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Chicago Cares is a nonprofit organization that connects prospective volunteers with volunteer opportunities throughout Chicago. [1] [2] [3] It was founded in 1991 by Leslie Bluhm and Mary Prchal. [4] In addition to connecting volunteers to service programs, Chicago Cares offers a training called Power of Service. [5]
Literacy Volunteers of Illinois (LVI) was founded in 1979 to serve as a technical assistance and training agency for volunteer literacy programs affiliated with the national Literacy Volunteers of America organization. It initially served as a "mid-level" support system for local affiliated programs with the goal of monitoring and providing ...
Urban Prep Academies is a 501(c)(3) tax-deductible non-profit organization, and relies substantially on private donors to support its operations. [citation needed] The organization's largest source of funding is the Illinois State Board of Education, which funds all charter schools in the state on a per-pupil basis.
Benjamin Kagan, a 14-year-old high school freshman in Chicago, is helping track down coronavirus vaccines as people struggle to find and make appointments. Chicago teen helps connect hundreds of ...
Care Force is a part of City Year specifically created to engage corporations and their employees in high-impact volunteer events to help improve schools and communities. Since launching in 2001, Care Force has led more than 100,000 volunteers in service projects and managed more than 700 events, and worked in over 220 communities in 10 ...
For over 35 years, Rush University Medical Center in Chicago has been helping infant patients and their families through a volunteer cuddler program. When families are away from the hospital's ...
During the 2009-2010 academic year, CIS of Chicago piloted its first Intensive Program school site. Through the program, CIS of Chicago, like its sibling affiliates across the U.S., places a staff member on the ground 4 days a week to do two key things: (1) provide ongoing intervention services to students at relatively high risk of dropping ...
Getting around Chicago has long been difficult for David Zoltan, but nonetheless he once would have jumped on a bus to get a bite to eat. He would take public transit to meet up with friends, and ...