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Warming hearts... one bowl at a time
Soup Sisters is a non-profit charitable social enterprise dedicated to providing comfort to women, children and youth through the making, sharing and donating of soup.
Founded in Calgary on March 3, 2009, Soup Sisters was the inspirational vision of Sharon Hapton. A soup maker for all of her life.
In 2008-2009, over the course of the year leading up to her 50th birthday, Sharon was ruminating on how to turn her heartfelt belief in the healing power of homemade soup into an action plan to help women in crisis. These unrelenting thoughts were compounded by her new status as an empty nester when, in her words, “I found myself in the most giant nurture void of my life.”
Sharon fine-tuned her ruminations into a full-blown operational plan and founded Soup Sisters, a grassroots organization that would engage thousands in a movement that has delivered over 3 million ‘Hugs in a Bowl to’ families in crisis.
In the past twelve years, Soup Sisters and Broth Brothers has grown to 27 cities across Canada and launched into the US. Each location is run by local volunteers in their own community. That is the simplicity of Sharon’s vision: to give people a way to give back to their community by doing something tangible - getting into the kitchen, spending a night with friends, rolling up their sleeves and creating something heartwarming, heartfelt and with it a message of support to families in crisis.
Due to COVID-19 and physical distancing measures, those events came to an abrupt stop in early March 2020. Sharon Hapton knew that "the soup must go on".
The organization was able to take swift action by switching to recipes previously developed for large kettle production with Kitchen Partners in Edmonton. Since the onset of Covid and with the support of Versa Cold refrigerated transportation, Soup Sisters now delivers over 5,000 lbs of fresh soup each month to 40 agencies country wide.
Since the onset of the pandemic more than 100,000 servings of soup have been delivered to agencies in support of frontline health workers, domestic violence emergency shelters, marginalized seniors, transitional housing for homeless, First Nations, youth in crisis, centres for drug addiction and mental health, and Food Banks.
The Soup Sisters newest initiative, The Virtual Soup Pot, launched on National Soup it Forward Day, March 3, 2021 to bring back the original concept of people getting together to do good while having a great time making soup to #soupforward to family and friends. In the safety of their own homes people across North America are joining celebrity chefs, authors and bloggers in the fine art of soup-making. Virtual Soup Pot events support Soup Sisters monthly delivery of soup to communities in need nationwide.
As we meet the demands to provide nutritious heat and serve soup across the country our efforts to impact food insecurity requires donations. Your contribution is a valuable investment in our communities who now more than ever need good, healthy food to be well. Please go to our MISO- Money In Soup Out donation page to find out all of the simple ways in which you can donate.
Soup Sisters is a registered not-for-profit organization and donations over $25 are eligible for a tax-deductible receipt.
Une portion de r�confort... servie un bol � la fois
Soup Sisters and Broth Brothers est un organisme sans but lucratif qui vise � aider les femmes et les jeunes sans-abris par la pr�paration et le partage de soupes nourrissantes.
Vous �tes tous invit�s � participer! Vous n'avez qu'� r�server votre place pour contribuer � la pr�paration de centaines de litres de soupe qui seront ensuite distribu�s � des refuges pour les femmes ou des programmes d'aide aux jeunes de votre communaut�.
Notre mode de fonctionnement est tr�s simple. Les personnes qui veulent prendre part � l'une de nos soir�es doivent d�bourser 55 $ pour s'inscrire. Elles seront ensuite convi�es dans la cuisine d'un �tablissement professionnel local pour pr�parer de la soupe sous la supervision d'un chef cuisinier invit�. Une seule soir�e peut produire de 150 � 200 portions de soupe nourrissante qui sont livr�es sans d�lai � un refuge de la r�gion. Chaque soir�e se d�roule sous le signe de la convivialit� et de la bonne humeur. Une fois la soupe termin�e, tous les participants peuvent savourer les fruits de leur labeur lors d'un souper compos� de soupe, de salade, de pain et de vin.
Sharon Hapton a fond� Soup Sisters and Broth Brothers � Calgary en 2009, car elle �tait convaincue qu'un simple bol de soupe nourrissante et r�confortante pouvait avoir un effet b�n�fique tangible sur toute la communaut�, notamment les personnes touch�es par la violence conjugale et l'itin�rance chez les jeunes. Depuis, plus de 20 refuges pour les jeunes sans-abris et les femmes situ�s partout au Canada re�oivent chaque mois un message d'espoir et d'entraide par le biais de bols de soupe chaude fabriqu�e � partir d'ingr�dients frais de la meilleure qualit�.
Des centaines de participants se r�unissent mensuellement pour produire plus de 8 000 portions de soupe nourrissante et r�confortante pour les jeunes sans-abris et les femmes. Depuis nos d�buts en mars 2009, nous avons distribu� plus de 100 000 contenants de soupe � plus de 20 refuges et programmes communautaires au pays, et plus de 7 500 participants ont r�pondu � notre invitation d'un oc�an � l'autre.
Nous nous assurons que chaque soir�e s'autofinance afin qu'elle soit accessible au plus grand nombre de participants. Nous comptons sur vos dons pour appuyer l'expansion de nos activit�s dans toutes les communaut�s canadiennes qui pourraient en b�n�ficier. Votre contribution repr�sente un investissement direct dans le bien-�tre de votre communaut� par des actions concr�tes qui g�n�rent des r�sultats tangibles. Veuillez consulter la section dons et contributions de notre site pour savoir comment vous pouvez contribuer facilement � nos efforts. Soup Sisters est enregistr� comme organisme sans but lucratif et autoris� � d�livrer un re�u aux fins de l'imp�t pour les dons d�passant 25 $ qu'il re�oit.
Nous suivons une approche simple et durable pour l'expansion de nos activit�s au pays. Si vous d�sirez lancer un groupe Soup Sisters and Broth Brothers dans votre communaut�, envoyez-nous un courriel � info@soupsisters.org.
Vid�os pour l'inauguration de Soup Sisters en 2009
Un geste simple (en anglais)
Ensemble pour agir (en anglais)
Soup Sisters and Broth Brothers is operating over 30 events in 27 cities across Canada and the US every month. Hundreds of community people are coming together across the country each month to produce over 15,000 servings of home-made, nurturing and nourishing soups for women, children and youth in crisis.
Since March 2009, Soup Sisters has provided over 2 million servings of soup to more than 40 shelter recipients and there is a growing network of over 50,000 Soup Sisters and Broth Brothers participants nationwide.
Soup Sisters and Broth Brothers is a registered not-for-profit organization and donations are eligible for a tax-deductible receipt.
