Please choose from any of the charities listed below:*

Local Charities:

• Parkland College Foundation (or any specific scholarship or fund the Foundation sponsors)

• Champaign Urbana Schools Foundation

• Champaign Public Library Foundation

• The Urbana Free Library

• One To One Champaign Urbana

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Champaign County

• Cunningham Children’s Home

• Rantoul Township High School

• The Virginia Theatre

• United Way of Champaign County Community FIRST Impact Fund

• A Woman’s Fund

• American Red Cross –Illini Prairie Chapter

• Catholic Charities

• Center for Women in Transition

• Champaign County Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA)

• Champaign County YMCA

• Roundhouse

• Community Day Care School

• Crisis Nursery

• Developmental Services Center

• Don Moyer Boys and Girls Club

• East Central Illinois Refugee Mutual Assistance Center

• Eastern Illinois Foodbank

• Family Services of Champaign County

• Girl Scouts – Green Meadows Council

• Boy Scouts of America-Prairielands Council

• Greater Community AIDS Project

• Salvation Army

• TIMES Center

• Urban League of Champaign County

• Champaign County Humane Society

• Corporation For Public Broadcasting – WILL

• WEFT-FM – Community Radio - Champaign

• Habitat for Humanity of Champaign County

Illinois State Charities:

• Special Olympics Illinois

• Breast Cancer Foundation , Susan G. Komen- Chicagoland Affiliate

• Chicago Women’s Health Center

• Ronald McDonald House near Children’s Memorial Hospital

• Black United Fund of Illinois Inc.

• Illinois Council for College Attendance

• South Side Community Arts Center

• American Heart Association, Greater Midwest Regional Office

• Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Illinois Chapter

• March of Dimes, Greater Illinois Chapter

• Mental Health Association in Illinois

• AIDS Foundation of Illinois

• Chicago Coalition for the Homeless

• Habitat for Humanity, Illinois

• Earth Share of Illinois

• Illinois Conservation Fund

• The Field Museum – Chicago

• The Art Institute of Chicago

• Illinois Shakespeare Festival Society

National Charities:

• United Negro College fund

• American Association of University Women Educational Foundation

• Scholarship America

• American Cancer Society

• American Red Cross

• Feed the Children

• Volunteers of America

• The Nature Conservancy

• Fisher House Foundation

• Disabled American Veterans Service Trust

• Dogs for the deaf

• St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, Midwest Affiliate

• Make A Wish Foundation of America

• American Lung Association

• Autism Society of America

• Guide Dogs for the Blind

• Toys for Tots

• Partnership for a Drug Free America

• Reach Out and Read

• Lymphoma Research Foundation

• American Diabetes Association

• Wildlife Conservation Fund of America

• Easter Seal Society

• American Farmland Trust

• “I Have a Dream” Foundation

• Reading is Fundamental

• Tiger Woods Foundation

• Jazz at Lincoln Center

• Earth Share

• Farm Aid

• Carnegie Hall

International Charities:

• Global Impact

• Global Hunger Project

• The Africa-America Institute

• Africare

• American Jewish World Service

• American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA)

• American Refugee Committee

• AmeriCares

• Catholic Relief Services

• Children International

• Christian Children’s Fund

• Doctors Without Borders USA

• Operation Smile

• International Relief Teams

• International Rescue Committee

• International Youth Foundation

• Save the Children

• AIDS, TB and Malaria – Global Fund to Fight

• World Wildlife Fund

• Amnesty International

• Enterprise Mentors International

• World Monuments Fund

*If you don’t find a charity on this list that you would like to speak for, you may choose one that you find worthwhile. An acceptable charitable organization must be a 501C3 registered charity. Check with the Contest Committee to confirm your charity choice by contacting Julie Weishar at jweishar@parkland.edu.