Reasons to Give

Embrace The Children

Changing the lives and futures of children in hopeless and often fatal circumstances.

501(c)3 Charitable Organization

Calling All ETC Super Heroes ...Yes, This Means You!

Embrace the Children is hosting its annual benefit dinner, themed “Heroes and Villains”, A Halloween Party on Saturday, October 21, 2006. While costumes are optional, we hope everyone will come (with or without costumes) and bring their friends. Please come for a night of Super Heroics, including dinner, silent auction, raffles and other Ghoulish Surprises!! We’re looking forward to seeing our every day HEROES and friends!!! Call Shannon Mogilinski for more details @ 630-584-3729

Reasons to Give

90-100 % of your donation will go to help the hungry children. There is no paid staff or regular administrative costs to support.

Five Reasons to Give Internationally

Charity may begin at home, but should it stop there?

Five good reasons to support international charity.

PHILANTHROPIC ISOLATION: Even our most basic details – the food we eat and clothes we wear – are enmeshed in the flow of international capital, goods, services and labor. Does it make sense in this context that philanthropy should maintain an exclusively local orientation? Of course not. Yet, international funding barely makes it onto philanthropy’s radar screen in the United States. Only about 10% of the U.S. foundation grants, and less than 2% of all U.S. philanthropy—2 cents on the dollar--go overseas. Very little gets down to the grass roots, the people in need.
HIGH IMPACT: International giving is intelligent giving. Why? Because it is efficient giving. Small donations can yield big results. Although the overall international need far exceeds the capacity of private philanthropy, the needs of specific communities at the grassroots are simple, concrete and they can be addressed.
REWARDS: Few activities provide the same satisfaction, achievement and sense of contribution as international philanthropy. By supporting a foreign project overseas you help people take control of their lives, you challenge global inequity and break down the national and cultural barriers that feed poverty, tension and conflict. As a donor, you also get the rare and wonderful feeling of seeing concrete and dramatic results from your gift.
OFFICIAL FAILURES: Governments from post-industrialized countries are the primary donors for international development and relief. Since the end of the Cold War, individual governments have significantly decreased their contributions. Between 1992 and 1997, official assistance from leading industrialized countries dropped 30 percent, while their GNPs jumped almost 30.
GLOBALIZATION: Income disparity and inequity among peoples and nations exists today as never before. Despite globalization, today 3 billion people subsist on 2 dollars (U.S.) a day. In an age of intensifying interconnection, to be consistent with our philanthropic ideals we cannot just think globally. --We must act globally by giving globally! (Courtesy of International Donor's Dialogue)

The United States ranks last among the world's 28 top foreign aid donor countries, and its foreign assistance levels have dropped dramatically over the past 10 years, according to the United Nations Human Development Report (2002). When you look at countries' foreign aid relative to the size of their economies, the United States is devoting 0.1 per cent of its gross national product (GNP) to help the world's poorest countries, less than any other industrialized nation.

Think about it:

	If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep...You are richer than 75% of this world.
	If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace ...You are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.
	If you woke up this morning with more health than illness...You are more blessed than the millions who will not survive this week
	If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation...You are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
	If you can attend a meeting at a church, synagogue, mosque or temple without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death...You are more blessed than two billion people in the world.
	If you can read this message … You are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.
	Have a great day, count your blessings, and pass this along to remind everyone else how blessed we all are.