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Fighting Hunger One Block At A Time

Fight2Feed service has stayed nimble to serve our communities during this unprecedented time of need. Our work is to reduce food waste and serve those who are in need of a fresh and hot meal. Our chefs are from local restaurants, BBQ, catering and consulting chefs that volunteer their time to lead our kitchens. Until we find a home of our own, we have worked from borrowed and sponsored kitchens. Our goal is to continue serving meals that help our community stay strong and keep our mission running as long as possible. To keep our community safe and share more meals our service has reshaped to now offer curbside pick up and drop offs. We seek volunteers to prep, cook, clean and deliver. We are always seeking volunteers with vehicles to help us rescue and mobilize our food. If you are interested in being a part of our #MobileF2F team please email us at [email protected].

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Fighting Hunger About Us

Fight2Feed is a 501c(3) charitable organization on a mission to put an end to hunger and reduce food waste, starting with our own communities. We began our journey on March 20, 2014 in Chicago, IL to make change happen in our neighborhoods one block at a time. We have to date served over 800,000 meals and rescue over 3 Million pounds of food. Click below to learn more about Fight2Feed!

why Fight2Feed

Hunger is happening on our watch

Fight2Feed is a 501c(3) charitable organization on a mission to put an end to hunger and reduce food waste, starting with our own COMMUNITIES. We began our journey on March 20, 2014 in Chicago, IL to make change happen in our neighborhoods one block at a time. We have to date served over 800,000 meals and rescue over 3 Million pounds of food. We are a 100% volunteer run organization with chapters in Chicago, IL, Atlanta, GA and Kansas City, MO. Our goal is to have a kitchen to call home to rescue more food and get it to those in need. We are funded by events, being the beneficiary of local businesses like Burger Alley Chicago, Woodfire Tavern, In Culinary Conversations and Givsly along with local festivals who has supported our mission. Our funds go right back serving our meals. Fight2Feed is about community and pulling together to make change happen. It has been an amazing journey and we look forward to spreading our wings to more communities across the county. #FeedItForward

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An estimated 12.3 percent of American households (roughly 38 million people) were food insecure at some point during 2016, meaning they lacked access to enough food for all household members to have an active, healthy life. That is essentially unchanged from 12.7 percent in 2015.

The prevalence of very low food security also remained essentially unchanged, at 4.9 percent in 2016 and 5.0 percent in 2015.

It's time to make change happen.

Food for kids

According to Feeding America, 1 in 7 people in the U.S. face hunger every year. The rate of hunger among children is even higher, with about 1 in 5 lacking proper access to food at some point during the year.

16.2 million children live in households that lack the means to get enough nutritious food on a regular basis.

As a result, about 1 in 5 children go hungry at some point during the year. No one should go hungry, especially our children.

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Roughly 40 percent of all produce in the United States is thrown away—some 60 million tons or $165 billion per year. This constitutes one-third of all foodstuffs —and is enough to feed 25 million people!

Wasted food is also the single largest component in American landfills, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

Fight2Feed wants to continue turning this into healthy meals for our hungry friends in need!

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Knocking Out Hunger WHILE REDUCING FOOD WASTE

That's right. We rescue food from restaurants, chefs and donations from food distributors and repurpose the food to create healthy hot meals to share with our community. Delicious food made by our Fight2Feed volunteers and chefs, along with your support, we reduce food waste and share food with our hungry friends in need.

We are a 501(c)(3) charitable organization seeking to take root in every community, nationwide. While we might be a young non-profit, we're growing like crazy!

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Fast Facts

86 billion pounds of food is wasted by households and the foodservice industry every year.

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Food Insecurity

48.1 million Americans live in food insecure households, including 32.8 million adults and 15.3 million children.

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Fight2Feed What we do

Every week we rescue anywhere from 10,000 - 20,000 pounds of food from local partners like Imperfect Produce, Events like Culinary Fight Club and Food-services like Aramark and Sysco. They share their surplus of and our essential volunteers take action every week to recuse food with our vehicles. The food is always handled from distributor to chefs or qualified Fight2Feed volunteers.

Some of our food is used to get into Soup Kitchens or donated kitchen spaces to cook and deploy to our hungry friends in need or served right to their clients. Some rescued food is shared with pantries and shelters partners.

We are currently in Chicago, Atlanta and Kansas City and more communities are seeking Fight2Feed support. We funding, sweat equity and most importantly we need leaders to grow!

