Northern Illinois University
Northern Illinois Center for Nonprofit Excellence

We want to ensure that all organizations can belong to NICNE which is why our sliding scale fees are based on your operating budget. Read more about membership. Please contact Pam Clark Reidenbach, CEO, with questions at pclark1@niu.edu.

Corporate Partners

We know that nonprofit leaders aren't the only ones committed to community improvement. Business leaders also recognize that a thriving community fosters a thriving economy. By partnering with the business community, we increase our capacity to foster collaboration between leaders from all sectors to address our most pressing social issues. To learn more about how your business can partner with NICNE to strengthen the nonprofit sector, contact Pam Clark Reidenbach, NICNE CEO, at 815-753-8733 or pclark1@niu.edu.

Our corporate partners connect with dozens of other organizations in our region. We recognize the investment of corporate partners in several ways:

• Post their website on our website.
• Promote their training opportunities and/or services in our newsletter (reaching more than 2,500 nonprofit professionals across northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin).
• Connect their staff to board service opportunities.
• Offer reduced registration fees for professional development opportunities

2024 Member Organizations

Our members form a community of nonprofit leaders who share common interests and aspirations. We support one another as we work to achieve our missions. Join today to benefit from NICNE membership.

• Actual Authentic Solutions
• Alignment Rockford
• Association for Individual Development (AID)
• Barbara Olson Center of Hope
• Blessed Ballers
• Boone County Community Foundation
• Boone County Council on Aging (Keen Age Center)
• Boys & Girls Club of Rockford
• Brooke Road United Methodist Church
• Carpenter's Place
• Catholic Charities in the Diocese of Rockford
• Center for Sight and Hearing
• Circle of Change
• Community Foundation of Northern Illinois
• Crusader Community Health Foundation
• Discovery Center Museum of Rockford
• Easterseals of Metropolitan Chicago
• Family Counseling Services
• Farmer's Rising
• Freeport Art Museum
• Gigi's Playhouse
• Girls On The Run
• Goldie B. Floberg Center
• Goodwill Industries of Northern Illinois
• Harlem Community Center
• IDEA Illinois (Illinois Digital Educators Alliance)
• Jeremiah Development
• Ken-Rock Community Center
• Keep Northern Illinois Beautiful
• K-FACT
• Laurent House Museum
• Liam Foundation
• Life Decisions
• Lifescape Community Services
• Lisa’s Little Rescue
• Marshmallow's Hope
• Midway Village Museum
• Milestone, Inc.
• My Sista’s House LLC
• Natural Land Institute
• Nature at the Confluence
• NIReACH
• Northern Illinois Hospice
• Northern Illinois Raptor Rehab and Education
• Northwest Community Center
• Northwest Neighbors

• Northwestern Illinois Center for Independent Living
• One Body Collaboratives
• Project First Rate
• Regional Access & Mobilization Project (RAMP)-Rockford
• Ride Illinois
• Rock House Kids
• Rockford Housing Authority
• Rock River Valley Blood Center
• Rock River Valley Pantry
• Rock River Valley Self Help Enterprises
• Rockford Area Arts Council
• Rockford Area Convention and Visitors Bureau
• Rockford Area Habitat for Humanity, Inc.
• Rockford Art Museum
• Rockford Barbell
• Rockford Dance Company
• Rockford Housing Authority
• Rockford Lutheran School
• Rockford Promise
• Rockford Rescue Mission Ministries
• Rockford Symphony Orchestra
• Rosecrance Health Network
• Safe Passage
• Secondary Success and Beyond
• Severson Dells Nature Center
• Shelter Care Ministries
• Sinnissippi Centers, Inc.
• Stepping Stones of Rockford, Inc.
• Sustain Rockford
• The Music Academy in Rockford
• The Pregnancy Care Center of Rockford
• The Salvation Army of Rockford & Winnebago County
• The Workforce Connection, Inc.
• Tommy Corrall Memorial Foundation
• United Way of Rock River Valley
• University of Illinois Extension - Unit 1
• Village of Progress Inc.
• Visit Beloit
• Winnebago County CASA
• Winnebago County Sewer and Water Conservation District
• Winnebago County State’s Attorney’s Office
• Womanspace, Inc.
• YMCA of Rock River Valley
• Youth Services Network (YSN)
• YWCA of Northwest Illinois
• ZION Development