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Agency Wish Lists
Looking for a way to give back? Add a few extra items from the Wish List to your shopping list when hitting those retail sales.
Moving or downsizing? Consider rehoming your gently used items.
Take a look at our Allendale Wish List for current needs and other ways you can help the children at Allendale.
Educational Services
- Physical Education: Frisbee Golf Discs, 16 Pickle-Ball Paddles, 8 Pickle-Ball balls, maintenance plan for 9 treadmills ($3,000)
- Classroom Furniture: high top chairs/stools, book shelves, larger teacher desk or work station, student desks, rocking movement student chairs
- Classroom Supplies: small dry-erase boards for individual students, computer headphones, calculators, washable markers, journals, construction paper, poster board, paint, light tracer, art easel, carpet squares, play kitchen/food, puppet stand, globe, DVD/VHS player
- Classroom Recreational: basketballs, footballs, educational games, gaming system, etc.
- Curriculum: funds to purchase books for classroom libraries and for curriculum support (i.e., novel sets); funds to increase resources for vocational and life skills curriculum
- Funds to host a School Assembly: motivational speaker, black history performance, author, etc. (organized by the Special Events committee)
- Allendale Café: 2-3 bistro tables & 6-9 high top chairs/stools
- LRC: 12 green student computer chairs
Foster Care
- Portable DVD player or Tablet/iPad for long car rides to family visits
- Small suitcases with wheels and moving boxes for foster youth
- Gift Cards to various local establishments and merchants ($50 value) for Foster Families the Annual Appreciation Event in May Medical Services
- Eyeglasses - Public aid covers glasses for children under 18, but they take 3-4 months to receive and our kids break them often. Kids over 18 are only allotted 1 pair every 2 years. Expense is $5K/year to cover the cost of replacing them at Walmart
Residential – Lake Villa Campus and Community Group Homes
- Portable computer project and screen for cottage programming and trainings
- Hygiene products (variety of nice products for Caucasian and African American hair: brushes, etc.)
- Bath towels and washcloths
- House shoes/slippers (boys and girls, variety of sizes)
- Beauty salon gift certificates (for cuts, styling, braiding, perms, etc.)
- Movie theatre gift cards for cottage outings
Thank you for your consideration!
Allendale is recognized as a nonprofit, charitable organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. All contributions are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law.