This April, thought leaders gathered at Make It Better’s third annual Money, Values & Impact summit to share their thoughts about how to maximize social impact without sacrificing capital gains. Convening at Chicago’s Four Seasons Hotel, the curated lineup of presenters spoke to some 170 attendees, including investors and civic leaders, about the changing landscape […]
Sheri Warsh received a call that no parent wants to get. Her son, then a freshman some 260 miles away at the University of Michigan, was crouched in a corner with stabbing pains in his chest and unable even to walk across the street to the hospital, according to his roommate, who made the phone […]
A couple years ago, Suanne Rayner found herself in a position of financial disarray. She did not know how to budget her money and was in a downward spiral of crushing debt. Her situation is not unique. According to a Prudential survey, women on average are lagging behind their male counterparts in saving for retirement […]
Speakers at Make It Better’s Money, Values and Impact summit on April 17 packed a powerful punch with humor and tales from the financial front, guiding attendees on how to maximize social impact with capital investments. Some 170 guests ranging from foundation and corporate leaders to ultra high net wealth managers to members of the Tiffany […]
If you’ve attended a continuing development course, only to find yourself feeling like you were watching paint dry, look no further than GlassCeiling.com’s professional development event on Feb. 23. At Chicago’s Peninsula Hotel, GlassCeiling.com and Entertain2Educate will present an original play called Family Matters: Sex, Lies, Money and Power (and Some Good Social Efforts Along the […]
The birth of a child brings joy… and it brings challenges, with none causing more angst for most parents than the realization that in 18 years they could face a college bill to the tune of some $250,000 (in today’s dollars for a private institution). The statistics are sobering. Americans owe over $1.4 trillion in […]
As the situation in Puerto Rico continues to unfold after back-to-back monstrous hurricanes devastated the island, many of us watch the video footage, read the harrowing stories of death and survival, and feel helpless from our comfortable homes on the mainland. Many have criticized aid to Puerto Rico as being slow and inadequate. As of […]
For Jeff Pryor, keeping his 93-year-old mother, Adele Pryor, in her own home after his father passed was a priority. “It’s a very personal decision,” Pryor says. “My example was my father, who took care of my mother for 20 years after she had a stroke. I’ve tried to live up to that example and […]
Wilmette resident Patricia Stratton is nothing if not determined. Twenty-five years after she presented her master’s thesis at Northwestern University, Stratton has delivered on a promise to herself to share with the world a fascination and deep knowledge of what is fondly known as “Chicago’s Picasso.” In time for the 50th anniversary of the unveiling […]
It’s hard to imagine that Holly Curtis, with her unwavering cheerfulness and energy, spent her formative years through young adulthood suffering from severe family trauma and eating disorders that nearly consumed her. Curtis, now a passionate advocate for eating disorder awareness, brings her personal and harrowing story to print in her memoir “Large Fry Small […]
