GET

INVOLVED

Our community of 1,800+ active volunteers plays a major role in carrying out our mission. You can help by signing up to cook a meal, teach a class, work a front desk shift and more!

VOLUNTEER WITH LPCS.

Make a Difference

Every day, volunteers improve the lives of our neighbors and friends facing homelessness. Whether making a meal, teaching, running the front desk or using your professional skills to further our mission, we need you.

Opportunities are available at our Lincoln Park and Old Town locations, off-site in our Street Outreach program and virtually. We work with individuals, friends, families, social, faith-based and corporate groups. We have a variety of schedules and openings.

Get started! Visit our LPCS Galaxy Digital volunteer web portal to browse our current volunteer opportunities and sign up! If you're a new volunteer, please create a profile on the Galaxy site by clicking Sign Up. If you have volunteered for us before but have not had a chance to use Galaxy, please contact us at volunteer@lpcschicago.org to activate your profile.

Thank you!

CHECK OUT OUR LPCS VOLUNTEER MEAL GUIDE! Prepared by Kaitie Chakos, UIC Dietitian Intern, this document provides nutrition guidance and recipes for preparing large meals for LPCS Guests.

CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES.

Sign up to cook a meal for LPCS Guests!

Cook onsite, prepare and drop off, or donate a meal.

LPCS is in need of food to cover meals for 35 Guests staying at our 600 W. Fullerton shelter and 48 Guests staying at our 1521 N. Sedgwick shelter. We need your help providing breakfast, lunch and dinner. You can support us by bringing food and cooking onsite with friends, family or colleagues. You can also cook offsite and drop off meals, or order a meal to be delivered! To sign up for a meal shift, please visit our Galaxy Digital volunteer website. Find out more about our meal schedule here.

If you choose to donate a meal, we strongly encourage you to order from local restaurants to support small businesses. If you cannot provide a meal but would like to make a donation to support our meal fund, please click here.

Help us at our front desks!

Greet visitors and Guests, manage the phones and help with office projects.

Support our housing staff by working a volunteer front desk shift at our Fullerton or Sedgwick location. This is a high need opportunity, with flexible scheduling to accommodate varying schedules. To sign up for a front desk shift, please visit our Galaxy Digital volunteer website.

Prepare lunches for Street Outreach!

Provide for those living in encampments.

Volunteers can prepare and deliver sack lunches for our Street Outreach Program. Our team goes out on Monday afternoons and Wednesday afternoons to offer services and necessities to individuals living in encampments throughout Chicago. When making the lunches, half should be peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and half should have meat and cheese sandwiches. (Outreach dates may change depending on weather, encampment needs and other factors.)

Teach financial literacy or become a job coach!

Support Guests one-on-one or in a group.

Help Guest become self-sufficient by signing up to be a Financial Literacy Instructor or Job Coach. Meet one-on-one or in a group onsite at one of our facilities. LPCS will provide a curriculum to follow, and we encourage volunteers to add in their own expertise. These classes are incredibly impactful for our Guests and aid in their ability to move toward independent housing. To hear directly from one of our Graduates about the life-changing impact his financial literacy coach made on his life, check out this episode of our Homeless Monologues Podcast. For more information and to sign up, please contact us at volunteer@lpcschicago.org.