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Food Aid 2023: A Music Festival To Combat Food Insecurity

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8/26/2023

Food Aid 2023 @ Exit Strategy Brewing Company

12pm

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9pm

7700 Madison St, Forest Park, IL 60130

Event Details

8/26/2023

Food Aid 2023 @ Exit Strategy Brewing Company

Featuring The Shams Band, The Heavy Sounds, Cheryl Tomblin, School of Rock (Oak Park) plus a Raffle.


Food Vendors: Dark Horse Grill & Caterin...

Event Details

12pm

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9pm

7700 Madison St, Forest Park, IL 60130

8/27/2023

Food Aid 2023 @ Scoville Park

3pm

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8pm

800 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60301

Event Details

8/27/2023

Food Aid 2023 @ Scoville Park

Featuring Second Hand News: A Tribute To Fleetwood Mac, FURY, Michele McGuire & School of Rock (Oak Park) + A

panel conversation moderated by...

Event Details

3pm

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8pm

800 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60301

ABOUT FOOD AID 2023

Our Vision

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Our Mission

With music as our inspiration and everyday working-class people our heroes, Food Aid envisions a transformed America in which no one person experiences hunger and every person has access to fresh and healthy food.

Our Mission

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Our Mission

Food Aid's mission is to eliminate individuals and their families from experiencing hunger. We believe that food insecurity should not exist, as the right to food is a human right. Through music and entertainment, Food Aid will serve as an important funding source for interconnected community organizations and initiatives aimed at addressing food insecurity.

 

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Are you interested in being a vendor, a volunteer or want to contribute to the cause? 


Please contact Donnie Biggins donnie@harmonicadunn.com

 

OUR BENEFICIARIES

UNITY FRIDGES

Food insecurity is a pandemic that continues to impact communities across the country. Unity Fridges is a sharing initiative aiming to reduce food insecurity and food waste, while building a stronger community. By partnering with local stakeholders, we seek to provide healthy food through the installation of community fridges (public refrigerators) throughout Oak Park that are used to share food and ideas at a village level. 

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BEYOND HUNGER

Beyond Hunger provides hunger-relief programming and services to 13 zip codes across Cook County, including portions of Chicago and its near-west Suburbs.  Their service offerings seek to provide the food, resources, knowledge, and skills people need to live healthy, active lives. 

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A HOUSE IN AUSTIN

A not-for-profit organization serving families on the west side of Chicago. Empowering Parents to shape their children's futures through nurturing support + education + parent-child music classes We believe every child, in every zip code, deserves high quality early learning experiences, a healthy family, and safe place to live.

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AUSTIN EATS INITIATIVE

The Austin Eats Initiative is a group of 20+ local agencies and efforts that have come together to sow and grow a healthier Austin. By strengthening the food access ecosystem, supporting culinary entrepreneurship and local community gardens, and by engaging residents about food through film screenings, Austin Eats is working to change the food landscape and rewrite the narrative around food in Austin.

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BEST OF PROVISO TOWNSHIP

Best of Proviso Township is a member-funded association that supports the Proviso and surrounding Communities through member involvement. The association plans to use our pool of talent, expertise and networking ability to model, mentor, monitor and motivate. As a group, we are looking to help our children with life long decisions as we keep them motivated throughout their journeys. We intend to model good citizenship, mentor the next generation and spotlight the positives in their lives and the lives of others; we will monitor growth and dispel negativity and low self worth. The Association will motivate this type of behavior so that it will become contagious and multiply.

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WESTCHESTER FOOD PANTRY

Westchester Food Pantry is a subsidiary of Great Chicago Food Depository. The Westchester Food Pantry serves as a resource throughout the year for those who are hungry and food insecure.

As of June 30, the Pantry served 2,624 client households, or about 8,500 individuals in 2023. This represents a 40% increase over the same period last year, and it already exceeds the total client households served in 2019.  In May, 470 clients came through the Pantry’s doors to receive food, a new monthly high.

The Westchester Food Pantry is run entirely by volunteers, and relies entirely on donations to operate. Your support goes directly to serve our neighbors in need.

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OUR SPONSORS

WBEZ CHICAGO

SUBURBAN UNITY ALLIANCE

SUBURBAN UNITY ALLIANCE

WBEZ, Chicago’s NPR news source, serves the community with fact-based, objective news and information through its local and national news programming and growing portfolio of podcasts. WBEZ’s award-winning journalists ask tough questions, dig deep for answers and expose truths that spark change and foster understanding.

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SUBURBAN UNITY ALLIANCE

SUBURBAN UNITY ALLIANCE

SUBURBAN UNITY ALLIANCE


Suburban Unity Alliance was created in the summer of 2016 to showcase the diversity of suburban communities, raise discrimination awareness, and bring entire communities together based on empathy, collaboration, and equitable philanthropic endeavors. S.U.A. is about promoting the welfare of each member of a suburban community through creating fellowship that results in common interests and goals for the betterment of the community. The backbone of the S.U.A. is the Suburban Unity Pledge which asks community residents and local businesses to take a stand against all forms of discrimination. 

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HARMONICA DUNN

SUBURBAN UNITY ALLIANCE

OPRF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

Harmonica Dunn is a Chicago-based independent music promotion company. Priding themselves as the most artist-friendly concert promoter in Chicago. Harmonica Dunn is responsible for 750+ concerts in the Chicagoland area each year. They are the talent buyer for Golden Dagger (Chicago, IL), The Acorn (Three Oaks, MI) and Exit Strategy Brewing Company (Forest Park, IL)

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OPRF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

OPRF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

OPRF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

The mission of the OPRF Community Foundation is to unite community members to mobilize resources to advance a racially just society and equitable outcomes for residents of Oak Park, River Forest and surrounding communities.

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OAK PARK TOWNSHIP

OPRF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

OAK PARK TOWNSHIP

The Oak Park Township is governed by an independently elected Township Board of Trustees. The vision of the Oak Park Township is to be a well-known and respected community partner and the leading provider of proactive, responsive and relevant supportive services for all residents at every stage of life.

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OUR PARTNERS

Exit Strategy Brewing Company

Exit Strategy Brewing Company

Exit Strategy Brewing Company

Exit Strategy Brewing is the love child of Chris and Katherine Valleau.  Located in the heart of Forest Park's Madison Street, ESBC is a fully functional brewery.  We brew mostly an all ale portfolio and we take our beer very seriously.  So seriously, that both of the owners of Exit Strategy up and left their “real” jobs to create and operate Forest Park’s first and only brewery.

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Park District Of Oak Park

Exit Strategy Brewing Company

Exit Strategy Brewing Company

In partnership with the community, we enrich lives by providing meaningful experiences through programs, parks, and facilities.

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