Mission Statement: Barclay Library's mission is to provide high-quality library services and programs in response to community needs, and to provide a gathering place where everyone feels welcome.
Mission Area: public service, library
Location: Warrensburg
Website: http://barclay.lib.il.us
Grief Support after the death of a child.
Whether your family has had a child die (at any age from any cause) or you are trying to help those who have gone through this life altering experience, The Compassionate Friends exists to provide friendship, understanding, and hope to those going through the natural grieving process.
Mission Statement: The mission of The Compassionate Friends is to assist families toward the positive resolution of grief following the death of a child of any age and to provide information to help others be supportive.
Mission Area: East Central Illinois
Location: Life Span Center, Charleston, IL
Website:
Junior League of Springfield (JLS) is an organization of women dedicated to improving the community through volunteer efforts. JLS provides opportunities to build new skills, use your existing talents, network, and meet new friends!
Mission Statement: The Junior League of Springfield (JLS) is an organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women and improving communities through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Our purpose is exclusively educational and charitable. The Junior League of Springfield reaches out to women of all races, religions, and national origins, who demonstrate an interest in and commitment to voluntarism.
Mission Area: Other
Location: Sangamon County, Illinois
Website: www.jlsil.org
Mission Statement: The agency's mission is to provide housing and supportive services to foster the independence of homeless and at-risk families with dependent children.
Mission Area: health & human services
Location: Sangamon County
Website: www.mercycommunities.org
Immanuel Lutheran Early Childhood Center is a nonprofit, Christian Center operated by Immanuel Lutheran Church, Charleston, Illinois. The Immanuel Lutheran Early Childhood Board approves our policies and governs our Center. We serve two-year-old to eight-year-olds, this includes preschool and extended care for children two to five and after school care for children in kindergarten through third grade. We are licensed by the State of Illinois, Department of Children and Family Services as a preschool and early childhood care facility. Immanuel Lutheran Early Childhood Center is licensed for 105 children at one time. Our hours of operation are from 7:30am to 5:30pm and we are a year round program only closed on major holidays.
Mission Statement: We believe that the Christian education and care of children is a cooperative effort that includes parents, children, teachers, and congregational members as partners with families. Immanuel Lutheran Church and its Early Childhood ministry are involved in caring for children and providing early education through activities and experiences that help develop skills necessary for school and for a Christ-centered life.
Mission Area: Coles County
Location: 902 Cleveland Avenue, Charleston, Illinois
Website: N/A- working on creating one
What does having a CASA volunteer mean to a child? Imagine what it would be like to lose your parents, not because of something you did, but because they can't - or won't - take care of you. Now, into your life come dozens of strangers: police, foster parents, social workers, judges, lawyers, and more. Having a CASA volunteer means having a trained and committed adult, by your side, who has been appointed by a judge to watch over you and advocate for your best interests. That volunteer will make sure you don't get lost in the overburdened legal and social service system or languish in an inappropriate group or foster home. They will be there for you until your case is closed. It can make the difference between homelessness and a safe home, between dropping out and completing school, between unemployment and success, between jail and becoming a productive member of society.
Champaign County CASA currently serves nearly 600 children, thanks to our volunteer advocates. The children we serve range in age from newborn to 18 years of age. Last year over 35% were under age 6.
Mission Statement: Champaign County Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) is a not-for-profit organization which recruits, trains, and monitors
volunteers who advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children.CASA volunteers work through the juvenile court
system to facilitate prompt delivery of services and make independent recommendations to the court concerning the child's well-being.
Mission Area: Child Advocacy
Location: Champaign County
Website: http://www.chcocasa.org
Mission Statement: To preserve and develop the 1872 courthouse as a rare architectural gem that will financially support itself and operate as a historical, cultural and arts center that instills community pride and visitor attraction.
Mission Area: South Central Illinois
Location: Effingham, Illinois
Website: delainedonaldson@mchsi.com
Local Boy Scout Council serving young people throughout 12 counties in central Illinois. Offering high quality programs in character development, citizenship training, fitness, and leadership to boys ages 6 - 21 and young women ages 15 - 21. Programs of emphasis include camping and outdoor activities, advancement through goal setting and achievement, and FUN!
Mission Statement: To prepare young people to make ethical choices over their lifetime by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law.
