Agencies
Services
Chicago
Association House of Chicago
(Public Health AmeriCorps)
1116 N. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60651
Phone: 773-772-7170
Association House of Chicago is a 124-year-old nonprofit organization dedicated to providing high-quality services to underserved children, adults, and families in areas of high economic hardship throughout the city. Using a trauma-informed, culturally responsive service model, we fill the gaps that leave individuals and families struggling. Association House serves thousands of community members each year through 30+ direct services categorized into distinct service divisions that work collaboratively to meet the varied needs of those we serve: Association House High School, Behavioral Health, Child Welfare, Community Health and Workforce Development.
Zip Codes Covered: 60622, 60624, 60639, 60647, 60651
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
Greater Chicago Food Depository
4100 West Ann Lurie Place
Chicago, IL 60632
Phone: 773-648-4941
The Greater Chicago Food Depository is Chicago’s food bank. We believe a healthy community starts with food. The Food Depository’s Hunger Action Corps engages and cultivates community changemakers who want to gain experience while working to end hunger. Through a combination of service, formal training and personal development opportunities, Hunger Action Corps members make a difference in our community while gaining valuable skills that can transform their lives.
Zip Codes Covered: All Zip Codes within Cook County
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
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
Relay Graduate School of Education
924 W. 19th Pl,
Chicago, IL 60608
Phone: (678) 783-3811
AmeriCorps Relay Teaching Residency Chicago offers aspiring educators a unique opportunity to receive high-quality teacher training. The two-year residency is designed specifically for recent college graduates and career changers who are looking for an innovative pathway into the teaching profession. Members will serve full-time as Residents in the first year at high-needs schools Their responsibilities will be reflective of the scope of work assigned to a teacher. Residents will be released gradually, under their mentor teacher’s tutelage, and then serve as full-time classroom teachers-of-record in the second year, harnessing the foundation they built in year one.
Zip Codes Covered: 60625, 60629, 60609, 60641, 60621, 60649, 60609, 60639, 60634, 60647, 60643, 60622, 60621, 60629, 60616, 48342, 60625, 60651, 60651, 60646, 60612, 60643, 60626, 60621, 60618, 60620, 60612, 60617, 60614, 60612, 60620, 60602, 60632, 60619, 60639, 60621, 60612, 60610, 60642, 60631, 60649, 60406, 60660, 60628, 60624, 60620, 60615, 60608, 60612, 60643, 60619, 60636
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
The Gardeneers
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(Public Health AmeriCorps)
3250 W. Adams St. Room 110
Chicago, IL 60624
Phone: 847-800-1832
Gardeneers sustains school garden programs, focusing on Chicago's south and west sides. Our team of garden educators goes to our partner schools at least once per week, where we lead hands-on lessons on nutrition, community, and nature.
Zip Codes Covered: 60608, 60623, 60624, 60651, 60612, 60637, 60636, 60652, 60625, 60621, 60827, 60629, 60617, 60643
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