You can be a part of the fight against hunger by joining The Salvation Army’s online fundraising effort.
Invite friends and relatives to join your fundraising effort and watch as your virtual grocery bag fills with each donation.
Register yourself, your group or business by completing the registration information.
Import your personal address book.
Begin spreading the word by sending emails to friends, families, colleagues or team members.
What are the benefits of participating in The Salvation Army Hunger Campaign?
You can start a time honored tradition of helping others.
Setting up your own virtual grocery bag only takes a couple of minutes.
You can ask others to fill your virtual grocery bag all from the comfort of your home or business.
You are helping The Salvation Army help those in need.
What types of Virtual Grocery Bags are being offered?
Personal - Host your own personal virtual grocery bag, then invite others via email and additional fundraising tools (available online) to fill your grocery bag with online donations. A running count of donations appears on the host’s Individual personal participant page.
Team - Host a fundraising team made up of several individual virtual grocery bags. All donations appearing under each member’s grocery bag are pooled together and automatically reflected on the Team participant page. Donations may be made to the team or to any of the individual team members.
Company - Host a fundraising team made up of several team kettles in a co-branded environment with The Salvation Army. A link to your online company participant page is automatically emailed to you when you register, which you can place on your internet/intranet site or email to your employees, vendors, customers, etc. The amount of money collected in your virtual company grocery bag and in each team grocery bag will be reflected in real time on the company participant page. Donations may be made to any of the teams listed on the company page.
Where will your donations go and who will it help?
All donations given through The Salvation Army Hunger campaign will be:
Processed on The Salvation Army's secure servers. The Salvation Army does not share, sell, or rent donor data to anyone.
Allocated based on the donor's designation either to benefit the geographic area where the donor resides, to the geographic area of the host, or to an area or ministry of The Salvation Army specified by the donor for their gift's use.
Used to help fund the feeding programs provided by The Salvation Army throughout the Greater Chicagoland area:
Food distributions to families and individuals;
Meals for the homeless served by Corps community centers and delivered through the Mobile Feeding Program;
Meals for seniors;
Meals for children in The Salvation Army’s day-care and after-school programs.
HUNGER IN AMERICA
Getting enough food to eat is a daily struggle for a growing number of people.
Many of the people who seek The Salvation Army for assistance ask first, and most often, for groceries.
Data released by the Greater Food Depository and Feeding America show:
Nationally, in 2009
76 percent (10 million) of client households were food insecure, meaning they didn’t always know where they will find their next meal.
36 percent of households were experiencing food insecurity with hunger, meaning they sometimes were completely without a source of food.
39 percent of households reported having to choose between paying for food and paying rent or mortgage.
Chicago and Cook County, in 2009
37 percent of the 678,000 people served were children under 18.
34 percent of households served included at least one employed adult.
44 percent of households reported having to choose between paying for food and paying rent or mortgage.
How do you get started?
