trevor Oldham (135 Hours)
- Sage (190 Hours)
- Khanh Vo (137 Hours)
Bronze Volunteers
- 15th Mississauga Rangers (78 Hours)
- Accenture (63 Hours)
- Rod Alafriz (56 Hours)
- Navdeep Bains (74 Hours)
- Brandon Bonazew (95 Hours)
- Coloplast (58 Hours)
- Cooperators (63 Hours)
- Gary Dronyk (63 Hours)
- Lauren FitzPatrick (56 Hours)
- Frosie Galang (69 Hours)
- Genband (60 Hours)
- GE Recruiting (64 Hours)
- Teresa Gobran (84 Hours)
- GTAA (83 Hours)
- Jon Hadbavny (73 Hours)
- Jeff Hui (80 Hours)
- John Knox Christian School (82 Hours)
- Kuehne Nagel (67 Hours)
- Link (67 Hours)
- Ken Lowden (88 Hours)
- NCI (53 Hours)
- Jennifer Rockburne (53 Hours)
- Szymon Szpulak (60 Hours)
- Ellen Timms (50 Hours)
- John Topacio (68 Hours)
- University of Guelph-Humber (61 Hours)
- Walmart Canada (70 Hours)
- Bill Watts (58 Hours)
- Christopher Wilkinson (57 Hours)
- Zenith Youth Group (66 Hours)
- YESS (65 Hours)




