Community Support

Our Collections will be mainly online and our Distributions will be a combination of drive through and in-person, yet our focus remains – to make Christmas MORE JOYFUL for our neighbors in need! Watch for 2024 Community Support updates to be posted as we receive them.

Northern Illinois Food Bank – Circle of Hope Society – 2024

From the NIFB:  Our Northern Illinois community is made up of neighbors who are there for each other. Sometimes neighbors need help. Sometimes neighbors have help to give. We are all neighbors, working to create a thriving community in Northern Illinois.

Thank you for making our community stronger! Based on your generous giving this past fiscal year (July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024), Northern IL Food Bank is pleased to let you know that Christmas Sharing is part of Northern Illinois Food Bank’s Circle of Hope Society.

The Circle of Hope Society is one way NIFB can recognize Christmas Sharing as one of our most invested neighbors. As a Circle of Hope member, Christmas Sharing is recognized in the Food Bank’s online Fiscal Year 2024 Annual Report and on our Donor Wall at the West Suburban Center in Geneva. Contributors are be listed in ranges of gift amounts for donations made between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024.

In fiscal year 2024 your generous support helped:
• Provide 90.5 million meals to neighbors in need
• Serve an average of 570,000 neighbors each month
• Supported Mobile Market distributions bringing food to convenient locations for neighbors
• Meet the increased demand for food caused by higher prices

City of Wheaton “Christmas Sharing Weekend” Proclamation – 2022

The President of our Christmas Sharing of Wheaton Warrenville Board of Directors accepted a City of Wheaton Proclamation from Mayor Philip J. Seuss designating December 8 and 10, 2022 as “Christmas Sharing Weekend.”

Left to right:  Board President, Julianna Nelligan, Mayor, Philip J. Seuss, Board Member, Liz Lanning

City of Warrenville “Christmas Sharing Week” Proclamation – 2022

Christmas Sharing of Wheaton Warrenville Board Members accepted a City of Warrenville Proclamation from Mayor David L. Brummel designating December 8 and 10, 2022 as “Christmas Sharing Week.”

Left to right: Board Member, Denise DiCianni and Barbara Samuels from Community Baptist Church display the Proclamation in front of a Collection Box at Warrenville City Hall.