Nonprofit Organizations
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Back of The Yards Neighborhood Council
Oldest Community Organizing organization in the country. advocate for economic development, brought jobs to the Industrial sTockyards and also lead agency to Mayor Daley's KidStart YouthNet Region 4
Ban The Carriage
Barrel of Monkeys
Barrel of Monkeys is an ensemble of actor-educators that creates an alternative learning environment in which children share their personal voices and celebrate the power of their imaginations. BOM accomplishes this through creative writing workshops and in-school performances of children's stories. BOM also engages the broader community in support of the visions of children through public performance of their work.
Barrington Career Center
Not for profit agency dedicated to teaching the skills needed to launch and sustain a successful job search. Offer Job Coaches, Networking, Interviewing Skills Workshops and weekly Job Skill Building seminar.
Beacon Street Gallery and Performance Company
Beacon Street Gallery is a 25 year old multi arts organization. Our mission, to build community through diversity, is accomplished through gallery exhibition, performance, and education programs featuring folk and ethnic, women, minority, and new and emerging artists, both local and worldwide. Since 1982, we have served over 6,500 artists and 18,500 children and youth through award winning programs that unite artists and the community as creative partners.
Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation
Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation is dedicated to eliminate pediatric cancer and to provide hope and support to those who are touched by it.
Benton Foundation
The mission of the Benton Foundation is to articulate a public interest vision for the digital age and to demonstrate the value of communications for solving social problems.
Bethel New Life
Bethesda Human Resource Ministry
Faith-based organization serving the under resource in the La Hermosa, Belmont-Cragin, Logan Square & North Pulaski areas.
We offer Computer Training, and referral services to community agencies. We will open an Early Childhood Development Center in the Fall 2008 as well as an After School Program for At-Risk Children.
Better Existence with HIV
The mission of BEHIV is to improve the lives of people with HIV and AIDS in the communities it serves through a comprehensive range of quality services, to inform the public about the virus and risk reduction behavior, and to increase understanding and compassion for people with HIV and AIDS.
Better Funding for Better Schools Coalition
Better Government Association
Founded in 1923, the Better Government Association is an independent, non-partisan government watchdog group. Our mission is to combat waste, fraud and corruption in government by conducting investigative research and litigation to expose problems; researching policy solutions promoting transparency and accountability in government; and using internship programs to train the next generation of investigators and public interest lawyers.
Beverly Area Planning Association
Umbrella civic organization that serves the Beverly/Morgan Park neighborhood of Chicago with programs in housing, school support, community safety, commercial development, special evenets and more.
Beverly Area Planning Association
Beverly Arts Center
The Beverly Arts Center is located in Chicago's historic Beverly/Morgan Park neighborhood, the BAC is a multidisciplinary cultural center offering classes in art, music, dance, and theater; rotating exhibitions of contemporary art; and one of the most dynamic performing arts programs in the city.
Beverly Arts Center
Not-for-profit regional facility that provides fine arts education and programming to Chicago's south/southwest neighborhoods and suburbs.
Beyondmedia Education
Beyondmedia Education's mission is to collaborate with under-served and under-represented women, youth and communities to tell their stories to the world around us, and organize for social justice through the creation and distribution of alternative media and arts.
Bickerdike Redevelopment Corp.
Bickerdike Redevelopment Corp.
Bickerdike Redevelopment Corp.
Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago
Big Brothers Big Sisters is a nonprofit organization that has one purpose and goal: to provide friendship, emotional support, and guidance to youth through positive adult role models.
The need for mentors has never been greater. Although thousands of children in our program have been helped, we have a large waiting list of boys and girls who would benefit from a relationship with a caring adult. Today, our waiting list is over 200 children - many of whom have been waiting to be matched for over a year.
Black on Black Love
Founded by Edward Gardner, former co-chairman and founder of Soft Sheen Products in 1983 to end Black on Black crime and replace it with Black on Black Love. It's Mission is to create and implement programs designed to break the cycle of crime in our communities. Each program provides positive alternatives that nurture Self-Love, Self-respect and Self-discipline as alternatives to crime.
