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How can you help? Wish list from local nonprofit organizations.
Following is a wish list of items and volunteer opportunities from nonprofit organizations in Racine County. They were provided by local nonprofit organizations.
Other nonprofit, 501(c)(3), organizations in Racine County who would like to have their wish lists published here may email them to Features Editor Ann Walter at: awalter@journaltimels.com
Please include contact information and information about where to donate or volunteer.
Updated lists should also be sent to Ann Walter at awalter@journaltimes.com
Agencies offer their thanks to all who have made donations so far.
A partial list will be published in the Family/Life section every week. The full list appears below:
HOPES Center
- Toilet paper, Kleenex, paper towels
- Quart-size Ziploc bags
- Copy paper
- Card stock
- Post-its
- File folders
- Cereal bars
- Tube socks
- Gift cards to Walgreens or McDonald's ($5)
- Travel-size or regular size toiletries
- Newspaper subscription (for reception area)
HOPES Center is a Racine Dominican ministry providing counseling, case management and healing arts to the homeless of Racine. Volunteers are always needed and welcome. Donations can be dropped off at 506 Seventh St. in Racine. Anyone interested in volunteering should contact Sr. Rita via email at rlui@hopescenter.org or by calling (262) 898-2940. For more information, visit www.hopescenter.org.
The Arc of Racine
The Arc of Racine is an organization that provides advocacy, support and education to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. All donations are greatly appreciated.
- Volunteers to help with fundraising events
- Gift cards to use as door prizes
- Cash donations
- Used cars, boats for our Car Donation Program (cars will be towed from your location if needed)
To donate please call our office at (262) 634-6303 or email us at info@thearcofracine.org
Transitional Living Center
The mission of the Transitional Living Center is to provide temporary and timely assistance to those people in need of shelter and living essentials who are willing to accept personal responsibility and the empowerment that goes along with it.
TLC "helps the homeless help themselves". TLC can always use:
- Toilet paper
- Paper towels
- New or gently used bath towels, washcloths, and sheets
- Laundry detergent, fabric softener sheets
- New pillows
- Gas cards
- Toothbrushes, soap, toothpaste
- Hair brushes
- Slippers all sizes adults and children
- Diapers and wipes
- Layette items
- Monetary donations
- $125 will provide housing for 15-20 persons per night
- Volunteers to drive guests to appointments etc.
- Computer paper
- High-quality paper for resumes and letters.
Donations may be dropped off at or sent to Transitional Living Center, 482 S. Pine St., Burlington, WI 53105. For more information, email tlcburlington@sbcglobal.net or call (262) 767-1478.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Racine & Kenosha Counties
Needed: Volunteers high school age and older, men and women to mentor boys and girls who would benefit from one-to-one mentoring provided by a caring and responsible adult.
Those interested in volunteering may contact the Big Brothers Big Sisters office at 2302 DeKoven Ave., Racine, WI 53403, by phone (262) 637-7625, or online www.beabignow.org.
Royal Family Kids' Camps
Royal Family Kids' Camps in Racine is one of an international network of camps, Royal Family Kids' Camps Inc. (RFKC). In cooperation with Racine County Human Service Foster Care Program, we take children from ages 7 to 11 who have been abused, neglected and/or abandoned to a residential camp for five days each summer. Our goal is to provide positive memories for these children in a safe, fun, secure environment. We are an all-volunteer nonprofit organization that funds the camp through money we raise.
Royal Family Kids' Camps-Racine is in need of the following for the 2012 camp:
- 12-inch-long baby dolls that will fit the cradles the kids make
- No. 2 pine wood for woodworking projects
- Children's clothing sizes 6 to 16
- Modest children's swimming suits
- Large squeeze bottle of Tempera paints
- Water bottles for staff
- Water balloons
- Costumes children and adult sizes for dress up center - spider man, princess, and cowboy for example.
