A new collaboration between the Barrington Area Development Council and Barrington Area Library is making it easy for you to find your local “Volunteer Match”! The Barrington Area Development Council, in collaboration
Barrington’s Courageous Conversations is excited to kick off their first events of 2021 with a special virtual gathering to meditate on the moment, celebrate our collective power, rekindle possibilities, renew intentions, and
For the first time ever, the Barrington Area Council on Aging (Bacoa) has invited five local real-life couples to compete in their 4th annual Dancing with the Barrington Stars 2021 fundraiser coming
From COVID to the election to our racial reckoning, this year has been a time of great change, trauma and truth-telling. It’s been a year that has illuminated fractures in our civic life
Make gift wrapping a snap while giving back during Barrington Campus Life Center’s 3rd Annual Wrapped With Love gift wrapping events. Volunteers will wrap your holiday gifts for JUST $1 PER ITEM,
Feel like you’re still recovering after a pressure-packed presidential election? You’re in good company. Now that the polarizing political season is behind us, is it time to reimagine our social contract? What
Approximately 18,000 children are in Illinois Foster Care and Let It Be Us is on a mission to find families for these children in need of foster and/or adoptive families. From 7-8:30 p.m.
How do we become racially and culturally conscious families? How can we best support inclusion and equity in our schools? On October 14, Barrington community members and guests from across the country
The second year of Barrington’s Courageous Conversations presented by Urban Consulate and Barrington’s White House opened with strong attendance and powerful messages from three guest speakers. More than 130 people participated in the September session
Update: Wendy’s 2020 Late Summer/Fall bird walks are full. Stay tuned as we’ll let you know if and when Wendy schedules another series of walks for spring! Get outside, enjoy nature and learn
Want to be part of a local movement to foster greater inclusion and belonging in and beyond Barrington? We are all invited to join in a new season of Courageous Conversations created by
Often on restoration workdays with Citizens for Conservation, participants share sightings of mammals, insects, reptiles, birds, plants they have seen recently. We also pause at times to study something discovered by a
Just a week after their 8th annual fashion show fundraiser, Hope’s in Style, and days before a team was scheduled to build a home in Guatemala City, the COVID-19 pandemic hit. The
When protesters began organizing the first demonstrations in Chicago after the police killing of George Floyd on May 25th in Minneapolis, Barrington resident, Anya Sastry hoped to head to the city to
Grove Avenue Elementary School 4th Grader, Roman Booker is taking his soccer skills to a new level to support families needing food and healthcare providers working tirelessly to save lives during the