Our Sincere Thank You

To Those Who Contribute to Our Success

• The St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church community, our wonderful, supportive St. Francis de Sales community, who always steps up when we have special needs, whether it be for specific foods, monetary donations, or labor.
• Our student volunteers, from the Interact Club at Lake Zurich High School.
• Our friends at the Long Grove Lions Club, for their very generous cash donation.
• Our friends at the Rotary Club of Lake Zurich, for their continuing monetary support of our Thursday night food pantry operations and generous donation of new and used books to our food pantry customers on a regular basis.
• Our friends at the Lake Zurich Lions Club, for their unfaltering, continuing support.
• Jewel, Mariano's, Sunset Foods, Target, Wal Mart, Aldi, and Trader Joes.
  All of us at the St. Vincent de Paul’s Lake Zurich Conference extend our heart-felt thanks to these local establishments for their on-going, enthusiastic support.
• Our Food Pantry Harvesters, for the steadfast effort they put forth providing this critical pick-up service.
• Our Fresh Produce Suppliers (St. Francis de Sales Church’s Jubilee Garden and the Smart Farm in South Barrington) who, in the Summer, donate locally-grown produce. A special and continuing thanks for this treasured donation.
• Our Service partners, like Good Shepherd Hospital, Barrington, who bring various health screenings and flu shots to our food pantry customers during throughout the year.
• Our Large Family of Volunteers, so critical to the success of our organization.
  We appreciate the selfless hours they donate in service to our community. So many times we forget to thank those who show up every Thursday or work behind the scenes throughout the week, be it on case work, writing thank you letters, financial work, unloading trucks in frigid or sweltering temperatures, packing food boxes, ordering food and supplies, working on the endless paperwork and computer details ~ the list goes on and on.  We appreciate those who share their smiles and hearts with our clients and everyone who makes up our beautiful SVDPLZ Family.