- Office supplies, paper, stamps, envelopes
- A couple construction barrels or several orange cones
- Rolls of yellow caution tape
- Multiple colors or printed rolls of duct tape
- Tool pouches
- Safety vests - orange or neon green
- Suspenders Construction boots or work boots
- Use of golf carts for the week at camp
- 2 sawhorses
- A construction trailer
Contact Fred and Chris Oertel at (262) 639-0480; (262) 930-3416; 262-930-3418 or email croertel@wi.rr.com
HALO Inc.
Homeless Assistance Leadership Organization Inc. is a homeless shelter serving up to 120 people each day. Currently we are in immediate need of the following items:
- Cleaning Supplies: Window, bathroom/kitchen cleaner (with bleach), dish soap
- Paper Products: Tissues, paper towel, brown lunch bags, Ziploc bags: sandwich, ½ gallon and 1 gallon
- Towels, large bath and wash cloths, kitchen towels, dishcloths and aprons.
- Deodorant, plastic razors/gel, shampoo/conditioner
For our housing programs:
- Sturdy dressers, twin bed frames, gently used pots/pans/dishes/silverware, sofas, chairs, coffee tables and kitchen tables/chairs for housing programs. Because of allergies, no furniture from homes where pets live. Call AJ Jelks with delivery information - (262) 633-3235, ext. 233 (for furniture & large items).
- Scotch tape for tape dispensers, Forever stamps, Bic pens, hand sanitizer, copier paper, staplers
- Cleaning kits: pail, mop, broom, small vacuum, cleaners/Windex for housing programs.
- Adult's and children's over-the-counter cold medicine and pain reliever
- Gift cards to local food stores for use to purchase: basic food needs, spices and items used on a regular basis. (Pick'n Save, GFS, Piggly Wiggly)
Currently we are not accepting any more clothing. Due to a over-abundance of items, we are reassessing our needs for clothing. We might put out a call for special items relating to clothing, but those items would be the only items we would accept.
Thank you for your understanding and your past donations.
Items NOT ACCEPTED: Leftovers from a rummage sale; old/heavily used shoes & boots; electronics; stuffed animals or toys (take to Toys for Tots); car seats; books; soiled/ripped clothing.
Contact Brenda Thomas at (262) 633-3235, ext. 142. Visit us at www.haloinc.org for current donation and volunteer information. Drop off donations at 2000 DeKoven Ave. anytime.
Shepherds Ministries
Shepherds Ministries has been serving people with intellectual disabilities since 1964. Shepherds offers residential and vocational opportunities and Shepherds College provides post-secondary opportunities for adults with intellectual disabilities.
Any donations can be dropped off Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. at Shepherds' Findley Center, which is located on Highway 11 across the street from Dairy Queen in Union Grove.
For a tour of our campus, or volunteer opportunities, contact Becci Terrill at bterrill@shepherdsministries.org or (262) 878-5620, ext. 2304.
Wish list items:
- Bath towels
- Wash/face cloths
- Cleaning rags
- Picnic tables - sturdy, outdoor type, new
- Bulk wood chips - clean
- Bulk landscape stone - 1-inch, clean
- Gift cards - Menards, Farm & Fleet, fast food restaurants, department stores.
Becker Shoop Center
The Becker Shoop Center, a Lincoln Lutheran of Racine skilled nursing center, is in need of the following items:
- Bingo prizes: costume jewelry, stationary, small knick knacks, canned soda (diet and regular), small bags of chips, candy bars (no nuts), individually wrapped cookies/crackers.
- Arts & crafts: water colors, markers, colored pencils, crayons.
- Nail polish
- Men's hankies
- Baseball hats
- Body spray
- Men's and women's scented lotions,
- Parakeet food
- Subscription to The Journal Times
- Radio/CD players.
- Sensory CDs like thunder, rain, animal sounds, etc
- Large-print crossword or word search puzzles
- Glade plug-ins - oil warmer and oil refills.
