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Chicago Lights builds brighter futures for Chicago’s youth and adults through supportive relationships and life-changing programs. We provide creative youth development and adult social services that help people build the skills they need to transcend systemic barriers and lead fulfilling lives. We partner with Chicago’s youth and adults in mentoring, supportive services, academic enrichment, career development, and arts education.

Bare Necessities Foundation, Inc is a non-profit, all volunteer organization that supports and empowers local families in need by providing them with the "bare necessities" such as food, furniture, and clothing in order to allow our families to focus their efforts and income on building better futures for themselves.

The Chef Ann Foundation (CAF) believes that every child should have access to fresh, healthy food every day so that they can develop healthy eating habits to last a lifetime. We think the greatest impact can be had through changing school food. By providing school communities with tools, training, resources and funding, we are able to help schools create healthier food and redefine lunchroom environments. To date, our healthy school food programming has reached over 10,000 schools and 3 million children in all 50 states.

Second Harvest of the Big Bend (SHBB) is a nonprofit charity started in 1982 to address the urgent problem of hunger in the community. The food bank’s mission is to meet the short-term nutritional needs of hungry, food insecure people and lead the community in the fight to end hunger.Because people often have to make difficult choices between feeding themselves and their families, and paying for other necessities, no-cost food assistance can lift a big weight from their shoulders. Thanks to Second Harvest, clients can utilize income to pay for other expenses, such as medicines, school expenses for children, rent and utilities. This helps them to save money, increase assets and strengthen resiliency.

Their mission is to provide food for Iowa children, families, and seniors to lead full and active lives, strengthening the communities where they live.

Keep Austin Fed reduces hunger and helps the environment by connecting surplus food with our neighbors in need.

WE COOK. Our delicious, freshly prepared, health-promoting meals designed to meet the highest quality standards are critical in helping prevent or manage chronic disease. WE DELIVER. A majority of our clients are homebound or disabled and rely on our volunteers and staff to not only deliver their meals, but ensure that they do not suffer the debilitating effects of social isolation. WE TEACH. From one-on-one consults, Cooking Matters classes across the state, community partnerships and national advocacy efforts through the Food Is Medicine Coalition, we are helping the under-served live healthier lives.WE CARE. Friends come together here to touch the lives of thousands of others who are not as fortunate. Together we strive to lift them up, improve their health, & enrich their lives.

Open Heart Kitchen serves prepared, nutritious meals free of charge to the hungry people of the Tri-Valley area.

To end hunger and reduce food waste on Long Island.   Island Harvest was created in 1992 by one woman with a cooler, a station wagon, and a strong desire to help people in need. Linda Breitstone, our founder, was infuriated that food from a local convenience store was being thrown away at the end of the day – with a soup kitchen down the street. In response, she established Island Harvest and our mission, “to end hunger and reduce food waste on Long Island.”

The North Hollywood Interfaith Food Pantry is a religiously diverse 501c3 non-profit community that strives to meet the needs of those living with food insecurity. Helping Those in Need in Our Community We are a volunteer-based coalition of organizations and individuals from around our community looking to end the growing problem of food insecurity by distributing over 320 non-perishable food bags every Monday and Friday – 52 weeks a year.

FOOD PANTRY AND MEAL SERVICE FOR THE LOW INCOME/NEEDY PEOPLE OF CENTRAL IOWA. FOOD AT FIRST SERVICE APPROXIMATELY 25000 PEOPLE/MEALS IN THE CURRENT YEAR. THE FOOD PANTRY SERVED APPROXIMATELY 17000 PEOPLE AND 400 FAMILES IN THE CURRENT YEAR. FOOD IS DISTRIBUTED EVERY OTHER DAY OF THE YEAR.

The Glen Ellyn Food Pantry, now doing business as the Glen House Food Pantry, is an ecumenical endeavor of more than a dozen Glen Ellyn churches collaborating with the community and “making hunger history”. We serve everyone who lives, works, or attends school in DuPage County. Our mission is to to provide essential groceries and support to our neighbors at risk of hunger.