What would your non-profit like for Christmas? Copy paper? Gift cards? Warm sweaters and shoes? The Gazette invited local non-profits to fill out a "Christmas wish list" and the information they submitted is below.
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- 12 and 12 Drop-In-Center
- Address: 402 W. Delavan Drive, Janesville
- Phone: 608-314-1090
- Email: 12and12@12and12dropincenter.org
- Description: Assists area residents recovering from drug addiction and alcoholism by providing a safe club for those in recovery and meeting space for 12-step recovery groups.
- Needs: Donations and people that would like to become member of a safe sober club.
- Agrace HospiceCare
- Address: 3001 W. Memorial Drive, Janesville
- Phone: 608-327-7180
- Email: charlene.malueg@agracehospicecare.org
- Website: www.agracehospicecare.org
- Description: Agrace HospiceCare is a nonprofit, community-based hospice dedicated to providing expert physical, emotional and spiritual support to patients and families dealing with life limiting conditions.
- Needs: New teddy bears (excluding Beanie Babies) that are 10 inches or taller for the Dori Bear program; new kitchenware for family kitchens including cookware, dinnerware, silverware and plastic glassware; new, unopened toys for children (various ages for both boys and girls).
- Alzheimer's Support Center of Rock County
- Address: 20 S. Main Street, Suite 15, Janesville
- Phone: 608-314-8500
- Email: memory@tds.net
- Website: www.alzheimerssuportcenter.org
- Description: The Alzheimer's Support Center of Rock County is a stand alone nonprofit that helps people with dementia and Alzheimer’s and their caregivers and families. The organization offers free memory screens, support groups, education and advocacy for caregivers and people with Alzheimer's and other dementias.
- Needs: Letter sized card stock of all colors, Forever stamps, white letter sized copy paper, a vacuum for the office and gift cards to Walmart, Target, Walgreens, etc.
- Beloit Regional Hospice
- Address: 655 Third St., Suite 200, Beloit
- Phone: 608-363-7421
- Email: outreach@beloitregionalhospice.com
- Website: www.beloitregionalhospice.com
- Description: Provides care and support to patients facing the end of life and their family members. Beloit Regional Hospice provides hospice services for all who are eligible regardless of ability to pay, grief support services to anyone in the community who has experienced a death, and the Transitions program to support those with terminal a diagnoses who are not yet ready for hospice services.
- Needs: New, unopened Depends or other incontinence briefs with tabs (all sizes needed); disposable underpads; new twin size crate mattresses ($10 at Walmart); legal pads; AA, AAA, 9-volt and C batteries.
- Big Foot Emergency Food Pantry
- Address: 111 Fremont St., Walworth
- Phone: 262-275-3252
- Email: brewingeng@hotmail.com
- Description: Serves needy families in the towns and rural areas of Walworth, Fontana, Williams Bay and Linn Township. Provides two weeks worth of food once each month to any qualifying family.
- Needs: Peanut butter, canned tuna, cooking oil, flour, cereal, soup, pasta, any kind of beans, canned fruit and vegetables.
- Blackhawk Technical College Foundation
- Address: P.O. Box 5009, Janesville. Donations also can be dropped off during regular business hours at the Central Campus Administration Building, 6004 S. County G, Janesville.
- Phone: 608-757-7704
- Email: kcameron@blackhawk.edu
- Website: blackhawk.edu/alumni/btcfoundation.aspx
- Description: Serves all Blackhawk Technical College students throughout Rock and Green Counties who attend the Janesville, Beloit, and Monroe campuses. Provides assistance in the form of scholarships and emergency assistance grants to students who are academically successful and are facing financial need. Many students are working part-time or full-time jobs, have children, car payments, house payments, etc. and have chosen to further their education to gain employment or improve employment.
- Needs: Bus passes issued by Janesville or Beloit Transit Systems to central campus, gas gift cards, grocery store gift cards, cash donations for scholarships.
- Boys & Girls Club of Janesville
- Address: 200 W. Court St., Janesville
- Phone: 608-755-0575
- Email: bbuchanan@bgcjanesville.org
- Website: www.bgcjanesville.org
- Description: Serves community youth by providing a safe place to learn and grow while offering life-enhancing programs and character development experiences.
