Nonprofit Organizations
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Jackson Park Advisory Council
Jackson Park Advisory Council
Jamaican American Club
This site was created by Jamaicans living in the USA. We decided to put together a website dedicated to educating people about Jamaican and American culture. You’ll find contributions from our friends in the USA and all over the world on topics ranging from health, education, environment and culture.
Jamal Place, Inc.
Jamal Place is a non profit child welfare agency serving boys and young men who are wards of the state through the provision of therapeutic group home and transitional living program services located in the North Lawndale community of Chicago.
Jane Addams Hull House Association
Social service agency serving more than 60,000 children, families and community members each year. Our 50 programs at 43 sites around the city offer services for infants all the way to seniors. A few examples: infant care, community school initiatives, at-risk youth programming, domestic violence counseling, job training services, senior volunteer programs.
Jane Addams Hull House Association
Jane Addams Hull House Museum
Jane Addams Resource Corporation
Japanese American Service Center of Chicago
Jennifer S. Fallick Cancer Support Center
The mission of the Cancer Support Center is to provide FREE comprehensive resources that help people improve their quality of life during the cancer experience. In a warm, home-like setting, our programs are for cancer patients, their family, friends, children and the bereaved. All programs are FREE of charge: support groups, individual and family counseling, wellness programs (nutrition, yoga, tai chi & qi gong), relaxation programs (meditation, massage, guided visualization), resource center/lending library and more!
Jewish Child & Family Services
Jewish Child and Family Services (JCFS), provides service to children and families throughout the Chicago area, by offering hope and healing, infused with Jewish values to strengthen our community.
JCFS provides services, ensuring the community’s mental health and social service needs are met.
Five categories of service include: Childcare and Education offering innovative educational and therapeutic methods to enhance every child’s ability to learn and communicate effectively; Residential and Child Welfare Services offering short-term relief, residential support, permanent housing, and substitute parenting for children, teens, and adults; Counseling and Support helping children, teens, adults, couples, and families live satisfying lives; Services to People with Disabilities, with programs such as respite, social and educational programs, consultation and assessment; and Support for Communities to those facing emotional, psychological, health, and developmental issues, including such programs as Holocaust Community Services, the Jewish Healing Network and its Chemical Dependency Program, and Life Education Network.
Jewish Community Centers of Chicago
Jewish Community Centers of Chicago (JCC) brings Jewish values to life every day so that children and adults can deepen their connection to the joys and responsibilities of their Jewish heritage. JCC has served the Jewish community in Chicago and its suburbs for over 100 years and offers cultural, educational, social and recreational programs. To find out more about JCC, visit gojcc.org.
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs
For forty years, the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs (JCUA) has been combatting poverty, racism, and anti-Semitism in partnership with Chicago's diverse communities.
From its inception through today, JCUA has brought a Jewish voice and Jewish community involvement to efforts that help build coalitions, promote advocacy, and address issues that affect Chicago's most at risk communities. JCUA supports issues such as affordable housing, job creation, community reinvestment, civil liberties, criminal justice and immigration rights.
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs
Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation
Jewish Vocational Services
Jobs & Living Wage Campaign
Campaign to require that companies receiving city contracts or subsidies pay at least poverty level wages. Part of Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).
Jobs for Youth
Jobs For Youth/ Chicago, Inc. (JFY) helps young men and women from low-income families become a part of the economic mainstream; and, in the process, provides the business community with motivated job-ready workers. JFY offers pre-employment training, GED preparation and job placement services to youth that are between the ages of 17 and 24. Ninety-six percent of their clients are African American and Latino.
Established in 1979, JFY has helped over 24,000 deserving youth enter the workforce. In the last year, more than 1000 positions have been filled with over 400 Chicago-area employers. The average starting wage is $8.13 per hour. For more information call (312) 499-4778 or visit www.jfychicago.org.
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
John Howard Association
John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Support Center
Joyce Foundation
The Joyce Foundation supports efforts to protect the natural environment of the Great Lakes, to reduce poverty and violence in the region, and to ensure that its people have access to good schools, decent jobs, and a diverse and thriving culture. We are especially interested in improving public policies, because public systems such as education and welfare directly affect the lives of so many people, and because public policies help shape private sector decisions about jobs, the environment, and the health of our communities.
Junior League of Kane and DuPage Counties, Inc.
The Junior League of Kane and DuPage Counties, Inc. is an organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women and improving communities through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Its purpose is exclusively educational and charitable. Our vision is to improve the quality of life for children at risk in the community. Our projects include Cinderella's Closet, the Children's Waiting Room at Kane County Courthouse, and StoryWizards.
JustStories Festival
