| Agency Name | Contact | Agency Purpose | Issue Area |
| A Special Place | Dawn Noldan | To provide homework and tutoring assistance to student in the 1st through 6th grades. | Education |
| ABJ Community Services, Inc. | Claudean Spivey | Meet the physical, emotional and social needs of families and children. | Education |
| Abraham Lincoln Hope Headstart | Ms. Wallace | Helping children have a successful, positive, and creative experience | Education |
| Access Living | Rodney Estvan | The YIELD THE POWER TO THE YOUTH project is an innovative demonstration grant for youth with disabilities designed to increase the participation of youth with disabilities in mainstream workforce development activities. | Disabilities |
| Active Transportation Alliance | Christine Schwartzkopff | | Transportation |
| Adler Planetarium | Maria Christus | Provide science education and opportunities in astronomy. | Education |
| Alden-Northmoor Rehabilitation and Health Care Center, Inc. | Pinky Smith | Alden is a service based company with a mission of achieving quality of life for its residents through an environment that enhances a holistic approach, providing personal growth, individuality, and respect. | Health, Recreation |
| Alliance for the Great Lakes (formerly Lake Michigan Federation) | Frances Canonizado | The Alliance works to conserve and restore the world's largest freshwater resource through policy, education and local efforts aimed at preserving the Great Lakes region as a national treasure. | Environment |
| Alternatives, Inc. | Marty McConnell | Develop and provide services for youth and their families which facilitate personal development and strengthen family relationships. | Education, Recreation |
| Amate House | Annie Devine | Amate House, inspired by the social mission of the Catholic Church, builds a more just and loving society by supporting and developing men and women rooted in faith and dedicated to service. | Community Development |
| American Civil Liberties Union | Ed Yohnka | ACLU is a non-partisan, public interest membership organization devoted exclusively to protecting the basic civil rights of all Americans. | Education |
| American Friends Service Committee | Darlene Gramigna | Work with communities to help them develop non-violent, peaceful strategies to address their issues and concerns | Violence prevention |
| American Red Cross | Eboni Prince | Help people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies. | Health |
| Anti-Cruelty Society | Helen Jones-Mayer | The Anti-Cruelty Society exists to prevent cruelty to animals and to advance humane education. | Animals |
| Arab American Education Council | Mr. Hassan | Provide social, educational, religious, cultural, and charitable assistance to the community at large and the Arab community in particular. | Youth, Culture |
| Archi Treasures | Joyce Fernandez | Encourages community invlovement in the urban landscape by partnering architects and artist with community groups and organizations. | Youth, Culture, Environment |
| Asian Health Coalition of Illinois | Joseph Camari | AHCI works to improve the health and well being of all Asian American and Pacific Islanders in Illinois through services and programs. | Health |
| Aspira of Illinois | Yvette N. Nieves | Empower Latino youth to develop as leaders and empower them to success. | Youth, Education |
| Association House | Cynthia Schmidt | Provides education, training/employment, child welfare, residential, human, mental health, addiction and recovery services. | Youth, Education |
| BUILD, Inc. | Roslind Blasingame-Buford | Redirect the behavior of gang-affiliated youth and potential recruits to improve their chances to lead productive, fulfilling lives. | Youth |
| Bethel New Life | Dan Cooper | Facilitating redevelopment and economic growth of the community. | Community Development |
| Beyondmedia Education | Rebecca Connie | Collaborate with under-served women, youth, and communities to tell their stories to the world and organize for social justice through creation and distribution of alternative media arts. | Youth, Arts |
| Bobby E. Wright Mental Health Center | Dr. Lucy Lang-Chappell | Assistance in health-related fields. | Youth, Health |
| Boulevard Arts Center | Barbarette Corbbins | Boulevard Arts Center enhances cultural pride, self esteem, and cross-cultural understanding, develops talents, and beautifies neighborhoods through professional instruction, production, and presentation of the visual, literary, performing, and media arts. | Culture, Education |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago | Katie Huckaby | Inspire and enable all young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, caring citizens. | Youth |
| Brain Boosters | Kristin Gilbert | Assist children with homework, increase their self esteem, improve study and social skills in order to become productive, emotionally healthy adults.
