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Grow Hope — sponsor acres, end global hunger

Grow Hope farmer Grant Dyck (black golf shirt) discusses a soybean crop with guests at the harvest celebration held at Crystal Spring Hutterite Colony.

Grow Hope is an ecumenical project through which MCC raises funds for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB).

How Grow Hope works

  1. Farmers donate land and grow a crop for Grow Hope.
     
  2. You sponsor an acre to cover the costs of farming — seed, fertilizer and fuel (typical cost: $300–$500/acre).
     
  3. Farmers sell the harvest and donate the proceeds to CFGB, which can net as much as $600/acre or more; through CFGB's special arrangement with Global Affairs Canada, funds may be matched at up to 4:1.
     
  4. Funds support emergency food aid and long-term food security projects around the world.

Your gift multiplies

Your sponsorship grows and multiplies — just like the seeds planted by the farmer. For example, if you sponsor 1 acre at $400, your gift can provide up to $1,600 for food assistance with matching.

Acres sponsored for MCC will be donated to MCC’s account at Canadian Foodgrains Bank, for use in projects that help people who don’t have enough to eat.

Choose a Grow Hope project near you

Select a Grow Hope project below to learn more and get engaged. Projects may invite you to visit the farms during the growing season to see your sponsored acres, so you may want to choose one close to you.

A farmer from Alberta with the Grow Hope project stands in front of his equipment in a field.

Grow Hope Alberta

MCC Alberta partners with a group of Alberta farmers near the Crossfield and Sherwood Park areas to grow 300+ acres each year for Grow Hope. 

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Grow Hope Saskatchewan

Grow Hope Saskatchewan started in 2017 when MCC Saskatchewan collaborated with partners to find creative ways to engage more people in helping end global hunger. Funds raised support people around the world with emergency food and long-term food security.

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Grant Dyck at his bean field grown for MCC’s Grow Hope project near Niverville, Manitoba.

Grow Hope Manitoba

Through Grow Hope, you are helping us get one step closer to a world without hunger. Join our community of local growers by sponsoring an acre, and help support people around the world with emergency food and long-term food security

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Tom Neufeld stands in front of his farming equipment in a field.

Grow Hope Ontario

Not a farmer? Here’s your chance to join in the work of farming by sponsoring an acre through Grow Hope in Niagara, Ontario. Funds raised support people around the world with emergency food and long-term food security.

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Stories from Grow Hope

Read stories of people just like you who are becoming virtual farmers and creating real change. Meet the urban and rural communities working together to end hunger.

Help Grow Hope

When you give to Grow Hope, you are supporting local growers and having an impact globally.