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243 members
$271 donated

32 recruited
$60 raised

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Refrigerated truck serves as traveling food pantry -- chicagotribune.com

Source: www.chicagotribune.com

Clients line up Tuesday at a Skokie pantry, where food was delivered by a refrigerated truck that the Greater Chicago Food Depository recently bought from Kraft Foods. The truck will let the depository double the number of its mobile pantry sites to 20, a spokesman said. ...

July 1 at 9:25am

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Kate

Kate at 9:28am July 1

so great... love the updates!

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SKY: Sky and Bank of America Team Up to Support the Greater Chicago Food Depository

Source: www.wnba.com

Bank of America associates and Chicago Sky athletes Candice Dupree, Shyra Ely, K.B. Sharp, Dominique Canty, Armintie Price and Sylvia Fowles, along with Head Coach and General Manager Steven Key will hand ...

June 30 at 2:17pm

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Greater Chicago Food Depository "A lot of people don't think about the summer months being as important as the winter months and the holidays, but this is an issue that certainly doesn't go away."

Food pantries brace for increase in hungry schoolchildren -- chicagotribune.com

Source: www.chicagotribune.com

Thelma Patterson volunteers in the food pantry at St. Columbanus Catholic Church, 71st Street and Calumet Avenue. The pantry serves 500 households each week, up from 250 a year ago. (Tribune photo by Nancy Stone / June 3, 2009)

June 15 at 1:14pm

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Making Music Matter - Jay-Z and Ciara

Proceeds from Making Music Matter will allow the Food Depository to rescue an additional 375,000 meals—that’s 500,000 pounds of food this year!

Resting between the horizon of Lake Michigan and the magnificent Chicago skyline, the Charter One Pavilion is located in the heart of Chicago’s Museum Campus. The stunning sur...

Host:Greater Chicago Food Depository

Time:8:00PM Tuesday, July 7th

Location:Charter One Pavilion at Northerly Island

June 15 at 12:48pm · RSVP to this event

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Chicago Society's Metal Chef competition

The 5th Annual Culinary Competition

The Chicago Society, a ClubCorp entity in unison with The Mid-America Club, a private business/dining club, is thrilled to announce the fifth annual battle of the Metal Chefs ...

Host:Greater Chicago Food Depository

Time:5:30PM Thursday, June 25th

Location:The Mid-America Club in the AON Center

June 15 at 12:43pm

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Making Music Matter - The Offspring

Proceeds from Making Music Matter will allow the Food Depository to rescue an additional 375,000 meals—that’s 500,000 pounds of food this year!

Resting between the horizon of Lake Michigan and the magnificent Chicago skyline, the Charter One Pavilion is located in the heart of Chicago’s Museum Campus. The stunning sur...

Host:Greater Chicago Food Depository

Time:7:00PM Saturday, June 20th

Location:Charter One Pavilion at Northerly Island

June 15 at 12:36pm

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Making Music Matter - O.A.R.

Second of two shows

Resting between the horizon of Lake Michigan and the magnificent Chicago skyline, the Charter One Pavilion is located in the heart of Chicago’s Museum Campus. The stunning sur...

Host:Greater Chicago Food Depository

Time:7:30PM Friday, June 19th

Location:Charter One Pavilion at Northerly Island

June 15 at 12:28pm

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Making Music Matter - O.A.R.

First of two shows

Resting between the horizon of Lake Michigan and the magnificent Chicago skyline, the Charter One Pavilion is located in the heart of Chicago’s Museum Campus. The stunning sur...

Host:Greater Chicago Food Depository

Time:7:30PM Thursday, June 18th

Location:Charter One Pavilion at Northerly Island

June 15 at 12:23pm

Greater Chicago Food Depository The Food Depository has teamed up with Charter One for this summer's Making Music Matter concert series at the Charter One Pavilion at Northerly Island. Check out the Food Depository Web site or follow Making Music Matter on Twitter for more information.

Making Music Matter (CharterOneMMM) on Twitter

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June 4 at 3:48pm

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Greater Chicago Food Depository: Welcome to the Hunger Walk

Source: www.chicagosfoodbank.org

Funds raised for the Hunger Walk directly benefit the Food Depository's network of 600 food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters. Find out more here, when Pastor Sandra Gillespie of the Chosen Tabernacle Pantry talks about participating in the Hunger Walk.

May 20 at 2:03pm

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Mary

Mary at 10:00am June 12

I signed up to walk 2.5 miles starting at Montrose Harbor on Lake Michigan to help raise money to fight hunger!

Greater Chicago Food Depository at 12:52pm June 15

Way to go, Mary!!

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Greater Chicago Food Depository:

Source: www.chicagosfoodbank.org

Helping to fight hunger has never been so easy. Join the Greater Chicago Food Depository and Chicago’s top grocery retailers this April through June by purchasing specially marked products in your local grocery store. ...

May 20 at 2:01pm

REDEEMING GRACE FOODPANTRY at 8:41am May 21

Welcome to the
24th Annual Hunger Walk!
The Hunger Walk is a 2.5-mile walk that will be held Saturday, June 20, 2009, at Montrose Harbor in Chicago. The Walk directly benefits our network of 600 pantries, soup kitchens and shelters in Cook County. Each year, we provide food for 500,000 hungry men, women and children.