| Youth |
| Brighton Park Neighborhood Council | Lisa Rodriguez or Marlene Cervantez | Provide space for youth to get together to disscuss issues that may affect themselves and their communities. | Community Development |
| BuildOn | Lexi Widman | Enhancing education and empowering youth in the U.S. to make a positive difference in their communities while helping people of developing countries increase their self-reliance through education. | Education |
| CORE Music Foundation | Yakira James | CORE Music Foundations aims to provide educational programming and scholarships in the arts, mainly music and literacy. We provide outlets for creative expression, social interaction, and empowerment. We also provide workshops on songwriting, drumlines and more. | Arts, Education |
| Cabrini Connections | Eldasheon Nix | Provide tutor/mentor services to 7-12th grade students in the Cabrini area. | Education, Career Development |
| Carole Robertson Center for Learning | Jane Baker | Partner among parents, youth, and community to nurture, support and strengthen family life through child, youth, and family development programs. | Children and Youth |
| Casa Central | Megan Kissell | Stabilize and empower individuals and familiies, encourage self sufficiency, and promote healthy family and community functioning. | Youth and Senior Citzens |
| Cathedral Shelter of Chicago | Jason Jones | 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. | Homelessness |
| Catholic Charities | Surenthia Sims | Provide services that impacts the quality of life for individuals. | Children and Youth |
| Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Chicago | Micheal McDonald | Provide compassionate, competent, and professional services that strengthen and support individuals and families. | Community Services |
| Center for Economic Progress | Erica Maslanka | Increase economic opportunities for low-income families by improving the effectiveness and efficiency of public benefit and entitlement programs. | Economic Development |
| Center for General and Applied Education | Dr. Riaz Haque | Prepares students for learning science via an integrated curriculum consisting of 150 concepts and skills in a practical, hands-on lab setting thus making science subjects such as chemistry, physics and biology easy to understand and learn.
| Education (Science) |
| Centers for New Horizons | Marshall Douglas | Develop the capacity of families to become self-reliant, improve the quality of their lives,and participate in the re-vitalization of the community. | Children and Youth |
| Chaddick Institute | Sarah A. Sheehan | The Chaddick Institute advances the principles of effective land use, transportation, and community planning. The Institute provides a forum to share expertise on difficult land-use issues. | Urban Planning |
| Chesterfield Community Council | Eli Washington | To promote, unify, and assist in all endeavors pertaining to the Chesterfield community. | Technology |
| Chicage Marathon | Jonathan Broutin | | |
| Chicago Academy of Sciences | Lauren Pike | The Nature Museum helps urban dwellers to connect to the natural world through scientific learning and environmental programs | Education |
| Chicago Cares | Erin Rasler | Respond to critical human service, environmental, and education needs by creating volunteer service programs fostering ethic of volunteerism and promote sense of community. | Community Development |
| Chicago Coalition for the Homeless | Hannah Willage | Works to impact public policy to address the root causes of homelessness. | Public Policy |
| Chicago Commons | Carmen Martinez | The agency partners with individuals, families,and communities to overcome poverty, isolation and discrimination. | Poverty |
| Chicago Commons | Eddie Anguiano | Chicago Commons partners with individuals, families, and community to overcome poverty, discriminaions, and isolation. | |
| Chicago Department on Aging | Martha Romero | Provide social services to Chicago residents 55 and older | Senior Citizens |
| Chicago Dia De Los Ninos Parade Committee | Christine Umnstuad/Frank Gallegos | Over 50 schools, government and community agencies, museums and universities collaborate on yearly Parade/Celebration which takes place in Pilsen on April 24, 2004. | Arts |
| Chicago Girls Coalition/Girls Scouts | Gwen Ferguson | A community collaborative dedicated to listening to, supporting, and empowering girls and young women and girl-serving organizations. | Leadership training for girls |
| Chicago Lights Tutoring & Scholarship Program | Alex Cornwell | The Tutoring and Scholarship Programs employes long-term one-on-one relationships to foster intellectual, ethical, and personal skills that create healthy self-esteem and open doors to educational opportunities for Chicago's underserved children and youth. | children, education |
| Chicago Park District | Janis Taylor | Provide recreational opportunities for the citizens of Chicago. | Recreation |
| Chicago Park District's Outdoor Classroom | Angela Dumas | Promote neighborhood parks as outdoor classrooms for which students care and monitor. | Environment |
| Chicago Project for Violence Prevention | Kenneth Kane | Supports accelerated community-based and citywide violence prevention helping communities to develop strategic plans to reduce violence. | Violence |
| Chicago Virtual Charter School | Amy Cahill | To be Chicago families' first choice as partner to provide an individualized motivating parent-involved educational opportunity of exceptional quality for their children. | Education |
| Chicago Women in Trades | Pamala Berryhill | Provides support and advocacy to tradeswomen. Our goal is to increase the number of women in the skilled trades and to eliminate the barriers that prohibit women from entering these jobs. | Girls |
| Chicago Youth Centers | Christy Beighe-Byrne | Invest in youth in underserved Chicago neighborhoods to help them discover and realize their full potential | Education |
| Chicago Youth Centers | Gavin J. Armour | To invest in kids in underserved communities in the Chicago region to help them discover and reach their full potential. | Children and Youth Services |
| Chicago Youth Program | Monique Cookbey | Improve life opportunities of children through mentoring, tutoring, recreation, and health programs. | Children and Youth |
| Chicagoland Memory Bridge Initiative (CMBI) | Mary Cohen | Memory Bridge is dedicated to keeping people with dementia meaningfully connected to other people.
