The Service Club of Chicago

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… Read more “Chicago Children’s Advocacy Center”

A grant from Service Club of Chicago helped us build a gate to block patients from wandering the hallway; purchase plexiglass shields to protect our staff, volunteers and patients; and help pay for our laboratory bills. All of these items became crucial during the pandemic and none of them were designated in our budget. Thank you Service Club of Chicago… Read more “Old Irving Park Community Clinic”

Thanks to The Service Club of Chicago for your commitment to the health and well-being of Chicago’s young people. Through your generous support of new fitness equipment, you continue to build brighter, healthy futures for our boys and… Read more “Mercy Home for Boys and Girls”

Ballet Chicago is thankful to the Service Club of Chicago for their continued commitment to our community. Their funding has allowed us the unique opportunity to build new children’s costumes for our annual Nutcracker performances that will ultimately replace the 23-year-old threads. The resulting shining smiles from the students who get to wear the new costumes will make for an… Read more “Ballet Chicago”

New Moms is grateful to the Service Club of Chicago for granting us a wax melting machine for our social enterprise candle company, Bright Endeavors. This machine has helped us to be more efficient, freeing up staff time to coach young moms toward their employment goals. It has been especially helpful during COVID-19, as we have shifted our program’s schedule—this… Read more “New Moms”

The Service Club of Chicago provided funding for Little City to launch a much-needed SharePoint design and implementation project. We can now ensure that employees have instant access to essential documents and information. The new technology has helped us to improve operational excellence by enhancing clear, fast, and effective communication regarding critical topics that positively impact the quality of care… Read more “Little City”

The young people at Yollocalli Arts Reach are grateful for the radio console, projector and iMacs gifted by The Service Club. While we haven’t been able to use these gifts due to Covid-19, youth can’t wait to leave virtual gatherings behind and get back in the studio and fire up our new, professional equipment! Yollocalli is the youth initiative of… Read more “National Museum of Mexican Art”

We are grateful to the Service Club of Chicago for enabling us to clean and repair one of the 1901 Frederic Clay Bartlett murals in our sanctuary. During restoration the team at PARMA Conservation found several areas where someone had tried to repair and painted over Bartlett’s work. After removing the top layer of paint, the team determined Bartlett used… Read more “Friends of Historic Second Church”

Last year we had a major need for new percussion instruments, as our program is growing and our students are advancing. The Service Club of Chicago helped us purchase these instruments, and the impact has been tremendous. Our students now have access to better learning and performing opportunities and can perform competitively for major college and summer program applications/scholarships. Thank… Read more “People’s Music School”