Cycle ForwardGetting Tampons And Sanitary Pads Into The Hands Of Women Who Struggle To Afford Them A high school junior, Sophie Draluck founded Cycle Forward after learning about women’s lack of access to menstrual hygiene products overseas and in our own country. Cycle Forward’s mission is to both provide feminine hygiene products to women and girls who struggle to – or cannot – afford them and to generate awareness about access, equity and other issues related to menstruation. The nonprofit organizatio...
ChiGivesBackInspiring, Empowering And Influencing People In Our Community To Give Back To Others ChiGivesBack is a goodwill and social-impact organization that provides donation opportunities within Chicagoland. Our goal is to improve the welfare of the Chicagoland community via innovative giving drives and charity events. At our “Teach2Give” event, we collect classroom supplies that help underfunded Chicagoland teachers to prepare their classrooms. At our “Chicagoland Toy Drive” event – held during t...
Thriving ElementsCreate Access And Opportunities For Underrepresented Girls In STEM Through Mentoring The daughter of immigrant parents, Janet Phan had to figure out ways to fund her higher education and navigate her own career path. Now a global technology and digital transformation consultant at PwC, Phan credits her advancement to several significant mentors who helped her to understand her own capabilities and untapped potential. Thriving Elements aims to provide that same meaningful mentoring relation...
Kids Off The BlockProviding At-Risk, Low-Income Youth With Positive Alternatives To Gangs, Drugs, Truancy, Violence, And The Juvenile Justice System Founded by CNN Hero Diane Latiker, Kids Off The Block (“KOB”) provides a positive place for “at risk” kids to come “off the block” for programs and events conducted in a safe and caring environment. Latiker began KOB by opening up her home to 10 kids in the community to steer them away from the daily negative influences that they experienced. 15 years later, KO...
Take No BullyingLimiting The Impact Of Bullying Through Education And Community-Based Prevention Take No Bullying is a nonprofit organization founded by a bullying-and-suicide-attempt survivor and a group of local business owners, professionals and parents who were ready to join the fight against bullying. With more than 60% of bullying instances going unreported, the primary goal of Take No Bullying is to decrease the number of bullying cases. Through education and community programs, they seek to raise ...
Muslim American Leadership AlliancePromoting And Celebrating Individual Freedom, Diversity, And Muslim American Heritage The Muslim American Leadership Alliance (MALA) is dedicated to leadership through integrity, and as such, provides a platform for people to share their individual stories and to speak for themselves. Our premier civic engagement project – “Muslim American Journeys” – is an opportunity for Muslim Americans to share their own unique stories. Produced in partnership with National Public Radio and the Library...
Live Like Roo FoundationAssisting Animals And Their Owners Through A Pet’s Cancer Diagnosis The Live Like Roo Foundation is a volunteer-run, nonprofit organization that supports animals and their owners through a pet’s cancer diagnosis by providing financial and emotional assistance. Roosevelt – or “Roo” – was rescued from a Chicago animal shelter and soon after was diagnosed with bone cancer. We created a bucket list of adventures, treats and fun activities for him, and for the next six months, Roo lived like th...
Street SamaritansHelping Chicago’s Homeless Through Grassroots Outreach and Human Connection The mission of Street Samaritans is to provide human connection and grassroots outreach to people living without shelter and the means to thrive. At Street Samaritans, we gather as a social community of volunteers to make a direct impact on homelessness through charitable giving, awareness, and service. Some of our activities include educating the general public about the causes of homelessness, hand-delivering ess...
Simple GoodEmpowering At-Risk Youth Through The Arts and Global “Good” The mission of The Simple Good is to connect the meaning of “good” from around the world in order to provide inspiration, hope and possibility for at-risk youth in Chicago and beyond. Using Social Emotional Learning Core Standards, mindfulness and art, our eight-week program is designed to take students through a path of discovering different meanings of “good” by journaling, drawing and creating a work of art on their "simple...
Hope For Stomach CancerSupport, Resources And Awareness In The Fight Against Stomach Cancer Hope For Stomach Cancer provides resources to patients, caregivers and loved ones facing stomach cancer, while promoting early detection and prevention to the general and medical communities. Inspired by the founder’s father – who is now in remission after a total removal of his stomach, chemotherapy, and radiation – Hope For Stomach Cancer aims to enable those affected by stomach cancer to take actionable steps to live t...
SharsheretBreast and Ovarian Cancer Support for Women and Families Sharsheret is a national not-for-profit organization supporting young Jewish women and their families facing breast cancer. Our mission is to offer a community of support to women, of all Jewish backgrounds, diagnosed with breast cancer or at increased genetic risk, by fostering culturally-relevant individualized connections with networks of peers, health professionals, and related resources. While our expertise is in issues facing y...