- Needs: New art supplies, cleaning supplies, copy paper, pool sticks, gift certificates to Wal-Mart/Target and Woodman’s.
- CASA of Rock County
- Address: 51 S. Main Street, Janesville (third floor of the Rock County Courthouse)
- Phone: 608-305-0187
- Email: casarockcounty@yahoo.com
- Website: www.casarockcounty.org
- Description: Serves children in need of protection and services in Rock County. Most of the children have been abused or neglected. Provides training and support of community volunteers to advocate for the children in the juvenile court system.
- Needs: Forever postage stamps, copy paper, gift cards to Target or Walmart, gift cards for gas/fuel, portable projector.
- Community Action
- Address: 200 W. Milwaukee St., Janesville
- Phone: 608-755-2470
- Email: drockers@community-action.org
- Website: www.community-action.org
- Description: Serves low-income families and the homeless. Purpose is to build a foundation that allows individuals and families to move themselves through a journey to self-reliance. The organization offers more than 42 programs to assist families.
- Needs: Household cleaning supplies; hats, mittens or gloves for infants and toddlers; baby wipes; diapers (newborn to size 6); blankets.
- Community Garden Outreach
- Address: Highways 14 and 51, Janesville
- Phone: 608-755-0946
- Donation location: Postal items can be mailed to UW Extension, 51 S. Main St., Janesville, WI 53545 with attention to Deb Grams. Arrangements also can be made for drop-offs.
- Email: drockers@community-action.org
- Website: www.community-action.org
- Description: The program teaches horticulture and nutrition to RECAP prisoners and juvenile detention students, grows produce, which is then donated to local food pantries and senior facilities. The outreach also answers horticulture questions for community garden members. Serves RECAP, Rock Haven, Juvenile Detention Center, ECHO, Caritas, Evansville Food Pantry, Riverview Heights and other senior programs, Rock Prairie Master Gardener Association.
- Needs: Gift cards for gasoline, three garden tote baskets, five 6-foot plastic tables, heavy-duty garden hoses, hand tools (clippers, cutters, trowels, etc.).
- Creekside Place
- Address: 102 Maple St., Evansville
- Phone: 608-882-0407
- Email: jim@creeksideplace.org
- Description: The senior center/community center provides a place for people of all ages to meet and pursue their activities, including Golden Meals, community exercise and the local woodworking club, The Woodchucks.
- Needs: One-pound hand weights (five or six pairs); adult jump ropes; a small digital camera; kettle bells; a flat, wall-mounted monitor; woodworking tools, a 15-inch 3.5 hp planer; and yoga mats, blocks and bolsters.
- ECHO
- Address: 65 S. High St., Janesville
- Phone: 608-754-5333
- Email: office@echojanesville.org
- Website: www.echojanesville.org
- Description: ECHO seeks to help Janesville residents help themselves through its programs and services, not readily available through other sources, and to assist them in utilizing other existing services and programs in the community. ECHO provides emergency rental assistance, emergency lodging, food assistance, transportation and seasonal services.
- Needs: Brand-new toys for the toy distribution, nonperishable food with protein, cleaning supplies, diapers and baby wipes.
- Edgerton Care Center
- Address: 313 S. Stoughton Road, Edgerton
- Phone: 608-884-1338
- Description: The care center is a 61-bed licensed, skilled nursing facility and provides care to the residents of Edgerton and the greater Rock County area.
- Needs: A subscription to The Gazette, volunteer drivers and card-making supplies (used and started projects are OK).
- Feathered Friends Sanctuary & Rescue
- Address: 1570 County A, Edgerton
- Phone: 608-541-0090
- Email: birdlover7978@att.net
- Website: www.feathered-friends.com
- Description: Helps people and parrots in southern Wisconsin, northern Illinois and surrounding areas. The organization accepts surrendered parrots from homes where they are no longer wanted and oversees the adoption of parrots to loving homes. Feathered Friends provides a safe and nurturing environment for parrots in transition between homes as well as for parrots who need long-term, indefinite or permanent sanctuary. Feathered Friends also sells parrot food and toys and offers boarding services to area pet owners.
