Take a Walk in the Park to Fight Hunger
Thank you for joining us at our Walk in the Park to fight hunger that took place on Saturday, September 13th at Wicker Park in Highland. We could not do this work here without you!
Download the 2025 Walk In The Park Pledge form here!
Our Goal
Our goal was to raise $10,000 to help with expenses for our food pantry. We serve around 14,000 people every year with about 5 days of food: including meat, fresh fruits and vegetables, canned goods, bread and bakery products, grains and rice, breakfast items, frozen foods, coffee, snacks and sweets, etc. The cost to feed one person for 5 days is around $37.50, that’s only about $2.50 per meal. Most of the $37.50 is food, but there are expenses above and beyond food; wages for our fulltime Pantry Manager, mortgage, utilities, upkeep, insurance, and gas for our van (used exclusively for the food pantry), cleaning supplies and gloves, etc.
It really does take more than food to run a food pantry.
