Nonprofit Organizations
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A+ Illinois
A-Plus Illinois
AbilityLinks
The AbilityLinks consortium of businesses, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations was established in 2001 by Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital to increase employment opportunities for people with disabilities. The award-winning website—www.AbilityLinks.org—brings together business and job candidates with disabilities. The AbilityLinks staff provides ongoing support to website users including job seekers, companies, and schools and non-profit organizations that assist disabled individuals with preparing for and finding work.
About Face Youth Theatre
About Face Youth Theatre is Chicago’s award-winning arts-based program for LGBTQ youth and their allies.
Access Community Health Network
Access Living
Access Living
Access Living
Access to Care
Accessible Chicago
Accessible Chicago takes the guesswork out of traveling to Chicago with a wheelchair. Created by a special needs mom, www.accessiblechicago.org provides on-line reviews of restaurants, attractions and hotels to help those with special needs travel to the Windy City.
ACCION Chicago
ACCION Chicago is a non profit alternative lending organization dedicated to providing credit and other business services to small business owners who do not have access to traditional sources of financing. By encouraging the economic self-reliance of microentrepreneurs throughout the Chicagoland area, ACCION Chicago strives to help businesses and communities grow.
Many of our clients do not have access to traditional bank loans. The small size of their loan request, lack of or poor credit history, may make them ineligible for conventional financing and unable to obtain the credit they need to grow their businesses. ACCION Chicago provides this credit and helps small business owners increase their incomes, create new jobs and strengthen their communities.
ACLU of Illinois
ACLU of Illinois
ACORN
Action for Children
Action for Children creates a common voice and vision for advancing high quality child care and early learning systems in Illinois.
We provide aid and support to parents in making the best child
care and education choices for their children, helping families
achieve economic self-sufficiency.
We offer support to child care providers for professional development,
promoting quality improvements and best practices to help them expand
their skills and create safe, developmentally appropriate environments for
the children they serve.
We are advocates, working in partnership with individuals and
organizations empowering people to participate in civic and
community life and keeping child care and early education issues in
the forefront of state and local legislative and policy agendas.
Action Now
Active Transportation Alliance
ADAPT
ADAPT
Affinity Community Services
Affinity provides social services to black lesbian and bisexual women in the Chicagoland area. Through advocacy, activism and health based initiatives, we provide a voice from a "not so invisible" community.
Affinity Community Services
African American Women Evolving, Inc. (AAWE)
AAWE works to create a direct response from Black women at the grassroots level to social and economic policies that impact their overall reproductive health.
AFSCME District Council 31
AFSCME Council 31
After School Matters
After School Matters is a non-profit organization that partners with the City of Chicago, the Chicago Public Schools, the Chicago Park District, the Chicago Public Library, the Chicago Department of Children and Youth Services, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, and Community-Based Organizations to expand out-of-school opportunities for Chicago teens.
Through its innovative gallery37, science37, sports37, tech37, and words37 programs, Chicago teens take part in engaging activities that provide skills that translate to the workplace. Through positive relationships with adults and peers, they are exposed to educational and career opportunities in their neighborhoods and the city at large. By coordinating city resources and anchoring the programs around clusters of public high schools, parks and libraries, ASM enriches the lives of teens and helps to revitalize Chicago's communities.
AgeOptions
AgeOptions connects older adults, their families, and caregivers with community-based resources and service options, offering a full range of choices for our diverse aging population. Designated as one of the 13 Area Agencies on Aging in Illinois, AgeOptions plans for services, funds a network of community-based agencies, coordinates programs and advocates on behalf of older adults in suburban Cook County. AgeOptions is a leader in innovative program development, continuously seeking new opportunities and ways to reach and respond to older adults and their families.
AID - Association for Individual Development
AID is a not-for-profit community-based organization whose mission is to enrich the lives of children and adults with disabilities by promoting individual achievement community inclusion. AID currently serves over 2300 individuals in Kane, Kendall, and DeKalb Counties, Hanover Township in Cook County and the entire city of Aurora.
