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This content category includes all articles and subcategories related to Chicago organizations that are non-governmental and provide human welfare services. These include organizations that are chartered or have headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, and whose purpose includes delivery of needed social, medical, financial, or other similar services ...
Chicago Area Project (CAP) is an American juvenile delinquency prevention association based in Chicago, Illinois. The project was founded by University of Chicago criminologist Clifford Shaw in 1934 and considered [ by whom? ] to be America's first community-based delinquency prevention program.
In 1991, Bobo founded the Chicago Interfaith Committee on Worker Issues. It was an all-volunteer group led by Bobo and four influential Chicago religious leaders. [4] In 1996, using a $5,000 inheritance from her grandmother, Bobo launched the National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice. The organization initially was run out of her home. [4]
The United Way of Metropolitan Chicago is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and a branch of the United Way of America.The United Way of Metropolitan Chicago serves the city of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs, allocating funding to other charitable organizations, especially those that provide needed healthcare, education, and income services.
Human welfare organizations based in Chicago (15 P) Pages in category "Non-profit organizations based in Chicago" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 210 total.
PAA's Learning Center has helped thousands of Polish immigrants and others in Chicago learn English, prepare for U.S. Citizenship exams, and gain new skills to enable them to enter careers in healthcare and other professional settings and become active, contributing members of Chicago's communities.
The International Brotherhood Welfare Association (IBWA) was a mutual aid society for hobos founded in 1905–1906. It was the second largest after the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). It was started by James Eads How who had inherited a fortune but chose to live a hobo life.
The Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL) is an umbrella organization for unions in Chicago, Illinois, US. It is a subordinate body of the AFL–CIO , and as of 2011 has about 320 affiliated member unions representing half a million union members in Cook County.