CARE Team April Events
Below are volunteer opportunities being sponsored by the CARE Team for the month of April. You can register for each of these events through the Team's website: http://www.careteam.mgrf.org/.
... get out there and make a difference in your world!
GET TRAINED! Here’s your opportunity to empower other Chicagoans. We’re partnering with Operation HOPE to train CareTeam volunteers in basic financial education to educate youths 9-18 years old in Chicago ’s underserved communities. You don’t need a banking background. Topics covered include (I) Basics of Banking and Financial Services, (II) Checking & Savings Accounts, (III) The Power of Credit and (IV) Basic Investments. After training, we’ll be able to offer basic financial education to youth all over the city.
Wednesday, April 25th
United Way Building
560 W Lake St, 5th Flr
6-7:30pm
Wednesday, April 4th (Part I) and 18th (Part II)
Black & White Photography
Guests of Living Room Café have expressed interested in black & white photography. CareTeam will provide the cameras so that we can pair up with guests to take photos that explain more of who they are. On April 18th we’ll come back to create displays of the guests.
Living Room Cafe
806 E 64th St
4-6pm
Sunday, April 15th
Buckthorn Burn
Buckthorn is evil, and evil things must burn. Pyromaniacs, please sit this one out.
Dam #1 Woods
Wheeling
10-1pm
*Meet at CareTeam Central at 9am to carpool.
Tuesday, April 17th
Paint, Draw, Sculpt & Sketch
Dignity Diner
Official Announcement: Dignity Diner and CareTeam will be putting on an art exhibit in late summer. Patrons’ works will be on display, and our job is to encourage patrons to explore their identity through art. So from now on, we’ll be working on art projects with patrons and use paint, pencils, clay, charcoal and photography. The theme: “Who Am I? Who are You?”
925 W Diversey
6-8pm
Saturday, April 21st
Earth Day Beach Cleanup
According to the world, winter is over. We’ll help Chicago prepare for the upcoming beach season by getting rid of the trash and crud that has accumulated over winter. Garbage be gone.
Rainbow Beach
3111 E 77th St
10-1pm
Thursday, April 26th
Your(self) Portraits
Logan Square Neighborhood Boys & Girls Club
We’re extending the identity concept to a younger crowd – 10-16 year olds, to be precise. Using Plexiglas, drawing paper, pencils and paint, we’re creating self-portraits and then letting the youth draw their interpretations of us after they interview us. This project is about assumptions we make about each other, and we want to encourage these youth to be better than that.
3228 W Palmer Ave
6-8pm
Sunday, April 29th
Paint My Room
Low-income seniors can turn to H.O.M.E. to provide free-of-charge interior painting. If you’ve ever woken up on a Sunday morning and thought, “I want to paint someone’s living room,” this is your day. In addition to providing an otherwise expensive service to seniors, you’ll likely hear some interesting stories.
H.O.M.E.
5414B W Roosevelt Rd
10-2pm
