Chicago Chapter

Over the past seven years, Blessings in a Backpack has grown in the Greater Chicago region from providing weekend food for 1,470 students to more than 5,850 students. But, this is just a starting point. With more than 290,000 children facing food insecurity in the area, we need to do more.

With the help of community leaders like you, Blessings in a Backpack has launched a Chicago Chapter. This chapter, in partnership with the national organization and under the direction of a regional advisory board and a managing director, will drive scalable growth to feed 10,000 children on the weekends throughout the school year by 2023!

Over the past 10 years, Blessings has grown mostly through word-of-mouth. We are now at the point in our maturity to drive growth in targeted regions like Chicago. Our experience from other markets in which we have launched staff-driven chapters, paired with insights from a pro bono project with the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Social Enterprise, has resulted in best practices and a replicable chapter development model. We are excited to be using this model in the Chicago region to drive scalable, sustainable growth.