About MHC

Chicago is the third largest city in the United States and is the beacon of prosperity in the Midwest.

Chicago is the hope of a better life for millions and thrives on each community; from the chic high rises of the Gold Coast to the village townships of the outer suburbs, from the bustle of Chinatown to the reaches of the luxurious North Shore and beyond. The special thing about Chicago is that all of the prosperity comes from one area; its people.

Small businesses and large corporations alike owe their livelihoods to the hard working people of Chicago. In turn, the people of the Chicago area know very well the lesson of hard work, the sense of community, and the importance for supporting each other. The community supports its businesses and its businesses support the community.  We see it every day in street festivals, local ethnic restaurants, and small businesses ran by people from all walks of life.

While Chicago continues to move forward into the future, other areas of our community, around the country, and worldwide are not so fortunate. Some areas rely heavily on one industry to provide all means of support, others on a natural resource, and others solely upon the families that originally settled there. Some have been subjected to natural disasters and others to poverty.

Our mission is to reach out to communities within the Chicagoland area to ask for support for our relief funds efforts around the country and around the world in ways that they could not otherwise be reached. Sure, agencies have a nationwide appeal and tug on the heart, but how to do they reach out to our communities for help? Some of those who need help may be in our backyard, but others may be hundreds or thousands of miles away. Some need financial assistance, others need supplies, and others even require volunteer hours to rebuild homes, administer medical aid, or help people get back on their feet in communities destroyed by disaster and there is always work to be done to help heal the people affected. 


The local charities may be on the web or they may get some publicity for responding to a need, but their causes need to be brought to the communities of Chicago past the television and past the emptiness of the Internet. Our goal is to bring these needs and these efforts to the people of Chicago and ask for help, person to person, one community to another. We want to fill needs as they come; in donations of financial support, volunteering, and the supplies of food, hygiene, nutrition, and basic cleaning provisions.

We also strive for progress in an environmentally-friendly way, with donations of environmentally-friendly cleaning supplies and nutrition to charities and relief efforts worldwide. We want to advance the cause of being green as a social responsibility for both cleanup efforts and community stewardship, supporting small local businesses, both in raising their profile in their community and asking for help.


This is the foundation of Mission: Hope Chicago.