Community Health Giving Circle (CHCG)CHGC Logo

Mission: To promote the good health of our community. 

Giving circle members collectively decide where to donate their pooled gift. Health needs are diverse — in addition to physical and mental health issues, they can include poverty, homelessness, and food insecurity. 

IWIL members now have the opportunity to join IWIL-CHGC and participate in the power of collective giving. Together we can amplify our charitable impact!

Benefits of Contributing to IWIL-CHGC:

  • Amplify impact: Collective giving amplifies charitable awards.
  • Connection to community: Helps us discover the true needs of our community.
  • IWIL spirit:  Collaborating together connects us to each other.
  • Satisfaction in seeing balance grow: The IWIL-CHGC fund at the Community Foundation of the Land of Lincoln (CFLL) is invested with a  focus on growth and continued grant giving into perpetuity.  The balance and grant amounts have grown every year.  
  • CONTRIBUTING is easy: Click here to donate. Follow the prompts and enter "IWIL-CHGC Fund" when asked where to direct your donation.
  • Donate a minimum of $250 to be a "Participating" IWIL-CHGC Member.
  • Participating IWIL-CHGC Members:
    • Select the area of health to support each year.
    • Vote to select which organizations to support with a CHGC Health Grant.
    • Participate in special IWIL-CHGC events (voting, grant awards reception, membership appreciation, and pop-up socials.)
    • May serve as an IWIL-CHGC Committee Chair or as an IWIL-CHGC Grant Committee Member. 
  • For more information, please contact CHGC Committee Chairs Donna Jean Gibney ([email protected]) or Cara Tabatabai ([email protected])

Friends of CHGC - option for social membership:

  • For those who want to support the CHGC mission at a lower amount, it is possible to be a Friend (no voting benefits.)

  All contributions are 100% tax deductible and go directly to the IWIL-CHGC Fund at the Community Foundation for the Land of Lincoln (CFLL.)

The Community Health Giving Circle (CHGC) is happy to announce its 2024 Health Grant Recipients!

Springfield Noon Lions — $2,500 for its Pre-School Sight and Sound program providing free vision and hearing screening as well as eyeglasses and hearing aids free to families who can't afford them.

Prairie Center Against Sexual Assault — $600 to provide assistance for transportation to enable clients to access counseling and appointments.  

Washington Street Mission — $4,500 for its Supportive Employment Program which provides assistance finding a job, paid training, transportation, uniforms and job coaching for people at risk of homelessness.