Helping kids make healthier choices by connecting the lessons children learn in their classrooms to the foods they eat on their lunch trays, at home, and in their communities.
You can help support Pilot Light in feeding more young minds by making a donation to our Let’s Grow! Annual Fund today.
Your donation can support a lesson, buy a lunch or sponsor a year of programming.
Educators passionate about food and nutrition will be trained in a cohort for the upcoming year.
We encourage you to apply or nominate others who you think would be a great fit.
Become a certified educator.
Bring Pilot Light to your school. Assist with program delivery. Nominate a passionate teacher.
Enlist your favorite Chicago chef.
Attend an event.
Donate generously.
Our ever-growing team needs champions of food and nutrition, who are willing and able to help us achieve our goals.
Join Us!
Upcoming EventsCooking Up Achievement in the Classroom: The Case for Food Education
6:00 pm- 8:00 pmIda Noyes Theater, 1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
5th Annual Feed Your Mind Gala
Revel Fulton Market 1215 W Fulton Market, Chicago, IL 60607
August 2, 2017
By Brenna Gordon O’Dea Peach season is upon us and boy is it SWEET. Okay, so the exact parameters of peach season are a bit hazy, or as The New York Times puts it perfectly, fuzzy. But one thing is for sure, when it comes to summer peaches, when you get a good one, you […]
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