LOCAL

UNLEASH COMPASSION

Unleashing compassion with community partners, local missions and in neighborhoods.

Make a Difference! To find ways to serve in
your community click on the location nearest you.

*Click HERE to view all opportunities.

foster care

If you are interested in learning more about becoming a foster or adoptive parent, we’d love to help connect you with those organizations. But all of us can do something!  You can find out how you can support foster and adoptive families. You can buy diapers and wipes. You can provide a meal. You’d be providing indescribable encouragement to those families. To get more information about foster/adopt or to learn how to support these families, click on the link below.

join the compassion crew

Do you want to help mobilize other Eastsiders to serve? Want to join a group of Change Makers to facilitate compassion activity on your campus? Join the Compassion Crew! Projects vary depending on the season, your skillset, and campus. Ways you can serve while on the Crew include things like shopping or delivering partner supplies, helping support compassion projects, prepping compassion experiences for other Eastside groups, helping promote upcoming compassion opportunities at your campus, and more.

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LOOKING FOR SOME INSPIRATION? HEAR WAYS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE

ACTS OF COMPASSION: 11,000+

Thank you to all who served and pinned their Acts of Compassion during 21 Days of Serving. We are celebrating all 11,089 Acts of Compassion! We pray our contagious kindness will inspire transformational life change. Unleashing compassion doesn’t just happen once a year! Let’s make this movement continue…

CREATING JOY JARS

Many Eastsiders are putting together Joy Jars for an organization called NEGU who are encouraging every kid fighting cancer to Never Ever Give Up! 

LEARN MORE ABOUT our guiding principles

OUR MISSION

Eastside Local Compassion is committed to serving the community and helping Eastsiders find their passion to serve. We aim to empower kids to thrive and bring hope to families by listening and learning from existing pillar organizations in the community, developing partnerships, identifying gaps in services and intentionally mobilizing people and resources.

OUR VISION

Our dream is for Eastside to be a leader in finding solutions, building bridges, and bringing the love and hope of Jesus to hurting communities. We strive to inspire people to collectively influence transformational life change.

VALUES

Trust & Collaboration
Strategic Partnerships
Transformational Life Change 
Maximizing Resources

scrip

shop with a purpose

Looking for more ways to give back? It’s as easy as buying a gift card. Scrip is a unique way to donate because a percentage of every gift card purchased through our scrip program goes toward helping families in need!

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