Since 2020, we have reliably provided healthy meals to people who are food insecure.
The generous will be blessed, for they share their food with the poor.
— Proverbs 22:9
More hungry mouths, fewer hands to feed them.
During the pandemic, lockdowns and shelter-in-place orders meant there were not nearly enough on-site volunteers to help make and distribute food to the homeless and the skyrocketing numbers of unemployed.
To fill this gap, Project22Nine found a way to repurpose high-quality, healthy, fresh pre-cooked meals — the overproduction of subscription meal programs — to the kitchens and pantries that needed them most. This effort has scaled to deliver between 15-30,000 very high-quality, never frozen, gluten-free meals to people in need every single week.
The number of high quality meals we’ve delivered since May 2020:
Total count as of 4/29/25
We do all of this with the help of a small fleet of volunteers and a healthy inventory of FDA approved 5-gallon buckets, but it is not without expense. We need your contributions to:
• Maintain, insure and fuel our delivery truck
• Rent additional trucks as needed
• Procure FDA-approved supplies
• Pay for storage
• Purchase individual portioning equipment and packaging
• Provide our volunteers proper safety equipment
While God has provided so much in the way of ready-to-eat food for us to deliver thousands of meals a week, our expenses grow weekly and will continue to do so as we triple our services in the next year.
Please help us insure this ministry of sustenance continues for as long as it is needed. Once our communities can return to a more normal routine, we look forward to resuming the amazing projects we left behind. These include the development of a 40-acre farm in Lemont that will provide fresh vegetables for the pantries and kitchens we support now, and a 100-acre orchard in Carbondale that will help support an entire monastery in Arkansas. God has so much in store for so many beautiful Catholic nonprofits, and Project22Nine will be here to help assure that work gets done.
“The generous will be blessed, for they share their food with the poor.”
Proverbs 22:9