We ended up collecting 4065 cans between February and December 2025, and we're eager to continue this work in 2026.
Donate directly to Pilsen Food Pantry or reach out today to find out how you can join our collection!
We ended up collecting 4065 cans between February and December 2025, and we're eager to continue this work in 2026.
Donate directly to Pilsen Food Pantry or reach out today to find out how you can join our collection!
Get trained, then remotely answer reference questions submitted by incarcerated individuals around the country.
Librarians were made for this!
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A table with small plastic storage bags and whistle "Form a Crowd" zines in various states of being folded.
We were in Back of the Yards today, participating in a whistlemania event.
400 whistles were packed for distribution to various Chicagoland communities.
Have you had a chance to connect with others to help out our neighbors?
Two plastic bags filled with tamales, sitting on a front passenger car seat.
Three plastic bags filled with tamales, resting on a back passenger floor of a car.
Five plastic bags filled with tamales, resting on a back passenger floor of a car.
In an effort to get tamaleros in La Villita home as early in the day as possible, to avoid I.C.E. and CBP, we bought one out. We bought out three yesterday.
All tamales are being distributed to families in need.
Want to contribute funds? Send a DM!
Multiple 4-packs of wool winter socks are piled in front of Little Hotties branded hand warmers.
We've begun putting together 34 warming kits for the unhoused.
When we're done, they'll have socks, hand warmers, gloves, and cash.
Please reach out if you'd like to contribute!
Calling all IL libraries!
@illibraryassoc.bsky.social
@railslibraries.bsky.social
![A flyer that says "Yes - we can! Benefits the Pilsen Food Pantry https://www.pilsenfoodpantry.com/recycle | 1850+ cans collected since February 2025 | Contribute your rinsed aluminum cans today! We'll crush them. Contact the coordinator at: CARE.PLAN@shhhyeah.com [Pilson Food Pantry logo]"
The text is in golden-yellow and white. The background image depicts aluminum soda, beer, and flavored water cans.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6ehvqppzqvsbluwp6rdmm5k5/bafkreifij5v5gdcwkitrcnapcngnmdce764sjyo7rup7b62i6nqzuqvco4@jpeg)
A flyer that says "Yes - we can! Benefits the Pilsen Food Pantry https://www.pilsenfoodpantry.com/recycle | 1850+ cans collected since February 2025 | Contribute your rinsed aluminum cans today! We'll crush them. Contact the coordinator at: CARE.PLAN@shhhyeah.com [Pilson Food Pantry logo]" The text is in golden-yellow and white. The background image depicts aluminum soda, beer, and flavored water cans.
Want to contribute? Be in touch today!
Interested in printing a flyer to hang around your neighborhood and/or at your local library (see your local library's policy to determine feasibility)? We're happy to email you a PDF copy.
A purple plastic bin filled with crushed aluminum cans and a plastic grocery bag, also filled with crushed aluminum cans, rests on top. Patches of grass and a trash receptacle are in the background.
Another librarian-led donation, from a Park Ridge Public Library staff member, made to the Pilsen Food Pantry's aluminum can collection.
Every bit counts in helping alleviate food insecurity in the Chicago area!
To read up on the PFP's use of crushed cans, read here:
www.pilsenfoodpantry.com/recycle
5 white garbage bags sitting on the ground in the foreground, dumpsters a few feet to the back. Behind the dumpsters, on a tin metal structure, it reads "Pilsen Food Pantry" and underneath "Aqui se puede"
We dropped off a little over 1100 crushed cans this afternoon at the Pilsen Food Pantry.
Cans were collected, between February and July, from library workers at Westmont, Waukegan, and Roselle Public libraries.
We're still collecting, so reach out to get information on how you can contribute!
www.linkin-libraries.org/iii/encore/r...
pinnacle.polarislibrary.com/polaris/sear...
catalog.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/...
The book cover to Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba. The cover is orange and yellow with blue and white typography, and drifts for silhouettes if people raising their hands, held together, into the air.
Join CARE-PLAN Sunday, August 17 at 8PM for an online discussion of Let This Radicalize You.
DM to RSVP and get the link. Hope to see you there!
You can place a hold:
chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S1...
ccs.polarislibrary.com/polaris/sear...
With the depraved and hateful legislation the T*ump administration has been passing in his first 6 months in office, and the illegal and heinous kidnappings of immigrants and citizens they've made, it's important that we take care of us.
Email CARE[dot]PLAN[at]shhhyeah[dot]com with any questions.
Block Club Chicago:
blockclubchicago.org
(Chicago independent news)
Youth Outlook:
youth-outlook.org
(support for queer youth)
Chicago Freedom School:
www.chicagofreedomschool.org
(social justice leadership development for youth)
Westchester Food Pantry:
westchesterfoodpantry.org
(food pantry)
The Friendship Center:
friendshipcenterchicago.org
(food pantry)
A Safe Haven Foundation:
www.asafehaven.org
(housing support for those experiencing homelessness)
Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for Educational Success:
www.chicagohopesforkids.org
(support for students/families experiencing homelessness)
Chicago Furniture Bank:
www.chicagofurniturebank.org
(help furnish homes for families in need)
A screenshot of donations made to Chicago-area organizations, including Youth Outlook, Westchester Food Pantry, and The Friendship Center. After each org is named, it states "Use: Where it's needed most", "Acknowledgement: Anonymous", "Timing: ASAP", and "$75"
6x/year (Jan, Mar, May, July, Sep, Nov), we pool together donations and give to 8 Chicago-area organizations. Here's a look at 3 (see photo). Scroll for a list of all 8.
Chicago-area library workers who want to contribute, no matter the amount, should reach out. Happy to confirm identity via email.
Two white paper bags, filled with canned foods, sitting on concrete with a brick wall in the background.
One librarian's contribution to @lettercarriers.bsky.social's #StampOutHunger food drive.
We hope to see more from other library workers!
Libraries 🫱🏽🫲🏿 Post Office
A black cabinet, with windows in its doors, in the Berwyn Public Library's vestibule. Information on food and health are on top of the cabinet, an empty shelving unit is to its right, and a plaque hangs on the wall above it.
We stopped by the Berwyn Public Library (2701 South Harlem Ave, Berwyn, IL 60402) to leave some goodies in the Little Free Food Pantry.
Does your Chicago-area library have a food pantry? Have you made a contribution? Let us know!
Thanks to library workers from Roselle, Waukegan, and Westmont public libraries.
Please consider having your org join in the collection.
1000 cans, here we come!
We've been collecting aluminum cans (soda, beer, sparkling water, etc.) for almost 3 months, to donate to the Pilsen Food Pantry (www.pilsenfoodpantry.com/recycle) and are excited to share that we've just passed 500 cans! 🎉
The first 272 took two months, while the remaining came in throughout April
A photo of printed speech bubbles in various colors, each starting with "Did you know?" and sharing a fact about the USPS.
A photo of a shelf in a public library, with a USPS book display arranged on the top shelf. A sign for the display reads "It's in the mail!"
I spy with my little eye, a display on the US Postal Service at Round Lake Area Public Library!
Public services deserve our protection from privatization, so we love to see support from one public service to another. ♥️💌📬
Has your library done a display in support of democracy? Let us know!