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Healthy Food and Summer Needs

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  Healthy Food and Summer Needs “Our goal is to provide people with the same quantity and quality of healthy food that others have access to.” – Loaves & Fishes CEO Mike Havala, as featured in Positively Naperville Read more→


Night to End Hunger 2019

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Together, we raised more than $335,000 during Night to End Hunger!We greatly appreciate the tremendous generosity and support of our community!   Join us for a post-event auction Thursday, September 12th at 9:00am- Sunday, September 15th at 5:00 pm Thank you to our sponsors and emcee for the evening, Dionne Miller,  ABC 7 Eyewitness News Sports…. Read more »


Loaves & Fishes Community Garden

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Loaves & Fishes staff and volunteers partnered with the tremendous folks from The GardenWorks Project to build community gardens near our facility. Volunteers and staff have been tending and watering these raised gardens that will provide fresh, healthy produce for our clients, and that makes us very happy! For more information, contact Jane Macdonald, Director of… Read more »


Stamp Out Hunger Success!

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This year’s total: 84,930 pounds of food collected! Thanks to our generous community and our hard working letter carriers & volunteers for helping us collect so much food for Stamp Out Hunger! Our clients greatly benefit from your big hearts!


Celebrity Bartending

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Monday, June 10th from 6-9 p.m. at Hugo’s Frog Bar & Fish House!


New Appointments to Board of Directors

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It is with the utmost pleasure that Loaves & Fishes announces the appointment of three outstanding individuals to Loaves & Fishes Board of Directors. We extend a warm welcome to Meena Banasiak of Phoenix Packaging, Nancy Couch, Loaves & Fishes volunteer, and Dr. Benjamin White, City of Naperville Councilman. “We welcome Meena Banasiak, Nancy Couch,… Read more »


Stamp Out Hunger 2019!

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We do need your help! The Letter Carriers Food Drive helps us stock our shelves during the summer months when kids are home from school, and there are more meals to provide at home. Look for the orange plastic bag delivered with your mail the week before May 11th. Please consider filling your bag with… Read more »


Most Needed Items

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  Thinking of donating food? Thanks, we appreciate that! Please consider donating one of the items we need most!


Loaves & Fishes 35th Anniversary

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Loaves & Fishes is  grateful to our entire community for helping us assist struggling families for the last 35 years!   We are incredibly grateful to you, our tremendous community, for your desire to help others since 1984 when we began in a small room at St. Raphael Catholic Church in Naperville. Three and a half decades… Read more »


NCTV17 Spotlight

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    Naperville Community Television (NCTV17) hosted Loaves & Fishes CEO Mike Havala and Vice President of CARES Programs Janet Derrick on Spotlight in February 2019 to discuss the organization’s focus over the next three years. “We want to focus on the overall health of our clients, taking a more holistic approach,” said CEO Mike… Read more »