Nonprofit Organizations
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L'Arche Chicago
We are a faith-based intentional community where people with and wtihout developmental disabilities live, work, pray and play together. We are grounded in the core belief that every human person is of unique and sacred value with gifts to offer the community.
La Leche League International
The La Leche League International mission is to help mothers worldwide to breastfeed through mother-to-mother support, encouragement, information, and education and to promote a better understanding of breastfeeding as an important element in the healthy development of the baby and mother.
La Voz de los de Abajo
La Voz de los de Abajo
Lake County Health Department/Community Health Center
North suburban Chicago local health department serving the almost 700,000 residents in Lake County.
Lake County Indiana 4-H
4-H is a community of young people across America who are learning leadership, citizenship and life skills. Lake County 4-H assists youth and adults in their development by conducting hands-on educational programs, on a variey of topics including public speaking contests, 4-H fairs, conferences locally and nationally.
Lake Michigan Federation
Lake View Citizens Council
The LAKE VIEW CITIZENS' COUNCIL (LVCC) is a non-profit civic organization serving the Lake View community on the north side of Chicago, Illinois. We have been working for you in Lake View since 1952. We are a grassroots membership organization made up of people like you and your neighbors. LVCC was established to provide citizens in Lake View with the opportunity to work together for the common good of the Lake View community.
Lake View Nature Center
The Lake View Nature Center is a nature museum nestled between office buildings, a lake and a park. Across from the Oak Brook Mall, the Nature Center offers educational programs, activities, ADA accessible paths, animals, stories, fishing, and much more! Fun for the entire family!
Lakefront Supportive Housing
Lakefront Supportive Housing provides more than a roof for men, women and children who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. The combination of permanent housing and supportive services- case management, employment training, and leadership development- equips tenants with the tools, skills, and inspiration necessary to restake their claim in society. As the Midwest's premier supportive housing provider, Lakefront is a cornerstone in Mayor Daley's ten-year plan to end homelessness in Chicago.
Lakeview Action Coalition
Lakeview Action Coalition
Lakeview Chamber of Commerce
The Lakeview Chamber of Commerce is organized so that its business community shall prosper. All nescessary means of promotion shall be provided and particular emphasis shall be given to retail, professional, educational and economic interests of the area.
Lakeview Chamber of Commerce
1609 West Belmont
Chicago, IL 60657
Ph. 773-472-7171
Fax 773-472-0198
Lakeview Pantry
Lakeview Pantry (LVP) is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of alleviating hunger in our community by: providing food to fill the basic need of hungry people; increasing the independence of our clients through self help initiatives and other innovative programs; and raising awareness of poverty and its solutions.
Lambs Farm
Lambs Farm is a non-profit organization near Libertyville just 35 miles north of Chicago that empowers people with developmental disabilities to lead personally fulfilling lives through a full range of services in vocational training, residential assistance and social support. For more than 40 years, Lambs Farm has been assisting individuals in creating their own pathways to meaningful experiences at work, home and in the community.
Landmarks Illinois
Latino Families United Committee
Latino Technology Alliance
Latino Union
Latino Union of Chicago
Latinos Progressando
Latinos United
Lawyers Committee for Better Housing
League of Chicago Theatres
Founded in 1979, the League of Chicago Theatres is an alliance of theaters that leverages its collective strength to promote, support and advocate for Chicago's theater industry locally, nationally and internationally. The League serves a diverse membership of more than 160 theaters ranging from storefront, non-union companies with limited budgets to major cultural centers with multi-million dollar productions. Audience development programs include the network of seven area Hot Tix locations and the Play Money gift certificate program; Chicagoplays.com, which logs up to 500,000 hits per week; consumer promotions including the ongoing "From the Streets to the Seats" integrated marketing campaign; publication of the new monthly theater program magazine Chicagoplays, with average monthly circulation of 150,000; and the Chicagoplays Theater Guide (circulation: 60,000/bimonthly), found in hotels, theater lobbies and tourism kiosks throughout the Chicago area.
League of Women Voters
LEED Council
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, headquartered in White Plains, NY, is the world’s largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research and providing education and patient services. The Society’s mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and to improve the quality of life of patients and their families. Last year alone, the Society made more than 441,000 patient contacts through services provided at its Home Office and by its 66 chapters nationwide. For more information, visit www.lls.org
Leukemia Research Foundation
The Leukemia Research Foundation, headquartered in Wilmette, Ill., is dedicated to funding research and providing support to people affected by blood cancers. The Foundation’s mission is to conquer leukemia, lymphoma, and myelodysplastic syndromes by funding research into their causes and cures, and to enrich the quality of life of those touched by these diseases. For 60 years, thousands of volunteers and 24 chapters have helped the Foundation raise more than $35 million to help fund research specifically targeting aspiring, eager, and innovative scientists and physicians around the world.
Lillstreet Learning Center
Lillstreet Learning Center (LSLC), is the not-for-profit sister organization of the Lillstreet Art Center. Founded in 1989, LSLC provides free and low-cost arts education and community-based arts programming in schools, hospitals, and other community centers throughout Chicago. That means when children can’t afford arts education, we provide it for them. When people are overlooked, or under funded, we find a way to provide them the hands-on, life-enriching, arts education experience we believe is so valuable to all their lives – and to ours.