At Memory Bridge, we create programs that connect people with Alzheimer?s disease and related dementias to family, friends, and other people in their local community. We also create programs that reveal to the general public the depths of memory that dementia does not erase. | Health, Communication |
| Children's Memorial Hospital | Volunteer Resources | Promote health and the well-being of children | Health |
| Children's Place Association, The | Peggy Thoma | Improve the quality of life for children and their families who are affected by HIV/AIDS or other life-threatening or serious health conditions. | Health |
| Chinese American Service League | Thieu Dang | Provides help to new Chinese immigrants from low-income families to adjust and integrate successfully into the American society and school system.
| Children and Youth |
| Chinese Mutual Aid Association | Annette Joyce | Delivers social services, enhances cultural exchanges, and develops support for Chicago's refugee and immigrant community. | Children and Youth and Citizenship |
| Christian Youth Theater Chicago (CYT) | Sonia Noriega | CYTC is dedicated to developing charactor in children and adults throught training in the arts and by producing wholesome family entertainment. All of which reflect christian values | Arts, cultural organizations, and children and youth services |
| Church World Service | Janet Young | CWS is an international aid agency, provide disaster relief, service to refugees, and self-help development projects around the world. | Hunger |
| Cinema/Chicago | Charlotte King | Promote and coordinate youth film festival | Art, Youth, Education |
| Circle Family Care | Betsy Sultan-Akuamoah | Meet the educational, spiritual, psychosocial and medical needs of Westside residents | Children and Youth |
| Circuit Court of Cook County | Sheree Cunningham | Kaleidoscope is an outreach program for teens about dating violence. It encourages teens to share stories and define healthy relationships. | Children and Youth |
| City of Hope Chicago | Karen Rolles | Dedicated to the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer and other life-threatening diseases through innovative research and patient care. | Health |
| Civic Education Project | Jill Manske | The Civic Education Project combines traditional education and community service to
promote civic responsibility among young people. Through innovative school year programs and
summer courses, the Civic Education Project offers promising young people opportunities to learn
and serve in communities across the country, developing knowledge, experience, and leadership
skills to make a positive impact on society. | Civic Education |
| Claretian Associates | Kate Graham | Provide quality, affordable housing and related services, assist residents in leadership development, create healthy green space, and encourage youth participation. | Community Development |
| Community Resource Network | Jocelyn D Cheng | Strengthen communities throughout Chicago by providing a central resource network to inform and educate the community about health/human services and mobilize people/ersources through volunteerism. | Community Development |
| Community TV Network | Tom Bailey | To empower disadvantaged and minority youth through video and TV production on the south and west sides. | Youth and Media |
| Concerned Citizens | Alice Jackson | To enable individuals to renew and reclaim their lives. | homelessness, family services |
| Constitutional Rights Foundation | Jessica Chethik | Helps young people develop the skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary through law-related education programs for elementary and secondary students and their teachers to serve their communities and nation as active, responsible citizens. | Civic Education |
| Cook County Hospital | Sheila Tucker | Provide quality health care to all person in Cook County with compassion and respect, regardless of ability to pay for care. | Health |
| Cosmopolitan Chamber of Commerce | Gloria Bell | Promote the development of a broader economic base of under-utilized businesses. | Community Development |
| Council for Jewish Elderly | Julie Biesiadecki | | Senior Citizens |
| Cuentos Foundation | Michele Feder-Nadoff | Gives voice to the stories of our diverse communities through the collaborative art programs that are created and facilitated. | Arts |
| Deborah's Place | Sarah Letson | Serves women who are homeless in Chicago, providing food, shelter, and supportive services. | Homelessness |
| Designs for Change | James Muhammad | Creating successful learning paths for children, youth, and the adults who guide them. | education, community |
| East Village Youth Program | Jennifer Sontag | Encourage and prepare minority youth in West Town for a college education. | Children and Youth |
