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SPONSORED CONTENT 2. What’s top on your wish list now?
2. What’s top on your wish list now?
• Resources to equip our teams with the tools and skills necessary to support our clients now and in the future; • Funding to sustain and strengthen our core operations and build new capabilities, ensuring our clients and teams flourish well into the next decade
• New corporate partners to help us provide internship opportunities; • Golfers interested in playing Medinah Country Club’s Ryder Cup course
CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS 1. What is your biggest opportunity in the upcoming year? Celebrating its centennial anniversary in 2022, the Council is embarking on an ambitious digital transformation to engage more people in Chicago and beyond. We believe that the more knowledgeable and engaged people are in global issues, the more open and promising the world will be.
NONPROFITS LOOK AHEAD TO THE FUTURE As the COVID-19 recovery continues, here are the ways you can help
In the midst of the COVID-19 recovery, nonprofits are continuing to adapt to various changes. Yet, their missions remain unchanged: to make the world a better place through their particular offerings. As they prepare for the future, Giving Guide contributors shared their organizations’ upcoming opportunities and most pressing needs with Crain’s Content Studio. Please take a moment to consider how you can become involved and help them achieve their goals.
ANDERSON HUMANE 1. What is your biggest opportunity in the upcoming year? Anderson Humane needs you to volunteer for a committee or join our advisory board, helping to guide our organization through some exciting new projects in the coming years. 2. What’s top on your wish list now? • We need a new pet food supplier for the animals in our shelters. • We need people to join our community of foster families, helping us care for even more animals and for those who need some extra love. • We would like to find some additional advisory board-level volunteers. ANN & ROBERT H. LURIE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO 1. What is your biggest opportunity in the upcoming year? The pandemic continues to take a toll on the emotional and mental health of children. The need for our expertise is higher than ever. We will continue to build sustaining programs that strengthen communities, help children and families through times of crisis, and enhance their well-being at every stage of life. 2. What’s top on your wish list now? We rely on donor gifts to give more kids access to specialized care. If you believe every child deserves a healthier future, make a monthly commitment at luriechildrens.org/monthly. ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO 1. What is your biggest opportunity in the upcoming year? Association House is one of Chicagoland’s largest bilingual foster care providers, and this year we’re looking to train and recruit a record number of new foster parents to provide safe homes for children. You can help by hosting a lunch-and-learn or expressing interest yourself! 2. What’s top on your wish list now? • Pantry items for weekly food distribution; • Employer partners for expanding workforce programs; • Volunteer groups for projects at our residential facilities
2. What’s top on your wish list now? Financial contributions will support the development of engagement experiences; efforts to position the next generation for leadership roles; research and thought leadership on global issues; and our evolving commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.
Our biggest opportunity is expanding GiGi’s At Home programming into the GiGi’s Virtual Playhouse, a secure, interactive, global education platform and a permanent, worldwide solution for families who lack access to a physical playhouse. 2. What’s top on your wish list now? • Board members: Energetic, entrepreneurial business and civic leaders eager to create a more accepting world • Corporate partners: Companies committed to DEAI to sponsor GiGi’s programs, take the #GenerationG pledge and inspire employees to advocate for individuals with Down syndrome GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY 1. What is your biggest opportunity in the upcoming year?
1. What is your biggest opportunity in the upcoming year?
Inflation, rising food prices and expiring COVID-19 relief programs prolong our community’s recovery to the pandemic. We have an opportunity to bolster the emergency food system and make equitable investments in communities facing the highest rates of food insecurity.
Through our Employment Services Program and Social Enterprise businesses, we want to help businesses create more diverse, equitable and inclusive workplaces. We are experts in inclusive hiring, accessibility and disability inclusion. Our work helps build individual confidence and community strength. 2. What’s top on your wish list now? We want to expand our partnerships with area businesses and create employment opportunities for people who are blind, visually impaired, disabled and Veterans. Our Social Enterprise services include Customer Contact Centers, Digital Accessibility Consulting, and Product Assembly and Fulfillment. DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND 1. What is your biggest opportunity in the upcoming year? Join us in the DMSF Equitable Education Initiative, a program that ensures Murphy Scholars are provided tuition assistance, academic and social/emotional support. As a partner in the DMSF mission, you are making a four-year investment in Murphy Scholars by providing access to an equitable education. 2. What’s top on your wish list now? Support the DMSF Caddie Program! Every summer, up to 140 Scholars participate and have the opportunity to earn money, gain job experience, live in college dormitories and become eligible to apply for the Evans Scholarship. FATHERHOOD EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE 1. What is your biggest opportunity in the upcoming year?
2. What’s top on your wish list now? Donations and volunteers are essential to our work. Together, we can feed our neighbors and address hunger’s root causes through investing in local partners, connecting residents to job training and benefits, and advocating for policies that lift up our communities. HAYMARKET CENTER 1. What is your biggest opportunity in the upcoming year? When patients enter treatment at Haymarket Center, many are experiencing homelessness and have complex medical and behavioral health needs. Our focus is to expand and improve our delivery model and physical space to simultaneously address substance use disorder, behavioral health and physical health to ensure long-term recovery. 2. What’s top on your wish list now? Stigma still exists and touches every aspect of our work—from access to treatment, to awareness of the disease, to funding. We need passionate advocates who can help shine a light on substance use disorder, advance our mission, raise awareness of our cause and grow network of supporters. INVEST FOR KIDS 1. What is your biggest opportunity in the upcoming year?
We have an opportunity—with adequate funding—to remove cost as an impediment to fathers, so that they gain necessary training, skills and certifications to take advantage of the current job market, as skilled workers are highly demanded.
Our biggest opportunity is reconnecting with our audience and supporters at an in-person conference. As our primary activity, we rely on our conference’s success to fund our mission. This is particularly important when Chicago’s young people’s needs are at an all-time high.
2. What’s top on your wish list now?
2. What’s top on your wish list now?
We’re especially interested in establishing a scholarship fund to help struggling fathers learn skills so they can earn a living and support their families. And we’d like to build relationships with Illinois-based community colleges so they can increase applicants’ awareness of scholarship availability through FEI.
Our number one wish is to reach a record-breaking fundraising goal of $2 million. Since 100 percent of our fundraising dollars are contributed to organizations in Chicago that serve young people, this will have a major impact.
GENESYS WORKS CHICAGO 1. What is your biggest opportunity in the upcoming year?
1. What is your biggest opportunity in the upcoming year?
Over 600 Chicago Public Schools’ juniors applied to be part of our program during their senior year, which means that, with your help, we could provide additional opportunities to this enterprising youth!
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1. What is your biggest opportunity in the upcoming year?
THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO
The impact of the pandemic will last for decades; needs will continue to evolve and grow. Our learnings, paired with our century of service, inform an investment in our frontline teams to deepen impact, enhance effectiveness and heighten engagement.
GIGI’S PLAYHOUSE DOWN SYNDROME ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS
LES TURNER ALS FOUNDATION 1. What is your biggest opportunity in the upcoming year? We are interested in expanding our educational resources so people and families living with ALS can find answers to their questions when they need them most. Furthermore, we’d like to increase access to effective ALS therapies that can extend and improve quality of life.
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