Breakthrough Urban Ministries
Cater a meal for the Men’s or Women's Shelter
You can find a list of open dates to cater a meal on our website at breakthrough.org/manna-dates. Make sure you scroll down to see all of the different meals available at each center.
Monday-Friday Dinner: 35 people at both the Men and Women's Center. We house 30 men and 30 women in our transitional shelter; the extra 5 accounts for staff and 2nd servings!
Saturday-Sunday Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner: 35 people at both the Men and Women's Center. We house 30 men and 30 women in our transitional shelter; the extra 5 accounts for staff and 2nd servings!
Addresses & Delivery Instructions:
Please advise the delivery person to ring the doorbell; Breakthrough staff will come receive the food so no one has to go inside.
Please order enough servings for 35 people on weeknights or weekends (this is the same at both the Men and Women’s Center)
Food Drop-off Timeframe:
Breakfast: 7am-7:30am
Lunch: 11am-11:30am
Dinner: 7pm-7:30pm
You can find a list of open dates to cater a meal on our website at breakthrough.org/manna-dates. Make sure you scroll down to see all of the different meals available at each center.
Monday-Friday Dinner: 35 people at both the Men and Women's Center. We house 30 men and 30 women in our transitional shelter; the extra 5 accounts for staff and 2nd servings!
Saturday-Sunday Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner: 35 people at both the Men and Women's Center. We house 30 men and 30 women in our transitional shelter; the extra 5 accounts for staff and 2nd servings!
Addresses & Delivery Instructions:
Please advise the delivery person to ring the doorbell; Breakthrough staff will come receive the food so no one has to go inside.
Please order enough servings for 35 people on weeknights or weekends (this is the same at both the Men and Women’s Center)
Food Drop-off Timeframe:
Breakfast: 7am-7:30am
Lunch: 11am-11:30am
Dinner: 7pm-7:30pm
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Women’s Center: 3330 W Carroll Ave, 60624
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Men’s Center: 402 N St Louis Ave, 60624
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Support local businesses:
We’ve found that ezcater.com is the best resource to find restaurants that you can order in advance and have delivered to the 60624 zip code.
Buy something from Breakthrough’s Amazon Wish List
You can check Breakthrough’s COVID-19 Response page for updated opportunities. Please contact volunteer@breakthrough.org for more information.
Norwegian American Hospital in Humboldt Park
There are a number of ways you can support patients and staff at Norwegian where Gab Sauder works:
- Make Homemade masks to give our patients/community: while we currently have enough masks for our staff, we don't have enough to give our patients. Given that we are seeing many COVID positive patients, we would love to give them a mask to take home.
- Books, games, playing cards etc. Many of our patients who are hospitalized have stated that they get bored. We have a no visitor restriction, have limited interactions and can longer share items, so folks are bored and we quickly deplete our normal stock. We would welcome books, games, puzzles, anything that could help our patients. We also have a high population of those who only speak Spanish, so materials in Spanish would also be greatly appreciated.
- Cards/Poster - would LOVE cards, notes, posters or other words/drawings of encouragement. It's fairly bleak right now, so we would love these types of things for patients and/or our staff. Get your creative juicy flowing!
- Food - If you want to support a local restaurant AND feed staff, we are accepting food donations. You can feed a department of any size or provide dessert/special drinks. We are unable to accept homemade items.
- Monetary Donation: If you want to donate to our COVID activities, you can do so here. If you want to donate to a cause, like Nurses Week or Hospital Week, let me know and we can also make that happen.
Rogers Park Community Response Team
On the North side there is the Rogers Park Community Response Team, an organization of neighbors who are supporting those who cannot leave their homes for various reasons or have lost income.They are looking for more volunteers to pick up and deliver groceries, and can always use donations! Visit rpcrt.org for more information.
Donate to BPNC
BPNC has launched a gofundme Community Response Fund in an effort to provide 500 of these families with $500 cash assistance, rental assistance or food support. So far, we’ve raised enough to provide support to 270 families. These are people who are ineligible for any other form of assistance, and will not be receiving any federal cash. For these families, this assistance might be the only support they receive. Click here to visit the Community Response Fund
Make cards for seniors
Consider creating a card of encouragement for nursing home seniors who have to stay in their rooms alone. Send cards to:
Lutheran Home
c/o Pastor Matt Smucker
800 W. Oakton Street
Arlington Heights, IL 60004
Volunteer phone check-ins on seniors
State Attorney Kim Foxx & Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky are looking for volunteers to make phone calls and check-in on vulnerable senior citizens. Click here to sign up.
Take Political Action
Join the Right to Recovery Coalition, which is advocating for legislation that provides immediate relief to communities hit the hardest by COVID-19 and the necessary structural changes needed to address inequities.
Sign up to join the Faith in Place Action Fund so you can take action! Also, you can follow them on social media, so you stay up to date on immediate actions. Visit the links below for more information.