- Needs: Bird toys and perches (all types and sizes, but especially rope perches), bamboo poles 36 inches and longer, a bagless vacuum, earplugs and Band-Aids.
- G.I.F.T.S. Men's Shelter
- Address: P.O. Box 788, Janesville
- Phone: 608-371-3735
- Email: stephanieburton703@yahoo.com
- Donation location: Drop off items at current shelter site. Shelter sites can be found online at gifts-shelter.org/schedule or by calling Stephanie Burton at 608-371-3735.
- Description: Provides shelter for homeless men.
- Needs: Gas gift cards; long underwear; new underwear; new, warm socks; Kleenex.
- HealthNet of Rock County
- Address: 23 W. Milwaukee St., Janesville
- Phone: 608-314-1921
- Email: executive-director@healthnet-rock.org
- Website: www.healthnetofjanesville.org
- Description: Provides medical and dental assistance to Rock County residents who are low-income and completely uninsured. Donated medical services include physical exams and treatment for acute and chronic health conditions. Donated dental services include cleanings, x-rays, treatment plans, fillings, fluoride and sealant treatments, and extractions.
- Needs: Tylenol, Ibuprofen and Benadryl; office supplies (copy paper, pens, gift cards, etc.); vacuum cleaner; laptops.
- House of Mercy Homeless Center
- Address: 320 Lincoln St., Janesville
- Phone: 608-580-0065
- Email: eloveland@mhsjvl.org
- Description: The House of Mercy has services available for homeless single women and families. Residents receive case management, parenting and nutrition counseling, transportation and medical expense assistance, and 30-day shelter.
- Needs: Gas cards, 35x64-inch mini blinds, twin size mattress covers (plastic), laundry detergent packs/pods, bathroom cleaner.
- Independent Disability Services
- Address: 2100 E. Milwaukee St., Suite L14, Janesville
- Phone: 608-754-5552
- Email: pr@idsrock.com
- Website: www.idsrock.com
- Description: IDS helps people with disabilities and special needs in Rock County to live independently by improving their quality of life and making sure they have the right to enjoy the full spectrum of life’s experiences.
- Needs: Gift certificates to Woodman’s or Walmart, movie tickets or a certificate for a hotel stay, craft supplies or gift cards from Hobby Lobby.
- ITTDA Organization
- Address: N3752 County C, Darien
- Phone: 262-203-3868
- Email: ittda.org@gmail.com
- Website: www.ittda.org
- Description: Provides computers, technological equipment and computer training to Christian schools in need. This is done through donations of new and used equipment or organized fundraisers used to purchase new equipment.
- Needs: New computers/laptops, SMART Boards, projectors, iPads, etc. Also looking for companies willing to donate used computers or other equipment (not more than 3 or 4 years old) to schools through us.
- Janesville Area Council PTA
- Address: 527 S. Franklin St., Janesville
- Phone: 608-752-5987
- Email: morley@janesville.k12.wi.us
- Donation location: Donations can be sent Janesville Educational Services with attention to JAC-PTA, 527 S. Franklin St., Janesville.
- Description: JAC-PTA helps all students, teachers and staff of schools that are affiliated with a Janesville PTA, and local business partners of PTA. It supports and speaks on behalf of students in Janesville schools, community and before governmental bodies and other organizations that make decisions affecting children. JAC-PTA assists local PTAs in achieving their goals and encourages parent and public involvement in the Janesville public schools. It also serves as a liaison between the National PTA, Wisconsin PTA, School District of Janesville, Janesville School Board, Janesville PTAs and Janesville families.
- Needs: Gift cards from restaurants and stores in the community.
- The Literacy Connection
- Address: 205 N. Main St., Suite 102, Janesville
- Phone: 608-756-3125
- Email: info@theliteracyconnection.com
- Website: www.theliteracyconnection.com
- Description: The Literacy Connection serves adults who need help with their literacy skills. TLC teaches reading, writing, speaking in English, computer literacy and math through one-on-one tutoring with volunteers.
