Northwest Compass Inc

Northwest Compass impacts the lives and families in the Northwest Suburbs of Chicago through a consortium of integrated partnerships and safety-net programs, each of which include outreach, motivational interviewing, solution focused case management, and life skills training. Where crisis becomes opportunity!

Northwest Compass provides services to residents of the Northwest Suburbs of Chicago from our main facility in Mount Prospect with exponential program growth in response to dynamic increase in the demand for our services. As strong stewards of our funding, our service delivery model changed from full-time staff to full-time leadership working alongside part-time staff, and unpaid staff. The milieu of unpaid staff are skill-based volunteers, associate volunteers, community service volunteers, corporate group volunteers, undergraduate and graduate interns. We developed a strong volunteer model through our certification as a Service Enterprise through the Points of Light Foundation. A “Service Enterprises are organizations that deeply integrate volunteers to successfully deliver on their mission [and] operate at almost half the median budget as their peers" (Points of Light, 2015). “Service Enterprises are organizations that deeply integrate volunteers to successfully deliver on their mission [and] operate at almost half the median budget as their peers" (Points of Light, 2015). Northwest Compass leverages volunteers and their skills to successfully deliver the organization's mission to over 35,000 units of service for our neighbors in FY15.

Northwest Compass professional staff and experienced board of directors have decades of experience serving the underserved. The board of directors is engaged in reviewing performance reports of staff in service to clients. The executive staff closely monitors outcomes of programs.

Northwest Compass is strengthening it's infrastructure and reporting systems to assure the highest level of client service.

We have recently added Americiorps/Legacy Corps, serving veterans, military personnel and their families. This is the premier Legacy Corps in the United States and the only Legacy Corps in Illinois with 50 members each providing a minimum of 450 hours of service per calendar year.