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2025 Festival of Quilts
April 4, 2025 – April 5, 2025
Our signature fundraiser, the Festival attracts hundreds of patrons each year.
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Cunningham Children’s Home is an exemplary child welfare and educational services agency providing caring support and therapeutic intervention to more than 977 youth and families each year through comprehensive programs including residential treatment, special education and community-based services.
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Our Impact

We are proud of the services we provided to youth and families in Fiscal Year 2023.

  • 100%
    Of the young people in our Residential Treatment
    Program stepped down to less
    restrictive settings.
  • 939
    Volunteers provided more than 3,500 hours of time
  • 8,531
    Therapy sessions across all our programs

News

  • Pickleball tournament promo image with orange and blue background, orange, green and black text and a blue Cunningham logo
    Playing Pickleball for Cunningham
    2025-03-12 20:43:02
    Cunningham  is excited to collaborate with University of Illinois students with Illini Get Pickled Charity Pickleball Tournament, March 29-30
  • Kendall Gill standing in front of the Cunningham hope begins here banner and speaking into a microphone. Behind the banner are several golf carts parked in a row
    2025 Kendall Gill Golf Benefit
    2025-02-24 21:26:40
    Mark your calendars for July 14th, gather your team and join us for a round of golf, good company and giving back.
  • Woman with red curly hair smiling holding a monopoly game and holding a fishbowl with a goldfish in it
    Wade the Betta: A Therapeutic Companion
    2025-02-20 14:41:33
    In therapy, healing tools often come in unexpected forms. For Jennifer, a therapist at our HopeSprings Counseling Services, Wade the betta fish is one such tool.
  • Picture of a handwritten note on top of a gift box with a folded Marine Corps. flag inside
    Semper Fi
    2025-02-20 16:26:08
    Alan’s passion to served showed up when a Marine Corps flag appeared at the top of his Christmas wish list this year.
  • male teenager wearing a red jacket and holding up a Nikon camera in front of his body
    Picture Perfect
    2025-02-20 16:49:10
    Julien’s photography class has allowed him to explore his creativity, capture meaningful moments and see the world from a new perspective.
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Volunteer

There are many opportunities to give your time to Cunningham. We wouldn’t be able to host our wonderful fundraising and community engagement events if it weren’t for the dedication of volunteers like you.
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