The Mary and Bill Aronin Center for Social Concerns

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​The Career Transitions Center of Chicago

The Career Transitions Center was founded in 1997 as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation to empower professionals to find meaningful employment. CTC provides professional, emotional, and spiritual support to long-term unemployed older workers and first-generation college graduates from communities of color.

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Harmony, Hope & Healing

Harmony, Hope & Healing creates a safe environment where vulnerable individuals and families heal and rebuild through the restorative power of music. HHH offers on-site music programs and community engagement opportunities to individuals, children, and families who are dealing with the trauma associated with homelessness, incarceration, addiction, and isolation.

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Horizons for Youth

Horizons for Youth is a community committed to helping children recognize and achieve their full potential. In partnership with dedicated families, they provide need-based tuition scholarships, one-on-one mentoring, and enrichment outings. Combined, these services enable students to persist through ​college. Horizons for Youth is the only organization in Chicago that provides scholarship, mentoring, and enrichment programs for children from kindergarten through high school, with continued academic and socio-emotional support through college.

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Trinity Volunteer Corps

Trinity Volunteer Corps promotes inclusion of adults with disabilities in their community by securing and developing meaningful volunteer opportunities within non-profit institutions. Contact: Marty Kenahan, mkenahan@trinityvolunteers.org,708.567.0518

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Coprodeli

Since 1989, Coprodeli has served the most impoverished families of Peru and has developed a comprehensive approach to providing fundamental needs which include structured, effective, sustainable programming in the areas of education, housing, health care, nutrition and food security, job training, and micro-entrepreneurship. Coprodeli USA works with Coprodeli to make positive social change possible in Peru. With the financial support and volunteer assistance of Coprodeli USA, Coprodeli contributes to the development of establishing a dignified life for the poorest population of the regions of Callao, Ica, and San Martin, Peru.
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Contact: Beth Marek, elizabethm@oldstpats.org, 312.831.9361

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Fabretto

Fabretto’s mission is to empower underserved children, youth, and their families in Nicaragua to reach their full potential, improve their livelihoods, and take advantage of economic opportunity through education.
Contact:
Tom Gleason, tgleason@ameritech.net, 773.456.6158
Bridget Sweeney, b-sweeney1@northwestern.edu, 312.503.1115

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LIFT

LIFT aims to educate the most vulnerable in Indian society - orphans, those of the Dalit caste (the lowest caste level, formally referred to as 'untouchables’), and girls living in extreme poverty. LIFT is dedicated to developing leadership excellence in motivated and talented youth in Tamil Nadu, India. LIFT provides quality education and a home environment for youth with high potential who would typically be denied schooling due to limited access to resources.
Contact: Suzy Baldwin, baldwinsuzy@gmail.com, 312-607-4996

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GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR AFRICA – EAST AFRICA

Global Alliance for Africa partners with local African community-based organizations to design and implement innovative, economic strengthening programs with the goal of enabling communities and households to provide sustainable care and support for orphans and other vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS.

Their model of development helps households and communities to become self-reliant and to build the capacities to provide orphans and vulnerable children with shelter, education, health care, food security, psycho-social support, and legal services.
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Beth Marek
elizabethm@oldstpats.org. 312.831.9361