Community wish lists

Holiday help for nonprofits

If you’re like most Illinois Times readers, your life is safe and secure and the holidays are a time for family fun and delicious meals. Sadly that isn’t the case for everyone in our community. Many won’t have packages to open or a festive celebration to look forward to. Thousands around the area count on help from a nonprofit organization just to have the most basic comforts in life.

Below are the first of nearly 20 holiday wish lists IT has assembled from local nonprofit organizations. These groups need your help all year round but they are especially eager for help during the holidays. Look for this feature each week during the holiday season; we’ll publish as many wish lists as space permits in print each week, but a complete listing of wish lists is available online at www.illinoistimes.com. If you represent a nonprofit organization that has not yet submitted a wish list, please send email to [email protected] or call 622-6700 for details.

Animal Protective League

1001 Taintor Road, 544-7387

www.apl-shelter.org

The Animal Protective League (APL) is a private, nonprofit animal welfare organization, funded by donations. It operates an animal shelter, a low-cost spay/neuter clinic and maintains numerous programs that benefit members of the community. APL services individuals and other animal welfare groups and animal control facilities within a 90-mile radius of Springfield.

Wish list:

• Monetary donations to spay/neuter and provide medical needs

• Canned cat food, pate

• Dawn dish soap

• Paper towels

• Liquid laundry detergent - non-HE

• Bleach

• Trash bags – 13-, 33- and 55-gallon

• Baby washcloths

• Karo syrup

• Office supplies i.e. Sharpies, pens, index cards (3x5), manilla folders, White Out tape, copy paper, letter size

• Forever postage stamps

First Presbyterian Church of Springfield

321 South Seventh Street, 528-4311

http://www.lincolnschurch.org/

First Presbyterian Church’s physical location remains emblematic of its mission to live and serve within the heart of the city. The church’s Food Pantry assists 800 to 1,200 people monthly. Staffed by volunteers, the pantry is stocked solely through generous donations of cash and shelf-stable food. The pantry is always in need of items such as peanut butter, canned fruit and vegetables, pasta, chili, soup, cereal and Spam. The pantry is open for those in need on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9 a.m.-noon.

Food donations may be dropped off between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. If you are unable to deliver your donation, need help unloading it or parking directions please call 528-4311 and ask for the administrative assistant. At this time the pantry is not in need of volunteers but keeps a list of those willing to help in the future.

Central Illinois Horse Rescue

Roodhouse, 720-2905 Facebook: Central Illinois Horse Rescue Steve Alexander, owner

www.cilhorseresce.com

Save a horse: [email protected]

Founded in 2003, Central Illinois Horse Rescue’s mission is to rescue horses from abuse and/or neglect situations. We rehabilitate the horses with a strict diet and health / behavior evaluations; after they pass the horses are available for adoption. We also aid (when money and space permits) those individuals who are unable to care for the horses due to financial or hardship situations. Steve Alexander and his family started this rescue for the love and beauty of the horses and are the primary providers for the horses.

Central Illinois Horse Rescue has rescued and successfully rehabilitated and re-homed 46 horses. Based in Roodhouse, CIHR serves Greene, Scott, Morgan, Pike, Sangamon, Macoupin and Cass counties.

Wish list:

• Volunteers and foster homes across the state

• Horse blankets

• Feed/hay

• 4 rolls of 360-foot field fence

• 4 ft 3pt scraper blade to clean out stalls

• Construction labor and materials to complete the barn:

Building materials: 80 2x4x16, 20 2x4x12, 40 2x8x12

Nails

Smaller “out barns” for horses during inclement weather.

Donations to purchase tin for building.

(Estimated $1,600 to finish the barn)

Electric wire 10-3 underground 250 feet to connect electricity to barn

Three 52-inch frost-free water hydrants • Someone to cut hay fields / prepare square bales.