Charity Contest Winners
February 2025 Contest Winner
Heartland Animal Shelter
Heartland’s mission is to provide care, humane treatment, and adoption for dogs and cats in need through community outreach, progressive programs, and partnership collaboration.
- Address: 586 Palwaukee Drive, Wheeling, IL 60090
- Phone: 847-296-6400
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: https://www.heartlandanimalshelter.org/
January 2025 Contest Winner
Many Paws Global Rescue
Many Paws Global Rescue is a nonprofit organization that champions the rights of animals globally and works to create a better future for them because all lives matter.
- Address: Palatine, IL 60067
- Phone: (847) 376-9671
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: https://manypawsglobalrescue.org/
December 2024 Contest Winner
Two Furs Rescue
The mission of Two Furs is to provide a safe haven for orphaned and abandoned kittens in Lake County, Illinois. They foster these vulnerable lives with love and compassion, matching them with forever families through responsible adoption. Additionally, through their Trap-Neuter-Release (TNR) initiatives, they aim to improve the lives of community cats and promote a better future for both the cats and the communities they serve.
- Address: 2426 Mallard Dr, Lindenhurst, IL 60046
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: https://twofurs.org/
November 2024 Contest Winner
Wright-Way Rescue
Wright-Way Rescue’s mission is to reduce the number of homeless pets euthanized in the Midwest each year through an adoption program, community education, promotion of spaying and neutering, and a veterinary medicine program. They save pets from rural animal control facilities where they are at a high risk of euthanasia, and instead offer them a second chance at a loving home in the Chicagoland area.
- Address: 5915 Lincoln Ave, Morton Grove, IL 60053
- Phone: (847) 728-5434
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: https://wright-wayrescue.org/
October 2024 Contest Winner
Pawsitively Feral
Pawsitively Feral is a 501(c)(3) organization that assists and educates the residents of Northlake, Leyden and Proviso Township, IL. They provide trap-neuter-return (TNR) services and other types of care for feral cats in the area.
- Address: Northlake, IL 60164
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: https://www.pawsitivelyferal.org/
September 2024 Contest Winner
Fat Cat Rescue
Fat Cat Rescue, Inc. is dedicated to reducing the feral and stray cat population by partnering with TNR (trap-neuter-return) programs and finding homes for adoptable cats and kittens.
- Address: P.O. Box 153, North Chicago, IL 60064
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: https://www.fatcatrescueinc.org/
August 2024 Contest Winner
Cats in Action
Cats in Action’s mission is to enable people to help free-roaming cats through Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) by sharing best practices and providing comprehensive resources.
- Address: 11342 S Saint Lawrence Ave Chicago, IL 60628
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: https://catsinaction.org/
July 2024 Contest Winner
Common Ground Community Rescue Network
Common Ground Community Rescue Network is a 501(c)(3) public charity & licensed animal rescue organization offering aid to those searching for hope. They are a 100% volunteer-team showing up in communities both near and far to help people & pets through a critical crisis.
They accomplish their mission by applying four C.A.R.E. core strategies to all of their interactions and experiences: Community, Advocacy, Rescue and Education. This strategy helps their small, 100% volunteer-focused team network, partner, collect, distribute, teach and grow hope where it’s needed most. Sustained 100% by public donations and support. Growing Community—One Heartbeat at a Time.
- Address: P.O. Box 416, Elgin, Illinois 60120
- Phone: (708) 502-3000
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: https://commonground-crn.org/
June 2024 Contest Winner
Helping Hearts for Animals Foundation DBA Serce Dla Psa
A group of animal lovers from Poland living in Chicago, Illinois made it a mission to help animals in their motherland and in the neighborhoods they live in now. With the help of their family and friends, they founded Helping Hearts for Animals Foundation, Serce dla Psa, a charity organization to help animal shelters in Poland and Chicagoland. Serce dla Psa raises money to provide resources including food, medicine, and supplies directly to animal shelters in need.
- Address: Round Lake Beach, IL 60073
- Phone: (847) 710-4426
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: https://www.sercedlapsa.com/
May 2024 Contest Winner
Chi-Paw Rescue
Chi-Paw Rescue Inc. is a non-profit organization that saves abused and homeless dogs from Europe, Egypt, and the USA . All their rescued dogs are always provided with transportation, shelter, medical care, food, and all needed comforts until they get to their new homes.
- Address: Lake in the Hills, IL 60156
- Phone: 630-506-3897
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: https://dariamuranska88.wixsite.com/chi-pawrescue
April 2024 Contest Winner
CatVando
CatVando, an all-volunteer 501c3, is dedicated to improving the lives of felines in the community through a multifaceted approach. They believe in the importance of trap, neuter, return (TNR) programs to control the feral cat population and reduce suffering. Their shelter also provides a hospice for cats with terminal illnesses, offering them a loving home for their remaining days. Additionally, they act as a sanctuary for cats that are deemed unadoptable due to behavioral or medical issues. Finally, they are an adoption (by appointment) center for cats that are ready for their forever homes, providing them with socialization and care until they find the perfect match. Their mission is to create a safe, nurturing environment for cats in need and to promote responsible pet ownership through education and outreach.