AIDS Foundation of Chicago
AIDSCare
Albany Park Community Center
The Albany Park Community Center educates and supports community members
as they determine their own path of growth and development, by providing diverse programs and services for individuals, families, groups and businesses.
The Albany Park Community Center envisions a healthy community where members:
respect, honor and celebrate diversity;
use their skills, talents and gifts not only to help themselves, but also for the good of others;
live in safety and harmony;
access good quality education, health care, shopping, transportation, recreation and affordable housing; and realize their hopes for a better life.
The Albany Park Community Center is committed to respect for individual dignity, diversity and self-determination while providing the highest level of services with integrity and compassion.
Alivio Medical Center
Alivio Medical Center is a bilingual, bicultural organization committed to providing access to quality cost-effective health care to the Latino community, the uninsured and underinsured, and not to the exclusion of other cultures and races. This mission is expressed through the provision of services, advocacy, education and research, and evaluation provided in an environment of caring and respect.
Alivio Medical Center
Alivio Medical Center
All Stars Project of Chicago
The All Stars Project, Inc. (ASP) is dedicated to promoting human development through the use of an innovative performance-based model. Founded in 1981, the ASP creates privately funded, outside-of-school, educational and performing arts activities for poor and minority young people. The ASP sponsors community talent shows, youth development training and volunteer initiatives that engage and strengthen communities. By offering programs that are at once challenging and supportive, the ASP aims to create an environment that inspires inner-city youth to learn, grow, and pursue their aspirations.
Alliance for the Great Lakes
Alliance for the Great Lakes
Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County
The Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County
is a non-profit organization responsible for planning and
coordinating homeless services and housing options for all of
Cook County outside of Chicago and Evanston.
Alternative Schools Network
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
American Bar Assocation
With more than 400,000 members, the American Bar Association is the largest voluntary professional membership organization in the world. As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law in a democratic society.
American Brain Tumor Association
The American Brain Tumor Association exists to eliminate brain tumors through research and to meet the needs of brain tumor patients and their families. We are a not-for-profit, independent organization, not affiliated with any one institution. We serve individuals globally and award research funds to scientific investigators through the United States and Canada.
American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
ACOEM is the preeminent organization of occupational health professionals who champion the health and safety of workers, workplaces, and environments. ACOEM sponsors educational activities for physicians & other health professionals, including CME courses and conference.
American Dietetic Association
With nearly 65,000 members, the American Dietetic Association is the nation’s largest organization of food and nutrition professionals. Based in Chicago, ADA serves the public by promoting optimal nutrition, health and well-being.
American Friends Service Committee
The American Friends Service Committee is a Quaker peace and social justice organization working on economic justice, fair trade, Middle East and Iraq peace.
American Friends Service Committee
American Friends Service Committee
American Friends Service Committee
American Friends Service Committee
American Jewish Committee-Chicago Chapter
The American Jewish Committee was established in 1906 by a small group of American Jews deeply concerned about programs aimed at the Jewish population of Russia. The group determined that the best way to protect Jews in Russia and other countries would be to work towards a world in which all peoples are accorded respect and dignity.
Almost 100 years later, that founding mission continues to guide AJC's efforts to promote pluralistic and democratic societies where all minorities are protected. Our key areas of focus are: Combating anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry; Promoting pluralism and shared civic values; Protecting human rights and combating abuses; Asserting Israel's right to exist in peace and security with its neighbors; Safeguarding and strengthening Jewish life.
American Kidney Fund
The American Kidney Fund is our nation's leading voluntary health organization serving people with and at risk for kidney disease through direct financial assistance, comprehensive education, clinical research and community service programs. In 2004, the Fund served more than 55,000 low-income kidney patients, distributing more than 100,000 grants totaling $57 million.
American Parkinson Disease Association
The organization was founded in 1961 to "ease the burden and find a cure" for Parkinson's disease. The national offices are headquarterd in New York,with regional offices throughout the country. Illinois offices are located at Glenbrook Hospital in Glenview IL. The Glenview location also houses the national office for the organization's Young-Onset PD programs.
