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Our 10th Annual Make A Difference Day — A Great Day!

VC Board members celebrate a successful 2012 Make A Difference Day


In spite of the cold, thousands with warm hearts poured into the Winnetka train station parking lot to donate much-needed items to local nonprofits.  

Special thanks to Highcrest School in Wilmette, Crow Island in Winnetka and the New Trier High School Baseball team for vans filled with everything from baby blankets to baseball gloves!  

And of course, we couldn’t have done it without the help and support of our dedicated Volunteer Center Board members!

Our grateful nonprofit recipients this year were:
  • ChildServ
  • Connections for the Homeless
  • Evanston School Children’s Clothing Association (ESCCA)
  • Glencoe Community Garden
  • Hadley School for the Blind
  • Infant, Inc.
  • Infant Welfare Society of Evanston
  • New Trier Township Food Pantry
  • Orphans of the Storm
  • Refugee One
  • Salvation Army
  • Women’s Club of Evanston
  • Working Bikes
  • World Relief of Chicago
  • Winnetka Youth Organization
  • YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago

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Kids Against Hunger is POSTPONED!

Due to the public health threat of the coronavirus, the Kids Against Hunger food packing event scheduled for Saturday March 14 at the Community House is postponed to a future date to be determined. We will not be packing food this Saturday.

Public health officials are encouraging citizens, particularly those 60 years and older, to avoid public gatherings. We want to be a part of the efforts to reduce the spread of the coronavirus, so postponing Saturday’s event is the right thing to do.

We hope to reschedule the event to a date after the coronavirus threat is gone. Watch this website for updates.

As we have already funded the bulk food and packing materials for this event, if you have already signed up, we hope you can wait until we identify a new date before requesting a refund of your participation fees. Of course, if you do request a refund now, we will honor it as soon as we can. Refund requests and other questions should be directed to info@wnrotary.org.

Thank you for your support of this project and for partnering with the Volunteer Center to feed starving children.

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Help Commemorate the 20th ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11. Celebrate Local Heroes During Our Annual 9/11 Day of Service and Remembrance.

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