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CHI’s Holiday Bazaar 2022 Brings the Spirit of Giving to Our Guests
CHI's 2022 Holiday Bazaar, held on December 7th in the dining room at Catholic Charities was a great success. We...
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We provide nutritious meals and support for people experiencing hunger and homelessness in Chicago.
CHI is truly a community organization – we have always been volunteer rich while being staff lean. We have been successful not just because we reflect our community, but because we are the community.
However, the decrease in regular volunteers has meant that we are reopening slower than we could be at a time when we are needed more than ever. And the same is true of other organizations that we work with.
If you’ve thought that perhaps you should pitch in – once a week, once a month, whatever works for you – now would be a great time to do it!
And, as we enter 2023, we will need more companies, groups and restaurants to sponsor and serve our weekly meals.
Let us hear from you! Click here and let us know how you’d like to help.
We’ve reopened our weekly Wednesday meals to in-person, sit-down service! This is the way to bring isolated people into a trusted communal setting.
We’ve restarted our book club, short stories workshop, computer club, knitting group and theater group. These are the key ways CHI connects people to each other.
Our New Foundations program allows us to work with the partners we formed during the pandemic to bring similar services into their meals. This includes training their volunteers and increasing the access of people experiencing homelessness to the resources they need to move forward!
Our New Kitchens initiative expands the pool of restaurants and caterers we partner with, and includes South Side and West Side start-ups that are also working in their neighborhoods to add jobs and opportunities.
Our new theatre workshop, led by the Lookingglass Theatre, gives our guests an opportunity to express their authentic voices, explore their creativity, and share their life experiences in one of the most enduring forms of storytelling: live performance!
The CHI Community Garden was launched this past Spring to provide garden plots to our guests who want to grow their own food, and build lasting relationships with the land and each other.
Featured Program
Every Wednesday, we provide a free, nutritious, full-course meal, prepared by local restaurants, to our 130 guests in the dining room at Catholic Charities, at 721 N. Lasalle St. in Chicago. We also provide an additional 70 take-away meals to people who are unable to join us in the dining room.
Marc Schulman, President of Eli's Cheesecake and longtime restaurant partner and sponsor of The Chicago Help Initiative speaks about the positive impact CHI makes in people's lives.
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Did you know?
20%
of the people we serve are military service veterans.
“Goodness. All-encompassing goodness. In a world filled with so many who have so little, they give so much.”
Gloria