- Needs: Office supplies such as copy paper (both 8½x11-inch and 11x17-inch paper), ink cartridges (HP 88XL and 60 XL), laptops for tutor/student use, coffee, paper plates, napkins.
- Milton Area Youth Center
- Address: P.O. Box 34, Milton
- Phone: 608-436-3637
- Email: director@gmail.com
- Website: www.mayc.org
- Donation location: Drop off donations between 3-6 p.m. weekdays at 44 Second St., Milton or call to make arrangements.
- Description: Provides a safe, positive, after-school gathering place for Milton students in seventh, eighth and ninth grades. The center provides snacks, computers, video games, pool, ping-pong, skating, table games, tutoring and more.
- Needs: Art supplies, musical instruments (i.e. guitars), bean bag and gaming chairs, area rugs, scrapbooking/stamping and jewelry-making supplies, panini/quesadilla makers, hot air popcorn popper, magazine subscriptions, music lesson books, new video games, thumb drives, flat panel TVs, updated PCs and software. Also need gift cards from Piggly Wiggly, Dave’s Ace Hardware, Kwik Trip, iTunes, Staples, Hobby Lobby or Michaels, and snack food and menu items such as small disposable cups, lunch meat and cheese, chips/Chex Mix, pizza, hot dogs, drink mixes or fruit juice and fruit and veggies.
- Oakhill Christian School
- Address: 1650 S. Oakhill Ave., Janesville
- Phone: 608-754-2759
- Email: office@ocsroyals.org
- Website: www.ocsroyals.org
- Description: Provides K-12 Christian education to families in the Janesville and surrounding areas.
- Needs: Attic insulation, T8 fluorescent light bulbs, DVD player, copy paper, AA batteries.
- Parker Closet
- Address: 3125 Mineral Point Ave., Janesville
- Phone: 608-743-5804
- Email: dwahlert@janesville.k12.wi.us
- Donation location: Items can be dropped off between 7:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday at Parker High School, 3125 Mineral Point Ave., Janesville. Contact Deri Wahlert with questions.
- Description: Parker Closet helps 200 homeless and/or poverty stricken youth at Parker High School obtain basic everyday necessities. It provides year round services and necessities to Parker High School students; provides holiday presents to all students within the program; supplies free prom dresses and tuxedos to ensure all students at Parker have the ability to attend prom; ensures participating students have transportation to school.
- Needs: Bus tokens, toiletries for males and females, nonperishable food, gas cards, grocery gift cards.
- Pregnancy Helpline
- Address: 21 S. Jackson St., Suite C, Janesville
- Phone: 608-755-9739
- Email: onlinehelp@pregnancy-helpline.net
- Website: www.pregnancy-helpline.net
- Description: Services women and their families before, during and after pregnancy by providing pregnancy tests, pregnancy assistance, material items, information on community resources, care classes for pregnant women/couples and post-abortion recovery.
- Needs: Pack’n Plays, diapers and wipes, bottles, formula, infant toiletries, winter clothing and coats (size 18 month through 2T).
- Riverfront Inc.
- Address: 1107 Barberry Drive, Janesville
- Phone: 608-757-0909
- Email: Sharon.Fitzpatrick@riverfrontinc.org
- Donation location: Donations can be sent to 1107 Barberry Drive with attention to Sharon Fitzpatrick/Wishlist.
- Description: Riverfront Inc is a nonprofit organization that provides support and employment for adults with disabilities. Riverfront provides day service opportunities, employment in its production facility, employment within the community (job coaching available), internships and three group homes. Riverfront can assist adults with mild to moderate disabilities to more severe medical and behavioral issues.
- Needs: Kitchenware such as cookie sheets, utensils and electric fry pan or griddle; art supplies such as sponge paint brushes, craft glue and glue sticks; throw blankets; sweat pants, sweat shirts or T-shirts (sizes medium to extra large); a one-person tent.
- Rock County Cancer Coalition
- Address: P.O. Box 2092, Janesville
- Phone: 608-754-2286
- Email: bbthoms@rockcountycancercoalition.org
- Website: www.rockcountycancercoalition.org
- Description: Serves anyone living in Rock County that is actively fighting cancer. Provides basic needs such as food; gas; rent, mortgage, electric, water or sewer assistance, and medication.
