We collected 17 boxes of diapers at our in person event, totaling over 600 diapers! Thank you to all who brought a box.
Below is a list of the organizations we featured yesterday evening. If you didn’t get a chance to give then, consider giving now!
Share Our Spare (SOS) is a leader in providing essential supplies to children 0-5 to ensure their needs are met, allowing them to thrive. Since 2011, SOS has helped thousands of families across metro Chicago shift from crisis management to caregiving, knowing the very basic needs of their children will be met.
The National Association for Urban Debate Leagues (which goes by NAUDL) provides 22 league partners across the country with debate practices, programs, training, model resources and curricula so that they can bring the unique “power of debate” – academic rigor, personal empowerment, civic engagement, and community-building – to schools and students in underserved metropolitan centers. Over the last several years, NAUDL has commissioned research studies (the only of the kind in the space) from experts and academics at renowned universities and journals. These studies conclusively show the important connection of urban debate participation to significant classroom readiness and academic achievement (i.e. SAT scores, GPA, college enrollment) — in addition to outcomes in critical skills and thinking, communication, and collaboration. Our mission is advancing debate education to amplify youth voices and develop student confidence for success.
Our powerhouse movement of volunteers deliver daily meals made fresh in our kitchen from locally grown produce directly to homebound neighbors who receive more than a meal through interaction and observations of the volunteers who deliver. While we are members of a national network of meals on wheels programs our organization is completely independent and is setting the standard for food quality that includes cultural favorites that celebrate all of our community members.
The Valerie Fund’s mission is to provide individualized care to children at medical centers close to home, because we believe the most effective way to heal the children in our care is to treat them emotionally, socially and developmentally, as well as medically.
Founded by Chicago parents Mike and Mariann Stanton in 2010 after the sudden death of their four-year-old son Danny, the Danny Did Foundation’s primary mission is to prevent deaths caused by seizures. The Foundation advances public awareness of epilepsy and Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP), strives to improve communication about SUDEP between medical professionals and families affected by seizures, and advocates for the mainstream acceptance and use of seizure detection and prediction devices that may assist in preventing seizure-related deaths.
One Acre Fund supplies 1.3 million rural smallholder farmers in East Africa with everything they need to grow more food and earn more money. One Acre Fund envisions a world where all farmers have big harvests, healthy families, and rich soil.
Little Heroes League helps medically complex babies and their families thrive.
Working to end extreme poverty in rural Africa through entrepreneurship and innovation