The American Parkinson Disease Asociation focuses on research, patient services, education and raising public awareness about the disease. The national office also coordinates the efforts of referral centers across the nation. For more information or services call toll-free 888-400-2732. For young-onset information and services call 800-223-9776.
American Red Cross Chicago Chapter
The Greater Chicago Red Cross is part of a nationwide network of nearly 1,000 chapters and blood collection sites. It is recognized as a symbol of hope throughout the world. With 3000 volunteers and 100 staff, the nation’s second largest chapter provides relief to
victims of single family and community emergencies, national and international disasters; and helps people to prevent, prepare for and respond to emergencies.
The American Red Cross of Greater Chicago serves more than 8.6 million people in Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry, and Will counties through the support and generous contributions of individuals, corporations, foundations, and the United Way. For more information, call 312-729-6100 or visit www.chicagoredcross.org.
American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
The ASGE, founded in 1941, is the preeminent professional organization dedicated to advancing the practice of gastrointestinal Endoscopy. With more than 8,500 physician members worldwide, ASGE promotes the highest standards for endoscopic training and practice, fosters endoscopic research, recognizes distinguished contributions to GI Endoscopy, and is the foremost resource for endoscopic education.
About ASGE: www.asge.org 630-573-0600
Patient Information: www.askasge.org 866-305-ASGE
Americans for Democratic Action
Amnesty International
AMP Community Arts Program
Artistic program for youth to help motivate and encourage at risk youth in their field of art
Andersonville Chamber of Commerce
Andersonville Chamber of Commerce
Andersonville Chamber of Commerce
Angelic Organics Learning Center
Anixter Center
Founded in 1919, the mission of the Anixter Center is to assist people with disabilities to live and work successfully in the community.The Anixter Center is a leading provider of high-quality vocational, residential and educational options, substance abuse prevention and treatment, and health care. The Anixter Center is an advocate for the rights of people with disabilities to be full and equal members of the community. Anixter Center was ranked as the 12th-largest charitable organization in Chicago by Crain's chicago Business in March 2004.
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Homeless Center for Women with Children
Applied Research Center
Applied Research Center
Arab-American Family Services
ARDS Foundation
The ARDS Foundation is a National Not for Profit Organization composed of a group of individuals who have been personally affected by ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome). We are dedicated to increasing public awareness, education, and financial assistance to those engaged in medical research
Arlington Heights Bicycle Association
Arthritis Foundation
Click here to learn more about the programs, services and legislative advocacy efforts on behalf of arthritis patients.
Arts & Business Council of Chicago
The Arts & Business Council of Chicago links the strengths of arts and business to help non-profit arts organizations improve the business side of their operations. We accomplish this by providing educational programs on business management topics to arts professionals, and by recruiting and training business professionals to serve as pro bono consultants and board members.
Arts of Life, Inc.
We are an artistic community that provides adults with developmental disabilities an environment to experience personal growth.
ArtWalkRavenswood
A non-profit arts service organization specific to Ravenswood area, Chicago.
Asian American Institute
Asian Health Coalition of Illinois
Asian Human Services, Inc.
ASPIRA Inc. of Illinois
ASPIRA Inc. of Illinois is a Puerto Rican not-for-profit organization committed to the self-determination of Latinos through education, leadership development and cultural awareness. Its divisions and programs include the Miguel del Valle Youth Leadership Development Institute & ASPIRA Clubs in 37 public schools; APEX (ASPIRA Parents for Excellence); ASPIRA Charter School (3 Campuses - Mirta Ramirez Computer Science High School Campus; Haugan Middle School Campus; Antonia Pantoja Early College Campus), ASPIRA Technical College; ASPIRA Community Technology Centers; Chicagoland Latino Educational Research Institute, and the ASPIRA Center for Culture, History & the Arts.
Associated Colleges of Illinois
The Associated Colleges of Illinois (ACI) is a group of private colleges and universities rooted in the liberal arts tradition working with business, government, and community leaders to 1)Enhance the strength of member institutions through collective action, 2) Help solve some of society's most pressing educational problems, and 3) Increase public understanding of the value and role of ACI colleges and universities.
