Our core group of community partners consists of seven organizations. Click on the name of the partner for a fuller description.

• Centro Romero
• Enterprising Kitchen
• Howard Area Community Center (HACC)
• Insight Arts
• REST (Residents for Effective Shelter Transition)
• United Church of Rogers Park
• Chicago Youth Programs

Centro Romero
6216 N. Clark Street
Ms. Daysi Funes, Executive Director
Jospeh Martins, Resource Development
Abel Nunez, Administrator
Doris Cabrera, Youth Program Coordinator
773/508-5300
www.centroromero.org
Committed to providing adult educational opportunities, women's programs, legal assistance, and youth learning & leadership programming for the Latino community of Rogers Park, Edgewater and Uptown. A number of Loyola volunteers have worked with this fine organization.
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Enterprising Kitchen
4545 North Broadway
Ms. Joan Pikas, Founder & Co-Executive Director
Lauri Alperni, Co-Executive Director
773/506-3880
www.theenterprisingkitchen.org
This not-for-profit organization provides job, business, and life skills training for women by teaching them how to produce, package, and market non-perishable food products and a line of finely crafted natural soaps. Some Loyola classes have helped try to market these products and soaps.
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Howard Area Community Center
7648 North Paulina
Ms. Roberta Buchanan, Executive Director
John Fitzgerald, Associate Director
773/262-6622; 773/262-6645 (fax)
www.howardarea.org
info@howardarea.org
This not-for-profit serves low income residents of Rogers Park through a number of fine programs. Among them are a dental clinic, an elementary school, Head Start care, parent programs, tutoring, family literacy, support for teen parents, domestic violence prevention, HIV/AIDS prevention and services, legal clinic, seniors groups, job readiness, and community health programs. It has needs for roughly 300 volunteers.
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Insight Arts
1545 West Morse Avenue, in the United Church of Rogers Park building
Craig Harshaw, Executive Director
Anita Alcantara, Administrator
773/973-1521
This is a community-based contemporary arts organization that provides free art education programs to youth, adults, and seniors in Rogers Park. Its employs art education to engage social and political issues and it emphasizes the importance of social justice, dialogue, and cultural diversity. A number of Loyola Theater students have worked with Insight Arts programs.
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REST (Residents for Effective Shelter Transition)
941 West Lawrence
Kathleen Ahler, Executive Director
773/784-0909
www.restweb.org
Volunteer Coordinator, Kari Aosved, kaosved@restweb.org
REST runs two year-round shelters, case management services, a warming shelter, a housing program for the mentally ill and substance abusers as well as daytime programs. It offers a clinic as well with meetings for AA, Narcotics Anonymous, and Cocaine Anonymous. It regularly can make use of 300 volunteers.
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United Church of Rogers Park
1545 West Morse Avenue
Chicago, IL 60626
Rev. Wendy Hardin, Pastor
Ms. Caroline James, Community Coordinator
773/761-2500
This church supports a Sunday evening soup kitchen, tutoring programs, youth fellowship, senior programs, general assistance programs. It offers special support for the needs of immigrants from India and hosts a Teluga Congregation and an Asian Indian congregation. It can use 300 volunteers.
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Chicago Youth Programs
One Prudential Plaza
180 North Stetson
Suite CL-10
Chicago, IL 60601
Sarah Klehr, Uptown Program Coordinator
773/924-0220
www.chicagoyouthprograms.org
This organization serves low-income children across the city by providing tutoring, mentoring and health care programs. Loyola has regularly let them use our campus for a number of their programs. They can use 175 volunteers. Loyola regularly hosts a number of CYP programs at the Lakeshore campus.