Become a Partner

Explore partnership opportunities

Fill out the form below to inquire about community-based partnership opportunities with the Food Depository – such as supporting local food access programs in your area and opportunities to connect neighbors to resources.

Thank you for your interest in partnering with us. We cannot accomplish our mission to end hunger without our meaningful partnerships with community-based organizations and individuals across Cook County. 

Our partnership inquiry process for open grocery-style programs is currently on pause as we assess current requests and refine our strategy to ensure we are meeting unmet needs equitably. Your inquiry is important to us and will remain in our database for follow-up in the future as our strategy develops and as our capacity for new programs expands.

The Greater Chicago Food Depository works alongside our partners to get to the root causes of hunger and advance our mission to end hunger. Together, we connect our neighbors with healthy food, lift our voices and advance solutions that address the root causes of hunger – poverty, systemic inequity and structural racism.

Our process of collaboration starts with understanding your interest and your motivation for wanting to do this vital work. Fill out the form below to help us understand more about your vision of partnership and to inquire about community-based partnership opportunities to connect neighbors to resources with the Food Depository.  

Partnership can look like information sharing, capacity building, collaboration in community coalition work, and more. Some of the programs and engagement areas our partners implement with the Food Depository are below:

Youth Meals Programming

  • After School* (CACFP)  
  • Summer Meals (SFSP) 

Older Adults Programming 

  • Older Adult Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) 
  • Older Adult Produce Markets* 
  • Senior Farmers Market (SFMNP) Coupons  

Grocery-Style Pantry Programming 

  • Pantries* 
  • Mobile Pantries & Producemobiles* 

Hot Meal Programming 

  • Shelters* 
  • Soup Kitchens* 
 Prepared Meals 

  • Prepared Meals 
  • Medically Tailored Meals (MTM) 

Outreach, Awareness, & Resources 

  • Referrals 
  • Training & Workshops  

Public Benefits Enrollment

Workforce Development 

Nutrition 

Food Producers (TBD)

Policy & Advocacy

 

*501c3 status is required 

Our process of collaboration starts with understanding your interest and your motivation for wanting to do this vital work. Fill out the form below to help us understand more about your vision of partnership and to inquire about community-based partnership opportunities to connect neighbors to resources with the Food Depository.

Please note: We are generally unable to accommodate one-time requests for food. If you’d like to request a member of our team to attend an event to share more information about our programs and services, please fill out this short form to share more information about the event. If your organization is interested in exploring ongoing partnership opportunities, please continue with completing the interest form.

 

If you do not qualify as a community partner, there still are many ways to get involved. Please join us.