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1		ELMWOOD PARK, IL
2		SCHAUMBURG, IL
3		AURORA, IL
4		ROCK ISLAND, IL
5		ROCK ISLAND, IL
6		Springfield, IL
7		Wheaton, IL
8		CAROL STREAM, IL
9		CRYSTAL LAKE, IL
10		Chicago, IL
11		CHICAGO, IL
12		Libertyville, IL
13		Huntley, IL
14		LAKE FOREST, IL
15		CHICAGO, IL
16		CHICAGO, IL
17		BLOOMINGTON, IL
18		Waterloo, IL
19		Westmont, IL
20		WILLOW SPRINGS, IL
21		Champaign, IL
22		CHICAGO, IL
23		WORTH, IL
24		Chicago, IL
25		OAK BROOK, IL
26		WESTERN SPRINGS, IL
27		DUNLAP, IL
28		Chicago, IL
29		Des Plaines, IL
30		Chicago, IL
31		Chicago, IL
32		Evanston, IL
33		NAPERVILLE, IL
34		CHICAGO, IL
35		CHICAGO, IL
36		Arlington Heights, IL
37		GURNEE, IL
38		AURORA, IL
39		PALATINE, IL
40		NORTHLAKE, IL
41		Chicago, IL
42		GALESBURG, IL
43		CHICAGO, IL
44		Deerfield, IL
45		ROSELLE, IL
46		CHICAGO, IL
47		GLENVIEW, IL
48		PALATINE, IL
49		Chicago, IL
50		BUFFALO GROVE, IL

SHELTER FOR HOMELESS, NEGLECTED AND ABUSED WOMEN WITH CHILDREN

TO BRING TOGETHER IN LEADERSHIP POSITIONS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES AND TO ENGAGE IN AND TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE CONTACT THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.TO PARTICIPATE IN DELEGATIONS TO OTHER COUNTRIES, TO MEET IN LEADERSHIP POSITIONS, TO FACILITATE RECIPROCAL VISITS TO THE UNITED STATES.TO ENGAGE IN STUDY PROGRAMS, INCLUDING SELF-STUDY, ORGANIZED READING, AND GROUP STUDY OR MEETINGS, AND TO STUDY NATIONAL AND PROBLEMS IN ORDER TO BECOME BETTER INFORMED OF THOSE PROBLEMS.TO MAINTAIN COMMUNICATION AMONG MEMBERS AND WITH PERSONS VISITED OR WITH WHOM EXCHANGE VISITS MAY BE PLANNED THE PURPOSE OF CARRYING OUT AWIU OBJECTIVES.TO ATTEMPT TO BUILD BRIDGES OF UNDERSTANDING, GOODWILL, AND COOPERATION BETWEEN LEADERS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, AND THUS TO SHARE IN THE BUILDING OF GOODWILL AND THE REDUCTION OF FRICTION BY MEANS OF NON-POLITICAL, NON-GOVERNMENTAL, VOLUNTARY CITIZEN ACTION.

ALLOWING CHRISTIAN WOMEN TO BETTER THEMSELVES AS INDIVIDUALS AND BECOME STRONGER FOLLOWERS OF JESUS CHRIST

ROYAL NEIGHBORS IS AN ORGANIZATION THAT PROVIDES FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO VARIOUS CAUSES THAT HELPS THOSE WHO ARE IN NEED.

PROVIDE WOMEN AND THOSE THEY CARE ABOUT WITH VALUABLE INSURANCE PRODUCTS, FINANCIAL EDUCATION, MEMBER BENEFITS AND SERVICES, AND OPPORTUNITIES TO CONNECT WITH EACH OTHER AND THEIR COMMUNITIES THROUGH A LODGE SYSTEM.

To achieve equity for all women in the workplace through advocacy, education, and information.

Temporary , counseling, legal support and hotline for victims of domestic violence. , . provides funding to Metropolitan Services to help fulfill its exempt purpose.

TO PROVIDE TRAINING AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT OF CHRISTIAN MEN AND WOMEN

COUNSELING SERVICES PROVIDED FOR WOMEN CONFRONTED WITH PREGNANCIES

Professional association for women in

TO ENGAGE WORKING MEN WOMEN THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE IN ORDER TO IMPROVE HEALTH, INCOME, EDUCATION. SERVICES ARE SUBSTANTIALLY SUPPORTED THROUGH FUNDING FROM GOVERNMENTAL UNITS OR DIRECT CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

Assistance for homeless women and children

A professional womens organization that supports in the institutional community.

