The Chicago Anti-Hunger Federation is committed to helping alleviate hunger in metropolitan Chicago. Through their efforts, 150,000 Chicagoans receive over 3 million meals each year. Beyond serving meals, CAHF provides job training for underemployed and welfare-to-work members of our community. CAHF is also committed to teaching and providing healthy meals to urban youth whose lack of nutritional options can lead to problems with obesity and diabetes. GiveForward chose CAHF to be one of the three organizations preventing homelessness because of their commitment to provide healthy food for Chicago's hungry. CAHF is an organization that meets the immediate needs of Chicago's soup kitchens, food banks, and emergency shelters. Without organizations like CAHF, thousands of Chicagoans would go hungry each day. Meeting this basic human need, allows impoverished citizens to focus on other things like finding work and a permanent home.

StreetWise is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to empower men and women who currently are, or at risk of becoming homeless. StreetWise accomplishes this mission by publishing a magazine which is sold to these men and women (whom they refer to as "vendors"), and they in turn sell it on the street for a profit. The publication is not a hand-out, but rather an opportunity for these vendors to become financially self-sufficient through gainful employment. The GiveForward Team is excited to support Streetwise for several reasons. First, we believe that giving individuals the ability to earn a salary provides self esteem and self worth to a portion of society humbled by poverty. Second, we think that informing young people about what Streetwise really is will change the way they look at the vendors on our corners. And finally, we are moved by the passion and creative problem solving of this organization that gave Chicago's homeless a way to improve their lives a little each day.