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You can help create a brighter future for Chicago’s children by supporting Mercy Home’s March for Kids this month.
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Our families are suffering.
As the COVID-19 crisis deepens, they're being cut off from even the most basic necessities.
These families struggle financially even in the best of times. But as the COVID-19 crisis deepens, they’re being cut off from many of life’s most basic necessities. They need you now more than ever.
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begin with you, help Chicago’s children by donating to Mercy Home!
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You can help create a brighter future for Chicago’s children by supporting Mercy Home’s March for Kids this month.
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Rev. L. Scott Donahue (Fr. Scott) is the President and CEO of Mercy Home for Boys & Girls.
Fr. Scott has been caring for the children at Mercy Home since joining its Board of Regents in 1990, later serving as assistant to its president. In 2006, after ten years of service as Mercy Home's associate president, Fr. Scott was appointed the Home’s eighth president since its founding in 1887.
Before coming to Mercy Home, so many of our kids struggle with difficult home lives and devastating losses. This was the situation in which Ella found herself. Her father’s alcoholism and inability to keep a job and her mother’s advancing cancer made it a struggle to pay the bills each month. After a lengthy hospital […]
This month Fr. Scott Donahue encourages us to embrace the season of lent and prepare your heart for this coming Easter.
Every child needs a safe place to call home. That’s why it is so tragic when the one place where a child should feel secure can be one of the most stressful. That’s what happened to Miguel. Miguel had always been close to his family. Growing up, he thought everything was perfect. He had two […]
Stability is something that many of our kids long for, when they arrive at our door. They often come to us from volatile living situations where abuse, poverty, and neglect was commonplace. With constant love, support, and care—sometimes for the first time ever—our kids truly begin to flourish. They are able to adjust their mindset […]
Father Scott Donahue celebrates Sunday Mass at Mercy Home for Boys and Girls on the Baptism of the Lord, January 12, 2019.
Father Scott Donahue celebrates Sunday Mass at Mercy Home for Boys and Girls on the Epiphany of the Lord, January 5, 2019.
Father Scott Donahue celebrates Sunday Mass at Mercy Home for Boys and Girls on the Nativity of the Lord, December 25, 2019.
Join our Partners in Prayer to pray for children like Jayden, who because of Mercy Home was given a chance to achieve his dreams.
Father Scott Donahue celebrates Sunday Mass at Mercy Home for Boys and Girls on Third Sunday of Advent, December 15, 2019.
This month Fr. Scott Donahue encourages us to have a spirit of generosity this Christmas season and to take a moment to enjoy the blessings in our lives.
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