Charity Spotlight
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Combined Charities Campaign www.cccQuickGive.org Give!Give! Choose!Choose! Change!Change! BeBe anan everydayeveryday hero!hero! WHAT is the Combined Charities Campaign? An easy way to support charity at your workplace. WHY give? Giving makes a real difference in people’s lives. When we give together, our investment in nonprofits grows exponentially. Let’s make a difference together! WHO to give to? Charities in this book are certified by the State of Illinois as eligible to participate in payroll deduction programs under the Payroll Deduction Act of Illinois. HOW to give? 1. Donate by paper pledge form and return to coordinator. 2. Donate online at www.cccquickgive.org. THREE ways to give: 1. Check 2. Payroll contribution 3. Credit/debit card (online only) Important Information ONLINE GIVING Go to www.cccquickgive.org; choose your worksite, charity, and contribution amount. Credit cards are an option when giving online. Confirmation will be sent to your email address. WRITE IN CHARITIES To contribute to charities not listed in this book, write the charity’s name, address, and phone number on the pledge card. Use code 999-0000. UNDESIGNATED FUNDS Funds not designated to a specific charity are shared by all participating charities. Use code 998-0000. TAX DEDUCTION ELIGIBILTY All charities listed are designated 501(c)3, thus fully tax deductible. Receive a confirmation of your pledge by completing the home address portion on the pledge form. A copy of your final pay stub of the year showing the total amount withheld as a charitable contribution may also be used for tax purposes. The Combined Charities Campaign is managed by Community Shares of Illinois. We welcome and appreciate your feedback. For contact information, visit our websites at: www.CommunitySharesIllinois.org or www.CombinedCharitiesCampaign.org Cover image created by Freepik. 2 Charity Spotlight Younis Masih, 65, is the only breadwinner of his family of six. He and his family live in Mehbood Town, Faisalabad District, Pakistan, where most people make a poor living working at the brick kilns. Most lack access to safe drinking water, toilets, and adequate sanitation facilities. Despite his advanced age and failing health, Masih had to fetch water from a community tap more than half a mile from his house. He would go there two or three times daily to collect water in small plastic cans or buckets to bring home to his family. Global Impact partner United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) has been working with local organizations to make clean water more accessible to vulnerable people, especially women and children, in Faisalabad District. In addition, the project is promoting the construction of household latrines and providing hygiene education. Masih’s family is among those who have had a new hand pump installed in their home. The hand pump in his house has become a blessing for others in the neighborhood too. They can get water from it anytime. Masih welcomes everyone with a smile. 120,000 miles of rivers and streams in Illinois provide essential drinking water, industrial water, habitat, agricultural water, and flood control to our communities. EarthShare Illinois members work to protect these resources and see that they are as healthy and clean as needed to support all of their uses. 3 Super Charities 911-0000 America’s Best Charities ABC charities help eradicate rural poverty, provide lifesaving food to the hungry, rehabilitation for land mine survivors and last wishes for the terminally ill. They provide adoption services, victim support, emergency medical transportation, help prevent clergy sexual abuse, and support the UN. Working to share the American way. Pages 6-13 910-0000 America’s Charities Helping you help others, our goal is providing member charities with the financial resources required to meet emerging needs. America’s Charities adresses the needs of children, families, the hungry and the sick, in your community and across the nation. Support America’s Charities and you help support America’s most-loved causes. Pages 13-14 950-0010 Black United Fund of Illinois (BUFI) is a non-profit organization that provides critically needed financial and technical support to programs and projects that assist those in need within Illinois’ African- Americans through self-help programs at the local level, encouraging health and human services, emergency needs, legal assistance, education, arts and culture, and social justice within their neighborhoods. Page 14 800-5500 Community Health Charities Partnering with America’s most trusted health charities to deliver credible health information, community- focused volunteer activities, and efficient charitable giving to employees