Volunteerism

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources recently named Dave Glacinski of Lexington one of its 2025 outstanding volunteers of the year.

The Immigration Project's Rapid Response team offers Know Your Rights presentations, connects detained people to free legal services, provides social service support for impacted families, investigates and documents ICE sightings to help reduce fear and panic among community members, among other duties.

The University of Illinois Extension Master Gardeners program is marking 50 years of operation in McLean and surrounding counties. The program teaches volunteers research-based gardening skills to take back to their communities.

This marks the second year Subaru has donated coats to PATH as part of a nationwide campaign.

The holidays can be an isolating time of year, particularly for seniors without family nearby. Normal-based nonprofit Faith in Action runs a program that pairs volunteers with seniors for regular conversations to fight loneliness and social isolation — year-round.

Oakdale Elementary School is hosting a food drive this weekend in partnership with the Bloomington-Normal chapters of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.

The mayor of Bloomington acknowledged in a WGLT interview that the city's Human Relations Commission needs new people on it. The terms of all but two of the current seven members have expired.

A mutual aid group in Bloomington-Normal is channeling anxiety and stress over the coronavirus into helping others.Meghan Reha of the McLean County Mutual…

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