Volunteer
Thank you for your interest in volunteering with The Salvation Army!
The opportunities of volunteering are as diverse as the communities we serve in the Chicagoland area. We have locations in Chicago neighborhoods, the suburbs and outlying counties. In addition, we have programs that cover all of these areas. What they all have in common are volunteers, like you, joining us in making our community better.
The Salvation Army offers volunteer opportunities across the Chicagoland area through our headquarters. More opportunities in specific communities may be listed below.
If a location does not have any opportunities listed, please call the location directly.
Click for Chicagoland Locations | Blue Island - Crossgenerations Corps Community Center 2900 W. 127th Street Blue Island, IL 60406 Tel:708-332-0100 Fax: 708-332-0200 Map/Directions Website Volunteer Opportunities |
Booth Manor 1500 W. Madison Street Chicago, IL 60607-1801 Phone: 312-243-1271 Map/Directions Website Volunteer Opportunities |
| Chicago Lawn Corps Community Center 5950 S. Spaulding Avenue Chicago, IL 60629-3250 Tel: 773-434-0488 Fax: 773-778-1176 Map/Directions Volunteer Opportunities |
Correctional Service 105 S. Ashland Ave. Chicago, IL 60607-2401 Phone: 312-421-2406 Map/Directions Website Volunteer Opportunities |
| Englewood Corps Corps Community Center Red Shield Center 845 W. 69th St. Chicago, IL 60621-1709 Phone: 773-358-3252 Fax: 773-382-4698 Map/Directions Volunteer Opportunities |
Evangeline Booth Lodge 800 W. Lawrence Ave. Chicago, IL 60640 Phone: (773) 275-9383 Fax: (773) 275-3062 Map/Directions Website Volunteer Opportunities |
| Family Services Website Volunteer Opportunities |
Golden Diners Service 1031 E. State St. Geneva, IL 60134-2483 Phone: 630-232-6676 Fax: 630-232-6712 Map/Directions Website Volunteer Opportunities |
Chicago Harbor Light |
Irving Park Corps Community Center 4056 N. Pulaski Rd. Chicago, IL 60641-2411 Phone: 773-685-7676 Fax: 773-685-2604 Map/Directions Website Volunteer Opportunities |
LaVillita Corps Community Center |
Mayfair Community Church Community Center |
Midway Citadel Corps Community Center |
Midwest Corps Community Center |
Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center Project Office Programs Location |
Chicago Temple Corps Community Center |
Click for Surrounding Suburbs and Cities Aurora Corps Community Center |
Belevidere Corps Community Center |
| Cicero-Templo Laramie Corps Community Center 2337 S. Laramie Cicero, IL 60804-2853 Phone: 708-222-0177 Fax: 708-222-0020 Map/Directions Volunteer Opportunities |
Crystal Lake Corps Community Center 290 W. Crystal Lake Ave. Crystal Lake, IL 60014-5892 Phone: 815-455-2769 Fax: 815-455-9318 Map/Directions Website Volunteer Opportunties |
DeKalb Corps Community Center |
Des Plaines Corps Community Center |
East Chicago Corps Community Center |
Elgin Corps Community Center |
Evanston Corps Community Center |
Gary-Merrillville Corps Community Center |
Golden Diners Service |
Hammond - Munster Corps Community Center |
| Joliet Corps Community Center 300 Third Avenue Joliet, IL 60433-1985 Phone: 815-726-4834 Fax: 815-726-4891 Map/Directions Website Volunteer Opportunities |
Norridge Citadel Corps Community Center 8354 W. Foster Norridge, IL 60656-3032 Phone: 708-456-6220 Fax: 708-456-9214 Map/Directions Volunteer Opportunities |
Oakbrook Terrace Corps Community Center |
Rockford Tabernacle Corps Community Center |
Rockford Temple Corps Community Center |
Rockford/Winnebago County |
St. Charles (Tri-City) Corps Community Center |
Waukegan Corps Community Center |
Click here to learn about our headquarters' volunteer opportunities.
Salvation Army Youth Get One-on-One Training at Football Camp Hosted by the Chicago Rush, Bank of America
Sixty Chicago-area young people served by Salvation Army Corps Community Centers were guests at a day-long football camp hosted by the Chicago Rush and Bank of America. Children and youth ages 8 to 14 traveled to the team’s practice facility in Palatine, where the Rush players and coaches instructed them in the fundamentals of arena football. The young people spent the day running drills and met with head coach Mike Hohensee, who talked to them about the importance of education, listening to their parents and developing core values, all of which he said are much more important than playing football. The Rush presented camp participants with a 2010 team poster autographed by players, who joined and young people and Bank of America volunteers for lunch.
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Bank of America Sponsors Field Day for Salvation Army Summer Campers, Seniors
Salvation Army corporate supporter Bank of America hosted 110 children and seniors at a Field Day packed with educational and fun activities at the Army’s Temple Corps Community Center in Chicago. Several dozen Bank of America volunteers led children grades 1 to 12 in financial literacy games designed to teach and reinforce personal finance skills such as saving, managing money, and investing. Presentations to seniors focused on how best to protect personal identifying information and the importance of monitoring their accounts regularly for unusual activity as a defense against those who might try to steal their identities. Participating in the day’s events were Bank of America President, Consumer and Small Business Banking Joe Price and Salvation Army Metropolitan Divisional Commander Lt. Colonel Ralph Bukiewicz. After lunch, volunteers led children in various games including musical chairs, balloon tosses, can knockdowns, and more while the adults played board games. All of the day’s activities, including lunch, were courtesy of Bank of America. |
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From left, Bank of America's Joe Price, President, Consumer and Small Business Banking, with Salvation Army Metropolitan Divisional Commander Lt. Colonel Ralph Bukiewicz. |
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VOLUNTEERS PACKAGE 500,000 MEALS
FOR HAITI
The Salvation Army Thanks Navistar and Chicagoland
More than 1,400 men, women and young people answered the call for volunteers over the May 22-23, 2010 weekend to package half-a-million meals for Haitian earthquake victims.
The huge undertaking was hosted by The Salvation Army Metropolitan Division and Navistar, Inc. and held at Navistar’s Melrose Park, IL facility. Volunteers donated a total of 6,250 hours to help feed the hungry people of Haiti. It was the second food packaging effort organized by the Metropolitan Division since the January earthquake destroyed much of the capital city of Port-au-Prince and left hundreds of thousands of people without food, water, and shelter.
Volunteers worked two-hour shifts in teams of 13 people each packaging rice, beans, soy protein and 21 vitamins and minerals in plastic bags containing six meals each.
The Salvation Army has been in Haiti since 1950 with more than 700 officers and staff operating schools, clinics, a hospital, children’s homes, and feeding programs through 60 Corps community centers. Since the earthquake, The Salvation Army has taken on additional responsibilities at the direction of the United Nations, which appointed The Army as a “lead agency” responsible for the care of 20,000 earthquake survivors living in makeshift tents or out in the open near the Army’s main compound in Port-au-Prince.
The Haiti undertaking is The Salvation Army’s largest international relief effort since the Tsunami in 2005.
Salvation Army Volunteers in Action images