Mission Area:
Location: Twelve counties in central Illinois
Website: lincolntrailscouncil.org
Mission Statement: The Macon County Community Health Foundation implements programs leading to a healthier lifestyle for families and individuals that address their public health needs.
Mission Area: Obesity Reduction
Location: Decatur, IL
Website:
Arts Connection of Central Illinois (ACCI) is the operating entity of Effingham Performance Center(EPC). The organization brings live performance arts to the people of Central Illinois and encourages appreciation and involvement in the arts.
Mission Statement: Arts Connection of Central Illinois has been established for the citizens of Effingham County and beyond to showcase arts and entertainment, to encourage interaction with and appreciation of live performance, to endorse the educational process and to enhance the quality of life and cultural vitality of the region.
Mission Area: Central Illinois and beyond
Location: Effingham
Website: www.theEPC.org
St. Katharine Drexel Parish is a small Catholic Parish located on Springfield, Illinois' east side. Our parishioners are multi-cultural; Hispanic, African American, and Caucasian; elderly and young, but determined to keep our parish visible on the east side of Springfield. We have two church buildings as a result of our parish being created out of the merging of St. Patrick's and Sacred Heart Churches in 2001. In our old school buildings we house two Head Start Preschools. We have begun a community garden and are active in the new community organizing group, Coalition for the Common Good in central Illinois. We have active religious education programs for youth, children and adults.
Mission Statement: We, St. Katharine Drexel Parish, are a Catholic community of faith, diverse in age, ethnic origin and place of residence, yet called to live and proclaim the gospel together. We are centered in the Eucharist, which is our source of unity. We commit ourselves to common prayer and worship, responsible stewardship of our resources, care for the pastoral needs of our members, and service, in justice and charity, within the broader community, following the example of our patron, St. Katharine Drexel.
Mission Area: Christian religion, outreach
Location: Springfield, Illinois
Website: none
The Only non-profit professional Equtiy theatre between Chicago and St. Louis. Located in the community of Sullivan, IL a town of 4,400 people. 2011 will mark the 54th season of artistic excellence for the theatre that was founded in 1957 as a for-profit theatre. In 1981, a group of area citizens re-opened the theatre as a non-profit organization serving the entire central Illinois community. The Little Theatre provides 10 mainstage musicals each year, 32 classes in dance and drama with over 350 students from a 60 mile radius, 2 educational tours to schools throughought the entire state playing to over 50,000 students each year and has annual attendance in-house of over 50,000.
Mission Statement: The Little Theatre On The Square is a not-for-profit theatre devoted to enriching the lives of our community by offering high quality performing arts, education, and outreach programming. Since 1957, The Little Theatre On The Square has operated as the only professional (Actors’ Equity Association affiliated) theatre between Chicago and St. Louis, providing a unique experience for Central Illinois residents with year-round arts and education programs for all ages. While celebrating our rich history, we look forward to growing with our community bringing new cultural experiences, emerging artists, and innovative performances to the region.
Mission Area: Central Illinois
Location: Sullivan, IL
Website: www.thelittletheatre.org
Lincoln Memorial Garden represents the native landscape Abraham Lincoln would have known growing up in the Midwest. Designed in the 1930s by internationally known landscape architect Jens Jensen, this unique 100-acre site on the shores of Lake Springfield features six miles of trails, footbridges, a pond, eight stone council rings, and dozens of wooden benches inscribed with quotations from Lincoln. The woodland and prairie garden welcomes thousands of visitors year round to learn about nature and enjoy the wildflowers, trees and wildlife. A staff educator focuses on environmental education for schoolchildren. The Garden depends on memberships and donations; entrance is free.
Mission Statement: MISSION: "To honor the memory of Abraham Lincoln by providing a place where young and old alike can enjoy nature in all seasons, learn to be stewards of the environment, and discover the relationship among native plants, wildlife, water, soil and sunlight in an atmosphere of peace and beauty."
PURPOSE: "The purpose of the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Garden Foundation is to manage and fund the preservation, protection, maintenance and improvement of the woodland and prairie garden established as a living memorial to Abraham Lincoln, in keeping with Jens Jensen's design philsophy; and to provide opportunities for the appreciation of nature and for environmental education for all persons."
