Loaves & Fishes Community Pantry

Events

Share the Love at Two Bostons, February 1-14!
Your donations of “people food” will help a deserving animal shelter to receive the equivalent
poundage in dry kibble. How does it work? Bring a non-perishable food item for Loaves & Fishes
to Two Bostons, then visit the Two Bostons facebook page, “Like” it, and vote for your favorite
shelter. After the donation period ends, the votes will be tallied and the shelter with the most
votes will take home enough kibble to match the food donated for Loaves & Fishes. If the shelter
or rescue is too small to handle the kibble donation, they will give the excess to Loaves & Fishes
for our pet food program. Two Bostons has two locations: Springbrook Prairie, on 75th near
Rt. 59, and on the corner of Jefferson and Main in Downtown Naperville. For more information,
please visit Two Bostons' web page.

Register now for the Human Race!
On Sunday, April 21, the final day of National Volunteer Week, Loaves & Fishes will be among local
nonprofit organizations joining the Human Race, a 5K Run/ 2 mile Fitness Walk. Giving DuPage has
organized this all-ages, family-oriented opportunity to support volunteerism, which even includes pets
on the Fitness Walk! The Human Race will take place at the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County
Headquarters/Danada Forest Preserve. The Race will begin at 9:00 a.m. behind the headquarters building
on the west side of Naperville Road, north of Warrenville and south of Butterfield. View flyer.

Online registration fee through active.com is currently $25, with $30 charged for mail-in registration.
Loaves & Fishes will receive 60% of all the registration fees of our participants. In addition, we will earn
between 75% and 90% of all participants’ fundraising dollars, depending upon the total amount raised. Cash
prizes will be awarded for the top fundraising organization, top individual fundraiser’s charity of choice,
and the organization with most fundraisers and most participants.

Ink Station's “Cans & Cash” promotion through February 29
Ink Station will continue to collect nonperishable and unexpired food items at their 1701 Quincy Ave.,
Suite 12 store to benefit Loaves & Fishes. For those of you unable to visit this location, Ink Station now
has an online promotion to give some extra “dough” to Loaves & Fishes. For every online order received,
the customer will receive 5% off and 10% of that order will be donated to Loaves & Fishes (Discount Code
Required: LF2012)* at ink-station.com/cart.

If you’d like to bring in food items to the store, Ink Station will provide a $1.00 discount on all Ink Station
brand inkjet cartridges for each food item collected, maximum of 10 food items/$10. Join us through
February 29 to help Ink Station and Loaves & Fishes put a stop to hunger in our community by giving today!
*Not valid with any other Ink Station offers, applies to promotion code LF2012 only.

One of the benefits of our collaboration with Ink Station was the gift of videos about Loaves & Fishes,
professionally produced by Dennis Hildebrand and Mary Montavan of Hildebrand Creative. The new pieces
tell the Loaves & Fishes story through the eyes of several staff, volunteers, and clients, as well as spotlighting
the February collaboration (Ink Station YouTube page):