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| Category : Disabilities | View non-profit organizations in This Category |
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| Clerical/Office Help | An agency serving the developmentally disabled community is looking for clerical assistance. We need help with filing, typing & other duties as needed. Flexible, will work with your schedule. |
| Landscaping & Maintenance | An agency that serves the developmentally disabled needs your landscaping talents! We have a wide variety of landscaping, painting and special projects. |
| Little Goblins Gathering | We need your help at this fun & spooky activity brought to the public by Lambs Farm, a premier non-profit organization serving our adult developmentally disabled community. Volunteers are needed to help with various children's activities such as sand art, crafts, photos, and pet costume contest. This is a super event for children. |
| Picnic Assistant | Would you like to help out at Lambs Farm, a non-profit organization serving the developmentally disabled community? We host corporate picnics on grounds and need assistants to help with set up, clean up, etc. You would work along side our Picnic Manager. |
| Recreation | Lambs Farm, an organization serving adults with developmental disabilities, is looking for volunteers for there Quest program. Volunteers are needed to assist with weekly classes, field trips, and overnight trips on weekday mornings and afternoons. Classes include Gardens and Zoos, Art in the Park, Discovering IL (includes overnight trip), Hiking and Camping (includes overnight camp out), and Fishing. |
| Recreation Program Volunteer | Assist NSSRA Recreation Specialist in providing NSSRA seasonal recreation programs for children and adults with disabilities in a fun, safe environment. |
| Social Media Fun! | You love spending time on Twitter and Facebook, but you feel guilty because you know should be spending that time volunteering for a worthy cause, right? Well, you can do both! Volunteer 15 minutes a day helping JJ's List with its social media campaign. How's that for salsa with your chips? You say you want the guacamole too? You've got it: for your commitment, you get to learn and build your skills under the guidance of one of Chicago's top 30 most influential people on Twitter. Holy guacamole, that's one heck of a resume builder! Call now. This opportunity goes to one, and only one, special person. 847-702-4098. |
| Volunteer at Our Place of NTT | Our Place of NTT realizes the importance of volunteers as an essential part of the learning process with our participants. If you are someone that enjoys having fun and can assist us with a positive social environment, then Our Place is the place for you. |
| Woofstock -One day of Puppy Love! | Pet owners bring their canine friends to Lambs Farm for a day of fun including: demonstrations, a fashion show, vendors and more! Volunteers are needed to help with children's craft area, assist with canine fashion show, pictures with your pet station and more. This event helps support Lambs Farm, a premier non-profit organization that serves our developmentally disabled community. |
| Non-profit organizations | |
| Non-profit organizations Name : | Mission : |
| Adaptive Adventures | |
| Anixter Center | To enhance the ability of individuals living, or at risk of disabilities to live, learn, work, and play in the community. |
| Arlyn School | Private Special Education School |
| Best Buddies Illinois | Best Buddies is an international non-profit organization which seeks to enhance the lives of people with intellectual disabilities through one-to-one friendships. |
| Center for Enriched Living | Helping people with developmental disabilities live more independent and fulfilling lives through education, recreation, and social activities in a safe, fun and welcoming environment. |
| Clearbrook | To create opportunities for people with developmental disabilities |
| Educ. Surrogate Parent Training Program | Provide educational advocacy to disabled students who are wards of the state. |
| Equestrian Connection | Our mission is to help those with disabilities build their physical,mental and emottonal strength and balance throught equine assisted therapy services, art therapy and massage. Our goal is to treat the entire family of those with disabilities. |
| EQUItherapy | |
| Glenkirk Foundation | Glenkirk will provide quality, lifetime support and services which empower individuals with developmental disabilities to participate fully in all areas of community life. |
| Great Lakes Adaptive Sports Association | GLASA provides year-round sports, clinics, camps, and special events for youth and adults with a primary physical or visual impairment. GLASA enhances quality of life by removing barriers, raises expectations, setting goals and achieving success! Our motto: Let No One Sit on the Sidelines! |
| Hadley School for the Blind | To promote independent living through lifelong, distance education programs for blind people, their families and blindness service providers. |
| Institute for Therapy Through the Arts | |
| Interfaith Housing Center of Northern Suburbs | The Interfaith Housing Center of the Northern Suburbs is dedicated to housing justice by advancing open, inclusive, and diverse communities throughout Chicago's northern suburbs. As the area's premier voice for fair and affordable housing, Interfaith educates, advocates, and organizes to uphold these values. |
