| Month: | October 2006 |
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| Charity: | AIDSCare, Inc. |
| Address: | 212 E. Ohio Street 5th Floor Chicago, IL 60611 |
| Phone: | 773-935-4663 |
| Fax: | 773-935-4662 |
| Website: | http://www.aidscarechicago.org |
| Contact: | Kirstan Natoli |
| Title: | Special Events Manager |
| Description/ Mission: |
Since 1992, AIDSCare has assisted those living with advanced HIV/AIDS in the Chicago area to achieve a higher quality of life through housing, care, and support services. |
| Month: | September 2006 |
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| Charity: | Emergency Fund |
| Address: | 208 S. LaSalle Suite 776 Chicago, IL 60604 |
| Phone: | 312-379-0301 |
| Fax: | 312-379-0304 |
| Website: | https://www.emergencyfund.org |
| Contact: | Nonie Brennan |
| Title: | Executive Director |
| Description/ Mission: |
The Emergency Fund a non-profit organization which, alone and in partnership with other agencies, provides immediate financial assistance and related services to help Chicago’s low-income individuals and families through a crisis. |
| Month: | August 2006 |
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| Charity: | Kids Fight Cancer |
| Address: | 1508 E. Algonquin Road Arlington Heights, IL 60005 |
| Phone: | 847-640-8515 |
| Fax: | |
| Website: | http://www.kidsfightcancer.org |
| Contact: | Jim Pesoli |
| Title: | President |
| Description/ Mission: |
Kids Fight Cancer is a not-for-profit corporation that funds the children's playroom in the Oncology Department of Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago. The playroom is meant to be an oasis for children within the hospital, a place to escape and play within a place of seriousness and sickness. The playroom creates hope and encourages the children to brave it through their treatments, because once they are done, they can go back and pick up where they left off. Kids Fight Cancer provides the salary for a full-time child therapist and the toys and art supplies to make this possible. |
| Month: | November 2006 |
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| Charity: | San Jose Obrero Mission |
| Address: | 1909 S. Ashland Avenue Chicago, IL 60608 |
| Phone: | 312/243-4347 |
| Fax: | 312/243-1492 |
| Website: | http://www.sjom.org |
| Contact: | Josephine DiCesare |
| Title: | Resource Development Staff |
| Description/ Mission: |
Founded in 1981, San Jose Obrero Mission is an interim housing program focusing on the needs of homeless men in Chicago's Pilsen community. The primary goal of the program is to assist and support participants as they seek to stabilize their lives and prepare for a more independent living situation. In addition to a warm, clean and attractive residential environment, San Jose Obrero Mission offers case management, life skills training, and housing placement, referral, and after-care services. The program operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week and can accommodate up to 34 participants. Participants may be residents for up to 120 days. Approximately 180 men are served annually. Although the program is open to all adult males over the age of 18, San Jose Obrero Mission focuses specifically on the needs of homeless, Latino men. |
| Month: | December 2006 |
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| Charity: | Wounded Heroes Foundation |
| Address: | PO Box 524 Wadsworth, IL 60083 |
| Phone: | 847/ 456-8061 |
| Fax: | |
| Website: | https://www.woundedsoldiers.net |
| Contact: | Anna Sherony |
| Title: | Founder & Director |
| Description/ Mission: |
The Wounded Heroes Foundation mission is to demonstrate love and support by helping to meet the basic needs of wounded service personnel and their families. It’s a program designed to demonstrate physical and emotional support to wounded service personnel by helping to provide quality personal care, clothing and recreational items to enhance their recovery. Many service men and women are evacuated straight out of the field with no possessions |
| Month: | January 2006 |
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| Charity: | The Lake County Haven |
| Address: | P.O. Box 127 Libertyville, IL 60048 |
| Phone: | 847-680-5408 |
| Fax: | |
| Website: | http://www.lakecountyhaven.org |
| Contact: | Diana Newton |
| Title: | Development Associate |
| Description/ Mission: |
The mission of The Lake County Haven is to empower homeless women and their children to achieve permanent, independent living. We accomplish this by providing safe shelter, employement training, financial aid for transportation, medical care and childcare, counseling and case management. Our goal is that no woman we serve will ever be homeless again. |
| Month: | February 2006 |
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| Charity: | American Stroke Association - Train to End Stroke |
| Address: | 208 S. LaSalle Suite 900 Chicago, IL 60611 |
| Phone: | 312-476-6636 |
