Community Service

KnowledgeAdvisors believes in helping our clients achieve success. We also believe in helping those in our communities achieve success in their own lives, which is why individually and as a company we support a variety of important organizations. As an organization KnowledgeAdvisors supports these important organizations.

	American Red Cross
	Since its founding in 1881 by visionary leader Clara Barton, the American Red Cross has been the nation's premier emergency response organization. As part of a worldwide movement that offers neutral humanitarian care to the victims of war, the American Red Cross distinguishes itself by also aiding victims of devastating natural disasters. Over the years, the organization has expanded its services, always with the aim of preventing and relieving suffering.
	Hephzibah
	Hephzibah's mission is to make a home for children who don't have one of their own. For the children of Hephzibah, the home is a place where there is stability, predictability and love. It is a place to stay for a short time or a long one. It is a shelter along their road where they can be free of fear, worry, neglect and loneliness.
	Horizon's for Youth
	Horizons for Youth provides scholarships, mentoring, and a unique community of support for children from low–resource areas of Chicago. Horizons for Youth is a community committed to helping children recognize and achieve their full potential. In partnership with dedicated families, they provide need–based scholarships, one-on-one mentoring, and enrichment programs.
	Chicago Cares Serve-a-Thon
	Each June thousands of volunteers help transform schools around the Chicago area. KnowledgeAdvisors participates in this event and has helped with painting schools, landscaping, and many other activities to help Chicago schools become better learning environments.
	Microsoft Digital Literacy
	KnowledgeAdvisors has also helped our partner Microsoft with their Digital Literacy initiative by donating a Metrics that Matter account which will help analyze the effectiveness of the Digital Literacy program which teaches basic computer concepts and skills. These skills ensure people can use computer technology in everyday life to develop new social and economic opportunities for themselves, their families, and their communities.

On a personal level KnowledgeAdvisors employees go out of their way to support causes and community efforts important in their own lives.

Individually KnowledgeAdvisors employees support these organizations through volunteer work, donations, or fundraising through participation in events like the Chicago Triathlon, Ride the Drive, and the Shamrock Shuffle.

	Wine to Water
	Over 1 billion people in the world today lack access to adequate water and sanitation. Wine To Water is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit aid organization focused on providing clean water to needy people around the world. Projects include sanitation projects and providing wells to people in Africa, Cambodia, India, and South America.
	American Cancer Society
	The American Cancer Society is the nationwide, community-based, voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service.
	American Diabetes Association
	The American Diabetes Association is at the forefront of the fight to prevent, treat, and cure diabetes. We provide education, promote awareness, advocate on behalf of diabetes patients, and are the authoritative source on diabetes in the United States.
	Lazarus House Homeless Shelter
	Lazarus House serves men, women and children connected in the school districts of St. Charles, Geneva, Batavia and western rural Kane County in Illinois who are homeless or at risk with safe shelter, foods and support services.
	St. John Neumann Catholic Church Furniture Donation Ministry
	This ministry was created to reallocate lightly used furniture items (beds, tables, chairs, dressers, etc.) from households in the Fox Valley area to families in Aurora, Illinois that have a great need for such items. The ministry serves over 50-75 families per year.
	ASPCA
	The ASPCA works to rescue animals from abuse, pass humane laws and share resources with shelters nationwide. The ASPCA was the first humane organization in the Western Hemisphere. Its mission, as stated by its founder, Henry Bergh, in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the United States."
	Chesapeake Bay Foundation
	The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) is the only independent 501(c)(3) organization dedicated solely to restoring and protecting the Chesapeake Bay and its tributary rivers. Since its founding 40 years ago, its goal has been to improve water quality by reducing pollution.
	Kiwanis International
	Kiwanians are volunteers changing the world through service to children and communities. Kiwanis members help shelter the homeless, feed the hungry, mentor the disadvantaged, and care for the sick. They develop youth as leaders, build playgrounds, raise funds for pediatric research, and much more. No problem is too big or too small. Why? Because working together, members achieve what one person cannot accomplish alone. When you give a child a chance to learn, experience, dream, and succeed, great things happen!
	Association of Hole in the Wall Camps
	The Association of Hole in the Wall Camps leads the world’s largest family of camps for children with serious and life-threatening medical conditions. Founded by Paul Newman over two decades ago with the idea that no child should have to compromise their childhood because of a serious illness, the Association today oversees eleven full member camps in eight countries, seven new camps in various stages of development, and five Global Partnership Initiatives in Africa and Asia.