- Address: Maywood, IL 60153
- Phone: (708) 829-6013
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: https://www.catvando.org/
March 2024 Contest Winner
Border Tails Rescue
Border Tails Rescue’s mission is to eliminate the need for euthanasia of homeless dogs by providing shelter and arranging loving homes for adoptable dogs through partnerships with animal service facilities throughout our local area, on a national level through partnerships with animal service facilities in other states and internationally through partnerships with facilities in Mexico and other underserved areas. Additionally, through education, community outreach and our spay neuter program, Border Tails Rescue seeks to reduce the overpopulation of homeless dogs.
- Address: 2975 N Milwaukee Ave, Northbrook, IL 60062
- Phone: (847)-813-5774
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: https://www.bordertailsrescue.org/
February 2024 Contest Winner
Triple R Pets
Triple R Pets is dedicated to helping the outside cats – feral or stray, adult or kitten – live safer, healthier lives. Their long-term goal is to reduce the number of unwanted kittens born outside, thus reducing the euthanasia rate of cats and kittens in the areas where they work.
- Address: PO Box 86, Western Springs, IL 60558
- Phone: (708) 738-1438
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: https://triplerpets.org
January 2024 Contest Winner
Bombshell Bullies Pit Bull Rescue
Bombshell Bullies is a volunteer rescue organization, breed specific to Pit Bulls. Their mission is to rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home dogs identified primarily as American Pit Bull Terriers and American Staffordshire Terriers. Their goal is to place these adoptable dogs into their safe and loving forever homes.
- Address: PO Box 5122, Vernon Hills, IL 60061
- Phone: (847) 212-3447
- Email: [email protected]
December 2023 Contest Winner
Cards for Hospitalized Kids
Cards for Hospitalized Kids (CFHK) is an internationally recognized nonprofit charity that distributes uplifting, handmade cards to Children’s Hospitals and Ronald McDonald Houses in all 50 states.
- Address: 7290 W Devon Ave Chicago, IL 60631
- Phone: 872-395-1796
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: https://www.cardsforhospitalizedkids.com/
November 2023 Contest Winner
Animal Education and Rescue
Animal Education and Rescue, NFP is an Illinois not for profit 501(c)(3) organization. They are committed to helping countless numbers of animals & people through rescue, education & therapy. All of their work is done through donations and their great team of volunteers.
- Address: Animal Education and Rescue, Libertyville, IL 60048
- Phone: 847-816-0831
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: https://www.aear.org/
October 2023 Contest Winner
TotalLink2 Community
TotalLink2 Community’s mission is to empower adults with disabilities to thrive by working, socializing, learning, and contributing to our communities – making their families, workplaces, and communities better for it.
- Address: 1200 Shermer Rd, Suite 109, Northbrook, IL
- Phone: 224-412-4718
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: https://www.totallink2.org/
September 2023 Contest Winner
Orphans of the Storm
Orphans of the Storm has a variety of wonderful cats and dogs from the local area, all over Illinois, and also from rural areas in Tennessee, Texas, Alabama, and more. Spaying and neutering is not as common in some areas of the US, resulting in an overpopulation of abandoned and at-risk animals. Thanks to Orphan’s partnerships with these shelters, they can bring these wonderful, adoptable animals to the Chicago area and find them loving homes.
- Address: 2200 Riverwoods Rd, Deerfield, IL 60015
- Phone: (847) 945-0235
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: https://orphansofthestorm.org/
August 2023 Contest Winner
Heartland Animal Shelter
Heartland’s mission is to provide care, humane treatment, and adoption for dogs and cats in need through community outreach, progressive programs, and partnership collaboration.
- Address: 2975 Milwaukee Ave, Wheeling, IL 60090
- Phone: 847-296-6400
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: https://www.heartlandanimalshelter.org/
July 2023 Contest Winner
Fat Cat Rescue, Inc.
Fat Cat Rescue, Inc. is dedicated to reducing the feral and stray cat population by partnering with TNR (trap-neuter-return) programs and finding homes for adoptable cats and kittens.
- Address: P.O. Box 153, North Chicago, IL 60064
- Phone: (224) 303-4328
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: https://www.fatcatrescueinc.org/
June 2023 Contest Winner
Rescueber
Rescueber is a service of safety, connection, and transportation for animals in need and their families.
- Address: P.O. Box 1873, Oak Park, IL 60304
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: https://www.rescueber.org/
May 2023 Contest Winner
Evanston Made
Evanston Made started as a community arts initiative supported by a volunteer corps advocating for visibility and awareness of Evanston artists. Evanston Made designs and builds programming, exhibitions and professional development to support Evanston artists. Evanston artists are supported through income, exposure, professional development, and community building.
- Address: 1100 Florence Ave, Evanston, IL 60202
- Phone: 847-544-8205
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: https://evanstonmade.org/
April 2023 Contest Winner
Evanston Animal Shelter
Evanston Animal Shelter gives companion animals the best chance at the life they deserve through rehabilitation, foster care, adoption and community support that keeps pets with the people who love them.