| JJ's List | JJ's List helps businesses and people with disabilities build productive and positive interaction in the community. |
| Josselyn Center for Mental Health | The Josselyn Center will provide the highest quality interdisciplinary mental health, substance abuse and related services for children, adolescents, adults and families without regard to their ability to pay, as well as for organizations, corporations and the community at large. |
| JVS Career Planning Center | |
| KEEN Chicago, c/o High Ridge YMCA | KEEN's mission is to foster the self-esteem, confidence, skills and talents of its athletes through non-competitive activities, allowing young people facing even the most significant challenges to meet their individual goals. |
| Lambs Farm | Founded in 1961, Lambs Farm is a premier non-profit organization serving adults with developmental disabilities. We have grown from a small pet shop in Chicago to a 72-acre campus located in Libertyville, Illinois where opportunity flourishes for the nearly 250 men and women serve. For 47 years, we have continued the mission of helping people with develomental disabilties to lead personally fulfilling lives through a full range of vocational, residential, social and recreational services. |
| Lawrence Hall Youth Services | Lawrence Hall Youth Services is a not-for-profit child welfare agency established to assist through a seamless delivery of services, at risk youth and their families, to develop the self-worth, knowledge, and skills they need to lead independent and productive lives. |
| Little City Foundation | Children with disabilities would have a safe setting to live and learn as well as love and be loved. |
| Misericordia Home | |
| 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. |
| North Shore Academy | Help students become successful, happy adults in home, work and community. Provide education that fosters acquisition and utilization of knowledge and skills, meaningful and satisfying interaction with others, appropriate self-advocacy, social conscientiousness and participation, and lifelong healthy life styles. |
| 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. |
| Northern Suburban Special Educ. Dist. | NSSED is committed to the possibilities in every child. NSSED helps students become successful, happy adults in home, school, work and community by providing programs and services that ensure students: a)acquire/use knowledge and skills, b) interact well with others and have friends, c) take appropriate action to meet their needs, and d) care about and contribute to society. |
| Northern Suburban Special Recreation Association (NSSRA) | The mission of the Northern Suburban Special Recreation Association (NSSRA) is to ensure that recreation opportunities are available for adults and children with disabilities. NSSRA provides year-round recreation and leisure opportunities for people with disabilities. Individuals with physical, cognitive, emotional, social, or other disabilities residing in the northern suburbs are eligible to participate. NSSRA offers more than 150 programs and events each season and serves approximately 1500 different individuals with disabilities in creative arts, sports, drama, dance, cooking and other areas. Programs are offered at park district, school and other locations throughout the Northern Suburban area. |
| Orchard Village | Orchard Village supports individuals with developmental disabilities so they can live, learn, work and play in their communities. We support individual choice and person-centered planning for individuals with disabilities |
| Our Place of Newtrier Township | The mission of our Place of New Trier Township is to support adults with developmental disabilities so that they can live productive, meaningful lives in their home community with family and friends. |
| Rimland Services NFP | To remove the barriers restricting equal access for an adult with autism to fulfill the eight core dimensions of life: emotional well-being, interpersonal relationships, material well-being, personal development, physical well-being, self-determination, social inclusion, and individual rights. |
| SHORE Community Services, Inc. | SHORE's mission is to improve the quality of life for persons with developmental disabilities through educational, residential, vocational and related programs provided with community integrated supports and services. |
| Special Gifts Theatre | Special Gifts Theatre (SGT) is a not-for-profit organization that provides children and teens with special needs, a unique, creative drama experience enabling personal growth while breaking down stereotypes related to disabilities within the community at large. |
| 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 Volunteer Center of Northwest Suburban Chicago | will update |
| West Suburban Access News Association | THE MISSION OF WSANA The mission of WSANA will be to provide information and education on issues and information which will be of assistance to persons with disabilities to live independently and be a part of the community in which they live. The Suburban Cook County area of Illinois shall be given special attention. ___________________________________________ |
