History Of Organization

 Our facility located at 200 South 5th Street in Capron Illinois, was purchased on December 10th 2004.

This building originally  belong to the Capron Fire Department.   When a new fire department was built, the building was sold and used as an auto body shop.

Volunteers work for three months cleaning, painting, repairing, and installing a walk in freezer and cooler as well as shelving  After completing two rooms, we opened our doors to the public on February 1st 2005 reserved 72 families that first month.

We continued to clean, paint,repair and remodel one room at a time until the entire building was usable.  We now have over 4400 square feet filled with food nonfood products, close, household products, and furniture.

We are a 501 © (3) agency and are a registered agent with the Attorney General’s office. We have permits from the Boone County Health Department as well as the Northern Illinois Food Bank in St. Charles and the Hunger Connection in Rockford. We are also a member of the Bright Horizons Rotary Club. We are a registered agency with the Better Business Bureau and our organization is a member of the Belvidere Chamber of Commerce.

We serve all of whom Connie as well as agencies outside of our county.  For instance, we opened our facility to ramp agencies in detail, Rockford, and Belvidere.  Recently we set up four disabled men in a house to live independently for the first time in their adult lives. Our facility provided everything including the food in their cabinets, laundry soap, all kinds of nonfood products, sheets, blankets,  pillows, lots of furniture, washer and dryer, just to name a few things.