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Non-profit Fight2Feed steps in

Anyone receiving emergency additional Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits in Illinois because of the pandemic will see their benefits drop this month. It means families could see up to $250 less per person a month. At least one Chicago nonprofit has already seen demand ramp up in anticipation of this change. CBS 2's Sabrina Franza met with Fight2Feed.
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Fight2Feed turns wasted food

into healthy meals for people in need. Phil Siddu, director of community resources of Fight2Feed, joins “Chicago Today” to discuss the nonprofit organization that turns wasted food into healthy meals and continues to serve meals that help local communities stay strong.
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Donated Space will enable Fight2Feed

Although McCormick Place is not able to hold our typical events during the pandemic, the MPEA is glad to lend an idle kitchen to a local non-for-profit so they may further their mission to recover unused food. Learn how the volunteers of Fight2Feed a
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Vanille Patisserie teams up with Fight2Feed

3rd annual Chicago pie donation drive
Sophie Evanoff and Jiwon McCartney join Good Day Chicago to talk about their partnership and the importance of giving back to those less fortunate this Thanksgiving through their pie donation drive.
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Chicago chefs 'Fight2Feed' thousands

Using McCormick Place's East Kitchen, donated items and rescued food
Chefs from across Chicago are joining forces to feed thousands of families in need.

The non-profit Fight2Feed is utilizing kitchen space provided by McCormick Place to expand its reach and help even more people.
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pies for a cause

Evanoff started pie sponsorships in 2020; for every 10 pies sold, the Lincoln Park bakery donates one pie to Fight2Feed, a nonprofit that rescues food from restaurants/food distributors to provide hot meals to organizations and people in need. Evanoff plans to give 250 pies to the group this week for the holiday and the families that will enjoy the meals they prepare.
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Fight2Feed Fights Hunger in Chicago

Fight2Feed is a 100% volunteer-driven, non-profit organization that works to turn wasted food into healthy meals for hungry people in need. They even hit the streets and feed the homeless directly during what they call "street missions."
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Fighting Food Insecurity

A nonprofit is serving up a mixed bag of fighting food insecurity and food waste with making students’ dreams come true.

Since the organization moved into McCormick Place in February, the non-profit Fight2Feed has rescued over 2.2 million pounds of food that would otherwise be thrown away.
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Chicago chefs 'Fight2Feed' families

Chefs from across Chicago are joining forces to feed thousands of families in need. The non-profit Fight2Feed is utilizing kitchen space provided by McCormick Place to expand its reach and help even more people. On what's called Serving Tuesday, local chefs from Fight2Feed come together to cook meals for people in need.
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Feeding Change

In honor of Hunger Action Month, we want to help spread awareness about an awesome nonprofit that we work within Chicago, Fight2Feed. Fight2Feed fights hunger by rescuing produce and delivering it to folks in need.

They were one of our first donation partners in Chicago, and we are proud to have donated over eight thousand pounds of produce to support their cause so far.
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McCormick Place & Fight2Feed

North America’s largest convention center McCormick Place, and its food service provider, SAVOR…Chicago announced a new partnership with non-profit Fight2Feed to serve local communities in need.
The Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority (MPEA), owner of McCormick Place, is donating space in the East Kitchen of the Lakeside Building to Fight2Feed.
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We Need You VOLUNTEER

Want to be a Fight2Feed street team member to help our organization feed the hungry, we need YOU to help us grow!

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Tasty Joy BAKESQUAD

Fight2Feed has officially added the #BakeSquad to our volunteer groups.

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Culinary FIGHT CLUB

This is one of the many event series that donates to the Fight2Feed.

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Be A LEADER

The Fight2Feed team is made up of people just like you. We're constantly looking for leaders.

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Community PANTRY AID

Help us rescue and repurpose food from restaurants, chefs and donations from food distributors to create healthy hot meals.

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Show your support and rock some awesome Fight2Feed gear. We have a variety pf shirts, sweaters and hats available.

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Group Volunteering

At Fight2Feed volunteering as a group is a great team building and rewarding experience. We welcome groups of all sorts for group voluteering.

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“ … the team was ecstatic to have assisted Fight2Feed this past Wednesday. There was so much chatter on Thursday about the experience.”

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Fighting Hunger One Block At A Time

Fight2Feed Chicago, IL

Fight2Feed ATLANTA, GA

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