St. Elisabeth’s partners with the Interfaith Action Soup Kitchen to provides meals and shelter to those in need. St. Elisabeth’s volunteers are responsible for the second Thursday of every other month, and fifteen to twenty-five volunteers prepare and serve each meal. Volunteers of all ages are invited and encouraged to participate!

For over 50 years St. Elisabeth’s parishioners have participated in ReVive’s Christmas Basket program where we purchase, wrap, and deliver baskets of food and gifts for Chicago families of all ages and sizes who are homeless or have housing insecurities. Adding holiday cheer, this is a wonderful annual project for families with children, as well as adults. ReVive Center for Housing & Healing is an Episcopal Charities partner.

In addition to its on-going partnerships, St. Elisabeth's dedicates its plate offering to a single enterprise for one month of each calendar quarter. 

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Our current project is for The Grace Network, an organization which supports hygiene-insecure students in the Chicago Public Schools. 

St. Elisabeth’s partners with Family Promise ministry, which provides a pathway to self-sufficiency to homeless families with children by providing them with shelter, meals, and resources. We currently work with St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church in Wilmette to offer Family Promise in our community. Our volunteers serve as hosts for guest families, cook and serve meals, sleep overnight at host locations, and join residents for meals. All ages are invited to volunteer for this ministry.

St. Elisabeth’s families collect and deliver non-perishable food and staples for the New Trier Township Pantry. Parishioners bring donations to present during weekly Sunday services.

St Elisabeth's supports Episcopal Charities, the social outreach arm of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago. The organization provides grants for operational expense to its partner agencies working in areas of social need. across Northern Illinois.