- Wind chimes for outside.
- Seasonal decorations for inside.
- Kitchen: blender, electric mixer, bread machine mixes, cake, brownie mixes, mixing bowls.
- Cabinets with shelves and doors.
Items may be dropped off at: Becker Shoop Center, 6101 16th St., Racine or contact Susan Lewis at (262) 898-2772 or slewis@llor.org to make arrangements for pickup or to find out more about volunteering.
Tex Reynolds' Toys for Tots
- Repairable toys for children 12 and younger (these are much-needed)
- Games, power cords, adaptors for new and old games systems such as Xbox, Sega, Playstation, Nintendo and Game Boy
- Bikes up to 26 inches
- Cars and trucks for boys ages 2-10
- Games for children up to age 12
- Hats, mittens and scarves (handmade or store-bought)
- Two or three VHS tape rewinding machines
- Batteries (AA and 9-volt)
- Yarn (four-ply)
- Cleaning supplies
- Books for children 12 and younger
- Dolls, any size and Barbies; clothes and accessories for both
- Lace trim for doll clothes
- Puzzles (up to 500 pieces)
- Ribbon (small-size widths)
- Elastic (narrow widths)
- Velcro (narrow widths)
- Hair items for girls younger than 12
- Costume jewelry
- Old purses (small and medium sizes)
- Vanity items (travel size)
Contact Toys for Tots (262) 633-1379 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays between 8 to 11:30 a.m. for more information. Toys for Tots is located at 800 Center St., the same hours. Toys and supplies also can be dropped off at any fire station east of the interstate, Kortendick's Hardware and Wells Fargo Bank on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
Dress for Success Racine
The mission of Dress for Success Racine is to promote the economic independence of disadvantaged women by providing professional attire, a network of support, and the career development tools to help women thrive in work and life. Job-ready women come to Dress for Success Racine by referral from a range of nonprofit or job placement agencies. Each client receives one suit for her interview or job fair and additional clothing when she becomes employed. Every woman deserves a success story.
What we need:
- Monetary donations
- Gently used interview suits
- Purses in neutral tones
- Belts in neutral tones
- Shoes - closed toe
- Jewelry racks and boxes
- Lint brushes/rollers
- Packages of panty hose (new)
- Dress socks
- Make up (new)
- Square and round clothing sizers
- New or used clothing racks and fixtures
- Clear plastic storage containers - all sizes
- Vintage chairs, dressers, vanities, mirrors
- Small rolling files or four-drawer filing cabinets
- Three-way mirror
- Table fans and stand-up fans
- Office supplies
- Step stool
- Laminating machine and supplies
- Pant hangers
- Forever postage stamps
- Personal shopper volunteers
- General volunteers
Donations are accepted by appointment at 5540 Durand Ave., Suite B-296, Racine. Call (262) 898-5530 to make a donation appointment or for more information. More information is also available at www.dressforsuccess.org/racine.
Racine Theatre Guild
- Gift cards in any amounts to: Best Buy, grocery stores, Home Depot, Office Depot or OfficeMax, Menards, Sam's Club
- Volunteers are always needed and welcomed.
Call Beth or Doug at (262) 633-1250 or stop by 2519 Northwestern Ave. from noon to 6 p.m. weekdays. For further information on RTG, visit www.racinetheatre.org.
Eco-Justice Center
Rooted in hope, the Racine Dominican Eco-Justice Center is dedicated to environmental education and care of Earth in a context of community, contemplation, creativity and cultivation.
Items on the center's wish list include:
- Bungee cords
- Whole corn
- Sand paper
- Paint brushes (1-inch and 2-inch)
- Fiskars hand pruner
- White latex paint (exterior)
- White primer (exterior)
- Tarps (brown plastic preferred)
- Pine chip animal bedding
- Sponges
- 7/16-inch hot glue sticks
- Sharpie markers
- Half-pint glass jars with lids and rings
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