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Urbana Rotary Supports Food for Kids!
Eastern Illinois Foodbank is thrilled to announce that the Rotary Club of Urbana will present a gift of $9,000 to the Eastern Illinois Foodbank (EIF) at its noon meeting on July 7! The gift will provide a Foodmobile, or mobile food pantry, for about 150 families later this summer. Additionally, it will support a new site for the BackPack program, which was inaugurated and is still supported by the Champaign-Urbana Junior League at four current sites. Rotary’s gift will fund the launch of the program at Urbana’s Prairie School, which will provide weekend meals to approximately 50 children for the entire school year. But there's more--this gift is just the first installment of the club’s $22,500 commitment to support the Backpack Program at Prairie School for three years!
Please join Foodbank staff, board, and volunteers in extending a big "thanks!" to Rotary in Urbana!
Thank You, Paramount Staffing!
On June 20th, Paramount Staffing hosted a "prom" fundriaser, and it was a blast! Representatives of Paramount and Eastern Illinois Foodbank donned retro formal garb and grooved to tunes from the '60s onward through the decades. All proceeds went to Eastern Illinois Foodbank to help fight hunger in our community.
Check out our pictures online, coming soon!
Featured Agency: Wesley United Methodist Evening Pantry
 Wesley United Methodist Evening Pantry
Champaign, IL
It started out small. They served just five people the first month. The next month, 15 people came. The numbers continued to climb. In the past year, the monthly client count has jumped more than 400%. In November 2008, just two years after opening their doors, the Wesley United Methodist Evening Pantry served 929 people.
Read more about the Wesley United Methodist Evening Pantry...
Want to help the Foodbank?
Organize a Food and Fund Drive at your school, office or place of worship. Download the Coordinator’s Guide for tips and resources to help get your drive started. Register your drive by e-mailing marketing@eifoodbank.org.
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To alleviate hunger in eastern Illinois by providing a reliable source of food for the hungry through cooperation with a network of pantries and agencies. |
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