Food for Greater Elgin is enormously grateful for the many businesses that support our mission of providing food security for our neighbors. While we work hard to get the funding support that we need from area businesses, we also work hard to make sure that it is a good giving experience to the companies, too! We have a menu of opportunities for area businesses to choose from, so you can pick the form of support that best works for your organization.
Sponsor Change for Hunger
Change for Hunger is a program used by schools to educate children about the power of compassion, generosity, and social problems like hunger. Students contribute pocket change, which is matched by area businesses, up to around $500.
Added Bonus: Donor businesses are added to a plaque, posted in the school, and you get to come to a year-end pizza party and have your photo taken with the school that you sponsored!
Sponsor a signature fundraiser, Pallet to Palate or Chip in for Hunger
Event sponsors get media attention, tickets to the event, and our never-ending gratitude!
Please note: The IRS has begun to enforce what has been the law, that you can deduct from your taxes only the part of a sponsorship that is an actual contribution. Some companies choose to donate it all and not send participants, but most do the accounting and attend the event because the benefits of participation make it very worthwhile.
Be a matching sponsor for Giving Tuesday
Giving Tuesday sponsorships are in many ways the ideal corporate sponsorship: It’s all tax deductible and you get the maximum publicity for your act of charity. In November, we begin our publicity for that year’s Giving Tuesday, held on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving. While Giving Tuesday began as a day to focus on small gifts, it has grown in recent years to connect with large donors.
Create an employer-matching gift program
An employee makes a gift to us and tells you about it, and the company matches that gift. And we are doubly grateful!
Make your own program
Elgin Fresh Market matched customer gifts to us last November, up to $20; Plank Road Tap Room collected money for us over a weekend; Eternal Tan holds an annual food drive for us. Big or small, your company can do something that works for you, and that works for us!
Write a check!
Campaigns can be too complicated, and we always take cash, checks, or money paid to us through our web page (go to https://ffge.givecloud.co/donations). We recognize all business donations on our web page and will be opening a new page devoted to our corporate partners in the upcoming months.
We would like to recognize our sustaining annual donors, like John B. Sanfilippo and Heritage-Crystal Clean on all our giving campaigns, thanking them for their continued support of our work.