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| Category : Poverty | View non-profit organizations in This Category |
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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. |
| 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. |
| Center for Cultural Interchange | CCI is a nonprofit international exchange organization dedicated to the promotion of cultural understanding, academic development, environmental consciousness, and world peace. |
| Center for Economic Progress | The Center for Economic Progress helps hard-working, low-income families move from financial uncertainty to financial security. Local in service but national in voice, we achieve our mission in three ways: 1. We provide trusted tax and financial counseling, giving Illinois families the tools to make sound choices. 2. We lead a national coalition of organizations that promote economic progress for low-wage workers and their families. 3. We advance policies and practices to create a financial system that works for all. |
| Chicago Anti-Hunger Federation | The mission of the Chicago Anti-Hunger Federation is to alleviate hunger in Metropolitan Chicago through distribution of high-quality food; education; advocacy; culinary arts and other employment training. |
| Chicago Youth Centers | CYC invests in youth in underserved communities in Chicago to help them discover and realize their full potential. |
| 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. |
| Food Rescue | Food Rescue seeks to bring together restaurants, food pantries, and citizen volunteers to feed people in need. Our goal is to find 2 million dollars worth of retail food and 500 new volunteers each year, for 5 years. Our volunteers donate approximately 90 minutes of their time, one day each month. They rescue food that otherwise would have been discarded, and give it to those in need. |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | |
| Green Festivals | Think of Green Festival® as a walk through a sustainable community. It begins with finding solutions to help make our lives healthier—socially, economically and environmentally. Individuals along with business and community leaders come together to discuss critical issues that impact us at home and abroad. Organizations and businesses showcase programs and products that restore the planet and all that inhabit it. Neighbor-to-neighbor connections are formed, and skills are shared to empower people to create positive change in the world. |
| Habitat for Humanity Lake County | Habitat for Humanity Lake County is a Christian housing ministry which welcomes all people dedicated to building decent, affordable housing for families in need, while empowering families to help themselves. HFHLC builds partnerships with diverse members of the community which break down the walls that divide and builds a sense of community among all people. HFHLC seeks to make safe, simple, decent housing for all people a matter of conscience and action. |
| 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 Welfare Society of Evanston | The Infant Welfare Society of Evanston is committed to the care and early education of infants and toddlers and to supporting their families' efforts to be self sufficent and effective parents. |
| 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. |
| Infinite Family | Infinite Family strengthens and inspires vulnerable southern African children to lead fulfilling lives. |
| 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. |
| Meals at Home | |
| 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. |
| Nurture | To help families improve health and nutrition through cooking classes, nutrition and physical fitness education, and philanthropy. The program empowers care givers with time efficient and cost effective means to provide healthy meals for their families. |
| Ten Thousand Villages | |
| 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 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 Salvation Army | The Salvation Army is an International, Evangelical Christian Church dedicated to providing individuals worldwide with spiritual, physical, social and emotional support. Our organization is made up of thousands of officers, soldiers, adherents employees, volunteers and other individuals all working together to bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all people, as well as struggling to meet the physical needs of those less fortunate. |
| The Volunteer Center of Northwest Suburban Chicago | will update |