- Address: 2310 Oakton St, Evanston, IL 60202
- Phone: (773) 255-1100
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: http://evanstonanimalshelter.net/
March 2023 Contest Winner – Peace for Pits
Peace for Pits™ is a Chicago area based rescue that focuses on finding loving, caring homes for “bully” breeds in need of help.
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Address: PO Box 5430
Villa Park, IL 60181 - Email: [email protected]
- Website: https://peaceforpits.org/
February 2023 Contest Winner
Wright-Way Rescue
Wright-Way Rescue’s mission is to reduce the number of homeless pets euthanized in the Midwest each year through an adoption program, community education, promotion of spaying and neutering, and a veterinary medicine program. They save pets from rural animal control facilities where they are at a high risk of euthanasia, and instead offer them a second chance at a loving home in the Chicagoland area.
- Address: 5915 Lincoln Ave, Morton Grove, IL 60053
- Phone: (847) 728-5434
- Email: [email protected]
January 2023 Contest Winner
Live Like Roo Foundation
Live Like Roo Foundation assists pets through a cancer diagnosis by providing financial and emotional support.
- Address: 617 East Golf Road #104, Arlington Heights IL 60005
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: https://www.livelikeroo.org/
December 2022 Contest Winner
West Suburban Humane Society
At West Suburban Humane Society, our mission is to work towards the day when all dogs and cats are loved and cared for and pet owners have access to essential resources so they may enjoy a fulfilling relationship with their pets.
- Address: 1901 Ogden Ave Downers Grove, IL 60515
- Phone: (630) 960-9600
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: https://www.wshs-dg.org/
November 2022 Contest Winner
Chicagoland Bully Breed Rescue
Chicagoland Bully Breed Rescue (CBBR) is a 501c3 not-for-profit-organization with a 20 year history of rescuing, rehabilitating, and re-homing so-called “bully breed” dogs—American Pit Bull Terriers, American Staffordshire Terriers, American Bulldogs, and other bully mixes. It is our mission not only to rescue and rehabilitate abused, neglected and abandoned dogs, but to rehabilitate the reputation of the bully breeds, which has been tarnished by dog fighting and irresponsible ownership, and to improve the quality of life for these dogs and the people who care for and love them
- Address: 6977 W Oakton, Niles, IL 60714
- Website: http://www.cbbr.org/
October 2022 Contest Winner
Humanity Relief
Humanity Relief is a not for profit organization that assists individuals in need fight poverty with permanent solutions. Our goal is to not only provide assistance but to help individuals in need escape the clutches of poverty.
- Address: 1020 W Bryn Mawr Ave, Ste 202, Chicago, IL 60660
- Phone: (630) 914-0204
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: https://humrelief.org/
September 2022 Contest Winner
Tri-Con Child Care Center
Since its founding over 48 years ago, Tri-Con’s mission has been to provide high quality, affordable early care and education for children of low-to-moderate income families. Our mission extends to and includes the families of our students where we act as a community liaison when support is needed from other social service agencies and professionals.
- Address: 425 Laurel Avenue, Highland Park, IL 60035
- Phone: (847)-433-1450
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: https://www.triconchildcare.com/
August 2022 Contest Winner
Rainbows for All Children
The mission of Rainbows for All Children is to create a community that connects children with the support they need to navigate grief and heal from loss.
- Address: 614 Dempster Street, Suite C Evanston, IL 60202
- Phone: (847)-952-1770
- Website: https://rainbows.org/
July 2022 Contest Winner
Lambs Farm
The mission of Lambs Farm is helping people with developmental disabilities lead productive, happy lives and connecting with the human spirit in us all.
- Address: 14245 W. Rockland Road Libertyville, IL 60048
- Email: [email protected]
- Phone: (847) 362-4636
- Website: https://lambsfarm.org/
June 2022 Contest Winner
Animal Education and Rescue
Animal Education and Rescue, NFP is an Illinois not for profit 501(c)(3) organization. They are committed to helping countless numbers of animals & people through rescue, education & therapy. All of their work is done through donations and their great team of volunteers.
- Address: Libertyville, IL 60048
- Email: [email protected]
- Phone: (847) 816-0831
- Website: https://www.aear.org/
May 2022 Contest Winner
Chicagoland Animal Rescue, NFP
Chicagoland Animal Rescue, NFP is organized exclusively for the rescue, care, and adoptive placement of primarily cats. Chicagoland Animal Rescue rescues abandoned and unwanted cats through veterinarians, animal shelters, animal control facilities, and family relinquish. Chicagoland Animal Rescue is a 100% volunteer-run organization. They receive no government funding, and are able continue their efforts due to the generosity of donors and adopters.
- Address: P.O. Box 2133, Northlake IL 60164
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: https://www.chicagolandanimalrescue.org/
April 2022 Contest Winner
Mindful Community Tutors
The mission of Mindful Community Tutors is to enhance children’s academic skills and overall well-being by providing coaching, tutoring, and joyful connection between seniors and children.
- Address: Glenview, IL
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: https://mctutors.org/
