Making Progress
A Live Cooking Demo & Fundraiser for Progress Toronto
You’re invited to join us on Thursday, June 24 at 6:30pm for our second annual Making Progress - a not to be missed online fundraising event: a live online cooking demo with activist, author, and award-winning Chef Joshna Maharaj (bio)! As Joshna takes you through a delicious recipe she will be in conversation with the ever-inspiring Paul Taylor (bio), Executive Director of FoodShare.
COVID-19 has exposed long-standing inequities in our city. That’s why we have been busy fighting to build more affordable housing, making developers pay their fair share, for paid sick days and an end to homelessness. Over the coming months, we will be campaigning for a just recovery that addresses these long-standing inequities and getting ready for the 2022 election.
Progress Toronto relies on the support of thousands of donors to do our work. That’s how we run winning campaigns, provide free training workshops for thousands across Toronto, and work to shift power in our city. We’re working hard to ensure we’re in the best position possible to win our campaigns. That’s why your support and ticket to this fundraising event is important. Your ticket will help make sure that we can continue working for a more progressive, socially just, and affordable city.
We have four different ticket options for you to choose from!
General Admission ($50): Your ticket to the live cooking demo with Chef Joshna Maharaj in conversation with Paul Taylor
Supporter ($100): Your ticket to the live cooking demo and an additional donation to support Progress Toronto and help us continue our work this year!
Core Supporter ($150): Includes a bonus $25 gift card to the incredible Good Food Box (fresh groceries delivered to your door!) from FoodShare
Progress Champion ($200): Includes the $25 gift card for FoodShare’s Good Food Box and a signed copy of Joshna’s new book Take Back the Tray
Your Good Food Box Gift Card helps FoodShare support Toronto’s most nutritionally vulnerable through a diversity of programs and initiatives.
This online conversation will be hosted on Zoom and the link will be provided with ticket. Have a question? Email us any time at info@progresstoronto.ca
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About Our Special Guests:
Joshna Maharaj
Joshna is a chef and activist. She is interested in the state of our food system, and how everybody eats, from day to day, when they're not at restaurants. Joshna inspires people to make better friends with food, because a richer, happier, more nourished life is possible with a deeper connection to your food and the people who move it from field to kitchen to table.
Joshna works with communities, organizations and institutions to build value-based food services that prioritize good food, hospitality and sustainability. She believes chefs can help people and communities transform with stronger connections to their food and she’s always on the lookout for fresh, new ways to do this!
Paul Taylor
"Food," says Paul, "is a fundamental human right." He has been a champion of social justice through leadership and his personal commitment to helping to create a more just and sustainable food system and world. Paul M. Taylor was hired as the Executive Director of FoodShare Toronto in April 2017.
Paul is the previous Executive Director of Gordon Neighbourhood House, a community organization based in the West End of Vancouver. Under his leadership, Gordon Neighbourhood House emerged as an innovator in operating community-based food initiatives, while also working to challenge the systems that maintain poverty. Paul uses humour, creativity and a sincere curiosity to inspire and connect with everyone that he meets.
Welfare reform and social programs are close to Paul; growing up in Toronto on welfare as a child has shaped his vision on the right to food and set forth an activist path grounded in social justice and food security.
Paul’s previous work experience also includes serving as Executive Director for the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House and prior to that at Second Base Youth Shelter. He has served on the board of the Metro Vancouver Alliance and is the founder of the Vancouver Food Summit. While living in Vancouver, Paul was also the Co-Chair of BC’s Poverty Reduction Coalition, a coalition of over 400 groups advocating for a comprehensive BC Poverty Reduction Strategy. He served on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (BC office). He is currently the Vice-Chair of Food Secure Canada.
