Local Engagement
- Student Groups for Undergraduates
- Local Engagement Opportunities for Graduate Students (Medicine)
- Local Volunteering Opportunities
Global Health Student Groups for Undergraduates
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GlobeMed, which originated at Northwestern University in 2006, is a network of university students, which partner with grassroots organizations around the world to improve the health of the impoverished. The Northwestern University Globemed Chapter is actively involved in a partnership with the HOPE Centre Clinic in Ho, Ghana. Additionally, every year, Globemed holds the Globemed National Conference on Northwestern University's Evanston campus.
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The Global Engagement Summit (GES) is a five-day international training conference for students committed to global change. Created in 2005, the summit was first organized by Northwestern's Center for Global Engagement. The summit brings together student delegates to focus on understanding the challenges and opportunities for their engagement, develop their skillsets, and connect with like-minded peers from around the world.
Engineers for a Sustainable World
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Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) mobilizes engineers through education, training, and practical action, building collaborative partnerships to meet the needs of current and future generations. The Northwestern University chapter has been actively involved with several engineering projects including wind power in Nicaragua and water pumps the Phillipines.
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Derived from "Rotary in Action," the organization emphasizes a strong commitment to promoting world understanding and peace through the development of leadership among youth. Today, there are more than 7,500 Rotary-supported Rotaract clubs with more than 175,000 members in 164 countries around the world. More than a community service club, Rotaract is part of a global effort to bring peace and international understanding to the world. This effort starts at the community level, but it knows no limits in its outreach.
Northwestern Community Development Corps (NCDC)
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NCDC is a student-run organization that seeks to engage students in community development at Northwestern, in Evanston, and throughout Chicago. NCDC promotes civic engagement through direct service, social awareness, and advocacy. NCDC offers an interactive guide to volunteering sites in the area. Visitors can search for volunteer locations based on proximity with a wide range of themes. Site information and contact information for the NCDC site leaders are included.
Logal Engagement Opportunities for Graduate Students (Medicine)
Chicago Community Engagement Program
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Family and Community Medicine's Chicago Community Engagement Program (CCEP) welcomes Feinberg students interested in community health activity and supports them with guidance and resources.
New Life Volunteer Clinic (NLVS)
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NLVS has a student-run free health clinic on the Northside of Chicago that is open every Saturday from 10am-2pm. With the collaboration of physicians, residents, and medical students from UIC, Northwestern, University of Chicago, Rush, and Chicago Medical School, the clinic provides free basic healthcare to the underprivileged and uninsured population living in the Chicago area. The free clinic offers services including physical examinations, lab tests, EKGs, x-rays, and medications for patients. In addition to this though, unlike many other free and insurance-based medical facilities, it provides preventive healthcare! Volunteers educate patients on an individual level about a variety of health topics based on the patient's interest or medical history.
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Northwestern University Alliance for International Development. NU-AID strives to improve the health of the communities they serve, in Chicago and internationally- immediately, by providing primary medical care to underserved populations, and for the foreseeable future, by engaging in public health educational initiatives.
Local Volunteering Opportunities
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The mission of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago is to lead the fight against HIV/AIDS and improve the lives of people affected by the epidemic. |
200 West Jackson Boulevard, Suite 2200 |
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In addition to domestic disaster relief, the American Red Cross offers compassionate services in five other areas: community services that help the needy; support and comfort for military members and their families; the collection, processing and distribution of lifesaving blood and blood products; educational programs that promote health and safety; and international relief and development programs. |
2200 West Harrison |
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We're a unique collective working together to provide affordable, compassionate and collaborative gynecological and mental health care to women and trans people in the Chicago area. |
3435 N Sheffield Ave # 206A |
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Our mission is to help people living in extreme poverty achieve major improvements in their lives that last and spread without ongoing support from Concern. |
332 South Michigan Avenue #630 |
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At Family Focus Our Place, we serve children and their families through empowerment. |
2010 Dewey Avenue |
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Friends of the Orphans is dedicated to improving the lives of orphaned, abandoned and disadvantaged children through the support of the Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos (NPH, Spanish for "Our Little Brothers and Sisters") network of orphanages in Latin America and the Caribbean. |
134 North La Salle Street, Suite 500 |
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Girls in the Game provides and promotes sports and fitness opportunities, nutrition and health education, and leadership development to enhance the overall health and well-being of girls. |
1501 West Randolph Street |
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The Greater Chicago Food Depository, Chicago's food bank, is a nonprofit food distribution and training center providing food for hungry people while striving to end hunger in our community. |
4100 W. Ann Lurie Place |
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Heartland International designs and implements international training and professional development programs that promote social justice, economic development and citizen engagement in emerging democracies. |
70 East Lake Street, Suite 1020 |
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Heifer International's mission is to work with communities to end hunger and poverty and care for the earth. |
Chicago Heifer Satellite Office at York Center Church of the Brethren |
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The mission of Howard Area Community Center is to assist low-income individuals and families in and near Rogers Park to stabilize their lives and develop the skills necessary to become productive community members. |
7648 N. Paulina Street |
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The Lincoln Park Community Shelter brings our community together to empower homeless men and women to make life changes. |
600 W. Fullerton Parkway |
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The mission of Pan-African Association is to serve, empower, and promote the interests of all refugees and immigrants of African descent. |
6163 North Broadway |
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Founded in 1980 and incorporated as an independent not-for-profit in 1992, RefugeeOne is a refugee resettlement agency that provides a full range of services to refugees resettled in the Chicago area. |
4753 N. Broadway, #401 |
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Salud Latina/ Latino Health has been serving as a leader in the non-profit world of public health with over 20 years of experience or dedicated support in the fields of organizational development, administrative training, dissemination of culturally competent models of interventions, and resource development, with a special focus on HIV/AIDS prevention. |
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