Helping Women Achieve Their Most Important Financial Goals
Follow Helen Abe’s top financial tips for women, which she shared in a virtual Fireside Chat with Make It Better Founder and Chief Visionary Officer Susan Noyes.
Helping Women Achieve Their Most Important Financial Goals
Women as a group face many financial challenges. We earn less on average during our careers compared to men, and we compound that shortcoming by investing less. One in five divorced women lives in poverty. All of these shortfalls send us into retirement with significantly smaller nest eggs than men have — yet we live […]
The 44th Mill Valley Film Festival Reached 12,000 Students, Teachers — Make It Better Foundation Donates $10K to CFI’s Education Program
The California Film Institute’s Education program was able to expand its outreach well beyond the San Francisco Bay Area during this year’s Mill Valley Film Festival, held online for the second year. As a result, over 12,000 teachers and students from 114 different schools in 25 states were able to take advantage of the free […]
What’s New in Town in January 2022: Wine, Sweets and Mediterranean Eats
A new wine bar in Tiburon adds to the town’s energy as an emerging food and drink destination, F3 pivots to Mediterranean in Sausalito, a plant-forward restaurant lands in Novato and other newsy bits from around Marin and the Bay Area. Featured: Squalo Vino Wine Bar Fifteen wines by the glass, 90 by the bottle […]
31 of the Best Things to Do in Chicago and the Suburbs in January 2022
It’s a new month, and a fresh start to a new year. Say hello to 2022 with opportunities to get outdoors, safely take in the arts, support local restaurants, and more. Here are the best things to do this January around Chicago. Don’t forget to tag us in your posts on Instagram @betterchicago All Month Take […]
Woman’s Club of Wilmette Reopens 6 Years After Devastating Fire
Seeing was believing when the community got a look at the rehabilitated Woman’s Club of Wilmette in October. Six-plus years after the historic building at 930 Greenleaf Ave. burned nearly to the ground, club leadership opened the doors for a ribbon-cutting ceremony led by the Wilmette-Kenilworth Chamber of Commerce. “Congrats to the members who worked […]
Chicago Photographers Share Their Favorite Photo of 2021
As the year comes to a close, we asked some of our favorite Chicago photographers to share their standout image from 2021. Here are their favorite images, and the stories behind them. Avinash Biradar “2021 had some memorable sunsets in Chicago and I was able to capture many of them. This particular sunset came out […]
31 Things to Do This January: Honor MLK Day, “Harry Potter” Comes to San Francisco, the Napa Lighted Art Festival and More
It’s a new year and there’s lots of new things to do. Here’s our guide to all things January 2022. 4 Ways to Honor MLK Day This Year Around the Bay and beyond, events ask us to recall the civil rights achievements of Martin Luther King and reflect on the issues facing Black Americans. Here […]
Stories of Survival: Isabel Allende’s Latest Novel, “Violeta”, Set During the Time of the Spanish Flu
When Isabel Allende learned her grandfather was dying on January 8, 1981, she began to pen a spiritual letter addressed to him, assuming he would not live to read it. Allende says she wrote the first words in a trance, “Barrabas came to us by sea,” not knowing what they meant. In political exile from […]
Stories of Survival: Isabel Allende’s Latest Novel, “Violeta”, Set During the Time of the Spanish Flu
When Isabel Allende learned her grandfather was dying on January 8, 1981, she began to pen a spiritual letter addressed to him, assuming he would not live to read it. Allende says she wrote the first words in a trance, “Barrabas came to us by sea,” not knowing what they meant. In political exile from […]
