Lead with Love

Celebrating girls and women of all ages! Come connect, recharge and access resources that support your well being:
💖 Free hygiene products, clothing, and baby items
💖 DIY activities-lip scrubs, flower bouquets, and charm bracelets
💖 Simple hair and nail services
💖 Light snacks and refreshments
💖 Performances

Collecting warm winter clothing donations! DM to coordinate donation drop off or pick-up! 🤍❄️

Day of Giving happening tomorrow at our community center! Free Thanksgiving foods, youth clothing, and toys! ✨

Limited supplies available on a first come first serve basis! 🤎🦃

With the Government shut down and cancelation of SNAP benefits in November, we are collecting food and monetary donations to support our families during this time. Help us collect and purchase non-perishable food items throughout November! 🍁❤️

DM for donation drop offs/pick-ups OR
Zelle: [email protected]

letting love lead, year after year ❤️

It’s Our 5-Year Anniversary! 🎉

We’re so excited to celebrate 5 years of impact and the start of a new CPS school year with you! Join us this Saturday, 9/6 at our center for a FREE community event filled with connection, fun, and gratitude.

✨ Over the past 5 years, together we’ve:

❤️Hosted 30+ community events and resource distributions

❤️ Led 10 youth outings and 4 after-school programs across 4 elementary schools including dance, tutoring, basketball, and yoga/mindfulness

❤️Held 4 seasons of dance & hosted 8 youth showcases

❤️Welcomed 4 groups of clinical mental health interns from Adler University

❤️Raised $60K+ in grant funding and opened a community center nearly 2 and half years ago

❤️ Shared weekly free community classes, hosted free shopping days, and honored youth milestones from birthdays to graduations to prom send-offs at our center

We are so grateful for all that these 5 years have brought, for everyone who has supported our nonprofit, and for the hundreds of amazing kids who inspire us every day. ❤️

Join us for another FREE community event!
We’re celebrating Back to School and 5 amazing years of Lead With Love ❤️🎉

Come out for backpacks, school supplies, clothes, snacks, crafts, games, a bounce house, & face painting! ✏️🎨🎒📓

📅 Saturday, Sept. 6th
🕑 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
📍 Lead With Love Center — 7318 S. Racine Ave.

“When love moves, it transforms, like a dance that mends the soul” ♥️

Happy Valentine’s Day from our Lead with Love Ballerinas 🩰 We are so proud of all of the girls in our free community dance program, Love Moves.

Happy Holidays from Lead with Love 💌
May this new year bring peace, hope, and joy to Chicago’s youth 🤍❄️

Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday! If you and/or anyone you know works for a company that donates on Benevity, please consider donating to Lead with Love Corporation. Our 501(c)(3) community outreach nonprofit organization is active on Benevity! All donations are tax deductible.

Slightly over 4 years ago, we started a community outreach nonprofit for Southside youth and families in need. Nearly 2 years ago, we were fortunate enough to open a community center on the southside. All of the programs, resources and events that we offer for youth and families are 100% FREE of cost.

That being said, rent and utilities at our center are very expensive. It’s harder than ever before to off set the costs required to keep our center open, resources stocked up for families, and youth programming up and running. This Giving Tuesday, we are kindly asking for your support to help keep our space, resources, programs, and events accessible to the hundreds of Southside youth and families that we serve.

With Love❤️

https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/fundraising/lead-with-love-community-outreach

It is that time of year again! We are thrilled to be hosting our 5th annual holiday drive this year in honor of Darnell “Poodaman” Burnett! If you would like to sponsor a Southside youth`s wishlist this holiday season, please sign up prior to Sunday, November 17th. Gifts drop-offs will be due by Sunday, December 15th (Darnell`s Birthday). There is a $50 minimum per youth. We appreciate your consideration to participate in our 2024 Holiday Drive! 🎄🎅❤️🎁 ✨

Sign Up Here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfldsRxfYsK3i8GbJICv3qGPqObBm-Sd9zEvJR9FWglpJRHNQ/viewform