Community
Eli’s has been very active in Chicago, and especially the Dunning neighborhood. Eli’s partners with schools and organizations such as Wilbur Wright College, the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences (CHSAS), Vaughn Occupational High School, the New Horizon Center for Developmentally Disabled, the Greater Chicago Food Depository, and the Department of Human Services. Eli’s has a Farmers Market on Thursdays during the summer and into the fall with Wilbur Wright College. Eli’s supports CHSAS students by buying their wildflower honey and using it in its cheesecakes, as well as providing job-shadowing opportunities. The Greater Chicago Food Depository and Eli’s partner up for special food drive events like the Magnificent Mile Lights Festival and Sharing It Day, as well as food donations throughout the year. Eli’s was honored by the Department of Human Services with the Spotlight Award, which recognizes companies who advocate for people with disabilities.
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Famous quotes containing the word community:
“Jesus would recommend you to pass the first day of the week rather otherwise than you pass it now, and to seek some other mode of bettering the morals of the community than by constraining each other to look grave on a Sunday, and to consider yourselves more virtuous in proportion to the idleness in which you pass one day in seven.”
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