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Aunt Martha’s clinic located in Humboldt Park is part of a nonprofit organization that provides services for children and adults throughout over 600 communities in Illinois. We provide primary and family health care, including behavioral health, pediatrics, family planning, parent support, and women’s health. Our goal is to educate the importance of preventive care and to provide caring and affordable services for all stages of life, regardless of financial or legal status.

At R CITY, we bring together the best of our city to build a path for families to walk from cradle to career to the glory of God.

Serving one of Chicago’s most violent police beats, our leaders invest hours, days, and years building trusted relationships to link our youth to a broader network of support. With the help of all, we provide educational and apprenticeship programming to bring our youth successfully into their calling.

We are the largest provider of Medicaid hearing services in Illinois, including hearing aids, comprehensive hearing evaluations, wax removal and hearing aid repairs.

We are located in Loretto Hospital.

Address: 233 S. Wacker Drive Suite 4620

Chicago, IL 60606-6375

Phone: 3124091555

https://www.goladderup.org

info@goladderup.org

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Ladder Up provides hardworking people with the financial resources and opportunities they need to move up the economic ladder.

Ladder Up provides free financial programs to help clients secure the tax refunds they deserve, gain the knowledge to navigate today’s complex financial systems, and obtain financial aid to make college dreams a reality.

Positive Pathways of Chicago is a 501 (c) (3) non-for-profit organization with a unique manufacturing based Industrial Relationship Training program that works to redevelop the relationship* and employability** skills of veterans and formerly incarcerated adults to secure meaningful and career-based employment.

Our goal then is to re-align these new skills to successfully manage the responsibilities and expectations of life-long employment and to be a positive and productive influence to assist their organizations effort of reducing scrap, rework, absenteeism, grievances and resistance to change.

For years employers have sounded off with deep frustrations that they cannot find enough “Good Workers.” Our Industrial Relationship Training works to meet those needs those “Good Employers” are searching for.

This program’s uniqueness is not specific to the manufacturing industry in that these principles apply to any industry where are people who work to some type of process and producing either a produce or service.

1. Developing Your Ability to Lead and Follow *
2. Team Building & Managing Change *
3. Executing Growth & Good Relationships *
4. Job Instruction **
5. Job Methods **

** Training Within Industry program

Chicago, IL 60607

Phone: 3127387560

https://www.mercyhome.org/

info@mercyhome.org

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Mercy Home for Boys & Girls has been a solution for kids in crisis since 1887. Through its full-time residential, aftercare and community-based mentoring programs, Mercy Home provides nurturing, guidance and opportunity to more than 650 hurting and troubled young women and men in the Chicago area every year.

At the core of Mercy Home’s mission is its full-time, residential program, which provides a safe and stable home for 134 young people, ages 11 to 21. Young people who have suffered abuse, neglect, poverty and even abandonment receive life-changing therapeutic, academic and vocational support at Mercy Home.

A program of aftercare offers these young people continued connection to their Mercy Home family and gives them access to a host of support services after they have transitioned to living outside of the Home—regardless of age or time away. In addition, Mercy Home’s Friends First mentoring program matches at-risk youth who live out in the wider community with much-needed adult role models.

Mercy Home for Boys & Girls is a not-for-profit agency that operates on two Chicago campuses – a home for boys at 1140 W. Jackson Blvd. and a home for girls at 11600 S. Longwood Dr.

Phone: 3129486821

bit.ly/cclegalservices

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Attorneys offer clients basic legal advice and referral services via a telephone hotline, monthly advice desks at Catholic Charities Evening Supper Program, and in person. Clients in need of legal representation may be placed with a volunteer attorney from CCLA’s Pro Bono Network or directed to a legal aid organization. Legal educational seminars are also offered. Services are free and available in Spanish.

Address: 222 N LaSalle St Suite 760

Chicago, IL 60601

www.aarp.org/experience-corps/

ecchicago@aarp.org

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AARP Foundation Experience Corp is looking for our Seniors who are 50 years and older ( preferably retired) that can volunteer time to tutor small groups of children.

We have 19 schools on the South and West side of Chicago in the Englewood and North Lawndale communities that’s in need of volunteers for the Basic Literacy Skills program.

The Vision Statement of AARP Foundation Experience Corp is: (A just society where all children have an equal opportunity to succeed and were older adults are valued.)

Mission Statement: ( Experience Corps engages highly trained adults 50+ who help children attain grade level reading and literacy proficiency so that children succeed and older adults thrive.)

So a little about AARP Experience Corps: Experience Corps is a proven intergenerational early literacy tutoring program with a focus on kindergarten through third grade. The program places trained volunteers 50 and older in public school classrooms to work with struggling students in small groups (generally 2-3 students) per group. Volunteer literacy tutors receive intensive pre-service and in-service training. All the materials you will need are provided by the classroom teacher and AARP Experience Corps. The program operates during the school day and in the classroom with the teacher present.

There will also be event postings for future Volunteer informational session in the events section.

Volunteer tutors commit to the program for the entire school year, usually starting in early October and serving through May. We ask for a minimum of five hours a week and a twice weekly schedule; either Monday & Wednesday or Tuesday & Thursday.

Minimum requirements: All volunteers must have a high school diploma or GED, be willing to take and pass a criminal background check, pass a basic literacy screening, can complete 25 hours of training and be able to volunteer at least 5 hours a week for the school year. I have attached some video for your review. Please feel free to contact me with questions, concerns, suggestions or recommendations.

AARP Webpage

Address: 29 E Madison St Suite 1700

Chicago, IL 60602

Phone: 3122520437

Position: Marketing Assistant

cclfchicago.org

hbernard@cclfchicago.org

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CCLF finances projects across metropolitan Chicago that revitalize neighborhoods, promise high positive social impact, incorporate sustainable design practices, and have the potential to leverage significant additional investments from other sources.

Since 1991, CCLF has cultivated our unique approach to lending. CCLF has the patience to remain committed to borrowers through lengthy public financing approval processes. We are willing to partner with small, midsize and emerging groups on their first projects, or to take on difficult or unorthodox projects.

CCLF goes to great lengths to ensure that the projects we support succeed, providing free and low-cost technical assistance throughout the life of the loan. CCLF’s equity requirements are flexible and our loan-to-value ratios are more generous than many other lenders, even other CDFIs.