For One Chicago Projects

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Sites below are listed alphabetically and include city wards, schools, YMCAs, and several different types of organizations - so feel free to scroll all the way down until you find the perfect one! Just click on a site to see what we'll be doing, location, time, and who is the site leader. You have the option to be added to the public roster for the site you'll be serving at so your friends can join your project along side you! Only your first and last name will be listed for public view. Just click on View Project Volunteers to see where your friends will serve that day.

Then spread the word to your family, friends and coworkers to join this city-wide effort to renew Chicago!

If you have questions, please contact the site leader, or email laura@foronechicago.org

A Just Harvest

Neighborhood: Rogers Park
Project Leader: Coleen Luz
Kid Friendly: Yes
Remaining Positions: 29
Volunteers needed for deep cleaning of their kitchen and dining room.

Abundant Life World Outreach

Neighborhood: West
Project Leader: Rosie Lopez and Jason Dent
Kid Friendly: No
Remaining Positions: 30
Get a new church ready for their doors to open! A variety of tasks are needed from cleaning to painting to weeding to light construction.

By the Hand Club for Kids - Pumpkin Carving

Neighborhood: Near North
Project Leader: Val Uhle and Kevin Yohpe
Kid Friendly: Yes
Remaining Positions: 8
Get orange!! Volunteers, bring a pumpkin and share the joy of carving with 2nd and 3rd graders from By the Hand for Kids. The day will also be filled with games, crafts and stories.

Cabrini Green Legal Aid

Neighborhood: Near North
Project Leader: Arumeh Lee
Kid Friendly: Yes
Remaining Positions: 19
Help this non-profit legal aid organization clean up their office both inside and out. General cleaning skills desired but also a need for a handyman to fix some things around the office.

Childcare

Neighborhood: Near North
Project Leader: Alicia Sturdy
Kid Friendly: Yes
Remaining Positions: 3
We are in need of 5 people to provide childcare at Park Community Church during the day of For One Chicago. This site will close Tuesday, Sept 28 to provide time for processing of mandatory...

Greater Chicago Food Depository

Neighborhood: Brighton Park
Project Leader: Laura Bruck and Celine DeSouza
Kid Friendly: Yes
Remaining Positions: 9
This is a 9am - NOON commitment only! Before working, GFD will provide a brief orientation for all new volunteers. They will talk about poverty and hunger in Chicago, how the Food Depository...

GRIP Outreach for Youth

Neighborhood: Ukrainian Village
Project Leader: Beth Hobson
Kid Friendly: Yes
Remaining Positions: 7
For an organization that ministers to active youth day in and day out, give them a hand by cleaning their office, their floors and taking up a brush to do some painting! Minimum age for...

IL Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights - Chinatown

Neighborhood: Chinatown
Project Leader: Brook Bisrat and Jason Sheaffer
Kid Friendly: No
Remaining Positions: 20
Help immigrants, refugees, and new citizens register to vote! Training will be from 9:30-10:15AM, then it's off to register new voters.

IL Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights - Pilsen

Neighborhood: Pilsen
Project Leader: Brook Bisrat and Jason Sheaffer
Kid Friendly: No
Remaining Positions: 20
Help immigrants, refugees, and new citizens register to vote! Training will be from 9:30-10:15AM, then it's off to register new voters.

Inside the Middle East Crisis (Conference)

Neighborhood: Near North
Project Leader: Rachel Schwarz
Kid Friendly: No
Remaining Positions: 20
Ushers needed at Moody Church for a conference being held at Moody Church by Chosen People Ministries. On October 1st and 2nd, 2010, at the historic Moody Church in downtown Chicago, New York Times...

Laundry Love

Neighborhood: Humboldt Park
Project Leader: Karen Globig
Kid Friendly: Yes
Remaining Positions: None
Laundry love will bless people living in poverty with free laundry. Our goal is to meet a practical need while ultimately building long-lasting relationships. Serving here for For One Chicago will...

Liberty in Christ

Neighborhood: Little Village
Project Leader: Sheri Reeves
Kid Friendly: Yes
Remaining Positions: 20
Liberty in Christ is an organization that seeks to help those in the neighborhood of Little Village that do not have enough to eat or are incarcerated in Cook county jail to provide food. Projects...

