The Volunteer Center of Northeast Metropolitan Chicago is here to help. The Volunteer Center will sponsor its 9th annual Make A Difference Day on Saturday, October 22nd from 9 am-12 pm at the Indian Hill Train Station in Winnetka. This year, representatives from 19 nonprofits will be on hand to collect much-needed items, including: outerwear; […]
Good News Partners (GNP), a faith based community organization, will now provide affordable housing for an additional 27 families in Rogers Park. “For families crammed into a single room occupancy units or in shelters, this building secures, long term, another step from homelessness to home ownership” says Ronn Frantz, executive director of GNP. On average, […]
Tom Zengeler has collected thousands of prom dresses and winter coats for those who can’t afford them. But that’s not all. A dry cleaner, he also refurbishes the garments so they look like new. When Tom Zengeler first learned about the Glass Slipper Project, a charity that outfits low-income students for prom night, he […]
You will enjoy your feast more after this family to family basket of groceries donation. The program, created in partnership with Make It Better in 2008, supports a 3-block area surrounding the Good News Community Soup Kitchen. The kitchen receives between 200 and 500 laundry baskets filled with food and goodies for the low-income families […]
You’ve seen the haunting pictures of oil covered birds and heard the tales of damage to fragile wetlands. Now you can help with the cleanup of the tragic BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico with out leaving the northern suburbs. The Northfield-based North Shore Senior Center is collecting specific materials from that are […]
When Lynn Rutstein of Deerfield was diagnosed with breast cancer, her family and friends built her a garden to give her hope for renewal. The garden inspired her to create Perennial Hope, a line of plates that feature crocuses, with other flowers to come. The nonprofit FORCE (Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered) receives 15 […]
The Party Dress Project is back, for the second year! Time to donate gently used dresses from bar/bat mitzvahs, graduations, dances, proms and confirmation, which will be sold for $25 a piece to benefit a local charity. This spring, dress donations for the Party Dress Project will be accepted from April 12 to 16, Monday-Friday, […]
Doing a little spring closet cleaning? Well your gently used “trash” may be another woman’s—cocktail dress! This winter, Friends of Gorton is hosting its first-ever dress drive. Here’s how it works: Collect your gently worn special occasion dresses and donate them to the Gorton Community Center. From now until March 13, you may drop them […]
While experts say the economy may be turning around, many families are still struggling to make ends meet. And Kipling Elementary School’s Holiday Care & Share Program made this winter brighter for many families in the Chicago area. In December, families of Kipling Elementary students sponsored 60 needy families served by Jewish Child & Family […]
The poor economy means food pantries and other service agencies are seeing extraordinarily high demand for food and other items, and here’s how you can help this holiday season. Catholic Charities of Lake County, based in Waukegan, had 12,000 families register to receive Christmas gifts last year. This year, the number is 13,000. The […]