AS HEIRS OF THE LEGACY AND EDUCATIONAL TRADITION OF COLLEGE AND THERELIGIOUS OF THE SACRED HEART, THE FOUNDATIONDEVELOPS AND SEEKS SUPPORT FOR INNOVATIVE SCHOLARSHIPS AND ENTREPRENEURIAL EDUCATIONAL VENTURES WHICH REFLECT THE DEEP COMMITMENT TO: INTELLECTUAL,SPIRITUAL, AND ETHICAL VALUES; EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN, SOCIAL AWARENESS THAT IMPELS TO ACTION; AND THE BUILDING OF COMMUNITY.

TO FUND PROGRAMS THAT FOSTER AND PROMOTE VOCATIONS TO THE MINISTERIAL PRIESTHOOD OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AS A PARTICULAR VOCATION TO SERVICE; TO FUND PROGRAMS OF FORMATION FOR MEN AND WOMEN IN CONSECRATED RELIGIOUS LIFE IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH; AND TO ENHANCE RECOGNITION OF AS THE GLOBAL LAY APOSTOLATE FOR VOCATIONS IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.

TO ALLEVIATE HUMAN DISTRESS AND PROMOTE HEALTH BY PROVIDING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO FAMILIES WHO ARE IN A TIME OF STRESS DUE TO MEDICAL EMERGENCIES OR COMPLICATIONS RELATING TO PREGNANCY OR THE BIRTH OF A CHILD OR A BURIAL OR OTHER COSTS RELATING TO THE DEATH OF A CHILD.

TO PROVIDE SUPPLEMENTAL OR PRIMARY LIVING EXPENSES AND/OR FACILITIES FOR AGED, INDIGENT WOMEN.

Pregnancy testing and counseling, assistance and education to parents and babies, abstinence education, post abortion counseling and education.

Our mission is to advocate and innovate sustainable solutions to issues and problems in developing countries and to promote universal humanitarianism education health women and children empowerment and human services. The year 2021 focused more on human services by sending relief goods and feeding programs to combat COVID-19.

TO STRENGTHEN POSITIVE REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN THROUGHOUT THE CHICAGO ARE LOCALS OF THE INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF

SELLING DONATED USED TO PROVIDE FOR VULNERABLE CHILDREN AND , LOCALLY AND GLOBALLY. ALSO PROVIDING EMPLOYMENT AS A RESTART FOR WOMEN WITH A HISTORY OF HOMELESSNESS, ABUSE, OR INCARCERATION.

is a sisterhood of women supporting each other in lifelong achievement.

HELP WOMEN WITH CHILDREN TO GET JOB PLACEMENT. EDUCATE WOMEN TO MANAGE THEIR FINANCES. ESTABLISH COMMUNITY CENTER TO ACCOMMODATE NEEDY FAMILIES. PROVIDE HUMANITARIAN HELP TO POOR and NEEDY

is a grassroots movement that mobilizes individuals organizations to empower trafficking survivors to heal thrive through workforce development. With 25,000 women girls falling prey to trafficking every year in Chicago alone, we help young women that have fallen prey to sexual exploitation to reclaim their bodies, reclaim their confidence, find their passion. We accomplish this great work through our volunteer-driven, year-long program that focuses on healing equipping women to get jobs.

TO IDENTIFY YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN EMPLOYED AT WISHING TO PURSUE HIGHER EDUCATION AND PROVIDE THEM WITH FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.

TO PROVIDE CONTINUING FINANCIAL AND OTHER SUPPORT TO MEDICAL RESEARCH AND OTHER SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS FOR SCIENTIFIC AND CLINICAL RESEARCH REGARDING FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE CANCERS AND BREAST CANCER, AND THE CAUSES, THE TREATMENT, AND THE ULTIMATE CURE OF THESE DISEASES.

TO ASSIST THE LESS FORTUNATE IN CHARITABLE AND EDUCATION ENDEAVORS. WILL ALSO SUPPORT WOMEN AND CHILDREN WHO ARE VULNERABLE AND IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE. IT WILL FURTHER ASSIST THE ECONOMICALLY NEEDY STUDENTS TO MEET THEIR EDUCATIONAL NEEDS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND IS ESTABLISHED TO HELP THOSE THAT NEED ASSISTANCE IN PARENTING NEEDS AND EDUCATINO BY PREPARING YOUNG GIRLS BETWEEN THE AGES OF 16-21 FOR AUDLT LIVING. THE ORGANIZATION WILL ALSO ASSIST LOCAL NOT FOR PROFIT ENTITIES IN THEIR ENDEAVORS TO MAKE THE AREA A SAFER AND BETTER PLACE TO LIVE, WORK AND PLAY.

