Upcoming Events
Special Olympics
Feed My Starving Children
Easter Basket Delivery
General Meeting
Corn Roast
Memorial Day Picnic
Retirement Seminar
The seminars are a great introduction to some concepts that will vastly improve you long term planning. Please let me know if you would like to attend.When: February 15, 2012 @ 6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Where: New York Life Office, 20 N. Martingale Rd, Suite 400, Schaumburg, Illinois
Contact: Adam
Special Olympics
Come lend a hand as we cheer the athletes on to victory and present them with their medals! To make things easier for YOU please sign up in advance at the February GM, we will be doing a group registration this year to make things easier for YOU!When: March 11, 2012 @ 10:00 a.m.
Where: Palatine High School, 1111 North Rohlwing Road, Palatine, IL
Contact: Tami
Chicagoland Family Pet Show
Strays Halfway House is in need for volunteers for the Chicagoland Family Pet Show. Please contact Gina at ginapecoraro@yahoo.com if you are interested in volunteering and I will let them know how many and what days we can supply volunteers. If you love animals I highly recommend volunteering and walking around the show!When: March 15–18, 2012
Where:Arlington Race Track
Contact: Gina
Illinois Jaycees Night with the Chicago Wolves
Join us at the Area 1 social hosted by the Schaumburg Jaycees. Tickets are $17/person with a portion of the proceeds generated going back to support Illinois Jaycees. The Chicago Wolves will be playing the Hamilton Bulldogs. We hope to see you out there!When: Saturday, March 24 at 7:00 p.m.
Where: Allstate Arena
Contact: Ashley
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ACS Relay for Life
This project takes on National Jaycee significance, as the US Junior Chamber is the ONLY non-commercial national sponsor of Relay for Life. All chapters are very proud of their Relay involvement, none more so than the Schaumburg Jaycees. We recently lost a beloved friend, Associate, and Jaycee Ambassador to cancer. We walk proudly together for all of the memories we share of people affected by this disease.When: August 10 – 11, 2012 from 6:00 p.m. – 6:00 a.m.
Where: Alexian Field in Schaumburg, IL
Thanksgiving Food Baskets
Every Thanksgiving, the Schaumburg Jaycees get of families in need from Schaumburg Township. We shop for Thanksgiving dinner (along with food for about a week), package all up, and deliver to the families with big hugs and smiles, about a week before Thanksgiving. What more can you say about a project like this? It speaks for itself.Schaumburg Village Tree Lighting
Lights! Village President! Santa! The Friday after Thanksgiving marks the annual lighting of the Village Christmas Tree. Santa (a well known friend of the Jaycees) arrives via fire truck to light the tree with the Village President, and stays to pose for lots of pictures afterward. The Schaumburg Jaycees also provide face painting, temporary tattoos, refreshments, and fun for the attendees. A great way to kick of the holiday season!Wish Tree
This is it, the project that fires up our Chapter, that makes us lose sleep and LOVE IT — Wish Tree. For over twenty years, the Schaumburg Jaycees have solicited names of underprivileged children from Schaumburg Township, and put their Christmas wishes onto our wish tree. We then work with businesses and individuals in our community to make those wishes come true.Approximately a week before the holiday arrives, we hit the streets to deliver gifts to the kids on our Wish Tree. If you’ve never experienced pure joy, this is a project you NEED to be part of. There is truly nothing else like it.
Christmas Food Baskets
Another project run with the help of the Schaumburg Township Food Pantry. We receive names of folks in need at the holiday season, and do some extra grocery shopping for them. These are families who have children on our Wish Tree, and the groceries are either picked up or delivered in conjunction with our Wish Tree project.**OF COURSE, we’ve gotta get the dough for this stuff from somewhere, right?***
The Schaumburg Jaycees run various fundraising projects throughout the year to support the causes and projects we’re passionate about, and we're always looking for new ways to raise funds to give back to the community! We do have one 'Signature' fundraising project.
