Beyond Hunger

Beyond Hunger is a charity based in Oak Park, United States working on poverty & hunger, health.

Beyond Hunger is a non-profit organisation that works to reduce hunger in Oak Park, Chicago and the surrounding communities of Cook County, Illinois. It runs a food pantry and direct hunger relief services, including emergency food, summer meals for children, SNAP benefits connection, nutrition education, cooking classes and home delivery of groceries to homebound older adults and disabled persons. The organisation also provides hunger awareness education and advocates for anti-hunger policy at state and national levels. Founded in the late 1970s as the Hunger Task Force Food Pantry by local volunteers, it was renamed Beyond Hunger in 2019 and operates from the lower level of First United Church of Oak Park.