Monthly Archives: June 2022

Change for Hunger set new records this year, with area school children and youth raising over $36,000 to help provide food for hungry neighbors. Under the leadership of Mary Fontain, in the 2021-22 school year, 18 schools with over 18,000 students participated by contributing spare change, holding fundraisers and contests to help provide food. Their […]

One of the concerns that occupy my thoughts is, “What will need be like in the next year in our communities?” The trends are not comforting. As I write this, the fiscal year is not yet over and we are already over 100,000 people served. That growth doesn’t seem to be slowing down. While we once […]

The work of Food for Greater Elgin is made possible through generous donations from individuals, groups, other nonprofits, and corporate partnerships. Many thanks to those who gave so generously in the month of June, including: Bank of America gives $15,000 The Bank of America has awarded Food for Greater Elgin $15,000 to help fund our […]

Here’s something that happened this past week: Last Friday, a young person came to our doors after our distribution, explaining that they did not need food, but they did need help. A few days earlier, they had been in a traffic accident and their car was damaged in that cursed middle ground—too damaged to drive, […]