The Barrington Area Volunteer Connection (BAVC) website offers several volunteer opportunities for helping children & families, including our senior residents. Searching on the BAVC platform is easy and will help you quickly find a role that meets your skills or interests. Here is just a sample of what is currently available:
Let It Be Us – Save the Date on Sept. 23rd!
Each year Let It Be Us collects almost 2,000 toys for children in foster care and distributes them to group homes in Chicago and the Northern Region. One addition for this year’s Toy Drive is that they are collecting toys for the children on the Illinois Heart Gallery who are waiting for an adoptive home. (Let It Be Us now manages the Adoption Listing Service and the Heart Gallery of Illinois.)
The kickoff meeting is September 23rd at 7:00 pm. 3 Co-Chairs and other Committee Members are needed organize outreach to local merchants to help collect toys, manage the logistics of toy pickup and coordinate volunteer drivers who will deliver the toys to designated group homes in Chicago and the Northern Region.
Be a part of this fun, rewarding opportunity and help bring a big smile to foster children around the holidays!
Click here to learn more about how to get involved.
Mid Mod 2025 Is Back for BACOA!
Back for its 2nd year, Mid Mod is a self-guided tour showcasing iconic mid-century modern homes designed by architectural legends (like Frank Lloyd Wright, Edward Dart, Harry Weese, and Keck & Keck.
This year’s event will be held on Saturday, October 4, 2025, and will feature viewings of beautiful and rarely accessible homes. Proceeds directly benefit Barrington Area Council on Aging (BACOA) and its essential work supporting older adults and caregivers across our community. There are multiple 2 hour shifts on that day and a complimentary ticket to see the homes on the tour will be given to all volunteers!
To sign up for a shift, click here.
Barrington Children’s Charities’ P.O.P. (Packs of Plenty)!
The daily school lunch program feeds children during the school week, but weekends are not covered. This important P.O.P. (Packs of Plenty) program provides a pack full of nutritious food for children to consume over the weekend Volunteers meet weekly to pack more than 500 bags of food that get delivered to the children who participate in the program. Packing usually occurs every Thursday of each month during the school year 9:00 -10:00 AM at Sunny Hill Elementary in Carpentersville.
Now that school is back in session, click here and consider volunteering and helping out kids in Barrington 220.
To learn more about how you can register as a BAVC nonprofit or volunteer, please visit thebavc.org.
More About the Barrington Area Volunteer Connection (BAVC)
Barrington Area Volunteer Connection (BAVC)‘s goal is to bring all 100+ Barrington area nonprofits, churches and service organizations in a free & easy to use database so that volunteers can easily find opportunities. The foundation of BAVC is a volunteer match platform called Get Connected which serves as a clearinghouse to bring together organizations, volunteers, and collaborators to match volunteer interests with nonprofits needing assistance. GetConnected also offers organizations optional features such as easy record keeping of volunteer hours, as well as mobile check in and shift reminders and other ways to communicate with volunteers. Learn more at TheBAVC.org. Please also visit BAVC’s Facebook & Instagram pages! * BAVC Photos by Bob Lee
