Category Archives: Happenings

Dr. Michael Montgomery has submitted his resignation as Executive Director of Food for Greater Elgin effective at the end of July, 2023. The Board of Directors has hired Andres Diez to replace him in that role. Montgomery was called to serve as executive director in January, 2020, when COVID-19 was a distant rumor and Food for […]

The regular rotation of officers on Food for Greater Elgin brings new people into leadership roles beginning July 1. Rachel Traficanti, of Maintenance Coatings Inc and a five-year member of the Board of Directors, was elected chairperson of the Board, replacing Michael Storey; Michael will remain on the Board. Ed Kowalski joins the board after […]

Dear Friends, You know that feeling after a long, hard day, when you finally kick off your shoes and sit down at your kitchen table, happy to be home but find yourself faced with the never-ending predicament: What to do about dinner? It’s one of life’s forever problems we’re all familiar with. For most of […]

Our new, 26-foot box truck (on order for more than a year!) is due to arrive at the end of the month. What should we name it? Chow Hound? Sue’s Wheels (after our founding Executive Director, Sue Erickson). Cities are naming snowplows (Chicago’s “Mrs. O’Leary’s Plow,” Minnesota’s “Clearopatha,”) so why not us? Submit an entry […]

Elgin, IL—Bank of America awarded $100,000 to Food for Greater Elgin, a client-choice food pantry located in Elgin, IL. These funds will augment their efforts to provide food security in the greater Elgin area.  Bank of America pledged to donate $50 to Food for Greater Elgin for each of its own employees who received a […]

On Thanksgiving, we give thanks to God for that which we are thankful: Family and friends, thecomforts of home and food. The Thanksgiving of historic memory was a traditional English harvest festival, probably not the first harvest festival celebrated by Europeans, let alone Indigenous Americans. But it is America’s foundational celebration, in which people of […]

Kane County held a Hunger Summit on September 24, where representatives from the Kane County Board and area food pantries met at Northern Illinois Food Bank to discuss the critical issues of hunger in Kane County. Presenters included Julie Yurko of Northern Illinois Food Bank, who spoke about the great increase in the numbers of […]

On October 16, Elgin will hold its annual CROP Hunger Walk, a two-mile hike throughdowntown Elgin that raises money for anti-poverty work in Elgin and around theworld. CROP walks is one of the original individual fundraising events, where walkersraise money by asking for the support of their family and friends and then goingon the CROP […]

Under the leadership of Phet Lay Haverkos, Todd Haverkos, Chad (Gope) Ratsamy, and Pong Sayasane, Dee-jai Music and Dance Academy is teaming up again with Illinois State Representative Anna Moeller and friends to harvest vegetables at Scotty’s Vegetable Stand for Food for Greater Elgin and other food pantries in the area. Harvested vegetables will be […]

Food for Greater Elgin and Well Child Center to open a joint emergency food site. At the urging of Northern Illinois Food Bank, Food for Greater Elgin will open a satellite location at the Well Child Center. This partnership will provide emergency food supplies to the low-income families that are also served by the medical, […]