Provide emergency and education grants to exonerated men and women.

Mission of the organization is dedicated to charitable purposes including but not limited to engaging young Kenyan women via helathcare training, education scholarship lifeskills enhancement.

Support Jewish womens education

To empower community-based organizations throughout through our charitable partnerships. For a period of 12 months, partners with three under-resourced charities, offering our consulting and capacity-building services for free, providing the kind of long-term support and deep relationships needed for sustainable growth.

Resources Incorporated leads national and international development and humanitarian efforts to stop violence, reduce poverty, by empowering women, strengthen democratic governance, eliminate illiteracy, and help people progress beyond assistance.

PROGRAM EXPENSE FOR YOUTH, SENIOR CITIZEN AND STATUS WOMEN.

is a sisterhood of women supporting each other in lifelong achievement.

provides hope, opportunity and support that empowers women and children as they journey from homelessness to self-sufficiency.

THE EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN AND GIRLS AND THE ELIMINATION OF RACISM.

IS DEDICATED TO ELIMINATING RACISM, EMPOWERING WOMEN AND PROMOTING PEACE, JUSTICE, FREEDOM AND DIGNITY FOR ALL.

A.R.T.S.) USES AS A TOOL TO RAISE ACADEMIC, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL POTENTIAL OF AT RISK WOMEN, CHILDREN AND YOUTH.

PROVIDE AID TO AFRICAN WOMEN and CHILDREN IMPACTED BY AIDS and POVERTY

EDUCATE REALTORS

TO PROVIDE A SAFE, CHRISTIAN HOME FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN NEED TEMPORARY HOUSING

THROUGH AND GRANTS, ENCOURAGE THE EDUCATION OF MEN AND WOMEN WHO STAFF PUBLICATIONS IN THE U.S. AND CANADA.

THE MISSION and RESTAURATEURS IS TO PROMOTE AND ENHANCE THE EDUCATION, ADVANCEMENT AND CONNECTION IN THE CULINARY INDUSTRY

EMPOWER WHO ARE VICTIMS VIOLENCE TO DEVELOP FINANCIAL AND EMOTIONAL INDEPENDENCE BY PROVIDING THEM WITH A SAFE, NURTURING ENVIRONMENT.

TO HELP WOMEN AND MEN BECOME BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS AS A RESULT OF EARLY TREATMENT THROUGH ASSIST. OF MAMMOGRAPHY SCREENING, AND TO MAINTAIN A HEALTHY BODY.

PROVIDE SUPPORT TO CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS THAT PROVIDE NUTRITION PROGRAMS FOR YOUNG CHILDREN and WOMEN IN GUATEMALA

CIVIC BETTERMENT

S MISSION IS TO HELP IMPROVE ACCESSIBILITY AND HEALTHCARE OUTCOMES FOR WOMEN OF ALL AGES IN HISTORICALLY UNDERFUNDED AREAS BY PROVIDING GRANTS TO OTHER ORGANIZATIONS THAT QUALIFY AS EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS UNDER CODE SECTION 501(c)(3) INCLUDING NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOR PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES THAT WILL HAVE A DIRECT IMPACT ON PATIENT CARE, ADVANCING WOMEN'S HEALTH PROGRAMS INCLUDING THOSE THAT BENEFIT LOW INCOME INFANTS, GIRLS AND WOMEN IN THE CHICAGO AREA, THOSE THAT OFFER REHABILITATION SERVICES TO WOMEN AFTER GIVING BIRTH OR HAVING A GYNECOLOGICAL PROCEDURE AND THOSE THAT ENABLE CAREGIVERS AND EMPOWER PATIENTS TO CREATE AND MAINTAIN A HEALTHY SOCIETY.

THE IS A MEMORIAL TO WHO DIED OF AN INOPERABLE BRAIN TUMOR IN 2006 AT THE AGE OF 23. FUNDS WILL BE DIRECTED TO SUPPORT THOSE WHO ARE RESEARCHING CURES FOR BRAIN TUMORS AS WELL AS INNOVATIVE TREATMENT APPROACHES SUCH AS THE TARGETED DELIVERY OF CHEMOTHERAPY DRUGS TO A TUMOR. FUNDS MAY ALSO BE USED TO SUPPORT PATIENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES. IN THE FUTURE, THE DIRECTORS MAY CONSIDER OTHER PURPOSES SUCH AS SCHOLARSHIPS TO YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN WHOSE ATHLETIC ACTIVITIES REFLECT CHRIS' INTERESTS AND LIFE.

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