| Easter Seals Gilchrist Marchmen | Jamie McConnell | To provide services for families and individuals with special needs, as well as educational services for children ages 3-5. | Health, Family, Special Needs |
| Emergency Fund for Needy People | Meagan Downey | Helping Chicagoans recover from devastating events and meet their fullest potential. | |
| Erie Neighborhood House | Oswaldo Alvarez | Promotes a just and inclusive society by strengthening low-income, primarily Latino, families through skill-building and access to critical resources | Education |
| Family Matters | Devon Lovell | Build and strengthen the community through programs that support personal growth and leadership. | Children and Youth |
| Field Museum, The | Brian Droege | Create opportunities for teens to provide education experiences at the museum. | Education |
| Forest Preserve District of Cook County | Bill Koenig | Acquire and hold lands containing one or more natural forests to protect and preserve flora and fauna for the education, pleasure, and recreation of the public. | Environment |
| Friends of the Forest Preserve | Benjamin Cox | Preserve, protect, and restore the Forest Preserves of Cook County for the benefit of people and nature. | Environment. |
| Friends of the Park | Mary Eileen Sullivan | Preserve, protect and improve parks and foster appreciation for the parks' many contributions to the quality of urban life. FOTP works to promote increased public/private commitment to our historic system of parks and open spaces. | Environment |
| Friends of the River | Mark Hauser | Works with schools to develop service projects that focus on the Chicago River and its watershed. | Environment |
| Future Filmakers Festival | Charlotte King | A film festival that showcases the work of film and video makers under age 20. Teen Advisory Board members will meet once or twice a month to help plan for this future filmmakers festival. | Arts and Youth |
| G & R Bridging the Gap, Inc. | Rhonda Nesbitt, Gwendolyn Nero | To enhance the interest of children by providing them with a performance art program, including music, dance, drama, and arts & crafts. | arts/culture, children, sports and recreation |
| Gads Hill Center | Willy Montes de Oca | Serves the low income population of the lower West Side, providing programs for children, youth, and families. | Children and Youth |
| George S. May Foundation for the Arts | Donna Werner | Provide free music education to school-aged children in Chicago Public Schools | Arts |
| Germano-Millgate Tenants Association | Brigitte Robinson | Provide services to youth including tutoring, homework assistance, recreation, leadership development, employment, and community education. | Children and Youth |
| Ginkgo Organic Gardens | | | environment |
| Girl Scouts of Chicago | Susan Raiki | Inspire girls to the highest ideals of character, conduct, patriotism and service that they may become happy and resourceful citizens. | Children |
| Global Aliance for Africa | Linda Stolz | Partner with African organizations to benefit chidren of orphans due to HIV/AIDS in Chicago and East Africa. | Health |
| God Squad, Inc. | Rev. Arnell Smith | Develop and build character growth and emotional stability. | Children |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | Courtney Syskowski | Works to feed hungry people by distributing donated and purchased food through qualified agencies. | Hunger |
| Heartland Human Care Services | Lea Tienou | Achieve freedom from want, fear, and injustice for people marginalzied by poverty, displacement and vulnerable situations by providing basic human needs and building strengths. | Community Development |
| Hegewisch Chamber of Commerce | Bernadette Rodriguez | "Pride in our Community; Faith in our Future" | Community Development |
| Hegewisch Community Committee | Pam Kmieic | Organize community resources to provide programs for juvenile delinquency prevention and services to uplift families. | Education |
| Hispanocare, Inc | Lucy Aquino | Serves the latino community since 1988. | Public Health |
| Horner Park of Chicago Park District | Marc Hebert | Enhance the quality of life in Chicago by becoming the leading provider of recreation and leaisure opportunities. | Recreation |
| Hostelling International | Megan Johnson | Help all, especially the young, gain a greater understanding of the world and its people through hostelling. | Culture |
| Housing Opportunities & Maintenance for the Elderly | Kamesa Harold | HOME preserves the independence and dignity of low-income
elderly city-wide through a variety of housing and support services through weatherization projects, home painting, free moving and furniture, free shopping bus service, and free handyman
services for elderly homeowners.
