Chicago Deskset

Local Charities:

826 National is a nonprofit tutoring, writing, and publishing organization with locations in eight cities across the country. Our goal is to assist students ages six to eighteen with their writing skills, and to help teachers get their classes excited about writing. Our work is based on the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention, and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success.

Chicago Books to Woman in Prison is a volunteer collective working to distribute books free of charge to women in prison nationwide. We are dedicated to offering women behind bars the opportunity for self-empowerment, education, and entertainment that reading provides.

Chicago Underground Library The Chicago Underground Library is a new model for open, location-specific archiving of independent and small press media. We are always seeking books, magazines, zines, journals, broadsides, newspapers, and art books of all types, genres, and print runs from the Chicago area.

Christopher House is a catalyst for strengthening and empowering low-income children and their families. Christopher House provides a web of support that helps families become self-sufficient and resilient and communities become stronger.

Lincoln Park Connect is a project of the Children’s Memorial Hospital Community-Wide Forum. Our goal is to connect Lincoln Park community services—specifically, those people, groups and institutions who need resources and those that have resources—through a social service and community service website.

Open Books a nonprofit social venture that operates an extraordinary bookstore, provides community programs, and mobilizes passionate volunteers to promote literacy in Chicago and beyond.

National Charties:

Literacy for Incarcerated Teens is a non-profit organization committed to a world in which no child experiences illiteracy or aliteracy.  We work with teachers of New York City’s incarcerated and detained youth as well as host agencies to improve students’ ability and desire to read.  Working collaboratively, we aim to motivate all students to adopt a literate lifestyle.