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Leah Ray
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Greater Chicago Food Depository
4100 W. Ann Lurie Place
Chicago, IL 60632
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Food For Thought

Volume 4, Issue 4 - Summer 2010

  • Cook County children are running on empty
  • Ensuring all children have summer meals
  • Food Depository founder Bob Strube leaves a legacy of service
  • Real Estate Awards raise $876,000 for Food Depository
  • Food Depository internship program helps keep pantry doors open
  • Out with the old, in with the new
  • Food delivery cooperative connects West Side pantries
  • Futures Industry Association named Prized Partner of the Quarter
  • Chicago’s Community Kitchens graduate finds that success is sweet
  • New food pantry constantly strives to reach those in need
  • Hunger Walk to celebrate 25th year

Volume 4, Issue 3 - Spring 2010

  • Healthy Helpings program makes nutritious choices easier for older adults in need
  • Miracle on 42nd Street
  • White Sox named Prized Partner of the Quarter
  • Serving hot meals with dignity
  • Chicagoans show their holiday spirit with hundreds of food drives
  • New “86 Hunger” dinner series raises funds to help the hungry
  • Once a client, pantry coordinator serves her neighbors in need
  • Inaugural Goodman Hunger Forum gathers top decision makers to address child hunger
  • Produce donor makes one man’s waste another’s treasure
  • Quadrennial study shows rising numbers of those in need
  • Help feed the hungry while doing your taxes

Volume 4, Issue 2 - Holidays 2009

  • New “Express SNAP” program connects residents with benefits
  • Neighbors’ actions shine in challenging times
  • Hunger Action Month Concludes
  • Agency Awards Luncheon recognizes agencies during challenging year
  • Pantries work together to strengthen the response to hunger
  • Near North residents in need benefit from Mobile Pantry
  • Summer camp offers more than healthy meals
  • Charter One named Prized Partner of the Quarter
  • ConAgra Foods named Prized Partner of the Year
  • New White Sox Volunteer Corps supports the Food Depository

Volume 4, Issue 1 - Fall 2009

  • South Chicago Heights pantry is a refuge and memorial
  • Children’s meals offer hope
  • Dream Team captain helps adults gain second chances to succeed
  • Agriculture Secretary visits the Food Depository
  • Hunger Walk draws more than 6,200 walkers
  • Food Depository offers new cold meal program for Kids Cafes
  • Local company helps tune up pantry in need
  • Agency networks plan for success
  • Real Estate Awards Steering Committee named Prized Partner of the Quarter
  • Southwest Side pantry seeing unprecedented need

Special 30th Anniversary edition

  • Founders’ dream can be a reality
  • “Food is real energy”
  • First food bank inspired hundreds more
  • Passage of Good Samaritan Law spurred growth
  • Celebrity spotting through the years
  • Thirty years of service to the community
  • Command performance
  • Longtime staff members display organization’s spirit
  • First executive director led food bank through early challenges
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