Programs & Events
Join us throughout the year at community and public programs and events at which our Gift of Hope staff and Ambassador for Hope volunteers are engaged with community advocates and providing education about life-giving organ, eye and tissue donation.
Upcoming Events
Candle Making Workshop
We invite donor families to celebrate their loved one at this memory making event. An instructor will help guide us as we create a keepsake candle in honor of our loved one and their legacy. We will have the opportunity to share stories and connect with one another. Registration is required for this event.
Central Illinois Resource Center Inc’s Bloomington Community Care Fair
Chicago Latina Magazine Expo Presented by AMBETTER HEALTH
Chicago Recovering Communities Coalition (CRCC) Workforce Career & Job Resource Fair
Candle Making Workshop
We invite donor families to celebrate their loved one at this memory making event. An instructor will help guide us as we create a keepsake candle in honor of our loved one and their legacy. We will have the opportunity to share stories and connect with one another. Registration is required for this event.
Spend in the Black
Virtual Grief Support For Donor Families
We welcome all donor families to join us monthly for our Open Grief Support Group via Zoom. We meet on the first Tuesday of every month, 6 – 7 p.m. CST. Contact Donor Family Services for registration.
Northwestern Catherine Gratz Griffin Lake Forest Hospital Flag Raising
Flag Raising: Decatur Memorial Hospital
Flag Raising: Carle BroMenn Medical Center
Addison Senior Fair
Together We Celebrate District 3
Flag Raising: Advocate Condell Medical Center
Flag Raising: OSF Saint Clare Medical Center
Flag Raising: OSF Saint Elizabeth Medical Center – Peru
Flag Raising: OSF Saint Elizabeth Medical Center – Ottawa
Flag Raising: OSF Saint Paul Medical Center
Flag Raising: UnityPoint Health-Trinity Rock Island
Flag Raising: Carle Health Methodist Hospital, Peoria
Memory Box Assembly Workshop
We invite all those who have been touched by donation to connect during this workshop, while assembling memory boxes to be given to future donor families. Registration is required for this event.
Flag Raising: Javon Bea Hospital—Riverside
National Donate Life Month Carle Richland Memorial Hospital Tabling Event
Flag Raising: OSF Saint James – John W. Albrecht Medical Center
Flag Raising: Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers
Flag Raising: Endeavor Northwest Community Hospital
Flag Raising: OSF St. Mary Medical Center in Galesburg
Flag Raising: OSF St. Luke Medical Center
Flag Raising: OSF Holy Family Medical Center
Virtual Grief Support for Donor Families
We welcome all donor families to join us monthly for our Open Grief Support Group via Zoom. We meet on the first Tuesday of every month, 6 – 7 p.m. CST. Contact Donor Family Services for registration.
Candle Making Workshop
We invite donor families to celebrate their loved one at this memory making event. An instructor will help guide us as we create a keepsake candle in honor of our loved one and their legacy. We will have the opportunity to share stories and connect with one another. Registration is required for this event.
