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Loaves & Fishes: The art of thankfulness

The staff at Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry is not happy with how the back room of the nonprofit’s building on Jericho Road in Aurora looks right now.

Storage shelves once brimming with food are half empty.

And with need rising – Aurora’s largest pantry is serving 35% more people this year, including 40 new families a week – “we are receiving fewer donations,” noted spokesperson Alyssa Edwards.

Which means, she added, because “we are giving out more than we are getting in, our food is getting scarce.”

Loaves & Fishes: Think big, work together

(Naperville, IL October 11, 2022) Loaves & Fishes Community Services and Edward-Elmhurst Health are excited to announce a new partnership on a project that will increase access to healthy food and services for families who need assistance. The new Loaves & Fishes Food Distribution Hub, located in Aurora, serves as a storage, processing, and fulfillment… Read more »

Photo Credit: Time Stops Photography

September is Hunger Action Month! Feeding America’s annual Hunger Action Month initiative encourages our community to take action and become part of the solution to end hunger. They use the color orange to draw attention to this initiative and invite the public to “go orange” on September 17th. Without awareness of a problem, people cannot… Read more »

Janet Derrick, Loaves & Fishes Executive VP Programs, was featured in this month’s Food Bank News article-Why These Pantries Love Online Ordering

Loaves & Fishes Community Services is broadening food access via local delivery of groceries 

Loaves & Fishes: Keeping Kids Healthy