| Seniors |
| I AM ABLE Center for Family | Juanita Williams | The mission of IAMABLE is to holistically demonstrate the love of Jesus Christ by seeking to enhance the resilience of love. | Community Education |
| I am You, Nfp | Shawna Spencer | To imnpact positively the lives of young women 14-24 through mentoring, etiquette, college and careers | Youth |
| Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health | Vivian Barrett | To promote a positive approach to adolescent sexual health and comprehensive support for young parents. | |
| Illinois Center for Violence Prevention | Debbie Brethe | Young people and adults work together to achieve health, safety and fairness for everyone in Illinois. | Violence |
| Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence | Kate Williamson | ICHV works to reduce death and injury due to hand gun violence by educating the public, advocating for policy solutions, and mobilizing people to take action. | Violence |
| Illinois Fatherhood Initiative | Sean Scanlon | Connect children and fathers by promoting responsible fatherhood and equiping men to become better fathers. | Education |
| Illinois Global Partnership | Grazella Figi | The Illinois Global Partnership will be an advocate for international trade, investment and tourism promotion in Illinois. The organization will promote Illinois within the U.S. and abroad as a vital center for business in the global economy. | international trade |
| Illinois Health Education Consortium | Carla Green | Provides health education to peers and residents, provides multiple language accessability. | Health |
| Illinois Maternal & Child Health Coalition | Blair Harvey | IMCHC is dedicated to promoting and improving their health and well-being through advocacy, education, community empowerment and policy development. | health |
| Impact Ministries | Catrina Turner | Provide a safe and fun learning environment for children ages 2-12 by supplying tutoring, games and bible study | Education |
| Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | Cliff Goins | The National Park Service preserves unimpaired the natural and cultural resources and values of the national park system for the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations. | Environment |
| Indo American Center | Ritwik Banerji | Provides a variety of tutoring assistance, specifically English for adults and provides assistance with the children's academic tutoring program and also provides assistance for seniors and working with computers. | Education |
| Insight Arts | Caphira Palmer | Nurture and support the development of cultural work that promotes social justice and defends human rights. | Arts |
| Inspiration Corporation | Kirsten Broughton | Provide people affected by homelessness and poverty with essential social services that create choices and enable our participants to lead happier, more fulfilling lives. | homelessness and poverty |
| Interfaith Worker Justice | Cathy Junia | To educate, organize, and mobilize the religious community on issues and campaigns that will improve wages, benefits, and working conditions for low-wage workers. | employment, community development, money management, workers' rights |
| Internal Revenue Service | Rosie Robinson room 2430 | Provide top quality service to taxpayers by helping them understand and meet their tax responsibiltiies. | Finance |
| Jewish Vocational Service | Marilou Kessler | Prepare immigrants and refugees for employment and self-sufficiency. | Employment |
| Juneteenth Chicago, NFP | Rickie P. Brown Sr. | To support youth in the inner city through prevention and intervention education on drugs and gang associations. | Education |
| Junior Achievement | Melissa Hawley | To inspire & educate young children to value the free enterprise system, business & economics to improve the quality of their lives. | Children & Youth Services |
| Kids Cafe | Willie Harris | | |
| Kids in Danger | Sarah Chusid | Protect children by improving children's product safety. | Children |
| Knowledge Hook-Up | Patricia Fisher | To help the residents of Southeast Chicago neighborhoods achieve computer proficiency. | English as a second language/Education |
| Korean American Community Services | Tanya Kellam, | Assist with monitoring CTC; teach classes, admistrative work and event coordination. | Education |
| Korean American Community Services | Grace Yoon | We celebrate our ethnicity and empower all members of our community by providing educational, legal, health and social services. | Computers |
| Korean American Resource and Cultural Center | Eun Yong Lee | Provides education opportunities specifically pertaining to history, culture, and language (Korean). | Education |
| La Rabida Children's Hospital | Judi Blakemore | Care for children with chronic illness, disabilities, or who have been abused, regardless of their family's ability to pay. | Health |
| Ladder Up Program | Christine Cheng | Provide tax preparation assistance to working poor families in the Chicago area. | Community Development |
| Latinos Progresando | Luis Gutierrez | Provide low-cost legal immigration services, community education and engagement, and advocacy and organizing around issues that affect immigrants. | immigration, youth |
| Leukemia and Lymphoma Society | Claire Choiniere | LLS works to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, and myeloma and improve the quality of life for its patients. | Health |
