ACLU Know Your Rights
PROJECT STATUS: Open
18 Coffees is partnering with the ACLU for our 2025 Community Partner project. We’ll be focusing our professional skill sets and donating our time to support their critical Know Your Rights initiative. Sign up to help now!
Community to Family Holiday Giving with Christopher House
PROJECT STATUS: Complete
Did you know that more than 4,100 low-income individuals are enrolled in Christopher House programs, where the average annual income for a family is less than $19,000? This holiday season, let’s all chip in as an 18 Coffees community to help make the holiday season a little brighter for two families of four in the Chicago area.
Supporting Refugee Work Opportunities
Project Status: Complete
Led by Community Partner, Kathleen Murphy Toms, 18 Coffees Community Partners came together to help fill out Temporary Protected Status (TPS) applications for Venezuelan refugees in Chicago who need to be able to work.
Reimagining a resource library with She Should Run
Project Status: Complete
18 Coffees Community Partners outlined a comprehensive resource library helping She Should Run — a non-profit encouraging more women to run for office — reach their goal of inspiring 250,000 women to join their community by 2030.
Scaling Fundraising Efforts with How to Report a Hate Crime
Project Status: Complete
18 Coffees volunteers are helping How to Report a Hate Crime — a grassroots organization producing web content and physical booklets that contain resources for reporting hate crimes in multiple languages — prepare to scale fundraising efforts ahead of 2023.
Celebrating “Humans of Public Service”
Project Status: Complete
18 Coffees members collaborated to support fellow Community Partner Brian Whittaker's passion project, Humans of Public Service, ahead of project launch in May 2022.
Measuring impact with the Obama Foundation
Project Status: Complete
Over a period of three months, Chicago-based Obama Foundation enlisted 18 Coffees to generate a framework that measures impact generated by the Obama Presidential Center and the organization’s five-year strategic plan.
Radical generosity with GivingTuesday
Project Status: Completion
Community Partner volunteers joined the 18 Coffees team to support GivingTuesday on the organization’s annual Day of Generosity.
Sponsored Family Holiday Program
PROJECT STATUS: Complete
Did you know that more than 4,100 low-income individuals are enrolled in Christopher House programs, where the average annual income for a family is less than $19,000? This holiday season, let’s all chip in as a collective 18 Coffees community to help make the holiday season a little brighter for two families: the Jimjimo family of 5 and the Hale family of 3.
Vote.org Help Desk
PROJECT STATUS: Complete
With so much misinformation around the Vote By Mail process, Vote.org is looking for support for their Help Desk to respond to voters across the country. You'll be given talking points to frequently asked questions to then personalize and send to drive clarity.
Vote.org x Be My Eyes
PROJECT STATUS: Complete
Be My Eyes offers on-demand support to blind & low-vision people. Help guide the vision-impaired through Vote.org tools (checking registration, requesting ballots by mail, etc). The amount of time you contribute is flexible, and it’s a great way to make a direct impact with an often overlooked voter group.