Our focus is on charities whose mission and service population are solely within the city to maximize the impact of our funding in the Northwest Suburban communities. The charities listed here have been vetted against our specific requirements. The list will be updated as additional charities are recommended by our members. Click on “How To Nominate A Charity” to see a list of our requirements. Note that once a charity has been awarded funding, it will not be eligible for nomination again for three years from the funding date.
If you’d like to know more about any of these charities, click on their listed web address to go directly to their website. Remember, if you have a charity you’d like to nominate that is not yet on this list, please fill out our Charity Nomination Form and submit it at least one week in advance of the meeting. We’ll add it to the list if it meets our criteria (if it does not, for any reason, we will contact you directly).
Download Charity Pre-Qualification Form
CHARITY NAME Any charity on the “APPROVED” list below has been pre-qualified and can be nominated by any member.
APPROVED LIST OF LOCAL CHARITIES:
Boys and Girls Club of Lake Country. http://www.bgclc.com
Cancer Wellness Center. http://www.cancerwellness.org
CASA Lake County (Court Appointed Special Advocates). http://www.casalakecounty.com
Center for Enriched Living. http://www.centerforenrichedliving.com
College Bound Opportunities . http://www.cbo4success.org
Clockwise Theatre. http://www.clockwisetheatre.org
Erika’s Lighthouse
Faith in Action Volunteers of Southeast Lake County. http://www.selcfia.org
Family Service Prevention Education and Counseling NFP. http://www.famservice.org
Fellowship Housing. http://www.fhcmoms.org
Harbour, Inc.. http://www.theharbour.org
Haven Youth and Family Services. http://www.havenforyouth.org
Helping Women Period. www.helpingwomenperiodchicago.org
Journeys: The Road Home. http://www.journeystheroadhome.org
Lake County University of Illinois Extension. http://www.lakecountyunited.org
Lauri S. Bauer Foundation for Sudden Loss. http://www.tulipsforlauri.org
Let It Be Us. www.letitbeus.org
Little City Foundation. http://www.littlecity.org
Max Schewitz Foundation. http://www.maxandthewildthings.com
Music Blocks. http://www.musicblocks.org
New Foundation. http://www.newfoundationcenter.org
NISRA Foundation. http://www.nisra.org/nisra-foundation.html
Orphans of the Storm. http://www.orphansofthestorm.org
PADS (Lake County PADS). http://www.padslakecounty.org
PAWS. www.paws.org
Pioneer Center for Human Services. www.pioneercenter.org
Preservation Foundation of the Lake Country Forest Preserves. http://www.lcfpd.org/preservation-foundation/
Riverside Foundation. http://www.riversidefoundation.net
Room2Improv. http://www.room2improv.com
Samaritan Counseling Center of the Northwest. http://www.sccnw.us
Save-A-Pet, Inc. http://www.saveapetil.org
Shelter Inc. http://www.shelter-inc.org
Smart Farm of Barrington www.smartfarms.org
Society of St. Vincent De Paul Lake Zurich. http://svdplz.org/
The Build Team. www.thebuildteam.org
The Lake County Haven. http://www.lakecountyhaven.org
The Trike Project Foundation. http://www.thetrikeproject.com
Youth Build Lake Country. http://www.youthbuildlakecountry.org
Youth Conservation Corps. http://www.youthconservationcorps.org
Wings Program. www.wingsprogram.com
