‘Tis the season when many of our nonprofit partners are looking for a little extra help. Take a look at our Directory of Holiday Opportunities here — and make sure you visit this page often, as we will be adding new opportunities throughout the holiday season. You can also peruse our Directory of Nonprofits and reach out to them directly to see if they need volunteers.
Cancer patients and their families have a lot on their plate, especially during the holidays — but it’s not always food. This holiday season, through Culinary Care, you can fill their plates with hope, joy and critical nourishment when you give them access to one free meal — or a full year of meals.
Caring Neighbors
Provide holiday gifts to NT Township resident families facing financial hardship.
Food Gift Cards
Provide hope and holiday cheer to NT Township Food Pantry clients by providing food gift cards that allow them to purchase their favorite holiday treats and enjoy a special holiday meal.
Organize a Food Drive for the NTT Food Pantry
This is a fun project for your friends, family, school or community group. Help the Food Pantry stock up at a time of year when the need is greater than usual, because children are home from school, and their regular donor base is on vacation.
Request and Fulfill a Wish List for an at-risk youth
Organize a Gift Drive for your church, office or community group
Shop Our Amazon Wish List and send gifts directly to Lawrence Hall.
Contribute to Our Gift Card Drive that allows older youth to shop for what they need themselves.
Donate Cash Online to the Lawrence Hall Wish List Fund, and we’ll make sure every child has a gift to open.
Childcare Network of Evanston is hosting its Holiday Gift Card Drive again this year, providing holiday gifts for children and families in their program. Their goal is to collect enough gift card donations to provide EACH CNE family with gift cards that will allow them to purchase: $50 in gifts for each enrolled child; $50 in gifts for each additional child in their household; $50 worth of food to make their holiday meals special.
Breakfast With Santa is one of Lambs Farm’s most beloved annual events, that not only provides a festive lunch and a magical “safe” visit with Santa for visiting families, but also helps raise funds to support the many programs for developmentally disabled residents of Lambs Farm.
Volunteers are needed to help in the Cafe and the Visitors Center on December 9,10,16,17.
JLE-NS is holding a donation drive for the Toys for Tots program this holiday season. You can support this program by dropping off your donations of new and unwrapped toys to the following locations: Community House Winnetka, 620 Lincoln Avenue in Winnetka, Jameson Sotheby’s International Realty, 2934 Central Street in Evanston, or Pure Barre, 910 Church Street in Evanston.
We will be collecting donations through December 15th.
Every holiday season The night Ministry distributes over 1,000 holiday stockings filled with essentials like thermal socks, personal care items, winter hats, gloves, and more. Volunteer to help prepare them!
The Glenkirk Holiday Gift Drive is an annual event that aims to ensure that each individual in our residential program receives a holiday gift. Gift lists are provided to assist volunteers in selecting thoughtful gifts.
The Infant Welfare Society of Evanston (IWSE) invites you to support our families with young children by purchasing gift cards for the parents to use to shop for and select gifts that are perfect for their children.
Volunteers are needed to help with Shore day programs on December 15th, 20th and 21st.