MADA Community Center

About MADA Community Center:

MADA Community Center (MADA) provides people in need with the basic necessities of life, aiming to preserve their dignity and help them become self-sufficient community members. It is a volunteer-based, Jewish organization that addresses poverty in Montreal through free social and crisis services.  Its services include a food bank, cafeteria, clothing store, Shabbat to Share program, furniture store, counselling and social programs. The distribution of donated goods makes up 73% of program spending, food and kitchen supplies make up 20% of program spending, and activities and special programs make up 7% of spending.

MADA Community Center reports that it distributes 7,160 food baskets each month, and that its kitchen served 316,900 hot meals last year. Under its Shabbat to Share program, volunteers visit and deliver Shabbat meals to elderly patrons with special needs. During Passover in 2016, 10 community Seders received 5,000 Passover meals. Further, MADA delivered 1,700 Passover holiday baskets and 1,200 kosher baskets for Passover Shabbat to Share boxes.

Financial Review:

MADA Community Center is a medium-sized charity, with donations of $3.2m in F2015. In F2015, the charity also received $1.3m in donated goods. Its administrative costs are 4% of revenues and its fundraising costs are 3% of donations. For every $1 donated to the charity, 93 cents is put towards its programs, falling within Ci’s reasonable range. The charity has funding reserves of ($2.7m) due to $2.2m in mortgage payable and $546k in construction bank loan.

This charity report is being reviewed by MADA Community Center. Changes and edits may be forthcoming.

Updated on June 13, 2016 by Lynn Tay.