Our Member Agencies

Eastern Illinois Foodbank works in partnership with more than 180 non-profit food programs located throughout eastern Illinois. All of these agencies help get food and other essentials to children and adults at risk for hunger. Our network includes food pantries, soup kitchens, emergency agencies, shelters, daycare centers, residential centers, rehabilitation centers, missions, and senior and youth centers and associations. These invaluable agencies work in partnership with the Foodbank to help provide nutritious and balanced meals and groceries to families, children, senior adults, homeless people, homebound individuals and the working poor, all of whom are at risk of going hungry in their communities.

Many of the agencies are churches, chapels, parishes, temples or other faith-based organizations. Others are independent nonprofit organizations with their own boards, staffs and volunteers initiated to respond to hunger relief in a certain locale or region or to a particular population segment in need. Still others are schools, Boy Scout councils, fraternal clubs, Salvation Army, charities, Boys & Girls clubs, American Red Cross or independent missions and outreach ministries.

The Foodbank works with these agencies, providing a continuum of services and resources over and above the allocations and distributions of foods. Such services include helping the agencies build capacity and enhance productivity through seminars, information materials, hands-on workshops and educational products, while maintaining appropriate code standards. The Foodbank is committed to building a true "network" of member agencies so that the various organizations can learn from each other, while strengthening and extending the infrastructure and service base.

To learn more about our Member Agencies, please contact the Foodbank.