- Needs: Gift cards from Walmart, BP, Walgreens, CVS, Woodman’s.
- Rotary Botanical Gardens
- Address: 1455 Palmer Drive, Janesville
- Phone: 608-752-3885
- Email: smelton@jvlnet.com
- Website: rotarybotanicalgardens.org
- Description: Provides education and horticulture appreciation opportunities to all people through various means including garden visits, volunteerism, adult education, school programs, community programs and social opportunities. -Need: 25 pairs of kid-sized scissors, 50 glue sticks, 50 magnifying glasses, three sets of walkie-talkies, two non-digital bathroom scales, various sizes of new gardening gloves, three new push mowers, a new posthole digger, three new push brooms, 10 Felco No. 5 hand pruners, 20 new 100-foot hoses, 100-pound broadcast fertilizer spreader, three new wheelbarrows, fuel cards.
- Special Methods in Learning Equine Skills (SMILES)
- Address: N2666 County K, Darien
- Phone: 262-882-3470
- Email: smiles@smilestherapeuticriding.org
- Website: www.smilestherapeuticriding.org
- Description: Improves the lives and living skills of people with special needs through equine assisted activities and therapies. The group serves both children and adults with disabilities, and it also serves schools and group homes. SMILES provides therapeutic riding, equine recreation and equine assisted learning programs.
- Needs: Halters (regular horse size), lead ropes, plastic pitchforks (“apple pickers”), large paper cutter, concrete apron near the barn entrance.
- Spirit Horse Equine Rescue
- Address: 4107 Riversedge Dr., Janesville
- Phone: 608-774-5626
- Email: deedee@spirithorseequinerescue.org
- Website: spirithourseequinerescue.org
- Description: Serves all equines (horses, ponies, mules, donkeys and miniature horses). Also helps people in natural horsemanship.
- Needs: Help with veterinary costs, costs for food and general care.
- Additional details: Donations also can be made at Jack & Dick’s Feed & Garden, 975 S. Jackson St., Janesville, or Hammil Farm Center, 1115 E. High St., Milton. Provides rescue, rehabilitation, re-homing, training assistance, lessons, natural horsemanship. Also provides free programs for schools, service clubs, scouting organizations and other interests
- SpotLight On Kids
- Address: 20 S. Main St., Suite 22, Janesville (Second floor of Olde Towne Mall)
- Phone: 608-449-5944
- Description: Offers opportunities for children and families to participate in theater, both on stage and behind the scenes.
- Needs: Copy paper; colored card stock; postage stamps; gas cards; gift certificates to Joanne Fabric, Hobby Lobby, Target or Ace Hardware; cash; volunteers to help organize costumes and props and clean the studio; and a volunteer board treasurer.
- UW-Rock County Foundation
- Address: 2909 Kellogg Ave., Janesville
- Phone: 608-359-2766
- Email: c_Zaharias@uwc.edu
- Website: www.rock.uwc.edu/foundation
- Description: Provides scholarships for students of UW-Rock County, student short-term loans, student emergency funds, faculty development, capital campaign funding for campus improvements and community programs.
- Needs: Postage envelope labels, 3-inch ring binders, gas cards, donations for scholarships and items for its annual rummage sale (the group also accepts vehicles, boats and motorcycles for the rummage sale).
- Volunteer Connection
- Address: P.O. Box 1001, Elkhorn
- Phone: 262-472-9632
- Email: volunteers@tds.net
- Website: www.volunteerwalworth.org
- Donation location: 100 W. Walworth St., Room 111, Elkhorn (in the Government Center on the square)
- Description: Volunteers give their time and experience to help nonprofit organizations and individuals with their needs. Serves Walworth County nonprofit organizations, governmental agencies, low income Walworth County residents, seniors, disabled residents, animal shelters, food pantries, libraries, health care facilities, DMV, Old World Wisconsin, nonprofit resale shops, schools, Telecare, camps, tax prep for low income, Meals on Wheels, transportation, Big Brothers Big Sisters and more.