Compass To CareHelping Children With Cancer Travel To Treatment Compass To Care Childhood Cancer Foundation provides access to life-saving cancer treatment for children with cancer whose parents cannot afford transportation to the hospital. We carry out this mission by scheduling and paying for all travel and lodging to get children to the hospital where they can receive the best cancer care. By taking the travel burdens off a family, they can focus on what is most important, their child. In 1974, Michel...
Live Today FoundationProviding Inspiration, Joy And Free Compression Garments To Breast Cancer Survivors With Lymphedema Our mission is to enhance the quality of life for people affected by breast cancer and lymphedema, by meeting their related physical, financial, and psychosocial needs. The Live Today Foundation provides – for free – compression garments that are medically effective, stylish, and comfortable to people who cannot afford them. Lymphedema is a painful swelling that can occur in someone’s arms a...
Center On Wrongful ConvictionsLawyers And Students Fighting For Wrongfully Convicted Men, Women, And Children Based at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, the Center on Wrongful Convictions, and our sister project the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, engages the next generation of lawyers in cutting-edge criminal justice reform, with a special focus on innocence, interrogations, and confessions. We represent Brendan Dassey, whose false confession was profiled in the hit Netflix docuseries Making a Mur...
Pivot Nonprofit ConsultingPro Bono Consulting for Nonprofits Pivot Nonprofit Consulting (“Pivot”) is an all-volunteer, nonprofit, pro-bono consulting firm composed of passionate professionals dedicated to creating impact for nonprofits seeking to advance their missions. Comprised of young professionals from the consulting, banking, and nonprofit industries, we integrate the best practices of successful for-profit corporations while tailoring solutions to the mission-driven needs of successful 501(c)(3) organization...
Blue Hat FoundationRaising Awareness About Colorectal Cancer In Underserved Communities Founded by a single mother who was raising five children when she was diagnosed with colon cancer and lost her car and home during her fight against the disease, The Blue Hat Foundation is founded on unconditional support and compassion for people fighting colorectal cancer. Our mission is to provide education, information, and free screenings for colorectal cancer to minority and medically underserved communities. The Bl...
Cycle Forward
Getting Tampons And Sanitary Pads Into The Hands Of Women Who Struggle To Afford Them A high school junior, Sophie Draluck founded Cycle Forward after learning about women’s lack of access to menstrual hygiene products overseas and in our own country. Cycle Forward’s mission is to both provide feminine hygiene products to women and girls who struggle to – or cannot – afford them and to generate awareness about access, equity and other issues related to menstruation. The nonprofit organizatio...
ChiGivesBack
Inspiring, Empowering And Influencing People In Our Community To Give Back To Others ChiGivesBack is a goodwill and social-impact organization that provides donation opportunities within Chicagoland. Our goal is to improve the welfare of the Chicagoland community via innovative giving drives and charity events. At our “Teach2Give” event, we collect classroom supplies that help underfunded Chicagoland teachers to prepare their classrooms. At our “Chicagoland Toy Drive” event – held during t...
Thriving Elements
Create Access And Opportunities For Underrepresented Girls In STEM Through Mentoring The daughter of immigrant parents, Janet Phan had to figure out ways to fund her higher education and navigate her own career path. Now a global technology and digital transformation consultant at PwC, Phan credits her advancement to several significant mentors who helped her to understand her own capabilities and untapped potential. Thriving Elements aims to provide that same meaningful mentoring relation...
Kids Off The Block
Providing At-Risk, Low-Income Youth With Positive Alternatives To Gangs, Drugs, Truancy, Violence, And The Juvenile Justice System Founded by CNN Hero Diane Latiker, Kids Off The Block (“KOB”) provides a positive place for “at risk” kids to come “off the block” for programs and events conducted in a safe and caring environment. Latiker began KOB by opening up her home to 10 kids in the community to steer them away from the daily negative influences that they experienced. 15 years later, KO...
Take No Bullying
Limiting The Impact Of Bullying Through Education And Community-Based Prevention Take No Bullying is a nonprofit organization founded by a bullying-and-suicide-attempt survivor and a group of local business owners, professionals and parents who were ready to join the fight against bullying. With more than 60% of bullying instances going unreported, the primary goal of Take No Bullying is to decrease the number of bullying cases. Through education and community programs, they seek to raise ...
