| Business Name | How They're Helping | How You Can Help |
| Assembly Creators Market Evanston |
Reyes Witt, owner of Assembly Creators, partnered with small business fashion and professional sewers to found Sewn Together Chicago, a project to keep designers working and keep you covered. The unique mask construction provides full coverage. 70% of each sale goes to the small business owner making the mask. | Purchase Here Donate Here |
| Becky and Me Toys Evanston |
Peggy Seibert of Becky & Me Toys received a call from a customer who wanted to assist families during the stay-at-home order. The customer donated $500 to purchase educational games, toys and arts & crafts and Peggy and her daughter Becky coordinated with local school social workers to find families in need. | |
| Bookends and Beginnings Evanston |
Bookends & Beginnings has started a GoFundMe site to assist their employees during this time and is also donating 10% of total donations of your donation with the Book Industry Charitable Foundation —BINC—a nonprofit foundation that gives life-sustaining grants to individual booksellers and bookstores across the country facing a crisis. | Donate Here |
| Catered by Design | Catered by Design has delivered countless meals to area police departments and hospitals. | |
| Chicago Boudoir Photography Winnetka |
Chicago Boudoir is partnering with Soul & Smoke, a local catering business that is donating meals to those in need and to the frontline essential workers. If you make a $99 donation to the cause, you'll receive a $379 Chicago Boudoir Gift Certificate. | Donate Here |
| Comida Cantina Evanston |
This restaurant has only been open for a short time but is making a big impact. Comida Cantina is donating meals to hospital staff on a continuous basis. | |
| Culvers Skokie |
Donated 300 Burgers/sides to Evanston Hospital and donated more to the testing site for North Shore University Health Systems in Skokie. | |
| Curt's Cafe Evanston |
Curt's Cafe holds such gratitude to our amazing students, staff and volunteers who have prepared and delivered over 3,500 meals for 3 different agencies serving individuals in need over the past two weeks. | Donate Here |
| Dairy Queen Grill and Chill Northbrook |
Buy a $20 fundrasing giftcard with $100 worth of coupons that never expire. Helps to pay employees and pay for supplies. Set up a delivery to any hospital, nursing home, police/ fire stations, grocery stores, etc. | Purchase Here Order Here |
| Di Pescara Northbrook |
Di Pescara's team has set up The Lettuce Entertain You Employee Emergency Relief Fund to contribute to the financial support of their Lettuce team members during this national health emergency. | Donate Here |
| Downtown Evanston | Downtown Evanston Supporting small businesses in Evanston - Purchase a $10 raffle ticket for a chance to win gift cards from Downtown Evanston businesses. Winner will be selected on May 30th. All proceeds will go to Lend Evanston – which is suppling grants to small businesses. | Purchase Here |
| FASTSIGNS of Skokie Skokie |
FASTSIGNS of Skokie is donating banners and yard signs to any temporary testing facilities. | |
| Feast & Imbibe Evanston |
D'Andre Carter and Heather Bublick, owners of Feast & Imbibe and Soul 'N Smoke have given out 1500 meals to people in need and emergency health workers through community purchased meals. In addition, other local restaurants like Koi Evanston are donating meals that are then distributed to those in need. This initiative will continue to cook and individually package the meals and offer free no-touch deliveries to anyone in need in the community. | Donate Here |
| Few Spirits Evanston |
Proudly donated ethanol to their friends at Meliora and they gave them back sanitizer. Donated to the Evanston Police Department and St Francis Hospital. | |
| Firehouse Grill Evanston |
Continues to support the community in so many ways. They have donated over 150 meals to Connections for the Homeless! | |
| Found/The Barn Steakhouse Evanston |
Owner Amy Morton and her team are providing 100 plus breakfast meals for homeless people that are currently living at Connections for the Homeless emergency housing sites. | |
| Frank & Betsie's Glencoe |
Frank & Betsie's is raising funds for the Greater Chicago Food Depository. To make your generous contribution, please click donate here. Thank you! | Donate Here |
| Fred's Garage Winnetka |
Has donated meals to Kellogg Cancer Center at Highland Park Hospital and other departments. | |
| Great Harvest Bread Evanston |
Donated sweets, pastries and coffee to Evanston Hospital staff. | |
| Grill House Northbrook |
Donated rice, uncooked hamburgers and chicken breast to SD27 for lunch deliveries thru Lunch Solutions. Also gave 1,000 free meal coupons for kids to SD 24,28 and 31. Check their Facebook page for charitable events in the community. Schools, food pantry, teachers and first responders have been helped. | |
| Hewn Bread Evanston |
Customers can purchase a Neighbor Loaf (or as many as they would like), on Hewn's online store, and the loaves get donated to the Hillside Food Pantry in Evanston. This initiative supports the farmers, the millers, the bakery and the people who are in need of food. Over two weeks, they have made almost 1,000 loaves for the Food Pantry. | Donate Here |
| Jennifer's Edibles Evanston |
Jennifer Eason and William Eason of Jennifer's Edibles have been providing free delivered dinners to Evanston's seniors and those most vulnerable to Covid-19. The restaurant, now closed and solely focused on this effort, have a growing group of volunteers who shop for, prepare, and deliver the meals. The goal is to increase their capacity to serve 100 seniors every day for the next 30 days, many of for whom it's the only meal they eat. | Donate Here |
| Koi Evanston |
Koi Fine Asian Cuisine in Evanston are happy to provide 20 free meals daily to our restaurant industry workers who are in need of food during this difficult time. Please consider buying a meal and donate to the people who are in need. Koi Box Dinners are $10 each. You may select quantity of the meals you wish to donate. Your Gift will be use immediately to provide food for hungry people, low income families in our community, Northshore Hospitals staff, Hospitality Industry Workers, Connections for Homeless, etc. Thank you for your support of the Koi Community Fund during Covid-19. We are in this together! Evanston Endures- Sandy Chen |
