Ongoing Opportunities for Support

Several ongoing cause marketing partnerships benefit the Food Depository with your purchase.

If you are interested in beginning a Cause Marketing partnership with the Food Depository, please review our guidelines to learn more.

Shop with Amazon Smile

You shop. Amazon gives. Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to the Food Depository. AmazonSmile is the same Amazon you know. Same products, same prices, same service. Support the Food Depository by starting your shopping here.

Target Circle

Target Circle is Target’s free loyalty program. For every purchase that Target Circle shoppers make, they’ll earn votes to help direct Target’s giving.

Starting October 1, 2020, Cook County shoppers can shop and vote for Target to make a donation to the Food Depository. Learn more.

Grand Giving at Mariano’s

Check out to help out! Every November, Curtis Granderson and the Grand Kids Foundation host Grand Giving. This national food insecurity campaign and fundraiser raises money for kids and families in need. From November 1-30, you can make a donation at the register at Mariano’s stores in Cook County. 100% of the proceeds are donated to the Food Depository.

Grab n’ Give at Fresh Thyme Market

For the month of November, Chicagoland shoppers at Fresh Thyme Market can round up at the register to support the Food Depository. Through December 5, the Grab n’ Give promotion also gives customers the option to purchase a $9.99 or $19.99 bag of non-perishable items to be donated to the Food Depository.

Quarantine Coffee

Connect Roasters has teamed up with Chicago Cubs outfielder Ian Happ to help front-line workers and children who have been affected most by the COVID-19 pandemic. Together they have launched Quarantine Coffee for COVID Relief — which helps provide 4.5 meals to the Food Depository for every bag of single-origin Guatemalan medium roast sold.

Little Rituals

Little Rituals is a health and wellness company focused on kids, parents and communities. Every Little Rituals order helps the Food Depository provide 3 meals to people in need.

Shaw Contract

Shaw Contract makes flooring that delivers a purposeful blend of design elements, materiality, sustainability, and performance. The Food Depository will receive of proceeds from every unit of “shifting fields” commercial carpet sold through June 30, 2021.

Coco + Peach

Inspired by the glamour of her mother and the sophisticated and edgy city where she resides, designer Jessica Strang created coco + peach, an online Chicago-based jewelry boutique. Coco + Peach will donate $1 per order to the Food Depository.

Simply Good Jars

Simply Good Jars was started by a chef who wanted to change the way people think about consumption, from the type of food we eat to the package it comes in. SGJ meals are available in Walgreens locations in the Chicagoland area, and they also offer home delivery throughout Cook County. Jars are returnable for reuse. For every jar returned, the monetary equivalent of one meal is donated to the Food Depository.

The Peninsula Chicago Hotel

The Peninsula Chicago, a Five Star, Five Diamond hotel located in Chicago’s “Magnificent Mile”, has partnered with the Food Depository on a community meal donation program. Starting July 23, 2020, for every meal purchased at the hotel’s restaurants (Shanghai Terrace and The Lobby), The Peninsula Chicago will make the monetary equivalent of a one-for-one meal donation to The Greater Chicago Food Depository.

Guiness Gives Back

This holiday season, for every limited edition ‘Guinness Gives Back’ 8-pack made, Guinness will be donating $1 to the Greater Chicago Food Depository. Learn more. 

Also through December 31, 2020, Guiness will donate $1 to the Food Depository for every social media post showing your support. Simply post “I’m proud to support @FoodDepository and @GuinnessUS this holiday season. #GuinnessGivesBackCHI” on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter and $1 will be donated.