Warehouse Workers for Justice
- purpose: a worker center that organizes with workers to build power and win safe, secure, high-paying jobs in the Illinois logistics industry
- more info: Giving Compass
Betty Shabazz International Charter School
- purpose: to provide an academic and culturally relevant program that integrates and balances cultural knowledge and improves competencies in reading, oral and written language, mathematics, science, technology, social studies, the arts, and the humanities
- more info: Wikipedia, Charity Navigator
Marie Wilkinson Food Pantry
- purpose: to continue the legacy of Marie Wilkinson, dedicated to meeting the hunger needs of individuals and their families
- more info: Charity Navigator
Kendall County Community Food Pantry
- purpose: dedicated to providing aid to individuals and families in need or crisis situations
- more info: Charity Navigator
Hunger Resource Network
- purpose: to aid in the alleviation of hunger by helping meet the needs of food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters
- more info: Charity Navigator
Pilsen Food Pantry
- purpose: to improve health and social outcomes through the distribution of fresh, culturally-appropriate food, clothing, housewares, and community events
- more info: Charity Navigator
Central Illinois Foodbank
- purpose: to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity
- more info: Charity Navigator, Feeding America
YWCA Evanston/North Shore
- purpose: dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all
- more info: Charity Navigator
Operation Food Search
- purpose: to heal hunger with innovative and collaborative solutions that provide food today... and help create a hunger-free tomorrow
- more info: Charity Navigator, America's Best Charities, BBB Charity
Chicago United for Equity
- purpose: to connect and amplify civic love to transform Chicago into a city that is responsive and accountable to communities of color
- more info: Charity Navigator
Beyond Legal Aid
- purpose: unites lawyers and activists in a collaborative pursuit for justice by leveraging legal services to benefit the most marginalized communities and individuals
- more info: Charity Navigator
Cabrini Green Legal Aid
- purpose: provide holistic legal services that include social support services and advocacy for individuals and communities negatively impacted by the criminal legal system
- more info: Charity Navigator
Institute For Nonviolence Chicago
- purpose: to end the cycle of gun violence in Chicago
- more info: Charity Navigator
Chicagoland Food Sovereignty Coalition
- purpose: to create a better food system, by linking mutual aid groups, organizations, businesses, and individuals committed to the effort
- more info: Charity Navigator
Soyland Access to Independent Living
- purpose: promoting independent living for all people with disabilities
- more info: Charity Navigator
Safe Passage
- purpose: to promote the right of all to nonviolent and abuse-free relationships through advocacy, intervention and prevention in DeKalb County
- more info: Charity Navigator
Greater Chicago Legal Clinic
- purpose: passionate, community-based legal advocates helping underserved families and individuals in the Chicago area navigate the justice system
- more info: Charity Navigator
A House In Austin
- purpose: to offer holistic programs to families on the west side of Chicago that foster responsive relationships between parents and children to lessen toxic stress, empowering parents to address the social and emotional wellbeing of their families for academic and lifelong success
- more info: Charity Navigator, CBS News
Lyte Collective
- purpose: to SUPPORT every young adult who contacts us, with whatever they need, for as long as they want us by their side; END harmful systems that cause young people to need our help in the first place; and BUILD a more just and equitable world together with all who aspire to do better by young people
- more info: Charity Navigator
Senior Care Volunteer Network
- purpose: to support our senior neighbors who live independently
- more info: Charity Navigator
Collinsville Food Pantry
- purpose: offering hope and a helping hand up to those in need
- more info: Charity Navigator, GlobalGiving
The Friendship Center
- purpose: fosters hope and dignity in Chicago’s northwest side communities through access to food and vital resources
- more info: Charity Navigator
Black Oaks Center
- purpose: to facilitate resilience on a community level
- more info: Charity Navigator
Friends of the Chicago River
- purpose: to protect and restore the Chicago-Calumet River system for all people, water, and wildlife
- more info: Charity Navigator
Sarah's Circle
- purpose: provides a full continuum of services for women, including housing, life necessities, and supportive services, to help them permanently end their homelessness
- more info: Charity Navigator
Illinois Action for Children
- purpose: to be a catalyst for organizing, developing, and supporting strong families and powerful communities where children matter most
- more info: Charity Navigator
Old Irving Park Community Clinic
- purpose: to provide free, quality, culturally competent medical and behavioral health care in a dignified and respectful manner to uninsured and underserved adults
- more info: Charity Navigator, WebMD, NAFC
Community Crisis Center
- purpose: to meet the needs of individuals and families in crisis
- more info: Charity Navigator
Lincoln Park Community Services
- purpose: brings communities together to empower individuals facing homelessness and poverty to secure stable housing and make sustainable life changes
- more info: Charity Navigator
SHALVA
- purpose: offers deep Jewish cultural competency and expertise in domestic abuse to support our diverse community; empowers those experiencing and healing from domestic abuse by offering confidential counseling or referral and needed supportive services; works for lasting social change through community education aimed at increasing awareness, understanding, prevention, and healthy relationships
- more info: Charity Navigator