Greater Chicago Food Depository Thank you to all of our Fans for showing your support, whether it be on Facebook, through donations, or just spreading the word about the fight against hunger in Cook County.

May 5 at 2:12pm

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Greater Chicago Food Depository What a momentous day!! We are not at 1,000 Fans and 200 members on the Food Depository Cause (lower left of this screen)! Who's going to help us get to 2,000? Let's start small: How about 1,100?

May 5 at 2:10pm

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Karen at 6:02pm May 5

Great group to support. They don't just provide nutritious food that would otherwise be wasted. They also teach people how to prepare it, thus educating and giving experience for future jobs!

Mark at 9:26am May 6

I agree

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Bruce Springsteen's Working on a Dream concert ticket auction

Four tickets and a possible meet-and-greet are up for grabs

Bruce Springsteen has donated four tickets and four passes to the E Street Lounge to be auctioned to the highest bidder for his Working on a Dream concert on Tuesday, May 12, ...

Host:Greater Chicago Food Depository

Time:7:30PM Tuesday, May 12th

Location:United Center

April 3 at 11:40am

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One in 10 Americans gets help to buy food

Source: news.yahoo.com

A record 32.2 million people -- one in every 10 Americans -- received food stamps at the latest count, the government said on Thursday, a reflection of the recession now in its 16th month.

April 3 at 9:58am

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24th Annual Hunger Walk

Benefits the Food Depository's network of food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters

Welcome to the 24th Annual Hunger Walk, a 2.5-mile walk to directly benefit the 600 Food Depository food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters that provide food for the 500,000...

Host:Greater Chicago Food Depository

Time:8:00AM Saturday, June 20th

Location:Montrose Harbor

April 3 at 8:57am

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President Obama talks about food banks

Source: www.youtube.com

As President Obama addressed the state of the economy recently, he acknowledged that many Americans are struggling with hunger and turning to food banks for help. But as those people reach out, he noted, food banks across the country are often unable to keep up with demand. ...

April 3 at 8:18am

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Evelyn at 9:22am April 3

A great charity to give too, especially now!

Karen at 10:46am April 3

Great cause ... feeding people with good nutritious food that might otherwise be thrown away, and helping people learn to healthfully prepare it. A win-win situation!

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Orchestras Feeding America

at the Chicago Symphony Center

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is a proud participant in “Orchestras Feeding America,” a large-scale national food drive. Joining the fight against hunger, the CSO is working ...

Host:Greater Chicago Food Depository

Time:12:00PM Friday, March 27th

Location:Chicago Symphony Center

March 13 at 1:57pm

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Chicago Bulls Food Drive

During home game against the Lakers or online

The Chicago Bulls will host a food drive from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, March 21, to benefit the Greater Chicago Food Depository. Prior to the tip-off of the Bulls’ home game aga...

Host:Greater Chicago Food Depository

Time:5:00PM Saturday, March 21st

Location:The United Center

March 13 at 1:49pm

Greater Chicago Food Depository has reached 900 fans! Less than a month ago, we had fewer than 300.

March 11 at 7:42am

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Greater Chicago Food Depository at 8:16am March 11

We are very appreciative that so many of you have joined the fight against hunger. If we can all give $1, one can, one hour of time--or even just tell one person about the issue of hunger--we can get ever closer to ending hunger in Cook County. Thanks again.

Greater Chicago Food Depository This is a new video by the Greater Chicago Food Depository. View it here, or visit www.chicagosfoodbank.org for more.

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Source: www.youtube.com

The Greater Chicago Food Depository, Chicago's food bank, is a nonprofit food distribution and training center providing food for hungry people while striving to end hunger in our community. The Food Depository ...

March 9 at 3:00pm

Kate

Kate at 8:13pm March 9

This is a fabulous video and says so much that we are all feeling as agencies... GOOD JOB! THANK YOU FOR SPREADING THE WORD!!!!

Greater Chicago Food Depository thanks all of you for helping nearly triple the Fan base.

March 9 at 1:28pm

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Donna at 1:39pm March 9

The fund raiser I attended on Saturday netted about $1500. It was fun/

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Soup Off cook-off at Custom House

Spring Restaurant Group's Executive Chef Shawn McClain joins forces with Chicago's top chefs for a Soup Off cook-off at Custom House. From 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, March 1, 2009, g...

Host:Greater Chicago Food Depository

Time:1:00PM Sunday, March 1st

Location:Custom House

February 23 at 12:25pm

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La Grange residents rely on Second Baptist Pantry

Source: www.chicagosfoodbank.org

For one La Grange mother, the Second Baptist Pantry has been an essential safety net. Chris, who recently lost her job in business development in Chicago, is trying to support herself and her son during her unemployment. She is grateful for the pantry.

February 3 at 7:20am

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Senior Program expands in priority areas

Source: www.chicagosfoodbank.org

She’s lost sight in one eye, but with the help of a sturdy cane, 73-year-old Annie Moore gets around the halls of St. Edmund’s Senior Apartments in the Washington Park neighborhood just fine. ...

February 3 at 7:20am

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Chicago's Community Kitchens students share passion for cooking

Source: www.chicagosfoodbank.org

The Greater Chicago Food Depository is well-known for its support of providing food for Chicago's hungry, but the Food Depository provides other opportunities to support its community. The Chicago's Community ...

February 3 at 7:19am

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