LYDIA Home

Neighborhood: Old Irving Park
Project Leader: TBA
Kid Friendly: No
Remaining Positions: 15
Working in the garden.

Mayfair Park

Neighborhood: Mayfair
Project Leader: Aaron and Christine Parker
Kid Friendly: Yes
Remaining Positions: None
TBA

National Teachers Academy

Neighborhood: South Loop
Project Leader: Jason Knupp and Brad Kosar
Kid Friendly: Yes
Remaining Positions: 15
Why just swim in a pool when you can paint it? That's right! Just think of all the echos we can amuse ourselves with while painting it!

New Moms

Neighborhood: Palmer Square (near Logan Square)
Project Leader: Sheldon and Kristin Ross
Kid Friendly: No
Remaining Positions: None
TBA

Northside Housing

Neighborhood: Wrigleyville
Project Leader: Kendall Brubaker
Kid Friendly: No
Remaining Positions: 9
Prepare, serve and enjoy lunch with the men at this shelter. (Word is that fried chicken is on the menu!) In addition, we'll assist this small space by organizing their pantry, books and...

Prep for Wrap Up Party

Neighborhood: Near North
Project Leader: John Pignanelli
Kid Friendly: No
Remaining Positions: 9
Need help prepping for Wrap Up Party at a location TBA. This will include both food and set up prep!

Soul City Church

Neighborhood: West
Project Leader: Amy Lawlor
Kid Friendly: No
Remaining Positions: 20
General landscaping, painting and finishing the inside of Soul City's building.

South Loop Elementary

Neighborhood: South Loop
Project Leader: Jason Knupp and Brad Kosar
Kid Friendly: Yes
Remaining Positions: 15
Even bathrooms need painting. And that's just what we are going to do! Some of the project will include painting tiles which will require volunteer(s) to paint straight lines along those...

Stockton Elementary School

Neighborhood: Uptown
Project Leader: Erin Arnheim and Amy Penner
Kid Friendly: Yes
Remaining Positions: 73
We will be beautifying Stockton School so that the students have a warm and inviting environment to learn! We will be painting & cataloguing the library! Perfect site if you want to work...

Union Church

Neighborhood: Hyde Park
Project Leader: Barbara Berchioli
Kid Friendly: No
Remaining Positions: 6
Fill up bags with food and toiletries and then distribute them to the homeless persons. We will also take time to socialize and share the gospel with them.

YMCA (3333 N Marshfield)

Neighborhood: Lakeview
Project Leader: Dan Powell and Brett Meconis
Kid Friendly: No
Remaining Positions: 100
Indoor cleaning throughout the facility and outdoor clean-up and landscaping.

YMCA (3449 W. Arthington)

Neighborhood: North Lawndale
Project Leader: Renee Schneidewind
Kid Friendly: Yes
Remaining Positions: 45
There will be mopping, sweeping, cleaning windows, sanitizing toys, wiping down furniture and equipment. The outside will entail raking, sweeping, cleaning windows, cleaning playground equipment,...

YMCA (4251 W Irving Park)

Neighborhood: Old Irving Park
Project Leader: TBA
Kid Friendly: No
Remaining Positions: None
YMCA is gearing up for Halloween and they need your help making scarecrows!! Got some clothes that you haven't worn in over a year but they're too... "loved on" to donate? Bring...

YMCA (6235 S Homan)

Neighborhood: Midway
Project Leader: TBA
Kid Friendly: No
Remaining Positions: 10
We will be deep cleaning the floors, washing windows, etc.

YMCA (7 North Homan)

Neighborhood: Garfield Park
Project Leader: John Magill
Kid Friendly: Yes
Remaining Positions: 15
We will be doing a variety of indoor and outdoor cleaning and organizing.

YMCA (824 N. Hamlin)

Neighborhood: Humboldt Park
Project Leader: TBA
Kid Friendly: No
Remaining Positions: 15
It's Produce Day at the Kelly Hall YMCA! Help sort donated produce and other fresh food items and distribute it to the neighborhood low-income seniors and families. Then share your...