Glen Ellyn Children's Resource Center

Helping the world's children in our own backyard

Support GECRC
Become a Doner!
Your help too is needed.  Individual donors play a crucial role in maintaining our programs and supporting our vision to reach more children-in-need.

Your gift of:
- $25 will underwrite the cost of one child’s participation in our afterschool program for one week 
- $50 will underwrite the cost of one child’s afterschool snack for the entire year
- $100 will underwrite the cost of one child’s participation in our afterschool program for one month
- $500 will underwrite one child’s participation in our full-day summer program
- $1,000 will underwrite one child’s participation in our afterschool program for one year

Please consider becoming a donor at any level and making a difference in the lives of children-in-need living in our community.  



Donate Funds

We can always use your financial support. You can send checks to our office. You can donate online through paypal using the link we've included here. Your monetary donations are tax deductible.

Donate Supplies!

Wish List:
Tabletop Dry Erase Board
Magazines
Newspapers
Blank white paper
Pillows for our summer literacy centers
Rugs to read on for the summer literacy centers
Puppets
Big moving box (to crawl into and read)
Tacks (4 boxes)
Magnetic ABC Letters
Wooden ABC Letters
Letter Stamps
Prefix, Suffix and Roots in magnetic, wooden, foam or cards
Rulers
Foam ABC Letters
Big Binder Clips
Coffee Cans
Plastic Tubs (Dollar Tree)
Ziploc Bags (gallon or quart size)
Dry Erase Markers
Tin Drip Pan (used for working on cars)
Pointers to use while reading
Milk Crates
Yard sticks (4)
50 to 100 piece puzzles
pocket charts
    6 of these
Special stationary
Clipboards
Old greeting cards
Stickers
fancy pens
ink pads
Donate Time!

You can donate time by volunteering in any number of ways. Your skills and interests may lead you to spend time helping the children in the program or you may be more interested in spending your time behind the scenes -- working on the things that enable someone else to spend time helping the children. See our Volunteer page for more information.

Tax Benefits

The GECRC is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. You are allowed to deduct your donations of money and supplies to the GECRC on your tax return.