Care For Friends

We reserved a Tee time 🏌️ Will your bring your A-Game?

We’re collaborating with Halsted for another chill gathering in support of Care for Friends! ⛳️

➕PLUS! Give the good folks a heads up you’re with CFF and 20% of your tab goes directly to supporting our neighbors with wrap-around services including nutritious meals, groceries, clothing and toiletries, medical care, and social services.

Big Mini Putt Club is a family-friendly bar with a great NA menu, some food, games, and a small indoor mini-golf course. 🙆🏼

Hope you can play with us or stop by and say hello!

Food security is the reliable access to a sufficient amount of healthy and affordable food for all people, regardless of their status, ethnicity, gender, religion, or class.

Food security is not a reality for many of our friends in Chicago. In fact, at least 19% of Chicagoans are food insecure and those with children are at an even greater risk. With the rising cost of living and constant changes to SNAP benefits, many of our friends are left wondering if they can cut any more costs in their food budget.

At CFF, food is at the heart of what we do. From running a hot meal program, to operating a food pantry, and delivering food to over 25 wards. We are there.

Wanna know how you can be there for your friends in Chicago? Check out the link in our bio

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Meet Annie and Melissa — our new OT interns from DePaul University. They are BEYOND excited to learn and connect with new people over the next few months. Visit them every Thursday at our Edgewater location at 5749 N Kenmore Ave.

2025 has been the most transformative year for Care For Friends. And each step of the way we had you.

We couldn’t do any of this without you. Yes, you reading this right now! Without you we would not be able to provide 654 families with monthly nutritional assistance via our CarePack Grocery Delivery Program.

There wouldn’t be 13,181 three-course meals served to our friends in Chicago without you.

Or 1,737 visits to our pantry.

Without you, we couldn’t distribute 70,000+ pounds of food across all our programs.

Everything we do is only possible through the collective strength of our community - and this past year, our community grew stronger than ever.

Whether you stopped in one day to lend an hour of your time, or followed us on social media, or donated, or told a friend about us. You are the reason for any success we share.

Without you there is no community, and there is certainly no us. So pat yourself on the back because you made 2025 happen 💚💙

We can’t wait to see all the greatness you have in store for 2026