Your Voice Matters: Share Your SNAP Story

Tens of thousands of Illinoisans recently lost their SNAP benefits, leaving families, local food pantries, and neighborhood grocery stores struggling to fill the gap.

If you have been affected by these cuts–or have witnessed their impact firsthand–we want to hear your story. Whether you're a parent trying to feed your family, a pantry volunteer seeing increased demand, or a local grocer serving your community, your experience matters.

By sharing your story, you can help policymakers, community leaders, and fellow Illinoisans understand the real consequence of SNAP cuts.

Your voice can help raise awareness, strengthen advocacy efforts, and drive meaningful change. Stories move people to act, and are a reminder that policies impact our lives.

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Share Your SNAP Story

Your story matters. Thank you for being willing to share it and help us fight for the nearly 2 million Illinoisans who depend on SNAP.

Your stories may be used to support advocacy conversations in Springfield and D.C., shared across the Save Our SNAP coalition's website and social media channels and offered to media outlets covering the fight to protect food assistance in Illinois.

Your contact information including your name can be used anonymous by checking the box below.

Enter your name and details:

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Are you open to sharing your name with your story or would you prefer to be anonymous?

If I record a video:

I hereby authorize the Greater Chicago Food Depository and its agents (collectively, the "Food Depository") to use information about me, my biographical information and my stories (collectively "Materials") in marketing/communications including, without limitation, advertising; newsletters; opinion articles; press releases; newscasts; social media; and websites. I authorize the Food Depository to share the details of my personal story in its marketing/communications and to allow its funders, program partners and media partners to use the Materials. I certify that the information I provided is accurate. The Food Depository has no obligation to use the Materials, but if it does, it may edit them in any way it sees fit. I hereby assign all rights, title and interest (including all copyrights) in and to the Materials to the Food Depository. To the fullest extent permitted by law, in exchange for the opportunity to provide the Materials and for other good and valuable consideration, I hereby release, forever discharge and hold harmless the Food Depository from any and all liability, claims and demands of whatever kind or nature arising out of or in connection with the use of the Materials, including claims for libel, defamation, and rights of privacy and publicity. This grant is not limited in time and I will not receive compensation for granting this permission.

Your Voice Matters: Share Your SNAP Story

Tens of thousands of Illinoisans recently lost their SNAP benefits, leaving families, local food pantries, and neighborhood grocery stores struggling to fill the gap.

By sharing your story, you can help policymakers, community leaders, and fellow Illinoisans understand the real consequence of SNAP cuts.

Your voice can help raise awareness, strengthen advocacy efforts, and drive meaningful change. Stories move people to act, and are a reminder that policies impact our lives.