Illinois Center for Autism
A special place...for special people.
Ways You Can Help ICA
  • Eat at Pasta Fare Dine-In
  • Use Pasta Fare for your catered events

• Attend our special events
  • Spring Auction and Dinner   
  • Golf Outing   
  • Trivia Night

• Support Petals Remembered
  • Donate fresh flowers to Petals Remembered
  • Use Petals Remembered potpourri for your home or as gifts
  • Purchase a wreath from Petals Remembered

• Donate classroom related materials and equipment

• Donate school supplies

• Earn money and program materials for ICA with your every day purchases.  

ICA participates in several label collection programs.  You can drop off your labels  at Illinois
Center for Autism, Pasta Fare or Petals Remembered.

  • Save "Box Tops for Education" coupons from products you already purchase.  Visit the "Box Tops
    for Education" website for lists of products in the program and money saving coupons for many
    Pillsbury products.  Join their booster club and earn more cash for ICA by linking through their site to
    many online merchants who donate a percentage of your purchase price to ICA.

  •  Save Campbell's soup labels to get free stuff for ICA.   In addition to the various Campbell's soups
    the program also includes labels from products such as Pepperidge Farms, V8, Swanson, Prego
    and Pace.  Full listings of the products included and items which can be earned are available on the
    Campbell's Labels for Education website.


ICA also participates in programs which donate dollars based on your purchases.

  •  Shop online for everyday items at 600+ stores and a percentage of each purchase is donated to
    ICA.

iGive.com

GoodShop

    iGive.com and GoodShop.com have different participating merchant lists, so check both for
    where you want to shop.
                          
  • Enroll in Target's "Take Charge of Education" program.  Through the Take Charge of Education
    program, Target donates an amount equal to 1% of REDcard(SM) (Target Visa and Target Card)
    purchases made at Target and Target.com, and 1/2% of Target Visa purchases made elsewhere, to
    the eligible K-12 school of your choice.  You can enroll on Target's Take Charge of Education   
    website.

  • Pick up a Schnucks eScrip Community Card at your local store.  With your card you will receive
    instructions on how to register.  Show your eScrip card each time you shop and Schnucks will make
    contributions to ICA based on your purchases.  You can get personal reports on th eScrip website.

• Recycle empty printer cartridges & used cell phones

    Funding Factory  is a free fund raising program to help educational and nonprofit organizations get
    the equipment or cash they need without any hassle. Start collecting empty printer cartridges and
    used cell phones today.   Items can be dropped off at ICA or, if  your workplace uses larger
    quantities of cartridges,  David Meuth at ICA can help you sign up to get prepaid shipping boxes free
    of charge to send in cartridges directly through UPS.  

• Earn a donation for ICA every time you search the Internet.

    GoodSearch   Search the web with Yahoo-powered GoodSearch.com and they’ll donate a penny to
    your cause each time you search.  Go to goodsearch.com to join and follow instructions on their site
    to make good search your default search engine.  Signing up on their site also signs you up for
    GoodShop

• Donate items to be auctioned or given away at special event


• Monetary donations are always needed and appreciated through JustGive.org.
JustGive.org is a non-profit organization which provides a secure means of donating to ICA.

• Memorial donations in memory of a loved one can be made through JustGive.org.


• Remember ICA when establishing planned giving
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ICA is always looking for donations! Below is a list of items that we have a more predominant
need for. If you wish to make an item donation of any kind, please contact us to make Thank
you for considering  the Illinois Center for Autism!
Plus size men’s/women’s cotton
sweatpants
Skittles
Regular M&M’s
Starburst
Laffy Taffy
Gummy Bears
Cheese Its
Pretzel Sticks
Microwave Popcorn
Crayons
Baby Wipes
AA Batteries
Age Appropriate Wii Games
Age Appropriate Nintendo DS Lite
games