Lions Clubs International
Lions Clubs International is the most far reaching volunteer organization in the world. With over 1.4 million members in 200 countries, Lions respond immediately with humanitarian service to disasters both at home and abroad through countless volunteer hours, time and money. Locally, Lion volunteers, both men and women can be found collecting used eyeglasses, conducting vision screenings, helping the needy, working in schools, purchasing glasses and many and varied other community service projects following their motto "we serve".
LISC/Chicago
Literacy Volunteers of Illinois
Literacy Volunteers of Illinois is a statewide organization committed to developing and supporting volunteer literacy programs that help families, adults and out-of-school teens increase their literacy skills.
Services offered by LVI include tutor recruitment and referral, staff and tutor training, and advocacy. LVI also sponsors the Jump Start program which recruits and trains volunteers to serve as tutors in the Illinois Youth Centers.
Literacy Works
Literacy Works promotes adult and family literacy in Chicago through tutor training and support services to adult literacy, ESL, and family literacy programs—especially those relying on volunteers. LW also reaches teen/adult learners directly through parent education and writing workshops. Founded in 1995 by four literacy programs seeking to share strengths, LW now has member agencies in 30+ Chicago neighborhoods. Literacy Works believes that literacy is a human right as well as a needed skill.
Literature for All of Us
Nationally recognized as an outstanding provider of arts and humanities programming for youth, Literature for All of Us brings the rewards of literature and poetry and celebrates the creative voices of young people. Using the book group model, the program develops critical thinking skills, a deepening understanding of the world, and a lifelong love of literature and learning. In our book groups in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods in Chicago and nearby Evanston, young people are "making sense of the world" as they are "making sense of the word."
We collaborate with high schools, G.E.D. programs, and after-school providers to offer weekly book group programs that include book discussions and poetry writing. Each group designs and publishes their own poetry anthology. We also invite the community to hear them perform their poetry at public readings. We serve 500-600 young people each year.
Little Brothers-Friends of the Elderly
Little Brothers - Friends of the Elderly (LBFE) is a national, nonprofit, volunteer-based organization committed to relieving isolation and loneliness among the elderly. We offer to people of good will the opportunity to join the elderly in friendship and the celebration of life.
Little Friends, Inc.
Little Friends is a private, non-profit organization serving children and adults with developmental disabilities, including autism. Based in Naperville, Illinois, Little Friends operates 14 programs including early intervention, alternative schooling, family support and consultations, vocational training and community-based residential services.
Little Village Chamber of Commerce
Little Village Environmental Justice Organanization
Little Village Environmental Justice Organization
Live Bait Theater
Local Economic and Employment Development Council
Local Economic and Employment Development Council
Local Economic and Employment Development Council
Local First Chicago
Local First Chicago
Local First Chicago
Local Initiatives Support Corp.
Logan Square Neighborhood Association
Logan Square Neighborhood Association
Logan Square Neighborhood Association
Logan Square Neighborhood Association
Logan Square Neighborhood Association
Logan Square Neighborhood Association
Logan Square Neighborhood Association
Logan Square Neighborhood Association
Logan Square Neighborhood Association
Loyola University School of Education
Lumity
Lumity is a nonprofit organization that catalyzes Chicago’s nonprofit community to do more good work. Its services include high quality and affordable services tailored to the needs of Chicago-area charities. Lumity helps to illuminate the community by enabling hundreds of nonprofits do their good work better, through the application of relevant technology and financial tools. Lumity is also the home of a range of special programs meeting nonprofits’ particular needs, including CompuMentor/Chicago, which matches technologically-skilled volunteers with nonprofits needing specialized technology assistance; NPO.net, an online information service for the philanthropic sector that includes Chicago’s premiere nonprofit job posting site; and the Community Technology Center Accelerator, which addresses the Digital Divide by providing assistance to community technology centers (CTCs) throughout the Chicago area. For more information, please visit www.lumity.org.
Luna Negra Dance Theatre
Luna Negra Dance Theatre is a professional dance company devoted to the creation and presentation of contemporary dance of Latino origin. Through the celebration and exploration of Latino tradition and identity, Luna Negra brings fresh and exciting performances to audiences in Chicago and beyond and offers community and educational programs that foster a greater understanding of the rich diversity of Latino cultures.
Lutheran Social Services of Illinois
Founded in 1867, Lutheran Social Services of Illinois (LSSI) is a statewide, not-for-profit social service agency of the three Illinois synods of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America with more than 100 program locations. LSSI’s services include counseling, mental health programs, substance abuse treatment, residential treatment for children and adolescents, early childhood education and child care, programs for adults and children with developmental disabilities, foster care and adoption, housing and services for older adults and individuals with disabilities, nursing care, and programs for prisoners and their families.
Lutheran Social Services of Illinois
Lutheran Volunteer Corps
The Lutheran Volunteer Corps is a year-long service program for people 21 and over seeking to unite faith, social justice, community living, and simplicity. Volunteers are matched with non-profit organizations in ten metropolitan areas across the United States. They work full-time in various positions ranging from direct social services, to political advocacy, community organizing, education, and activism while living in intentional community.
Lysistrata Project