| Little Black Pearl Workshop | Chinyera Moody | Dedicated to the education and advancement of our community youth through the areas of art and culture. LBPW creates avenues for exposure to art and culture while teaching the profitable connection between art, education, and business. | Arts |
| Little Village Community Development Corporation | | | |
| Logan Square Neighborhood Association | Juliette | Organize community leaders to make the Logan Square area an excellent place to live, work, worship, and attend school. | Community Development |
| Lookingglass Theatre Company | Lizzie Perkins | Create vibrant new works for the American stage. Dedicated to the principle that theatre can be a potent means of discovery and a powerful tool for integrating personal and social change. | Arts |
| Love Foundation | Walindah Smith | Our mission is to provide effective and efficient community based assistance to youth and their families. our aim is to improve social skills by providing opportunities that encourage self sufficiency, personal grouwth, cultural enrichment, and educational development. | |
| Make A Difference Youth Foundation | Elaine Jones | To help students attend college through mentoring and facilitation. | Youth |
| March of Dimes | Vicki Thornley | The March of Dimes saves babies by reducing infant mortality and birth defects. | Children |
| March of Dimes | Karie O'Connor | Prevent birth defects, premature birth and infant death. | Health |
| Marcy Newberry | Kenneth White | As strong role models, mentors provide a positive influence on youths. | Youth |
| Marilyn G Rabb Foundation (MGRF) | Vesna K. Stelcer | MGRF is dedicated to expanding and rethinking educational and health programs and encouraging volunteerism in the community. | Community, Environmental / Beutification, Homelessness |
| Mercy Housing | Joseph Jones | To create stable, vibrant, and healthy communities by developing, financing, and operating affordable program enriched housing for families. | Homelessness, Education, Human Services |
| Metropolitan Asian Family Services | Santosh Kumar | Provides assistance with Public Aid, Medicaid, and education opportunities (ESL), and provide assistance to the elderly. | Community Development |
| Mikva Challenge | Brian Brady | Mikva Challenge gets high school students involved in the nuts and bolts of democracy. | Civic Education |
| Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) | Jeremy Joslin | Stop drunk driving and support the victims of this violent crime. | Violence |
| Mount Sinai Hospital | Tondalaya Shepard-Turner | Provide highest possible health care to all regardless of their ability to serve. | Health |
| Mr. Malo Youth Center | John Santana | Prevention of delinquency and providing safer community for youth and their families. | Youth |
| Muscular Dystrophy Association | Jennifer McAdams | To find a cure for 43 different neuromuscular diseases. We help by fundraising and providing services. | |
| Museum of Science & Industry | Charles Brass | To inspire the inventive genius of everyone! | Arts & culture, Education |
| National Asian Pacific Council on Aging | Mei Syun Lin | | |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | Jocelyn Cheng | End the devastating effects of multiple sclerosis. | Health |
| National Runaway Switchboard | Michelle Vos | Provide crisis intervention and referrals for youth and their families through a national switchboard. | Youth |
| National Youth Sports Program | Lakeisha V. Hamilton | To provide a summer camp program to the children of the Englewood community, ages 10-16. | Sports & recreation |
| Near North Development Corp | Sherrice Hoffman | Invests in the community through the development, maintenance, and improvement of quality, mixed income housing and supportive services. | Housing |
| Neighborhood Technology Resource Center | Jennea Bivens | Use of assest based approach in the creation of educational, career development and job placement and community public access programs to prepare users for economic and social relief sufficiency. | Youth |
| New Generation Fancy Drill Team | James Crafton | Provides a non-traditional, recreational, physical fitness, education and cultural enrichment experience for public housing and inner city youth. Involvement provides youth with a positive alternative to the negative lures of the streets. | Youth and Young Adults |
| New Hope Challenge | Scott Salbeck | To create ongoing communial outreach. | Food distribution |
| Newberry Academy/Discovery Garden | Jean Capper | Education of children. | Recreation |
| North River Commission | Christina Watson | Provide an organization where all community interest groups can meet to exprress view, discover common goals, and take action as a group to effectuate those goals. | Community Development |
| Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Volunteer Office | Dolly Johnson | | healthcare |
| Northwestern Memorial Hospital/Wellness Institute Smoking Cessation Program | Carol Southard | Offers a comprehensive Smoking Cessation Program that provides a wide range of services including individual counseling and group programs. | Smoking awareness |
| Openlands Project | Julie Samuels | Protects, expands, and enhances open space--land and water--to provide a healthy natural environment as well as a more livable place for all people of Northeastern Illinois. | Environment |
