Donations
For over 25 years, The YIFC has raised money through planned events and given the proceeds to local Chicagoland charities. These events include the largest St. Patrick's Day party in Chicago and semi-annual trips to Ireland. We have also raised awareness of the charities we serve and have organized volunteer efforts to assist them. We are an entirely volunteer organization with limited overhead, with well over 90% of our proceeds going directly towards the charities we serve. While we promote the Irish culture with our events, our club is open to all people of every ethnic origin. Make a Donation Today!
YIFC has donated over $100,000 since the year 2000 to charities including:
Young Irish Donates $20,000 to Charities—Chicago, IL—July 28, 2007 |
 Snow City Arts |
Snow City Arts Foundation brings art programming to Chicago children's hospitals. Workshops featuring creative writing, music, painting, photography, and filmmaking are available seven days a week for hospitalized children—regardless of their length of stay. Founded in 1998, Snow City Arts has served more than 5,500 children in Chicago and currently brings its programs to more than 2,000 hospitalized children annually. Bridget McLaughlin, 2007-08 President, and Nora Walsh, 2006-07 Vice President of Charitable, present $10,000 to Paul Sznewajs from Snow City Arts Foundation. |
 Special Olympics Chicago |
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. In Chicago alone, Special Olympics serves over 4,700 athletes in 19 sports. Special Olympics gives athletes continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy, and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community. Nora Walsh and Bridget McLaughlin present $10,000 to David Breen, Kathy McLaughlin and Dan Conley from Special Olympics Chicago. |
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The Young Irish is a nonprofit philanthropic and volunteer organization that has been around for over 30 years. In that time, the organization has raised awareness for and donated funds to charities all over Chicagoland. While the club tends to promote the Irish culture, people of every ethnic origin are welcome to join and attend events. Donated funds were raised throughout the year, but primarily came from one of Chicago’s largest St. Patrick’s Day parties, Forever Green, hosted by the Young Irish every March.
Concern Worldwide is an international humanitarian organization committed to the relief, assistance and advancement of the poorest people in the least developed countries of the world. Founded in Ireland in 1968, Concern Worldwide works in 31 countries throughout Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, providing emergency relief and long-term assistance in the areas of education, health, livelihoods (including agricultural training and microfinance) and HIV/AIDS. The proceeds received from the 2006 Forever Green will help fund hunger relief projects in Sub-Saharan Africa.
“We are utterly amazed at what YIFC was able to accomplish with Forever Green and at how much that amount is going to do for our hunger relief projects,” said Kristin Pomykala, Concern Worldwide Development Officer.
The Off the Street Club is Chicago’s oldest boys and girls club and serves more than 3,000 youth on Chicago’s West side. The YIFC donation will be used to help pay for a new school bus, which will be used to shuttle youth downtown for tutoring and field trips, transport kids out to the Club’s annual Camp Mattieu, and bring volunteers out to the club for after-school programs.
Leslie Engel, president of the Off the Street Club Junior Board was present for the check cutting ceremony. “That one nonprofit awareness group would dedicate the efforts of an entire year to bring this kind of money to another nonprofit is, to me, the picture of generosity,” said Engel. “We at Off the Street Club are forever grateful that Forever Green has been so wonderful for us—the luck of the Irish, indeed.”
If you would like to make a donation to Young Irish to help support our charities, you may contribute online or email us at charities@youngirish.com.