Donate Here |
| La Cocinita Evanston |
Owners Rachel and Benoit Angulo have set up a GoFundMe site to collect donations to provide meals for Emergency Response Teams working the frontlines of the Covid-19 pandemic. The restaurant is discounting their typical meal costs and providing free, no-contact delivery | Donate Here |
| Lulu's Evanston |
Has sent food to every Police Officer, EMT, Firefighter, departments at Evanston Hospital. Community strength, community pride. | |
| Makisu Skokie |
Sending meals to Lincolnwood first responders | |
| Mesa Urbana Northbrook |
Helping with financial assistance for staff. Purchase gift card - 50% of each sale will be donated to employee relief effort. | Donate Here |
| NaKorn Evanston |
While owners Sam Rattanos and Mina made the difficult decision to close their restaurant, they are keeping some staff to prepare meals to donate to those in need. Prior to closing, Nakorn delivered 76 meals to Jacob Blake Tower, a local affordable housing community for the elderly, and donated about 15 cases of fresh produce to Feast & Imbibe to help them prepare free meals | Donate Here |
| Northern Fork Catering Company Chicago |
In this time of need, Northern Fork is reaching out to our neighbors to help us in providing meals to our incredibly hard-working medical and first responder personnel. Just $10 provides an individually packaged meal and snack to help keep our doctors, nurses, EMTs, and critical responders fed and healthy as they are tackling the growing health crisis. | Donate Here |
| P.F. Changs Northbrook |
The Lucky Cat Assistance Fund for all team members to provide financial assistance. 15% of every giftcard sale to LCAF. | Purchase Here |
| Plateia Mediterranean Kitchen-Bar Glenview |
Asking local community to help them by donating money to feed first responders. Every time they hit $300, free meals are provided to emergency responders. For every $ donated, they provide 20-50 meals including delivery. Go to the form on their special Facebook page or call 847-296-2230. | Donate Here |
| Pressed Skokie |
Donated food for Skokie NorthShore Hospital. | Donate Here |
| Stacked and Folded Social House Evanston |
Donated food for health care workers at Lutheran General Hospital. Stacked and Folded truly appreciates the support from the community and are grateful to be able to help out any way they can! | |
| Stumble & Relish Evanston |
Stumble & Relish is asking customers and the community to sponsor $50 gift bags. They then fill each bag with up to $75 worth if merchandise. The bags are given to local hospital staff. It benefits the healthcare worker with a gift of gratitude, the customers showing an act of kindness and Stumble & Relish can continue to keep the business afloat while continuing to work with her small business makers for more inventory. |
Donate Here |
| Ten Ninety Brewing Co. Glenview |
Making hand sanitizer. Donating to Glenbrook Hospital. | |
| Ten Thousand Villages Evanston |
Never has Ten Thousand Villages global and local Mission been so essential, yet so at risk. They are faced with unprecedented challenges that threaten their ability to continue their Mission. The grinding halt of our economy and the temporary closure of their store means they also lost their main mechanism to carry out their Mission and support Artisans. By purchasing Artisans' hand crafted product, Ten Thousand Villages is the main support for thousands living in the world's most vulnerable countries, COVID-19 is exacerbating global socio-economic disparities, and now they must ask for your help in a way they haven't before. They need your financial help to support their store so they can continue to support Artisans. They've also converted their Free Library to a Free Pantry. Please take what you need..... please add to it if you can. |
Donate Here |
| Toffe Break Desserts Northbrook |
With every chocolate dipping kit purchased, a sweet treat will be donated to the local food pantry. $23.95/each. | Purchase Here or call 847-564-5131 |
| Village Inn Pizzeria Skokie |
When ordering please try to donate a canned food item. All items will be given to the Niles Food Pantry. For every pizza purchased on Monday, we will donate a personal pizza to the hospital staff of a local hospital including Evanston Hospital, Lutheran General, Glenbrook NorthShore and Swedish Hospital! |
Donate Here |
| Westfield Old Orchard Skokie |
Westfield Old Orchard did a #FeelGoodFriday last week in the community to support all the great local initiatives. They donated funds to the following organizations: -$500 No kid hungry Chicago which equals 5,000 meals -$1,500 Greater Chicago Food Depository (which services Niles) -CPK catered lunch for Skokie Police Department ($315). DoorDash wouldn’t wait for the delivery so the CPK GM actually delivered the order on Westfield Old Orchard's behalf #Awesome -Shake Shack lunch for local ER hospital workers at Skokie Hospital ($300) This week they are going to partner with Feast & Imbibe, a local catering company they use for Uncorked events, and are going to be supporting their efforts to feed the local community. Currently Feast & Imbibe is delivering 250 meals/day to seniors and underserved families in our immediate market. Westfield Old Orchard is going to encourage local donations and match any up to $1000. They are joining forces with the O'Hare Airport team to donate funds to support Columbia College Fashion Students who are currently making masks for people in need. Literally these fashion students are sewing masks from home, disinfecting them and shipping them to healthcare workers. Westfield Old Orchard sent Shake Shack to our Skokie first responders to say thank you for keeping our community safe. Thank you for everything you do. #westfieldcares |
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