| Operation Rainbow Push | Renee Thomas | | |
| Peace Museum | Rebecca Williams | Explores creative and non-violent solutions to social issues through education, community involvement and exhibitions. | Arts |
| Pilsen/Little Village Community Mental Health Center | Alice Krzak | Provide access to culturally relevant health and social services and to empower individuals and families. | Education |
| Play for Peace | Jessamay Kroth | Bring children of conflicting cultures together through play | Children and Youth |
| Polish American Association | Eda Darga or Mark Prejzner | Improve the well-being of individuals and to strengthen the community. | Children and Youth |
| Project Exploration | Kristin Atman | Make science accessible to the public especially minority youth and girls through personalzed experiences with science and scientists. | Education |
| Project Linus | Linda Neuman or Judi Goldman | Provides security blankets to seriously ill and traumatized children | Community Development |
| Project VIDA | Cindy Wilder | Provide HIV prevention and direct service to youth and adults who are affected by and infected with HIV/AIDS or may be at risk. | Health |
| Prologue Inc | Walter A. Perkins | Prologue's mission is to provde unique, self-contained educational community of learners with opportunities to get involved in their total socialization process as human beings. This involvement includes educaitonal classes in skill development, social justice, economic literacy, and community activism for the transformatin of their environmnet. | |
| Public Allies | Kate Nolan | Identify a diverse group of talented young adults and create opportunities for them to practice leadership through placements with community organizations. | Community Development |
| Pui Tak Center | Connie Leung | Provides an opportunity to assist in teaching or other educational opportunties in ESL and tutoring. | Youth |
| REAL (Respect, Excellence, Attitute, and Leadership) | Horace Hall and Darrick Tovar-Murray | Mentoring program that provides students of all ages with life skills considered essential for success both in and out of school. | Education |
| Rainbow House | Irena Dubiel | Domestic violence shelter providing shelter and outreach services to individuals, families and communities. | Domestic Violence |
| Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic | Nat Meyer | Serves people who cannot read standard print because of visual, perceptual or other physical disability by promoting educational and professional success | Education |
| Redeeming Grace Church | Valerie Brown | To help those in need | Hunger |
| Regional Consortium Coordinator | Zachary Korotko | Connect youth to programs and agencies in the community for cultural, education, and leadership opportunities. | Youth |
| Renaissance Social Service | Todd Lillethun | Assist homeless and disabled individuals and their families to find permanent housing in inpendent environments and provide support, referrals, and crisis intervention to assist clients with housing and economic independence toward self-sufficiency. | Housing |
| Residents for Effective Shelter Transition (REST) | Kari Aosved | Provides safe, quality, overnight shelter and assist homeless individuals who desire independent living in permanent housing. | Homelessness |
| Roseland Business Development Council | Ledall Edwards | Enhance, improve, and increase the viability of the Roseland business community. | Community Development |
| Rush University Medical Center | Terence Maynard | Provide health care services, education, and training for healthcare professionals; improve the community; foster individual growth and satisfaction of employees and volunteers. | Health |
| SHAREcircle | Guerra Freitas | Sharecircle helps save lives, create economic opportunities and restore hope for refugees of war in Angola. | Human Services |
| Salvation Army | Sandra Williams | To meet human needs without discrimination. | Poverty |
| Save a Life Foundation | Saquan Gholar | training and developing "bystanders", including children, as volunteers equipped with Life Supporting First Aid skills to aid in an emergency | education, health, public safety |
| School of the Art Institute | Michael Mitchell | Young artists are offered the opportunity to create and explore at one of the country's top art schools adn museum. | Education |
| South Central Community Services | Patricia Daniels | | Children and Youth |
| South Side Help Center | Vanessa Smith | Provide residents with the prevention and intervention services and to empower them with life saving information nd develop social interaction skills of youth through positive and constytructive activities. | Community Development |
| Southeast Asia Center | Mindy Newman | Build bridges of understanding adn cooperation among all south-east Asian people as well as between people of eastern and western upbringing. | Education |
| Southwest Women Working Together | Volunteer Resources Associate Director | Recognize and free the potential of women by empowering women to expand their options and promote fundamental rights of women. | Community Development |
| Southwest Youth Collaborative | Camille Odeh | Build cross-cultural understanding, a collaborative network of innovative youth and family services, youth and community leadership, volunteer involvement, and foster community activism around issues affecting children, youth, and families. | Youth |
