Social Justice

Refugee Volunteering and Support

Volunteers from Sukkat Shalom are working with our friends from first Presbyterian Church of Wilmette to welcome and settle a family from Afghanistan.

Connections for the Homeless

Volunteers use the Sukkat Shalom kitchen to prepare and deliver nutritious meals for our neighbors experiencing homelessness.

Family Promise

In partnership with the First Presbyterian Church of Wilmette, volunteers help cook dinner and enjoy a meal with in-need families in our community.

Stock the Shelves

Load truck and distribute household items to refugee families. 

Community Organizing

Join fellow congregants to advocate for social justice initiatives.

Refugee Volunteering and Support

Through our partnership with HIAS-JCFS, volunteers from Sukkat Shalom are working with our friends from first Presbyterian Church of Wilmette to welcome and settle a family from Afghanistan. Click HERE to sign up.

Connections for the Homeless

As part of our ongoing partnership with Connections for the Homeless, volunteers are needed to provide meals two Sundays a month for unhoused families and individuals at the Margarita Inn. Volunteers are needed to shop for, prepare and package, and deliver 30 meals. The kitchen at Sukkat Shalom will be available for congregants to gather and collaborate to provide home-cooked meals for our neighbors. You can sign up for one or all of the tasks with friends, or you can sign up on your own to meet other congregants. A menu, grocery list, and further information will be provided. Click HERE to email for more information.

Family Promise

Sukkat Shalom has participated in Family Promise for over a decade, in partnership with First Presbyterian Church of Wilmette. Family Promise is a national organization that serves low-income, unhoused families.  The host congregation provides meals and lodging to the participating families for a week at a time. We are looking for individuals/groups to cook dinner for the visiting families. Cooking takes place at the congregation (or a volunteer's home), and then the volunteers serve and share the meal with families at the host congregation.  This is a special opportunity for members of Sukkat Shalom (children are welcome to participate!) to engage on a personal level with in-need families.  Often, volunteers' children enjoy playtime with visiting families throughout the evening. Click HERE to email for more information.

Stock the Shelves

Stock the Shelves provides what food stamps won’t and stretched incomes can’t cover by giving Chicago area refugees and their families the household and hygiene supplies they need to lead thriving lives. Striving to close that gap, every fourth Wednesday of the month, Stock the Shelves drives a truck filled with many of the  items refugees need  to a location in the West Ridge neighborhood of Chicago, where volunteers set up a mini-store stocked with new, unopened items.

Community Organizing

Join fellow congregants to advocate for social justice initiatives in the region. These advocacy efforts are focused on making systemic changes rather than our other social justice activities which are focused on addressing individual needs. For more information, please email board member Eve Williams by clicking here.

To learn more about Sukkat Shalom's Social Justice work, or add your name to the volunteer list, please email: sukkatshalom@sukkatshalom.org.