Eastern Illinois Food Bank

The Eastern Illinois Foodbank (EIF) is a non-profit food warehouse and distribution facility working with a network of 180 agencies and programs to better serve the needs of the food-insecure throughout a 14-county, 8,000 square mile area in the eastern Illinois. Last year, the Foodbank distributed 5 millions pounds of food and is currently serving approximately 31,000 people each month through these member agencies and programs, whose clients include the working poor, the elderly, children, single-parent families, and other individuals and households dealing with food insecurity insufficient resources to ensure all members of a household can be adequately fed.  You can help the Foodbank achieve its mission of alleviating hunger and nourishing stronger communities through volunteering and through donations. While the Foodbank receives large shipments of good-but-unmarketable food donated from the food industry or other generous donors, they still depend upon local and regional communities to help with financial donations. Money helps to purchase the kind of food that is rarely donated to the Foodbank in quantity (proteins, frozen food, etc), defray rapidly-rising transportation and energy costs, maintain the facility and vehicles, and keep the operation running smoothly. For every dollar donated to the Eastern Illinois Foodbank, ten dollars worth of food can be acquired.