Topics this Month
Share-a-Meal
Share-a-Meal
Special Events
Donations (inkind)
Welcome Back Geeks
Our Annual Gala on the Books
Special Request
Social Media Links
Pieces of our IFH Presentation Kit
Share-a-Meal (SAM)
Interfaith House is dedicated to encouraging our residents to focus on good nutrition by providing them with three well-balanced meals per day. Our Share-a-Meal or SAM program offer an opportunity for a 5-12 member group of volunteers to provide, cook/bake, and serve a meal (lunch or dinner) for our 64 residents. This opportunity is most popular on weekends. The volunteer coordinator will provide any interested group leader a guide for a successful SAM event.
Interfaith House is dedicated to encouraging our residents to focus on good nutrition by providing them with three well-balanced meals per day. Our Share-a-Meal or SAM program offer an opportunity for a 5-12 member group of volunteers to provide, cook/bake, and serve a meal (lunch or dinner) for our 64 residents. This opportunity is most popular on weekends. The volunteer coordinator will provide any interested group leader a guide for a successful SAM event.
Contributors of February were the following:
- Holy Family Catholic Church
- TaJoDa Foundation - Private group
- Center-G - Interfaith House Board of Directors
Special Events
Old St. Pat’s Catholic Church - Repair and Paint Project
Chicago Cares + AmeriCorps - Valentine Card Workshop
About DIFFA/Chicago (The Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS)
is a not-for-profit fundraising and grant making foundation that distributes funds to Chicago area HIV/AIDS service agencies that provide direct service, preventative education and outreach to people who are HIV positive, living with AIDS or at risk for infection. Founded in 1984, DIFFA has granted more than $38 million to hundreds of community-based organizations that includes Interfaith House.
The Director of Development, Tim Drake, was on hand to thank and receive an award check on the 28th.
Donations (inkind)
We thank the following for this month’s donation of clothes, kitchen items, bath towels.
- Aeropostale This store cooperated with Do Something.org and the Teen for Jeans Project and donated 500 pairs of jeans for our residents. Their staff wanted to donate a 1k but did not have the space to store it. About the store:
Aéropostale, Inc. (simply known as Aéro) is a mall-based, specialty retailer of casual apparel and accessories, principally targeting 14-to-17-year-old young women and young men through its Aéropostale stores and 7-to-12-year-old kids through its P.S. from Aéropostale stores. Recently, it has been targeting young adults over 18 as well. Aéropostale maintains control over its proprietary brands by designing, sourcing, marketing and selling all of its own merchandise. The Company currently operates over 885 Aéropostale stores in 49 states.
- Union Church of
- Robinson’s Ribs This popular restaurant in the Lincoln Park donated needed jackets and hats. If you like ribs go no further than Robinson's.
- Breakthrough Urban Ministries This non-profit ‘down the street’ did their Spring cleaning early this year and donated unused and needed clinic supplies for our Monday-Friday morning in-house clinic.
- Do Something.org This online nonprofit organization orchestrated a special project called Teen for Jeans that allowed a donation partnership with Aéropostale.
- We thank the following individuals for their delivered donations of clothes, household items, hygiene products to IFH.
Carol S.
Stan J.
Michael C.
Class Session Facilitators
Thursday Session - Building Social Skills Session
We welcome Trisha V. who works part-time for the Chicago Tribune for visiting us twice a month to help facilitate this session with our caseworker, Latasha.
Welcome Back to the Geeks!
From Paul Simon Chicago JobCorps
Interfaith House established a partnership with PS Chicago JobCorps so that we could have IT facilitators in our computer lab. The IT student-facilitators of PS Chicago JobCorps receive school credits for volunteering at IFH.
The computer lab serves as a part of our Employment Project here at IFH.
Interfaith House established a partnership with PS Chicago JobCorps so that we could have IT facilitators in our computer lab. The IT student-facilitators of PS Chicago JobCorps receive school credits for volunteering at IFH.
The computer lab serves as a part of our Employment Project here at IFH.
Our Annual Gala on the Books
The Co-Chairs of Interfaith House's Annual Gala, Veronica Saverese Buckley and J. Robert Lynn, are proud to announce the date and location of this year's festivities: Wednesday, May 9, 2012 at Germania Place Chicago
Our Gala program is called Ain't We Got Fun! It is a 'throw back' to the roaring 20's.
Special Request
We have a special request this month. We need to order towels every 6 months for 64 residents.
We looking for a permanent partnership with an organization that would like to donate overstock of new bath, face, hand towels.
Social Media Links
We invite our readers to research this small and unique agency through the following links:
Pieces of our IFH Presentation Kit that we are promoting this month.
- Share-a-Meal Flyer
- Adopt Interfaith Flyer
- Clinic Supplies Flyer
- Donation form
* you can request the entire IFH Presentation Kit online (pdf) by contacting g.albrecht@interfaithhouse.org
