Three years ago, the Roulant released its three-year strategic plan, an overarching document born out of months of discussions and consultations between staff, the board and all of our membership, to help guide the organization’s priorities in the years to come and orient its activities beyond the Roulant community to push for wider social and food systems change. The power …
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JEDI: The Roulant’s Journey Continues
In the last months the Roulant has taken some big steps on the importance of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI). Working with Julie Savaria, we conducted an analysis of our staff demographics and shared that back with staff. As they say, if you want to improve something, you’ve got to measure it! Following that exercise, Julie sat down with …
Why Santropol Roulant does not have a waiting list for its Meals-on-Wheels service
Santropol Roulant will have delivered 27,000 meals in 2021. That’s the same as in 2020, its other record year. 120 Meals per Day The capacity of our Meals on Wheels service is determined by two criteria:1- the maximum number of meals we can prepare each day with our current kitchen resources = 120 meals;2- the number of clients who receive …
The Bugs of Organic Certification
After landing on a sunflower, the round, scarlet ladybugs eats hundreds of aphids, which would otherwise suck the sap from the plants until the plant dies. The leaf beetle, with its yellow and black striped body, settles comfortably in a squash flower, plotting a plan to eat what would normally have fed our long awaited cucurbit. Since 2012, the Ferme …
Collaborating According to our Values
Corporate Partnerships Santropol Roulant partners with up to 120 companies each year. Most of these are large, local companies with more than 50 employees. In the usual pre-pandemic context, this number grows slightly on average, year over year. A vast majority of collaborations take place through team building activities, a very popular way to bring employees together to have a …
Our First Statements
Santropol Roulant is embarking on something new: we are experimenting with positioning ourselves politically. As an organization that has served Montrealers in need for more than 26 years, we know that our work is tied to what’s happening around us. While we do not endorse a particular party or candidate, we have beliefs that influence our work and we’ve decided …
The city responds to the OCPM’s report on urban agriculture!
Santropol Roulant salutes the first step taken by the city of Montreal in response to the report (French only) by the Office de consultation publique de Montréal (OCPM) on the state of urban agriculture (UA) on the island. The executive committee, represented by Josée Duplessis, announced yesterday the steps that will be taken by the city to develop UA in …