Search Volunteer Organizations: Chicago, IL, Education/Employment Program

Cornerstone Services, Inc.,provides progressive, comprehensive services for people with disabilities, promoting choice, dignity, and the opportunity to live and work in the community.

The mission of the Chicago Digital Access Alliance is to promote digital literacy, inclusion and excellence in all 77 Chicago communities regardless of income, race or geography.

Poder's mission is to respond to the educational needs of the adult immigrant by providing the necessary academic tools to promote human dignity, increase employment potential, and facilitate participation in the larger community.

To raise up and equip Christ centered leaders to effectively advance the Kingdom of God on the earth.

Christian HS for At-Risk kids.

The Inner-City Teaching Corps (ICTC) is a non-profit education organization that transforms education and empowers children in the most undeserved areas of Chicago through the provision of outstanding teachres and innovative education programs.

The Repairer of The Breach Ministry's main goal is to provide a spiritual, educational, economic, and social ministry in the New City Community of Chicago. The Repairer of the Breach Ministry (ROBM) is a scripturally-based holistic ministry that is committed to the spiritual and emotional development of individuals and families. Our major objective is to promote values which enhance human life and spiritual growth by providing opportunities for enrichment. education and healing.

ROBM seeks to:
First provide for people's immediate educational and spiritual needs.

Secondly, we work to enable them to provide for themselves through economic self-help programs.

Thirdly, we seek to empower them to provide for the creation or continuation of their own community development and programs.

Finally, we seek to equip them to continue to learn, grow, and serve in their own community by providing the services and resources needed to support a healthy and wholesome family structure.

The method and approaches used to accomplish the mission and turn the vision into reality involves four basic steps:

Step 1: Repair the Breach
Relief aid brought in to relieve immediate needs enables people to move to step2
- Spiritual Counseling and Training
- Women's Outreach Program
- Drug Abuse Outreach/Referral Program
- Skills to become gainfully employed (Resume Writing Mentor Program)

Step 2: Providing. for Today
Repair family ties - training discipleship and education with emphasis on commitment the poor.
Motivate successful businesses to share with others.
- Job Preparation/Interview Training Skills
- Basic Computer Skills
- Child Support Enforcement

Step 3: Giving Back to the Community
Old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. (2Cor. 5:17)
Provide educational services which will enhance an individuals ability to seek employment, establish a business and continue his/her education.
- Health Seminars
- Teen "Rap" Sessions
- Sports Events
- Teen Choir
- Recreational Activities
- Life Applications

Step 4: Provide for Tomorrow
Resource center funded by local business people/ trains motivates/recruits new personnel and encourages growth for the labor force.
- Conduct economical lectures and workshops
- Job Shadowing
- Apprenticeships
- Mentoring

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not unto thy own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths. Proverbs 3:5-6

Our mission is to train, equip and guide disadvantaged artists into professional practice in the areas of new media and digital arts. We believe that any person with a desire to create and willingness to learn should have the necessary tools and community to do so. As followers of Christ we have a commitment to honor God, help artists fulfill their creative potential and offer assistance to any disadvantaged artists.

To reduce recidivism by supporting, through a full spectrum of services, the effort of people with criminal records to be employed, law-abiding members of the community.

Transforming lives and community by the applied power of the whole gospel of Jesus Christ.

Empowering the local Church to serve the most vulnerable.

Vision: To positively impact the world through education, business and community.

The organization has a 3-pronged mission for its members:

1. For prospectives to successfully prepare for business school and global leadership through our training programs.

2. For current students and alumni MBAs to engage in on-going professional development, serve as Mentors and become positive change agents as business leaders within their communities.

3. For Business Schools and Companies to utilize the organization as a means to promote their institutions, recruit talent and learn effective diversity recruiting and retention methods.

Upwardly Global is a non-profit organiztion based in San Francisco, New York and now coming to Chicago, helping professional, skilled, legal immigrants and refugee rebuild their careers in the US.

Chicago Hope, Inc. is the mercy-ministry arm of Armitage Baptist Church in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago. It exists to help to address the physical needs of the residents of several surrounding communities, and as it does share with them how they can have a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ.