WHO WE HELP IN OUR COMMUNITY

Throughout these many years, our monies have benefited a wide range of people and projects. To apply for funds, please click here to fill out our online form.

As we enter our 63rd year of community service, Junior Welfare remains strongly committed to the goals set forth by its founders. Continuation of our ongoing service projects, fund raising projects and individual commitments to community groups and organizations affords us the opportunity to meet these goals.

The following is a partial list of recipients:

Baby Talk
Catholic Charities
Children’s Museum of Illinois
Crime Stoppers
Crossroads Community Center
Decatur Area Arts Council
Decatur Day Care Center
Decatur Macon County Opportunities Corp. (DMCOC)
Decatur Mental Health Association
Decatur Public Library
DOVE
Down Syndrome Support
Downtown Senior Center
Easter Seals
Easter Seals Kids on the Block
Fire Department
Fire Department Fire Safety House
Good Samaritan Inn
Greater Decatur Youth Band
Homework Hangout
Interfaith Volunteers
I-Search
Lincoln Trails Boy Scouts
Macon Resources
Meals On Wheels
Millikin Homestead
New Life Pregnancy Center
Project Playground
Project Success
Race for the Cure
Red Cross
Safe Kids Program
Scholarships for Creative Children’s Summer Theater and for Camp Grenada (summer camp for diabetic children)
Scovill Children’s Zoo
Shemamo Girl Scout Council
Small Grants Program of Partners in Education
The Central Association for Special Education
The Greater Decatur Y
Theater 7
United Cerebral Palsy
Visiting Nurses Association
Water Street Mission
Wear to Work
Webster-Cantrell Hall
Youth Advocate’s Pre-teen Program