Charities

Alzheimer's Association

Website: www.alz.org

Center on Halsted

Website: www.centeronhalsted.org

Serving the greater Chicago's GLBT Community and youth programming.

Chicago Cares

Website: chicagocares.org

Chicago House

Website: www.chicagohouse.org

To provide housing and supportive services to HIV-affected families and individuals, who may also be impacted by poverty, homelessness, substance abuse, and mental illness.

DuPage PADS, Inc.

Website: www.dupagepads.org

Homeless shelters and transitional and supportive housing in DuPage County.

Genesis House

Website: www.genesishouse.org

Goldie's Place

Website: www.goldiesplace.org

Helps those who were formerly homeless become self sufficient.

Gilda's Club

Website: www.gildasclubchicago.org

A free support community for men, women and children whose lives have been touched by cancer, and their family and friends.

Habitat for Humanity

Website: www.windycityhabitat.org

Jane Addams Resource Corp.

Website: www.jane-addams.org

At Jane Addams Resource Corporation (JARC), we bridge community and market needs through adult education classes, job training programs, economic development services, and real estate initiatives to ensure that lower-income working adults achieve self-sufficiency and do not live in poverty.

Junior Achievement

Website: www.jachicago.org

Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund

Website: www.lambdalegal.org

Lambda Legal is a national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work.

Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago

Website: www.lafchicago.org

Little Brothers, Friends of the Elderly

Website: www.littlebrothers.org/chicago

National MS Society

Website: www.nationalmssociety.org/ILD/home

National organization helping achieve full recognition of people and families afflicted with Multiple Sclerosis.

PAWS

Website: www.pawschicago.org

The Friends of the Parks

Website: www.fotp.org

To protect, preserve and improve all of the parks in Chicago.

CAPE

Website: www.capeweb.org

Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE), improves student learning by developing and nurturing partnerships between teachers and artists to integrate the arts into classroom curriculum.

Elmhurst Art Museum

Website: www.elmhurstartmuseum.org

School of the Art Institute

Website: www.artic.edu/saic