in the workplace. Pages 14-17 903-0000 Community Shares of Illinois creates change in local communities by supporting organizations that rescue animals, build affordable housing, protect children, eradicate hunger, restore families, elminate violence, provide arts and media, preserve the environment, and promote access to healthcare. Help create change in your community! Page 17 4 909-0000 EarthShare Illinois is an alliance of leading nonprofit environmental and conservation charities, working to protect your health and all aspects of our environment - air, land, natural resources, water and wildlife, both locally and globally. One environment, one simple way to care for it. Pages 17-19 901-0000 Global Impact represents more than 100 of the most respected and effective international relief and development organizations. Global Impact charities meet real needs with real results by supporting programs focused on clean water, disaster relief and resiliency, economic development, education, global health and child survival, human trafficking, hunger, malaria, and women and girls. Pages 20-21 905-0000 Special Olympics Illinois is part of a global organization that unleashes the human spirit through the transformative power and joy of sport, every day around the world. The program provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Page 21 900-0000 United Negro College Fund UNCF’s mission is to build a robust and nationally-recognized pipeline of under-represented students who, because of UNCF support, become highly-qualified college graduates and to ensure that our network of member institutions is a respected model of best practice in moving students to and through college. Page 21 016-0000 United Way is a community solutions leader that advances the common good by bringing together resources-expertise, funding and volunteers-in the areas of education, income, health and basic needs in the neighborhoods that need them most. Through proven strategies and quality programs, United Way measurably improves lives for indviduals, families and the region. Join us, and change the story for those in need in greater Chicago. Pages 21-25 5 New Charities 016-3021 741 Collaborative Partnership Inc. 016-3029 Heartland Alliance International 901-0502 Action Against Hunger 016-3030 Heartland Health Outreach, Inc. 800-5605 AIDS United 911-1434 Hope Abides 016-3045 Alignment Collaborative for Education 903-0410 Illinois Stewardship Alliance 016-3022 Alivio Medical Center 016-3031 Josselyn Center 800-5606 Alzheimer’s Association, Illinois, Bloomington 016-3032 JOURNEYS The Road Home 800-5607 Alzheimer’s Association, Illinois, Carbondale 016-3054 Literacy Connection 800-5608 Alzheimer’s Association, Illinois, Joliet 016-3033 McGaw YMCA 800-5609 Alzheimer’s Association, Illinois, Quincy 903-0464 Meals on Wheels Chicago 800-5610 Alzheimer’s Association, Illinois, Rockford 800-5595 Men’s Health 800-5611 Alzheimer’s Association, Illinois, Springfield 800-5603 Mental Health and Wellbeing 910-0411 American Brain Foundation 016-3034 Misericordia Heart of Mercy Center 800-5512 American Lung Association of Illinois, Upper 800-5615 Muscular Dystrophy Association, Illinois, Central Midwest Region, Chicago Division, Champaign 911-1428 Apraxia Kids 910-0414 National Black Child Development Institute 016-3046 Association for Individual Development 800-5616 National Foundation for Transplants – Tennessee 016-3047 Boys and Girls Club of Elgin 800-5617 National Hemophilia Foundation 911-1430 Buckner Children and Family Services 016-3035 National Latino Education Institute 903-0071 Campus Cooperative Preschool 911-1437 NephCure Kidney International 016-3023 Center for Conflict Resolution 016-3036 New Moms, Inc. 016-3024 Center for Disability & Elder Law 016-3037 New Star, Inc. 016-3025 Centers for New Horizons, Inc. 016-3038 North Side Housing & Supportive Services 909-0085 Ceres, Inc. 016-3055 Northern IL Food Bank 016-3026 Chicago Children’s Advocacy Center 016-3039 Northwest Compass 909-0680 Chicago Parks Foundation 016-3040 OMNI Youth Services 910-0412 Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation 016-3056 One Hope United, ECFRC 016-3026 Common Threads 016-3057 P.A.D.S. 016-3048 Community Crisis Center 903-0485 Pass With Flying Colors 800-5508 Community Health Charities’ Disaster Response 903-0540 Perry County Humane Society 911-1432 Dogs Leading the Blind 016-3041 Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH) 016-3049 Elgin Partnership for Early Learning 016-3042 Renaissance Social Services 800-5512 End Bullying 909-0710 Savannah Institute 800-5613 Facing Addiction with NCADD 909-0480 Scenic America 800-5614 Families of SMA 016-3058 Senior Services Associates 016-3050 Family Service Association 016-3043 Sinai Health System 903-0146