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| Anti-Hunger Service Volunteers | Chicago Anti-Hunger Federation has over 160 member agencies-- soup kitchens, food pantries, shelters, and child programs-- throughout metro Chicago. We can provide volunteer referrals to our member agencies, to help you find meaningful and needed volunteer opportunities. We prefer to match volunteers in the communities where they live or work. Volunteering can be a long lasting relationship, and helping people and programs locally benefits you, your neighbors, and your community. Contact Jessica at jbouboulis @ antihunger.org, and provide your name, neighborhood or city you live or work in, and days of the week you are looking to volunteer. We will provide you some contact information on programs you can follow-up with. |
| Full Circle Resale Boutique Pricers | Sarah's Circle operates Full Circle, Resale Boutique, located in Glenview Illinois. 100% of the proceeds of Full Circle, Resale Boutique are used to support the operations of Sarah's Circle, an agency committed to providing services to women who are homeless in Chicago. Volunteers are needed to assist with pricing incoming donated and consigned goods. |
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| Alexian Brothers AIDS Ministry | The mission of Alexian Brothers Bonaventure House and The Harbor is to transform the lives of people with HIV/AIDS within a compassionate, supportive community by providing a home, comprehensive services, and spiritual care. |
| American Red Cross | The American Red Cross, a humanitarian organization led by volunteers and guided by its Congressional Charter and the Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross Movement, will provide relief to victims of disasters and help people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies. |
| Campus Kitchen at Northwestern University | The mission of The Campus Kitchens Project is to use service as a tool to: Strengthen Bodies by using existing resources to meet hunger and nutritional needs in our community. Empower Minds by providing leadership and service learning opportunities to students, and educational benefits to adults, seniors, children, and families in need. Build Communities by fostering a new generation of community-minded adults through resourceful and mutually beneficial partnerships among students, social service agencies, businesses and schools. |
| Cathedral Shelter of Chicago | The mission of Cathedral Shelter is to minister with love and compassion among and with the most vulnerable of our community — particularly those who suffer from addiction — through crisis intervention, addiction recovery, community assistance and life skills development. |
| Connections for the Homeless | Connections provides housing, employment and supportive services to move individuals and families out of the shadow of homelessness. |
| Evanston School Children's Clothing Assn. | "No child should miss a day of school for need of warm, sturdy clothing" This is our motto. Each year we provide clothing and shoes to 600-650 K-8th grade children of Evanston/Skokie District 65 Schools. Every child receives a full wardrobe of clothing, mostly gently-used items, and also new gym shoes, boots, underwear, and jeans. |
| Family Focus Center | The mission of Family Focus—one of the nation's flagship family support programs since 1976—is to promote the well-being of children from birth by supporting and strengthening their families in and with their communities. Family Focus offers innovative, community-based programs that help parents, grandparents, and foster and adoptive parents, gain confidence and competence as the primary educators of their children. |
| Family Service of Glencoe | |
| Good News Partners | Good News Partners' mission is to end homelessness and hopelessness with everyone God brings us, and to build bridges of reconciliation and foster justice among all people. |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | |
| Housing Opportunity Development Corporation | HODC's mission is to develop housing that is affordable housing low and moderate income households in the northern suburbs. |
| INFANT, Inc. | INFANT, Inc. is an all volunteer organization that provides baby formula and layettes of newborn clothing, free of charge, to food pantries and shelters in the Chicago area. |
| Inspiration Corporation | In an atmosphere of dignity and respect, Inspiration Corporation helps people who are affected by homelessness and poverty to improve their lives and increase self-sufficiency through the provision of social services, employment training and placement, and housing. |
| Lydia Home Association | LYDIA is a national, Christ-honoring organization whose mission is to strengthen families to care for children and care for children when families cannot. |
| Mary Lou's Place - YWCA Evanston/NS | The mission of Domestic Violence Services of the YWCA Evanston/North Shore is to provide information, support, and resources to women who have survived domestic violence so that they are empowered to take control of their lives and to live a violence-free future. In addition, the Program strives to challenge cultural tolerance for violence against women and their children through community education and public policy advocacy. |
| NEW FOUNDATION CENTER | New Foundation Center partners with people with mental illness to recover and pursue lives of meaning and purpose. |
| New Trier Township | New Trier Township's mission is to provide leadership, advocacy, and resources to benefit the physical, mental, and social well-being of Township residents. |
| New Trier Township Food Pantry | The Pantry is an important service for residents whose incomes do not cover all their needs. Its shelves offer a variety of canned and packaged food, frozen foods, useful paper goods, and toiletry items for all ages. |
| North Shore School District 112 | To inspire every child to become a contributing member of the community. |
| North Shore United Way | United Way of the North Shore, a member of United Way of Metropolitan Chicago, engaes caring people thourghout our city to invest time and resources where they are needed most. United Way provides the leadership and resources it takes to make long-lasting change, so that people can become independent. We are all connected in our community. When children succed, when families become stable, when individuals stay healthy, our community is stronger. That's why United Way focuses on Income, Education and Health - the building block of independence. Our goal is to provide the leadership and resource it takes to make long-lasting change the advances the common good. |
| Rainbow House | |
| Rebuilding Together | |
| Rise International | The Vision of RISE International is to work together to rebuild lives and communities, reflecting Jesus' charge to love others as we love ourselves. Our Mission is to partner with Angolan churches, community leaders and government officials to build primary schools in rural Angola. |
| Sarah's Circle | Sarah's Circle is a refuge for women who are homeless or in need of a safe space. By providing housing assistance, case management, referral services, and life necessities, we encourage women to empower themselves by rebuilding both emotionally and physically; realizing their unique potential. |
| StreetWise | The mission of StreetWise is to empower men and women who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless to achieve and maintain self-sufficiency through training, education and gainful employment, thus changing their lives for the better |
| The Harbour | |
| The Kindness Connection | We believe that meaningful volunteer experiences have the power to inspire individuals to make a lifelong practice of giving their time and resources to charitable and civic causes. |
| The Lake County Haven | Empowering homeless women and their children to achieve permanent, independent living. |
| The Night Ministry | The Night Ministry was created out of diverse religious traditions to build relationships with vulnerable youth and adults on the nighttime streets. Today, we build relationships in a variety of settings. Through these relationships and the provision of outreach, housing, health, spiritual, and social services, we seek to empower people of all ages to meet their own needs. Recognizing the uniqueness, dignity, and value of each person, we accept individuals as they are, in an affirming and compassionate manner. We call the larger community to the same mission. |
| The Volunteer Center of Northwest Suburban Chicago | will update |
