Corporate and Group Volunteering
Are you looking for a memorable and meaningful corporate volunteering opportunity in Chicago? A service project for your Scout troop or Honors Society? Advance your group’s volunteer service goals while supporting older adults in your community and strengthening your team! With LBFE’s Corporate Volunteer Program, there are a variety of ways to impact, serve, and engage with lonely and isolated older adults. Corporate volunteering opportunities can be customized to suit your group’s needs and availability. We have corporate volunteering opportunities in Chicago, DuPage and Kane Counties, and Northwest Indiana.
CREATE: Team building that benefits our older adults
Your team can support older adults, and our work and outreach, through gifts of friendship.
- Decorate celebration bags with colorful designs and thoughtful messages. These bags are used for deliveries during a visit from a friendly volunteer.
- Personalize small candy favors. Favorite treats are treasures, especially for older adults living in nursing homes, who may have limited mobility and very few other visitors.
- Design a gift to be delivered during a visit to a homebound older adult.
- Ensure every one of our older friends feels remembered and loved at the holidays! Our Holiday Gift Program is a wonderful way to impact an older adult. Groups of coworkers can work together to purchase special gifts to make the season special for LBFE older adults.
Groups of any size can participate, and the time commitment is up to you.
SHARE: Volunteer directly with our older adults
Our older adults and volunteers meet to enjoy conversation and connection and engaging activities at our building weekly and monthly.
Join us at:
- Coffee and Conversations, every first and third Thursday from 9:30 am to 11:00 am
- In-Community events as scheduled. These are small gatherings, taking place in different areas of the city.
Once a date is chosen, bring the volunteers and share a morning or afternoon with our elders. These opportunities work best with smaller groups of 15 or fewer.
GROW: Even more opportunities to volunteer and connect
Celebrate with our older adults! Join us for one of our monthly celebrations, like our Birthday Parties or specially themed luncheons – or one of our big holiday celebrations. We provide extra training for these volunteer opportunities, which are available both during the week and on weekends. Your time commitment is about 5 hours per party and starts around 10am.