| Fax: | |
| Website: | http://www.strokeassociation.org |
| Contact: | Kristin Novak |
| Title: | Director, Train to End Stroke |
| Description/ Mission: |
The American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association, has a mission to reduce disability and death from stroke through research, education and advocacy. Train to End Stroke supports this life-saving mission by raising important dollars to fund our stroke program initiatives. Participants in this life-changing journey raise funds as they train to walk or run a half (13.1 miles) or full (26.2 miles) marathon event. In addition, they raise awareness and educate others on risk factors and warning signs of stroke, to help save lives. |
| Month: | March 2006 |
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| Charity: | Today's Chicago Woman Foundation |
| Address: | 150 E. Huron Street Suite 1001 Chicago, IL 60611 |
| Phone: | 312--951-8976 |
| Fax: | |
| Website: | http://www.tcwfoundation.com |
| Contact: | Sherren Leigh |
| Title: | President |
| Description/ Mission: |
The Today's Chicago Woman Foundation, an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) non-profit, provides funding and educational programs to women and their children through grants to area organizations, preferably with operating budgets under $500,000 , who provide services and/or shelter to homeless or battered women; counseling victims of conduct fee educational seminars for executive directors and board members of non-profits addressing topics such as: how to increase visibility through the media; how to utilize today's technology to fundraise; how to prepare promotional materials such as press kits and power point presentations. |
| Month: | April 2006 |
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| Charity: | Community Counseling Centers of Chicago (C4) |
| Address: | 4740 N. Clark Street Chicago, IL 60640 |
| Phone: | 773-765-0809 |
| Fax: | |
| Website: | http://c4chicago.org |
| Contact: | Marta A. Bailey |
| Title: | Development Director |
| Description/ Mission: |
Community Counseling Centers of Chicago (C4), a behavioral health advocate and social service provider, offers quality comprehensive customer-oriented services tailored to the diversity of its consumers. Since 1972, C4 has offered a full range of outpatient behavioral health services for adults, children, and families who are struggling with mental illness, emotional trauma and the aftermath of violence. |
| Month: | May 2006 |
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| Charity: | Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation Midwest |
| Address: | 30 E. Adams Street Suite 1020 Chicago, IL 60603 |
| Phone: | 312-251-7827 |
| Fax: | |
| Website: | http://www.starlightmidwest.org |
| Contact: | Amber Neslund |
| Title: | Director of Philanthropy |
| Description/ Mission: |
Established in 1986, The Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation is dedicated to improving the quality of life for seriously ill children and their families. While doctors treat the illness, Starlight exists to treat the ‘child inside’, ensuring that kids do not lose the experiences of childhood amidst the chaos of serious illness. Through programs that empower, educate, entertain and inspire Starlight reaches over 180,000 children each year, distracting them from pain and fear, entertaining them out of boredom and depression, educating and empowering them to dream and explore, and connecting them to other kids, their family, and their friends so that the loneliness and isolation of serious illness are eliminated. |
| Month: | June 2006 |
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| Charity: | SIDS of Illinois, Inc. |
| Address: | 710 E. Ogden Avenue Suite 550 Naperville, IL 60563 |
| Phone: | 630-305-7300 |
| Fax: | |
| Website: | http://www.sidsillinois.org |
| Contact: | Brad Cox |
| Title: | Manager of Finance |
| Description/ Mission: |
The Sudden Infant Death Services of Illinois, Inc. is a statewide not-for-profit organization dedicated to: 1. Supporting family members and others who have been touched by the tragedy of a SIDS or post-neonatal infant death, 2. Educating the public and professionals about bereavement support and infant mortality reduction, and 3. Eliminating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome through the support and implementation of appropriate research. |
| Month: | July 2006 |
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| Charity: | Big Brothers Big Sisters |
| Address: | 1600 N. Industrial Drive McHenry, IL 60050 |
| Phone: | 815-385-3855 |
| Fax: | |
| Website: | http://bbsmchenry.org |
| Contact: | Robyn Ostrem |
| Title: | Director of Marketing |
| Description/ Mission: |
Our mission is to help children in need to reach their potential through professionally supported one-to-one Big Brother Big Sister mentoring relationships that will improve the lives of these children forever. |