• With your $395 donation, we will pick a date on the calendar for you to sponsor the entirety of the meal. If you would like a special meal to be made (please remember it must be vegetarian), please make this request at the time of scheduling. If you are sponsoring from your small business, we will promote your business on our pages, groups, and promotional materials. If you are donating in the memory of a loved one, we will honor them on our pages as well as taking a moment before meal service to remember them.
    Previous Sponsors: BDM Auctions, Adam Stranc in Memory of Al and Wanda Stranc, Jody Gawlthrop in Memory of her mother.

  • With your $250 donation, we will pick a date on the calendar for you to sponsor the ingredients for that week. If you would like a special meal to be made (please remember it must be vegetarian), please make this request at the time of scheduling. If you are sponsoring from your small business, we will promote your business on our pages, groups, and promotional materials. If you are donating in the memory of a loved one, we will honor them on our pages as well as taking a moment before meal service to remember them.

    Previous Sponsors: Nana Clare’s Kitchen, The Pol Family in Memory of Rodney Pol, Sr.

  • With your $95 donation, we will pick a date on the calendar for you to sponsor the kitchen rent. If you are sponsoring from your small business, we will promote your business on our pages, groups, and promotional materials. If you are donating in the memory of a loved one, we will honor them on our pages as well as taking a moment before meal service to remember them.

  • With your $50 donation, we will pick a date on the calendar for you to sponsor the packaging for this meal. If you are sponsoring from your small business, we will promote your business on our pages, groups, and promotional materials. If you are donating in the memory of a loved one, we will honor them on our pages as well as taking a moment before meal service to remember them.

  • When you decide to sponsor a donation drive, we will pick a date on the calendar and you will have the support of our donation team for any questions. Your organization will be collecting only the ingredients needed for that meal. If extras are collected and we can not use or store them for Feed the Region, we will partner with other NWI organizations and families to make sure the food is used as quickly as possible. Please do not collect monetary donations as part of your donation drive. If you would like a special meal to be made (please remember it must be vegetarian), please make this request at the time of scheduling. If you are sponsoring from your small business, we will promote your business on our pages, groups, and promotional materials. If you are donating in the memory of a loved one, we will honor them on our pages as well as taking a moment before meal service to remember them.

    Previous Sponsors: Discovery Trackers 4-H Club

  • A fantastic opportunity for team building! Your organization will take over our kitchen for one meal. You help our core team cook for 100 NWI residents during a 3.5 hour shift that includes the Prep, Cooking, Baking, Serving, and Cleaning. If you would like a special meal to be made (please remember it must be vegetarian), please make this request at the time of scheduling. If you are sponsoring from your small business, we will promote your business on our pages, groups, and promotional materials. If you are donating in the memory of a loved one, we will honor them on our pages as well as taking a moment before meal service to remember them. If you need volunteer hours, Chef Steph will sign these at the end of the night.

    Time: Thursdays at 5 for cooking, 6:30 for everyone else.

    Cooking Team- Prep, Cook, Bake

    Packaging Team- ensure even orders, ensure proper safety seal, ensure, proper labeling especially for allergens, ensure proper cooling for frozen meals.

    Serving Team- Greet and thank our guests. Ask how much food they need and if any of their people have allergies. Ask if they need any plates/utensils/water.

    Cleaning Team- clean dishes while cooking team works and afterwards. Clean the spills immediately, ensure a clean kitchen during down time. Help leave the kitchen even cleaner than we started.

    Previous Sponsors: CVR’s IL Account Executive Team, the band Black Sunrise

  • Do you have a public space that will help us put on benefit concerts, art shows, lemonade stands, and other ideas our Creative Team has come up with? Please reach out to us to sponsor an event.

    If you are sponsoring from your small business, we will promote your business on our pages, groups, and promotional materials. If you are donating in the memory of a loved one, we will honor them on our pages as well as taking a moment during the event.

    Previous Sponsors: Porter County Aging and Community Services

  • Wintrust is featuring Feed the Region for its Non-Profit Days at the August 2nd SouthShore Railcats game.

    Radius Crown Point and Radius Valparaiso feature Chef Steph Pierogi on their menu- each purchase helps our weekly meals.

    Does your business have a way to feature Feed the Region? We’d love this! Please contact us today!

Our Process

Engage the Community

We know that the best way to help the community is by small, consistent, contributions from our neighbors. We engage directly with the community to source donations, volunteers, and to spread the word. Click here to Get Involved.

Train Volunteers

Volunteers are trained with our mission in mind. Not only do we feed our neighbors, but we treat them with dignity. Volunteers are trained to be safe and helpful but also to know that we are all one community who succeeds together. Click here to see Upcoming Volunteer Orientations.

Feed the Region

Each week we gather at Nana Clare’s in Valparaiso Indiana to cook for and serve our neighbors. We do so with joy and love so that the food nourishes bellies and hearts alike. Click here to see when the next Feed The Region meal will be served.

Repeat!

We encourage small, continuous involvement so that we can continue to fight food insecurity in The Region until it is eradicated completely from our community. Check out our FAQ for more information.

Let's Talk!

Have Questions? We’d love to hear from you. Please allow 24 hours for response.