Agencies
Services
Chicago
Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago
2102 W. Monroe St.
Chicago, IL 60612
Phone: 312-235-8000
AmeriCorps members will serve as Youth Development Specialists who serve as program staff and work directly with club members. They will provide mentorship, and support in all the needed character, leadership, and emotional support areas utilizing and applying various Project Learn strategies and implementing various academic enrichment activities such as Summer Brain Gain, I am a Reader, and STEM. Through implementations in some of the programs just mentioned, the goal is that our club members will improve in key academic areas such as Science, Math, and Reading.
Zip Codes Covered: 60612, 60623, 60615, 60644, 60617, 60651, 60620, 60643, 60617, 60618, 60647, 60618, 60616, 60619, 60640, 60411
Chicago Debates
67 E. Madison St., Suite 1616
Chicago, IL 60603
Phone: 312-427-0524
Chicago Debates is bridging the educational opportunity gap for Chicago Public School (CPS) students by providing them with an after-school program that supports their academic, career, and leadership success.MissionOur mission is to advance the educational achievement, community contributions, and life success of Chicago’s youth through the transformative power of academic debate.VisionWe envision a world in which Chicago youth are empowered to find their voice, succeed in college and career, and become leaders in their community.
Zip Codes Covered: 60603
Erie Family Health Centers
1701 West Superior Street
Chicago, IL 60622
Phone: 312-666-3494
Erie Family Health Centers is a not-for-profit federally qualified health center that believes healthcare is a human right. We offer a wide range of health services for all ages, regardless of where someone is from, or their ability to pay and are nationally recognized for our high-quality care. We currently train more than 200 healthcare students and professionals each year, making us a leader in clinical education. Erie now serves more than 96,000 patients at 13 state-of-the art health centers across Chicago and the northern suburbs. Our full-time public health service year positions support Healthy Futures goals as part of AmeriCorps' State and National service programs through Serve Illinois.
Areas Covered: The North, Northwest, and West Sides of Chicago, IL
Illinois Bar Foundation
20 South Clark Street, Suite 910
Chicago, IL 60603
Phone: (312) 726-6072
Illinois JusticeCorps is an innovative AmeriCorps program that places volunteers in courthouses around Illinois to help people without lawyers navigate the civil justice system. Volunteers are trained and supported to provide legal information and procedural guidance, as well as connect self-represented litigants with legal aid services and self-help resources. The program provides a unique opportunity to gain exposure to the court system, build professional skills, and give back to the community.
Zip Codes Covered: All Cook County zip codes including all of Chicago and Evanston
NeighborScapes
1020 Park Drive #458
Flossmoor, IL 60422
Phone: 773-726-9718
NeighborScapes' mission is to strengthen neighborhoods through our housing programs, the promotion of community service and civic engagement, and our various community engagement programs/initiatives. The Harvey Conservation Corps (HCC) program is focused on environmental stewardship, revitalizing public spaces, and educating the community about environmental sustainability. Our main goals are to enhance environmental health, create opportunities for community involvement in environmental stewardship, and to stimulate economic investment by supporting the community of Harvey in addressing significant environmental and socioeconomic challenges.
Zip Codes Covered: 60426
Public Allies
180 N. Michigan, Suite 1016
Chicago, IL 60601
Phone: (312) 422-7777
Public Allies Chicago is a social justice organization committed to changing the face and practice of leadership by recruiting and training talented emerging leaders, with a passion for social impact, to create meaningful change in our city. Our Allies are diverse, equity-centered, innovative problem solvers, dedicated to mobilizing community assets to develop solutions to local challenges. In partnership with nonprofit partners, we deliver our nationally recognized, values-driven, results-led apprenticeship to advance our mission to create a just and equitable society and the diverse leadership to sustain it.
With Michelle Obama as its founder, it has been 30 years since Public Allies Chicago launched a community-based asset model that changed how emerging civic leaders are developed and engage with Chicago communities. With Mark Payne and Bianca Cotton, two Black Public Allies program alumni at the helm, Public Allies Chicago is focused on imparting knowledge and opportunities to Allies centered around Asset Based Community Development (ABCD), and how building upon assets can fuel the next 30 years of Public Allies.
Public Allies Chicago’s leadership understands that Chicago is rooted and grounded in community and is recruiting Allies from communities that may have been overlooked. These diverse community members have overlayed this asset-based leadership approach in community-based institutions, local and national government, health care systems, and philanthropy; resulting in racially inclusive practices, community-focused problem solving, and a long-standing, anti-racist network of nearly 10,000 changemakers committed to social justice and equity.
Zip Codes Covered: 60640, 60602, 60626, 60623, 60619, 60601, 60623, 60621, 60608
Sinai Health System
1500 South Fairfield Avenue
Chicago, IL 60608
Phone: 773-257-5837
Sinai Chicago is a network of 4 hospitals, 17 community clinics, 1 community institute, and 1 nationally recognized research institute all serving communities on Chicago's West and Southwest sides. The communities we serve face some of the city's most severe systemic barriers and suffer the greatest health disparities. Empowering Chicago's West and Southwest sides-and individuals who live here-toward healthier lives, by overcoming barriers and providing exceptional health care, is the reason we are here.
Sinai Public Health AmeriCorps is an opportunity to make a real difference in healthcare and in the lives of people including your own. Corps members commit to full time or half time from September to June tackling issues related to health equity and health access. Members receive professional development training, health benefits and meaningful ways to make a difference in healthcare.
Zip Codes Covered: 60624, 60608, 60623, 60612, 60624, 60623, 60608, 60632, 60632, 60629, 60609, 60629, 60620, 60636, and 60621
University of Chicago
5841 S. Maryland Avenue, Mail Code 5000
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: (773) 702-4401
The Comprehensive Care, Community, and Culture Program (C4P) aims to improve the overall health and well-being of patients in the program by addressing a wide range of both medical and social needs. Although exact activities vary according to the member’s host site, members will engage in some or all of the following activities: 1) recruit Medicare and Medicaid patients of diverse ages who are at increased risk of hospitalization for a program designed to serve their medical and social needs, 2) assess patients for unmet social needs, 3) serve these patients through the implementation of community-based arts and culture programming, and 4) help evaluate the effects of the program in the South and West Sides of Chicago and adjacent Thornton Township.
Zip Codes Covered: 60609, 60653, 60615, 60636, 60621, 60637, 60620, 60619, 60649, 60643, 60628,60617, 604069, 60429, 60476, 60409, 60430, 60633, 60633, 60419, 60438, 60827, 60425, 60469, 60426, 60473, 60644, 60612, 60651, 60623, 60647, 60607, 60639, 60623, 60608, 60624, 60622, 60632
Youth & Opportunity United
1911 Church Street
Evanston, IL 60201
Phone: 847-866-1200
Youth & Opportunity United (Y..O.U.) AmeriCorps members deliver high-quality afterschool and summer learning programs in 9 elementary and middle/junior high schools in Evanston and Skokie Illinois. AmeriCorps members are responsible for providing youth with tutoring and enrichment activities that promote their academic, social, and emotional skills.
Zip Codes Covered: 60201, 60202, 60203, 60076