BMO

BMO volunteers, then and now

BMO has supported Furniture Bank since 2010, and its teams have volunteered with us since 2012, first helping families in our showroom and, most recently, building furniture in our Workshop.

From 2012 to 2017, BMO sent 241 volunteers in 28 groups. They assembled kitchen kits and helped families choose furniture on our showroom floor. Their busiest year was 2015, when 66 volunteers came in seven groups.

In December 2025, BMO was back. A team of 15 came to our Workshop and assembled 11 pieces of furniture, including metal shelving, for 11 families.

Giving runs deep at BMO. In its 2025 employee giving campaign, its 15th with United Way, 91% of BMO employees personally donated more than $36 million to charitable partners.

Everything BMO volunteers finish goes to the families we serve: newcomers and refugees, people leaving homelessness, and women and children starting over after a shelter stay. A social service agency refers each family to us, and our team helps them choose what their household needs from our showroom.

Many families move into a new home with nothing to sit on, eat at or sleep on, and every piece a volunteer team finishes is one less thing they go without. Thank you to every BMO volunteer who has spent a day with us since 2012, and to the teams still to come.