take what you need, leave what you can

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our mission

The Love Fridge is a Chicago mutual aid group grounded in food, working to place and sustain community refrigerators across the city. We are powered by reciprocity, mutual respect, and the belief that being able to feed yourself is a right, not a privilege. Our goal is to care for our community while working against food apartheid and food waste, alongside other like-minded community groups.

solidarity not charity

Mutual aid is not a form of charity, but a guiding principle for practicing reciprocal and collective care. Mutual aid networks provide a way to meet the basic needs of the community while allowing each other to contribute what we can to the common good. Put simply, we look out for one another in any way that we are able to.

Illustration of an open refrigerator stocked with food

want to get involved?

  • follow the guidelines

    Food donations from individuals are crucial for keeping our fridges stocked and our communities nourished. We ask that you follow our food donation guidelines to keep our fridges safe and accessible to all.

    read fridge guidelines

  • volunteer your time

    We welcome volunteers to assist with the day-to-day operations that make The Love Fridge possible. Become a fridge manager to maintain our fridges, stock fridges by distributing food from our partners, and help with behind the scenes operations.

    see volunteer opportunities

  • partner with us

    We love to collaborate with community partners to feed Chicago together. Current community collaborations include food donations, farm partnerships, and fridge hosts.

    learn how

Culinary Kits Initiative

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Culinary Kits Initiative ♥

Check out our new Culinary Kits Initiative — designed to assist the community by distributing kits packed with portable kitchen tools, which can be used to cook food anytime and anywhere.

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Love Fridge is celebrating our 4 year anniversary!!! Everyone is invited to join us at the original Love Fridge, the Love Shack (2751 W 21st St), in Little Village next Saturday August 17th from 11am-2pm. We'll have music, snacks, on site printmaking
Join us Thursday, August 8, from 7 to 9 PM for a very special evening Public Works Gallery ( @publicworksgallery ). As an extension of the current exhibition "Be of Love," Public Works is sharing space with our mutal aid organization for
We know it takes a village to keep these fridges clean! For the whole month of June, we're inviting friends and neighbors to head out to your favorite fridge and give it a good scrub down🫧🧼🧽. Feel free to take pics of the squeaky clean fridge and
Please welcome the newest Love Fridge to the network! The Oasis Community Fridge is located in the Hermosa neighborhood, directly in front of the Near North Health Center at 1520 N Kostner. As always, any Love Fridge is available 24/7 for neighbors t
How can you sustain a community fridge? These sites are sustained entirely by the community. That means that everyone pitches in to ensure the sites keep running. One of the best ways to support the fridge is simply by cleaning it. Consider organizi
3rd Year Love Fridge Anniversary, take two! Join Love Fridge this coming Friday, November 3rd, from 7-9pm at Promintory Point for a bonfire and mutual aid hang to celebrate 3 years. We'll be burning logs and playing tunes at the south facing side o
The Love Shack in Little Village was the very first site in the Love Fridge network. In honor of our 3-year anniversary, @jameswurm installed a new bigger fridge, and @dyanapyehchek came back to give it a cosmic paint job glow-up. We love it and hope
Love Fridge is celebrating our 3 year anniversary! Come out and celebrate with us at Rainbow Beach (southside) next Saturday 8/5 from 11 am -3pm. We'll be posted up on the south side of the beach. Enter the park on Farragut off S Lake Shore Drive
The Prairie Ave Love Fridge was given new life at the Breathing Room in the Back of the Yards neighborhood this week. The Breathing Room Love Fridge had been out of commission for a few weeks while a replacement was sourced. It's now back up and runn
We're bummed to announce that the Prairie Ave Love Fridge is closed, effective immediately. Please consider supporting other nearby fridges, which can be found on the Find a Fridge map in the linktree on the bio page.
The Love Fridge is hosting a town hall, our first in a while, + it will be in-person! Please join us at the Chicago Art Department [ @chicagoartdept ] on Saturday, May 20th, 1-6 pm. We will discuss concerns and updates, including opportunities fo
Hello, everyone. Greetings and much love. We are in the process of setting up new sites and upgrading existing fridges within the #chicago community... here are ways you can help us! We would like to stock up on fridges, so reach out if you're able t
January is almost over, so it's time for a 2022 recap! This last year, we launched the first solar fridge in our network, with a second planned for release in the spring. Several sites saw upgrades, and we were able to have community gatherings this