- Needs: Colored and white copy paper, stamps, envelopes (6x9-inch and 9x12-inch), name badges for volunteers such as Avery No. 74541, labels such as Avery No. 5160.
- Walworth County Alliance for Children
- Address: P.O. Box 384, Elkhorn
- Phone: 262-949-6750
- Email: cathy.manthei@cssw.org
- Website: www.wcac4kids.org
- Donation location: Walworth County Health and Human Services to Paula Hocking or Cathy Manthei, W4063 County NN, Elkhorn (located next to Aurora Lakeland Hospital)
- Description: Serves children who are victims of crimes as well as their families. The organization operates a child advocacy center that provides a multidisciplinary approach to interviewing child victims of crimes, most usually abuse, neglect and sexual assault using a forensic interviewer. The organization offers support to the families of the children as well as community education and are building a standalone facility expected to open April 1, 2013.
- Needs: Juice boxes; any kind of books for children; subscription to magazines such as Ranger Rick, Parents, etc; washable markers; construction paper; copy paper; coloring books; stickers; gift or gas cards; magnetic sand table; sanitation wipes; waste baskets; small office equipment; children’s DVDs; new DVD player; bottled water; Wii system with games. A subscription to The Gazette would be useful after the center is open.
- Walworth County Emergency Homeless Shelter
- Address: P.O. Box 226, Delavan
- Phone: 262-215-3451
- Email: shelter903warm@yahoo.com
- Donation location: Postal donations can be sent to P.O. Box 226, Delavan. Other items can be dropped off at Delavan United Methodist Church, 213 S. Second St., Delavan.
- Description: Provides a safe sleeping place and three meals a day from September through May for single men who are homeless. The shelter provides the men with a cellphone and post office box to use for job applications, etc., and also mentors the men, transports them to job searches, jobs, housing searches, etc. The shelter also provides some clothing.
- Needs: Outfitter XL cots, No. 050014974, Net 10 cellphones and Net 10 minute cards, gift cards to Walmart and for gasoline, bicycles in good repair, winter clothing and outerwear in good condition, drivers/transporters, job referrals, resume composition assistance, computers 101 training, donations of one hour of legal or financial advice.
- The Wisconsin Dream Center
- Address: 445 N. Warner Road, Whitewater
- Phone: 262-613-8819
- Email: lori@wisconsindreamcenter.org
- Website: www.wisconsindreamcenter.org
- Description: Helps individuals and families across the tri-county area—single parents and their children; incarcerated individuals and their families; youth, including special programming for kids in grades 4-6; and the Hispanic community. Provides Christ-centered mentoring and discipleship for single parents, counseling and support services, youth mentoring and career counseling, and assists returning citizens with integration into the community. The organization will open a transitional living home in 2013 that will serve single mothers and their children.
- Needs: Computers (desktop or laptop), printers, paper, gift cards and video equipment.
- YMCA of Northern Rock County
- Address: 221 Dodge St., Janesville
- Phone: 608-754-9622
- Email: djavan@ymcajanesville.org
- Description: Provides the community with options for making healthy lifestyle changes. Fitness facilities provide access to cardio and strength equipment, a lap pool and activity pool with a current channel, three gyms, group exercise classes, camps, racquetball courts and more.
- Needs: Financial Donations of $5 and above made payable to the YMCA – Friends of Youth Scholarship Campaign. This campaign provides financial assistance and scholarships to help children, adults and families who are faced with financial limitations.
- YWCA Rock County
- Address: 1735 S. Washington St., Janesville
- Phone: 608-752-5445
- Email: admin@ywcarockco.com
- Website: www.ywcarockcounty.com
- Donation location: Call 608-752-5445 before dropping off donations at 1735 S. Washington St, Janesville.
- Description: Serves women, children and families in Rock County. Provides crisis services for abused women and children, affordable child care for more than 700 kids in Janesville and Milton, translation services, career counseling and transitional housing.
- Needs: Pro-bono legal consultation for the immigrant outreach program, a vacuum cleaner for the domestic violence shelter, blank DVD-Rs for CARE House, gasoline gift cards for the transitions for women program, board games for the child care program.