Blacks In Green
Blocks Together
Blocks Together
Blocks Together
Blue Gargoyle Youth Service
Bodies of Work
Bosnian Herzegovinian American Community Center
Founded in 1994 and incorporated in 1997, BHACC is the primary service organization for the Bosnian and Herzegovinian community of Illinois. Services offered include: refugee resettlement, citizenship and immigration assistance, social services, cultural and educational programming and programs that serve youth, seniors and families.
For further information visit the BHACC website at www. bhacc.org or call 773-274-0044.
Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago
Bracy Community Services, Inc.
We are Bracy Community Services Inc. (BCSI) a young dynamic nonprofit organization committed to our community. We provide an array of services for youth and adults. Our services range from behavioral health care to general social services. Founded as a 501c (3) in 2003, Isaac and Yolanda Bracy has shaped BCSI into a multi-integrated human service organization with a strong reputation for success and quantitative results in servicing youth and the community at large.
Bread for the World
Bread for the World is a 54,000 member Christian citizens' movement against hunger. Our members lobby congress to bring about public policy changes that address the root causes of hunger and poverty in the US and abroad. BFW is nonpartisan and supported by 45 denominations and many theological perspectives.
Break the Gridlock
Break the Gridlock
Breakthrough Urban Ministries
Breakthrough Urban Ministries demonstrates the compassion of Christ by providing neighborhood-based holistic services that empower individuals, families and urban communities to overcome poverty, addiction and isolation.
Brickton Art Center
The Brickton Art Center is a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization located in Park Ridge, Illinois, serving the near Northwest suburbs and Chicago's far Northwest side neighborhoods. Brickton’s mission is to support and enhance art education, art appreciation, and opportunities for artistic expression in the community, thereby enriching the quality of life for community members of all ages.
Bridge Communities
Bridge Youth & Family Services
The Bridge Youth & Family Services helps families stay together and be successful by providing parenting skills and education, counseling, youth advocacy (mentoring) and crisis intervention. Established in 1965, The Bridge is a comprehensive, community-based charitable organization serving youth ages 6–17 and their families in northwest suburban Cook County.
Brighton Park Neighborhood Council
Brighton Park Neighborhood Council
Brighton Park Neighborhood Council
Broadtree Adventures in Education
Broadtree Adventures in Education empowers teenagers to create positive change in their lives, communities and world. Broadtree challenges our participants to rise above their limits in outdoor adventures and in group-selected social change projects. Participants enhance their conflict resolution, critical thinking and listening skills- all of which will enable them to meet challenges they set for themselves while being leaders in their communities.
Bronzeville / Black Chicagoan Historical Society
Bronzeville is an African American community in Chicago whose residents mostly arrived during The Great Migration from 1890-1950.
The Society was founded in 1999 by a small group of enthusiastic Bronzeville history researchers. It is a not-for-profit 501 ( c ) 3 educational and historical preservation organization.
The Bronzeville/ Black Chicagoan Historical Society is operated as a voluntary, open membership community group formed to provide information, education and participation in the preservation of heritage of Blacks in Chicago.
The Bronzeville/ Black Chicagoan Historical Society was organized due to the overwhelming concern of diminishing historical sites in African American communities, pride in the cultural diversities of Blacks in Chicago and the limited historical resources immediately available to children in classrooms on African Americans who helped shape the City of Chicago and America.
Volunteers are needed for archiving documents. Prospective Board Members should e-mail a letter of intent.
Call Sherry Williams, Director
at 773 291-9114
Brown Eyed Girl
We are an organization designed to respond to the special development needs of
maturing young ladies currently in foster care. We are working diligently to create
programs that will dissolve the effects of circumstance, providing them the tools to
experience and enjoy a fulfilled, well-rounded and purpose-driven life through our E5
Methodology, Education, Empowerment, Exposure, Engagement, and Evolution.
Building Doorways
Building Doorways works with communities to develop a series of contracts and bonuses to help youth at risk.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Business and Professional People for the Public Interest