Mission Area: Education and conservation
Location: 2301 E. Lake Shore Dr., Springfield, IL 62712
Website: www.lincolnmemorialgarden.org
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Illinois Capital Region (BBBS) has been a community leader in positive youth development for more than thirty-eight years. The demand for our programs continues to grow as more people recognize the fact that mentoring can positively affect children. Experience has demonstrated that through mentoring relationships, children (Littles) who receive one-to-one mentoring with a positive role model (Bigs) develop encouraging attitudes toward school; achieve higher grades; improve relationships with their peers, families, teachers, and other adults; express their feelings in a positive manner; and develop higher levels of self-confidence.
Mission Statement: The mission of BBBS is to help children reach their full potential through life-changing, professionally supported, one-to-one mentoring relationships.
Mission Area: Education
Location: Bond County, Illinois
Website: www.bbbscapitalregion.org
Mission Statement: To provide high quality library services and programs in response to community needs, and to provide a
gathering place where everyone in the community feels welcome.
Mission Area: Macon-County
Location: Warrensburg
Website: http://barclay.lib.il.us
During the after school program, TAP In serves thirty scholars from community middle and high schools. A minimum of sixty college students from University groups are recruited to serve as mentor tutors in addition to our staff.
The after-school program operates Monday thru Friday from 2:30pm to 7pm. TAP In’s goal is to provide supplemental support to families by providing scholars 2:1 mentee/mentor tutoring in the areas of math, science, and language. Curriculum is derived from Illinois State Standards approved 4-H modules and I-STEM.
TAP In believes in holistic learning. Therefore, as a way of assisting families in providing healthy meals to the scholars we serve as well as a small population of the community, we offer a monthly food give-a-way initiative, ICARE. ICARE also hosts by- monthly parent workshops. These workshops are designed to educate, equip and empower parents with additional tips and tools for raising responsible, self-sufficient scholars in the 21st century.
TAP In Leadership Academy's Summer Enrichment Program is a multicultural six-week program for scholars ages 9 to 11. Students embark on higher education before reaching middle school. Each week, scholars explore a different culture/world area through hands-on learning facilitated by University instructors. Scholars have the opportunity to listen to and participate in interactive activities offered by guest speakers. Scholars also travel on field studies on campus and in the community.
Mission Statement: The mission of TAP In Leadership Academy is to educate, equip, and empower youth leaders living in marginalized, urban communities to enhance educational achievement, self-esteem, and cultural awareness.
By providing all students with an equitable opportunity for intellectual, social, and emotional growth, it is our long-term goal that all of our scholars are admitted to a four-year college or university.
Our vision is to see scholars become self sufficient, contributing leaders in their families, their communities, and the world.
Mission Area: Education
Location: Champaign County, Illinois
Website: www.tapinacademy.org
University of Illinois Extension is the flagship outreach effort of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, offering educational programs to residents of all of Illinois’ 102 counties – and far beyond.
Through learning partnerships that put knowledge to work, U of I Extension’s programs are aimed at making life better, healthier, safer and more profitable for individuals and their communities. U of I Extension offers educational programs in five broad areas:
Healthy society
Food security and safety
Environmental stewardship
Sustainable and profitable food production and marketing systems
Enhancing youth, family and community well-being
Mission Statement: University of Illinois Extension provides practical, research-based information and programs to help individuals, families, farms, businesses, and communities in Illinois. Its mission, in short, is to help Illinois residents put knowledge to work.
Mission Area: Education
Location: Vermilion County
Website: www.extension.uiuc.edu
With the support of our generous donors, Lutheran Child and Family Services confronts neglect, abuse, isolation and poverty by providing safety for children, fostering self-reliance in families, strengthening connectivity in communities and promoting the dignity of all people.
Mission Statement: The mission of Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois, in response to Christ's love for all people, is: To provide social services to children, individuals, families and communities so their well-being is improved.
Mission Area: Central Illinois
Location: Decatur, IL
Website: www.lcfs.org
With the support of our generous donors, Lutheran Child and Family Services confronts neglect, abuse, isolation and poverty by providing safety for children, fostering self-reliance in families, strengthening connectivity in communities and promoting the dignity of all people.
Mission Statement: The mission of Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois, in response to Christ's love for all people, is: To provide social services to children, individuals, families and communities so their well-being is improved.
Mission Area: Education
Location: Bond County, Illinois
Website: www.lcfs.org