| Special Olympics Chicago | Susan Badon | The Special Olympics mission is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disability, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community. | |
| Sullivan House | Jacquelyn Love | To provide quality programming to enrich the youths' lives and encourage youth to maximize the benefits of education. | Education, community & neighborhood, sports & recreation |
| Swedish American Museum Center | Benson DePriest | Being a unifying force in the promotion of Swedish American heritage and ethnic people. | Education |
| Swedish Covenant Hospital | Sue Murray | Meet the health care needs of resident in the communities surrounding the hospital. | Health |
| Swedish Covenant Hospital | Debra McWherter | Meet the health care needs of residents in the communities surrounding the hopsital. | Health |
| TARGET Area Development Corporation | W. Turnipseed/Angelique Gordon | Teach area residents in Auburn and Gresham to take part in community development | Community devevelopment |
| Tea House, NFP | Tahawwur Rana | Tea House is a charitable organization that provides food for the homeless and relief for the distressed | Homelessness |
| Teen Parent Service | Tamara Hills | Provides educational assistance, employment and parenting skills to young parents (ages 11-20) on welfare. | Youth |
| The Benton House | Jessica Herzog | To enrich the quality of life of both the individual residents and the neighborhood as a whole | youth development |
| The Blessed Child | Felisha Stewart | Their mission is to reach out to families with children ages 3-14 city wide by providing support to parents and guardians in an effort to promote postive growth. | Community development, youth and children services,and food distribution |
| The Catherine Cook School (CCS) | Blaire Strom | CCS is a Chicago independent preparatory school serving pre-school to 8th grade. We are an inclusive learning community dedicated to inspiring personal excellence and educating children for life. | |
| Tourette Syndrome Association of Illinois | Sande Shamash | Provides services and support to individuals with Tourette Syndrome and their families, the public and professionals. | Recreation |
| Training and Educational Resources for Children (TERC) | Joann Tate | Promote educational programs that incorporate prevention and intervention practices in the disciplines of arts, cultures, horticulture, and environmental improvement and inspire young people to develop entrepreneurial skills. | Environment |
| Uhlich Children's Home | Raquel Flores-Mackey | Uhlich helps hundreds of abused and neglected children break generational cycles of violence through a variety of programs and services. | Youth |
| Union League Boys and Girls Club | Margie Cepeda | A community-based organization serving the children and youth of the club area. | Children and Youth |
| United Negro College Fund | Jann W. Honore | UNCF is a consortium of 39 private, accredited four year historically black colleges and universities which provides financial assistance to deserving students, raises operating funds, and supplies technical assistance to member colleges and universities. | Education |
| Urban Aspirations | Mark Coulter | Facilitate the aspirations of Chicago's urban artist. | Arts |
| Variety Club of Illinois | Vince Pagone | To improve the quality of life for underpriviliged, physically and mentally challenged, ill, abused and homeless children | Community Development, youth |
| Vernon Park Church of God Domestic Missions | Michael Mckinnis | Assistance to faimilies in ned of human services and other support services. | Social Services |
| Vietnamese Association of Illinois | Lephuong Tran | Povides a variety of educational and community services. All ages of volunteers contribute to provide educational assist and mentoring to younger children, while providing class room assistance. | Education |
| WTTW Channel 11 | Katie Hawking | Since 1955, WTTW Channel 11 has been a source of education, information, and entertainment, providing Chicago, the Midwest, and the nation with high-quality television programs. WTTW has an honored history as a center for original television production and a broadcast leader. | |
| West Side Health Authority | Bernadine Edwards | Use the capacity of local people to improve the health and well-being of West Side residents and preserve existing institutions associated with health services. | Children and Youth |
| World Vision Chicago/CityLINC | Laura Lowe Humboldt | Provides tangible, life-changing hope to the poorest of the poor, focusing on helping children achieve their God-given potential by tackling the root causes of poverty. | Education |
| YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago | Katherine Ellis | Elminate racism and empower women | Education |
| Youth Communication | Rachael Cain | Youth must be heard and understood. The expression and sharing of their experiences, concerns, and solutions is critical to the ability to share their present and future worlds. Youth Communication provides Chicago youth with mass media vehicles to voice their ideas. We provide journalism training and media opportunities. | Youth |
| Zion Temple Educational Center | Latasha Battie | To provide individuals with the necessary educational, life, and social skills needed to become law-abiding and productive citizens so that they can lead better lives. | Education |