The Friendship Center

Thanks to this group of volunteers from Capital One for helping sort donations and stock the shelves ahead of a busy Friday distribution! Group volunteers always give the day an extra boost, especially during transitional periods in the calendar like the first week of school. We'd love to get your team scheduled for a group volunteer shift before the year ends! Reach out to Alison Cassity at [email protected] to get started.

We're grateful to receive support from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois and #CrustFundPizza to help provide 28,000 meals to our neighbors facing hunger. We'll keep fighting food insecurity one pizza at a time.

We had an amazing time at our Inaugural End Hunger Games on Sunday, August 11. Because of our generous community of sponsors and donors, we raised $17,068 which will help provide 136,544 meals to our neighbors facing hunger! Thank you to our incredible Associate Board that formed in May and planned this event within 90 days. Visit our website to learn more about how you can help fight hunger in NW Chicago https://lnkd.in/ensj5bgw

Executive Director, Justin Block was on WGN-TV's Midday Fix yesterday to share how busy The Friendship Center has been this year serving our neighbors facing hunger. Watch the video to hear why we're putting on our End Hunger Games fundraiser in two weeks! We hope to see you there. News clip: https://lnkd.in/gCjsXeqR Tickets: https://lnkd.in/g_824utM

End Hunger Games is made possible by incredible neighborhood businesses passionate about alleviating hunger in our community. Thank you Metropolitan Capital, Endeavor Health, and G & G Law, LLC for partnering as Silver Sponsors. Thank you J. Blanton Plumbing, Mark Mackey Insurance Agency, Half Acre and #BrushParkGymnasium for supporting as Bronze Sponsors. End Hunger Games is just a few weeks away and we hope to see you there! Grab a ticket at https://lnkd.in/g8UAkHH2 you don't want to miss this amazing event. #EHG2024 #FightHunger #FUNdraiserChicago #EndHungerGames

Thanks to this group from UL Solutions for volunteering on a very busy Thursday. They packed diapers, helped unload our weekly delivery and they even put together a new table! We also received a generous donation from their team. We are so grateful for corporate teams taking time out of their week to give back to the community and help alleviate hunger! If your group is interested in volunteering we are able to have teams up to 12 folks join us. Please contact us at [email protected] #Volunteer #GiveBack #FightHunger

One of my favorite things about volunteering at The Friendship Center is getting to practice my Spanish. Tonight while working the door for the Hot Meal program, I had to tell a few clients that we were waiting for more meals from the kitchen. After a blank look after saying it in English, I repeated it in Spanish. Instant smiles. The woman says in her best English, "Your spanish is very good". I replied, thank you, I'm learning, in Spanish. Then the gentleman smiles and says muy bueno. 😍 Thanks, Duolingo Join us! https://lnkd.in/gEkq44iZ

The Friendship Center is hosting our inaugural event, End Hunger Games on August 11. Our goal is to raise $20,000 to help provide 160,000 meals to our 70,000 neighbors facing hunger. We're looking for community minded businesses to help sponsor the event so that 100% of proceeds directly help our neighbors in need. If you're interested in joining Metropolitan Capital, J. Blanton Plumbing, and Mark Mackey State Farm Agent as an event sponsor please reach out to Lauren Diaz at [email protected] for more information.

Thanks, Anna Fasano and all our amazing volunteers who made Mayfestiversary possible!

A great program for Chicago families that rely on school breakfast and lunch programs to have more options to purchase healthy food for their kids this summer.