Club Blue Fund

The Club Blue grant program was established to raise funds to supply the basic goods and services that promote the safety, health and well-being of children in need in our community.

In 2012, ten friends gathered in a Rockford home to learn about the problem of child abuse in our area and the work done at the Carrie Lynn Children’s Center, an organization dedicated to supporting the victims of child abuse. Deeply moved, the women decided to build awareness and support for organizations that help our community’s children by hosting a different kind of fundraiser. There would be no sit down dinner, no voice auction, no speeches, just a night of great food, drinks and dancing. Just 82 days later, the inaugural Club Blue fundraiser brought in $126,000 for the organization that supports our area’s victims of abuse.

Since 2012, Club Blue raised over $2 million and brought attention to the needs of our community’s children and the nonprofits who serve them. The Club Blue Angels are opened their wings to share the good fortune with other charities in Boone and Winnebago Counties who met the Club Blue mission: raising funds to supply the basic goods and services that promote the safety, health and well-being of children in need in our community.

For ten years, Club Blue partnered with the Community Foundation of Northern Illinois to grant funds to area nonprofits that serve children, while building a legacy by creating an endowment to support their mission in perpetuity. While Club Blue will no longer operate as its own entity, the endowment the Club Blue Angels established will continue to benefit children in Boone and Winnebago Counties via CFNIL's grantmaking programs and processes.

The Club Blue Angels are especially grateful to the more than 200 business and personal contributors who have generously donated funds, goods, and services to make Club Blue a success.