This intercity project has provided a means of identifying commonalities and differences across communities. Given the higher cost of living, particularly housing costs, in Ontario’s big cities, we might expect to find urban food bank clients with greater needs and facing more hardship than their counterparts in mid-size or small cities with their relatively lower cost of living. Instead, the current research reveals equally disturbing trends among food bank clients across study communities. The demographic profile of food bank recipients was similar in each community. Food bank clients included slightly more women, people ranging in age from 14 to 86 years with an average age of 41 years, household sizes from 1 to 14 people with a median average of 2 people per household, and large numbers of single individuals and single parents and a disproportionate number of children at 36.3% of all clients. Virtually all food bank recipients shared the experience of living in poverty with (exerpt from Executive Summary of document)