Monthly Archives: August 2020

6 a.m. Friday, August 14Rey Fuentes and Sergio Cervantes arrive at work; Rey to open up thewarehouse, Sergio to take the truck and begin his round of food harvesting from local grocery stories and food warehouses. 7:30 a.m. A team of 10 volunteers and Mike Kuhn arrive at the farm of Mike Kenyon to harvest […]

Donors will be receiving an email in the next couple of days from Food for Greater Elgin, asking about your experience in giving. The link to Survey Monkey will also be here, on the web page, for those who don’t do email.  Others will get a letter, and then a telephone call, asking about your donation […]

Food for Greater Elgin is looking for 3 to 4 additional members for its Board of Directors. Board Members meet monthly, on the 2nd Friday of the month, at 7:30 a.m. Board members are expected to: Participate actively in the life of the Pantry, serving on, as appropriate, Board Committees, the work of the Pantry […]

Food for Greater Elgin is celebrating the work of Michael Kuhn, our outgoing volunteer coordinator, at an outdoor, socially-distanced, reception on Wednesday, August 19, from 4 to 6 p.m. Kuhn, who has been the volunteer coordinator since November 2019, is leaving Food for Greater Elgin to enter a chaplain’s residency program at Advocate Aurora’s Sherman […]

The delivery of over 160 boxes of food to the Housing Authority of Elgin launched a new initiative by Food for Greater Elgin to get food to the hardest-hit neighborhoods of the greater Elgin area. The idea is to target neighborhoods where over 20% of the population is under the poverty level and provide them […]