Association For Community Networking
The Association For Community Networking provides resources, shared learning, and experienced guidance to help communities and organizations use information and communications technologies effectively.
Association for the Advancement of Creative Music
Association Forum of Chicagoland
Founded in 1916, The Association Forum of Chicagoland today serves 33,000 Chicagoland association professionals whose efforts serve 50 million members and generate $13 billion in annual expenditures, nationwide.
Chicagoland associations are responsible for $3 billion of direct economic impact annually in Illinois. Every year, Chicagoland associations sponsor 462 trade shows, 6,900 meetings and 1,042 conventions in the Chicago area. Chicagoland associations that own their own facilities pay more than $11 million annually in real estate taxes.
The Forum provides essential learning, compelling experiences and powerful resources that advance the professional practice of association management.
Association Forum of Chicagoland
Association House of Chicago
Association House of Chicago is a community resource offering comprehensive services in English and Spanish that help families help themselves.
Association of Ameritech/SBC Retirees, Inc. (AASBCR)
The Association of Ameritech/SBC Retirees (AASBCR) protects its members’ retirement benefits while supporting SBC’s legislative agenda.
Association of Consultants to Nonprofits (ACN)
ACN is the premier resource for consultants who provide organizations with a wide range of expertise, including management, board development, fundraising, finance, human resources, technology, legal services, marketing, organizational development, public policy, and more. ACN members offer needed support to help an organization grow and fulfill its mission. To find the right consultant, learn how to select a consultant, and access other resources to make non-profits more effective, search the ACN website at www.ACNconsult.org.
Association of Horizon, Inc.
The Association of Horizon, Inc. is a non-for-profit volunteer organization that provides opportunities for persons with and without physical disabilities to socialize, interact, and learn from one another. In the summer, Horizon hosts a summer camp for adults with physical disabilities and is free of charge to all participants.
Association of Latino Proffessionals in Finance and Accounting
Our Vision
ALPFA is the premier Latino professional organization in finance, accounting, and other related professions. ALPFA has active members, committed business partners, and quality programs.
Our Mission
ALPFA creates opportunities, adds value, and builds relationships for its members, the community and its business partners while expanding Latino Leadership in the global workforce.
Association of Pakistani Professionals (AOPP)
Association of Pakistani Professionals [AOPP] is an independent group working to ensure the dissemination of accurate information regarding U.S.-Pakistan relations. Our goal is to depict the true image of Pakistan in the U.S. by helping Americans develop a deeper understanding of Pakistan and the South Asian region in general. AOPP works with mainstream western media, think tanks and Pakistani-American students and professionals working in the U.S.
Association of Volunteer Administrators of Metropolitan Chicago
The Association of Volunteer Administrators of Metropolitan Chicago is the Midwest's premier network of volunteer management professionals. Our goal is to inspire collaborations, support one another and serve the community.
AVA-MC offers its members valuable training in the field of volunteer management and administration, a member directory which links the volunteer managers and their organizations to each other, 24-hour access to member news and opportunities through special networking events.
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Atlas Senior Center
Atlas is a wonderful creative and social environment for independent and active seniors 60 years of age and older. Classes are offered in Art/Painting, Aerobics, Stepping, Line Dance, Knitting and Crocheting, Bridge/Cards. Fabulous trips are offered and there are a variety of special events at the center.
Aurora Area Convention & Visitors Bureau
The Aurora Area CVB represents eight unique cities/towns, less than 40 miles from Chicago. Find a bevy of entertainment, outdoor, art and architecture attractions. Visit the legendary Paramount Theatre or architecturally significant Farnsworth House.
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Axelson Center for Nonprofit Management at North Park University
The mission of The Axelson Center for Nonprofit Management at North Park University is to enhance performance and effectiveness of organizations and individuals in the nonprofit sector through education, service, and resources. Our vision is to help build a vibrant community in Chicago and beyond through strengthening nonprofit leadership and management.
Ayingo Foundation
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Ayingo Foundation is a non profit organization offering referral services and athletic outlets to youths as an alterative to those activities which are at risk of spreading HIV and AIDS.
