Respond Now ultimately wants to create a supermarket-like experience for clients of the pantry and is preparing an expansion of the space, according to Carl Wolf, executive director.
Carl Wolf, executive director of Respond Now in Chicago Heights, inside the nonprofit’s food pantry on April 22, 2024. A Chicago Heights nonprofit has received a federal grant of $850,000 that it will use to remodel and expand a food pantry that has seen a surge in demand in recent years.
Food pantry customers now select from a menu of food items, with volunteers packaging it. The goal is to allow clients to browse through the selection of food, including perishable and nonperishable items. The pantry also stocks other items, such as diapers. Refrigerators and freezers with glass doors like a grocery story will be installed, along with displays of fresh fruits and vegetables, he said.
It has garnered close to $1 million, including a donation of $600,000 from the Perkins Malo Hunter Foundation, Wolf said. Part of that was due to food benefits allowances being increased during the pandemic, which have since gone away, and part of the more recent increase is due to a number of asylum-seeking families looking for help with groceries, Wolf said.
A plaque inside the food pantry at Respond Now in Chicago Heights shows the pantry is dedicated to Maureen Miller, a longtime volunteer.
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