Testimonials
We are immensely grateful for your support in building our outdoor classroom. Our students love the tables and umbrellas and are thankful for the opportunity to explore their surroundings, enjoy outdoor classroom time, and soak up the sun on nice days. It is incredible to see the smiles on our students’ faces as they embrace nature and have a true outdoor space to learn and grow.
The Service Club’s generous 2020 donation of a Toyota Sienna minivan has helped ChicagoCAC safely transport families to the center during the pandemic. It also helped make the holidays brighter for our children and families! We loaded up the van and delivered donated gifts and food baskets to families during our Holiday Toy and Food Drives. One caregiver called the transportation department to express gratitude for the gifts and food provided to their family. Thank you, Service Club, for making this possible!
We are grateful for your partnership and for joining us in our mission to help anyone touched by cancer find a way forward. Cancer patients and their loved ones come to the Cancer Wellness Center in search of care and support in a comfortable, yet professional, environment. Thanks to The Service Club, Chicago, we were able to re-paint the public spaces in our building which needed attention and now looks refreshed and better than ever!
Carlson Community Services provides after-school care to 30 mostly low-income students on the northwest side of Chicago. With a focus on homework help and social emotional growth, our program provides the help students need to succeed in school and life. We are grateful to the Service Club of Chicago for providing a grant to purchase new furniture, upgrading the physical appearance of our spaces to better reflect the quality programming we deliver. Thank you!
The Center of Concern is so thankful for The Service Club of Chicago’s support of our mission! We work to enable older adults, people with disabilities, and others in need to live with dignity and independence through housing assistance, community services, and older adult programs.
Chicago Choral Artists thanks the Service Club for a generous grant that enabled us to purchase risers that increase flexibility in performance venues, a projector that provides a multimedia concert experience for audiences, and computer hardware that expands our box office and administrative capabilities. We are a professional choral music ensemble with the highest standards for performances, and the Service Club has richly enhanced our ability to create beautiful music for our audiences. Thank you!
At Chicago Jesuit Academy, we are so grateful for the support of the Service Club of
Chicago. Because of their kindness and generosity to our school community, we have been able to ensure our campus expansion has the technology equipment it needs to support our growth to welcome young women to our school. Chicago Jesuit Academy is a loving and academically rigorous tuition-free Catholic elementary school for students and families from resilient communities impacted by historical disinvestment. We accompany our students and alumni from enrollment through the start of their careers as they develop their gifts and grow as men and women for others.
Cradles to Crayons works to End Clothing Insecurity by providing children experiencing poverty across Chicagoland with clothing and other essentials – completely free of charge. C2C collects new and gently used clothing from community members across the region, which is then distributed through a network of nonprofits serving children and families in low-income situations. These new mailbox-style collection units (pictured), purchased thanks to funding from The Service Club of Chicago, are part of a successful effort to increase the volume of donations to help C2C meet the growing needs of our community members.
Thank you! Thank you! We can’t begin to tell you the impact The Service Club of Chicago has had on our homeless population. Thank you for your incredible toiletries grant.The dignity and hope you’ve given children has made a remarkable impact! Peer bullying has decreased and school attendance has risen.
There are no words to describe the depth of our gratitude. Fill a Heart 4 Kids loves you!
In 2023, Gateway to Learning was gifted with a grant from The Service Club of
Chicago. At first glance, you might see that The Service Club of Chicago purchased a minivan for our organization, but in reality, The Service Club provided so much more. They gave us the gift of access to the wonderful city of Chicago for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities that we serve at Gateway to Learning. Individuals are now venturing out of our facility and INTO the community doing so many things! Individuals are volunteering at ReStore by Habitat for Humanity. People love going to the Neighborhood Boys & Girls Club for regular physical activity. We’ve taken groups to explore job opportunities. We’ve had groups go out to the Auto Show. And the list of activities and opportunities grows each day. The grant from The Service Club has opened the world to the people we support and will positively impact those lives for years to come. THANK YOU, from the bottom of our hearts, to The Service Club of Chicago.
Hadley is grateful to the Service Club of Chicago for its gift of equipment to help in the binding of braille and large-print books. Over the last year Hadley has produced workbooks for more than six thousand members who rely on print materials to learn. Thank you for being a partner as we serve members across the United States and beyond who live with vision impairment.
