Northern Illinois Food Bank receives $10,000 grant from Compier Financial Fund for Rural America

Jenny Ackerman (left) of the Northern Illinois Food Bank receives a $10,000 grant from Koren Besic and Jodi Damico (right) of Compia Financial.
Courtesy of Northern Illinois Food Bank

The Northern Illinois Food Bank recently received a $10,000 grant from Compia Financial’s Rural America Fund. The awarded funds will be used to support improvements to the organization’s food distribution center.

Collen Besic and Jodi D’Amico of Compeer’s Naperville office presented the funds at a check presentation event.

Compeer Financial’s Fund for Rural America, the Farm Credit Cooperative’s giving program, awarded 34 general use grants totaling $190,975. In line with Compeer Financial’s mission, these grants fund initiatives and organizations that enrich agriculture and rural America.

The Compeer Financial Fund for Rural America is a corporate giving program of Compeer Financial designed to support Compeer Financial’s mission to enrich agriculture and rural America. Compeer Financial’s Board of Directors dedicates 1% of annual adjusted net income to support the foundation’s focus areas of agricultural advocacy and development, agricultural education, cooperative initiatives, rural development and community enrichment, and youth engagement. I am.

“Our foundation is proud to provide support to the communities where our team members live and work,” said Karen Sheeler, senior corporate giving specialist at Compia Financial. “Public use grants directly contribute to the health and vibrancy of rural America. These innovative ideas and efforts make a lasting difference.”

“Thanks to the support of partners like Compia Financial, the Northern Illinois Food Bank network serves more than 500,000 neighbors each month across 13 rural and suburban counties in Northern Illinois. ” said Maven Sipes, chief philanthropy officer at Northern Illinois Food Bank. “This grant will help us continue to provide our neighbors facing food insecurity with access to the nutritious and healthy food they need to thrive.”

For more information about the Northern Illinois Food Bank, visit SolveHungerToday.org.