Nonprofit Organizations
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Gads Hill Center
Gads Hill, a family resource center established in 1898 partners with our community to develop the assets of children, youth, adults, and families.
In collaboration with the members of our community and other organizations, Gads Hill Center develops programs that support and empower the economically and educationally disadvantaged residents of Chicago's Pilsen, Little Village and North Lawndale neighborhoods. We put our mission into action through an array of services that are of high quality, flexible, responsive, and culturally sensitive: Early Childhood Education, School Aged Children's Educational Support and Recreation, Teen tutoring, mentoring and educational planning, Parental education, and Adult Basic Education
Garden Center Services
Founded by parents in 1956, Garden Center Services serves 150 adults with autism, Down Syndrome, cerebral palsy, and other developmental disabilities through vocational day programs, supported employment programs, 9 group homes and 2 intermediate care facilities. Headquartered in Burbank, IL, the agency employs 155 direct support and administrative personnel to ensure adults with disabilities live full, meaningful lives.
Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance
Gender Just
Genesis House
Genesis House offers hope to women who are trying to rebuild their lives after years of abuse, violence, and victimization in a lifestyle of prostitution.
Genesis House provides the following services to women in prostitution: peer outreach, crisis intervention, case management, individual and group counseling, criminal justice support, wellness promotion, harm reduction education, and residential rehabilitation.
Genewise
Gethsemane Managment Group
Gilda's Club Chicago
Gilda's Club Chicago provides a free program of social, emotional and informational support for men, women and children diagnosed with any type or stage of cancer, and family members and friends.
Girl Scouts of South Cook County
We provide fun and informative Girl Scout programs in 49 south suburban communities of Chicago. Girl Scouting builds girls of confidence, courage and character who give back by making the world a better place. Our membership is a diverse amalgam of girls 5 to 17 years old, plus a volunteer corps of adults committed to helping girls grow strong through Girl Scouting.
Girl Talk
Girl's Best Firend Foundation
Girl's Best Friend Foundation promotes and protects the human rights of girls in Illinois by advancing and sustaining policies and programs that ensure girls' self-determination, power, and well-being. GBF makes grants to organizations that challenge the status quo by offering alternatives to the societal messages that girls receive.
Girls in the Game
Girls in the Game, founded in Chicago in 1995, provides and promotes sports and fitness opportunities, nutrition and health education and leadership development to enhance the overall health and well being of ALL girls.
Its two-fold purpose is to:
1) ensure that quality fitness, health and leadership programming is made available to girls, and
2) reduce the barriers that young girls face in accessing such programs.
Giving DuPage
Public/private initiative to promoting giving and volunteering in DuPage County.
Global Girls
Global Girls uses the performing arts to teach communication, leadership and life skills to girls 8 to 14. The girls develop and stage productions that give voice to their issues and concerns. They are currently touring It's My Decision, a violence prevention show. For details call 773 374-5009.
GLSEN Chicago (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network)
Empowering youth, supporting educators and fostering policy change to create safe k-12 schools in and around Chicago
God's Gang
God’s Gang – Founded by Carolyn Thomas in 1983 in the Robert Taylor Public Housing Project in Chicago, Illinois to promote self-esteem and opportunities for personal growth for youth through sustainable agriculture projects and initiatives. God’s Gang is a volunteer operated organization.
God’s Gang provides urban agriculture training, mentoring, tutoring, performance arts, cultural awareness programs and activities.
God’s Gang has evolved from a breakfast program to identifying resources for the development, management, and care of community gardening ventures, vermiculture and aquaculture farms. The organization supports a variety of activities that enable youth and adults to choose a life of self-help at the same time they contribute to strengthening their community. The youth are engaged in urban agricultural and landscaping activities, as well as African dance and crafts.
Golden Apple Foundation
Golden Apple is a community of expert teachers and teachers-to-be who are working together to ensure that all Illinois schoolchildren have the excellent teachers they deserve.
Good Jobs First
Good Jobs First
Good Jobs First
Good Jobs First - Illinois
Good Jobs First Illinois
Good Jobs First-Illinois
Good Jobs Illinois
Graffiti and Grub
Grand Boulevard Federation
Grand Boulevard Federation
Grand Boulevard Federation
Grand Boulevard Federation
Grassroots Collaborative
Greater Auburn-Gresham Development Corp
Greater Auburn-Gresham Development Corp.
Greater Chicago Food Depository
The Greater Chicago Food Depository is Chicago’s food bank, a not-for-profit distribution center providing food to hungry people while striving to end hunger in our community.
The Food Depository is committed to efficiently distributing donated and purchased food through its network of 600 qualified agencies, such as soup kitchens, shelters and pantries. Since its incorporation in 1978, the Food Depository has remained steadfast to this mission.
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Greater Northwest Chicago Development Corporation
Formerly Greater North-Pulaski Development Corporation and founded in 1977, Greater Northwest Chicago Development Corporation (GNCDC) is a neighborhood based economic development organization serving Chicago's Northwest Side communities and is a Chicago leader and a national model in nonprofit industrial retention and community development. Its mission is to foster overall community and economic revitalization by stabilizing and expanding businesses, creating jobs for community residents and fostering effective partnerships between over 170 member businesses, community institutions and residents.
Greater Southwest Development Corporation
Greater Southwest Development Corporation (GSDC) is a nonprofit community development corporation that actively contributes to residential, commercial, and industrial revitalization efforts in Southwest Chicago.
Established in 1974, GSDC provides resources, education, technical assistance, and financial support that positions neighborhoods to compete for investment and maintain a mixed-income economy. By working to combat disinvestment and reverse decline, GSDC helps ensure that the southwest side of Chicago will continue to grow as a neighborhood of choice in which to live and work.
Green Community Center
Green Exchange
Green Media Toolshed
Green Media Toolshed (GMT) is a national nonprofit organization that provides online media and communications tools to the environmental community.
Greenpeace
Greenpeace
GreenSky
Gropius In Chicago Coalition
Groundswell Educational Films
GroundUp Theatre
GroundUp Theatre Company is an ensemble of artists committed to producing strong theatrical pieces which create a new voice and position for women in theatre and embrace theatre as a whole art. Ground Up is dedicated to producing a theatre in which artists with multiple disciplines work together to engender a unique, living art form, which explores the human condition with both courage and empathy.
Growing Home
Growing Home
Growing Power
Growing Power