Have Dreams is a local autism resource organization offering lifespan programs and services for individuals across the entire autism spectrum. Our offerings include after-school social skills programs for youth and teens, a full-day community-based Life SCILS program and a workforce training program for adults, as well as counseling services, family support groups and in person and virtual trainings for educators and other professionals. Have Dreams is grateful to The Service Club of Chicago for providing this greatly needed tech hardware, as well as fitness and healthy living equipment to benefit the participants in our programs.
For almost 50 years, the Institute for Therapy through the Arts (ITA) has provided healing and transformation to individuals with psychological, developmental, and physical challenges through art, dance/movement, drama, and music therapy. In addition to offering private therapy, ITA works in more than 100 schools and community organizations. Thanks to The Service Club of Chicago’s generosity, ITA’s staff of licensed Creative Arts Therapists and administrators received much-needed technology, including laptops and 3D printers, that enables them to work more efficiently and creatively with their clients and one another.
New Life K.N.E.W. Solutions would like to express our sincere gratitude to the incredible women of The Service Club of Chicago. Their support for our Austin-based Community Mental Health Facility has been invaluable in enabling us to provide crucial mental health services, including therapy, community support, and case management. We’re proud to work together with them in our mission to “educate, empower, and evolve” our community.
Kids In Danger (KID) educates parents and caregivers about dangerous children’s products and how to create a safe environment for children. KID also advocates for stronger safety standards so that the products you buy for children are made safer. KID is extremely thankful for the grant we received from the Service Club of Chicago which allowed us to better reach our community partners and bridge the safety gap in vulnerable communities.
Margaret’s Village provides a transitional housing and empowerment program to end homelessness for women, children, and families on Chicago’s South Side. “Service Club’s gift of commercial refrigerators and freezers is the best thing that could have happened to us,” says Margaret’s Village cook, Mr. Lester. “The new equipment has plenty of room for storage and is always reliable so that we can prepare healthy, fresh meals for our shelter residents. Thank you!
Math Circles of Chicago provides children free enrichment experiences that build children’s passion for mathematics. We’re so grateful to Service Club for providing Chromebooks that help our students explore investigatory mathematics with online tools that weren’t available to us previously.
One Tail at a Time is part of a coalition (Chicagoland Rescue Intervention & Support Program) that runs programming and events to help pet owners at risk of surrendering their pets to shelters to keep and care for them in their homes. The Service Club of Chicago helped provide vaccines, microchips, and supplies for over 300 pets in a free clinic on Chicago’s south side!
The Salt and Light Coalition sends our most sincere gratitude to the Service Club of Chicago for the honor of being selected as a 2023 Grant Recipient! The Salt and Light Coalition provides trauma-informed life skills and workforce development for survivors of human trafficking in Chicagoland, including physical fitness, nutrition, goal coaching, career coaching, financial and digital literacy, job placement, and so much more. Funds from the Service Club grant have helped the women we serve through new yoga equipment, tables & chairs, which helped us meet the growing need for our services. Thank you, Service Club of Chicago!
Saint Basil Visitation’s mission is to provide a welcoming spiritual space for the diverse populations of the Englewood and Back of the Yards neighborhoods while promoting peace, justice, and unity. We are deeply grateful to the Service Club of Chicago for supporting us in our efforts to preserve and restore our historic space, in particular the original stained glass window collection.
Thrive ensures access to affordable mental health care for all. Our counseling, psychiatry, suicide prevention, and crisis response programs are available regardless of ability to pay. With help from the Service Club of Chicago, we were able to replace multiple broken doors and lock mechanisms throughout our building so there is safe and controlled access to our services.
For more than 50 years, Trilogy has provided people across Chicago with support to recover from mental illness and move toward stability. We provide our clients with an array of essential services and ongoing support so that they can live independently and thrive in our community. Trilogy’s mission is to enable people in mental health recovery to build meaningful and independent lives through comprehensive and integrated care. Trilogy is currently renovating our new mental health center in the Chatham neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, which will expand access to our services to communities that need it the most. We are extremely grateful to the Service Club for their grant, which has provided us with kitchen appliances, TVs, and a washer and dryer for our new location. These items will help provide warm meals, clean clothes, and a welcoming place to gather at Ujima Point, our client drop-in center, which is now open in Chatham 7 days a week! In this photo, Team Trilogy serves dinner to clients at the new drop-in center during our Black History Month Dinner and a Movie event hosted by Trilogy’s Black Heritage Council. Thank you to the Service Club of Chicago, from our grateful Trilogy team!