Muslim American Leadership Alliance
Promoting And Celebrating Individual Freedom, Diversity, And Muslim American Heritage The Muslim American Leadership Alliance (MALA) is dedicated to leadership through integrity, and as such, provides a platform for people to share their individual stories and to speak for themselves. Our premier civic engagement project – “Muslim American Journeys” – is an opportunity for Muslim Americans to share their own unique stories. Produced in partnership with National Public Radio and the Library...
Live Like Roo Foundation
Assisting Animals And Their Owners Through A Pet’s Cancer Diagnosis The Live Like Roo Foundation is a volunteer-run, nonprofit organization that supports animals and their owners through a pet’s cancer diagnosis by providing financial and emotional assistance. Roosevelt – or “Roo” – was rescued from a Chicago animal shelter and soon after was diagnosed with bone cancer. We created a bucket list of adventures, treats and fun activities for him, and for the next six months, Roo lived like th...
Street Samaritans
Helping Chicago’s Homeless Through Grassroots Outreach and Human Connection The mission of Street Samaritans is to provide human connection and grassroots outreach to people living without shelter and the means to thrive. At Street Samaritans, we gather as a social community of volunteers to make a direct impact on homelessness through charitable giving, awareness, and service. Some of our activities include educating the general public about the causes of homelessness, hand-delivering ess...
Simple Good
Empowering At-Risk Youth Through The Arts and Global “Good” The mission of The Simple Good is to connect the meaning of “good” from around the world in order to provide inspiration, hope and possibility for at-risk youth in Chicago and beyond. Using Social Emotional Learning Core Standards, mindfulness and art, our eight-week program is designed to take students through a path of discovering different meanings of “good” by journaling, drawing and creating a work of art on their "simple...
Hope For Stomach Cancer
Support, Resources And Awareness In The Fight Against Stomach Cancer Hope For Stomach Cancer provides resources to patients, caregivers and loved ones facing stomach cancer, while promoting early detection and prevention to the general and medical communities. Inspired by the founder’s father – who is now in remission after a total removal of his stomach, chemotherapy, and radiation – Hope For Stomach Cancer aims to enable those affected by stomach cancer to take actionable steps to live t...
Sharsheret
Breast and Ovarian Cancer Support for Women and Families Sharsheret is a national not-for-profit organization supporting young Jewish women and their families facing breast cancer. Our mission is to offer a community of support to women, of all Jewish backgrounds, diagnosed with breast cancer or at increased genetic risk, by fostering culturally-relevant individualized connections with networks of peers, health professionals, and related resources. While our expertise is in issues facing y...
Compass To Care
Helping Children With Cancer Travel To Treatment Compass To Care Childhood Cancer Foundation provides access to life-saving cancer treatment for children with cancer whose parents cannot afford transportation to the hospital. We carry out this mission by scheduling and paying for all travel and lodging to get children to the hospital where they can receive the best cancer care. By taking the travel burdens off a family, they can focus on what is most important, their child. In 1974, Michel...
Live Today Foundation
Providing Inspiration, Joy And Free Compression Garments To Breast Cancer Survivors With Lymphedema Our mission is to enhance the quality of life for people affected by breast cancer and lymphedema, by meeting their related physical, financial, and psychosocial needs. The Live Today Foundation provides – for free – compression garments that are medically effective, stylish, and comfortable to people who cannot afford them. Lymphedema is a painful swelling that can occur in someone’s arms a...
Center On Wrongful Convictions
Lawyers And Students Fighting For Wrongfully Convicted Men, Women, And Children Based at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, the Center on Wrongful Convictions, and our sister project the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, engages the next generation of lawyers in cutting-edge criminal justice reform, with a special focus on innocence, interrogations, and confessions. We represent Brendan Dassey, whose false confession was profiled in the hit Netflix docuseries Making a Mur...
Pivot Nonprofit Consulting
Pro Bono Consulting for Nonprofits Pivot Nonprofit Consulting (“Pivot”) is an all-volunteer, nonprofit, pro-bono consulting firm composed of passionate professionals dedicated to creating impact for nonprofits seeking to advance their missions. Comprised of young professionals from the consulting, banking, and nonprofit industries, we integrate the best practices of successful for-profit corporations while tailoring solutions to the mission-driven needs of successful 501(c)(3) organization...
Blue Hat Foundation
Raising Awareness About Colorectal Cancer In Underserved Communities Founded by a single mother who was raising five children when she was diagnosed with colon cancer and lost her car and home during her fight against the disease, The Blue Hat Foundation is founded on unconditional support and compassion for people fighting colorectal cancer. Our mission is to provide education, information, and free screenings for colorectal cancer to minority and medically underserved communities. The Bl...
