Flint Creek Wildlife Center volunteer and “bird lady” Dawn Smith shares tips on how to make your yard friendly to magnificent birds, great and small. You’ll become your own back yard hero when you put these small tips into practice. They’ll go along way toward preventing bird fatalities and you just might find that your […]
By day, he’s a consultant to Fortune 500 companies dotting the globe and lectures at a major business school. By night, though, Rick Kolsky does a 180-degree pivot and coaches 11- and 12-year-old girls’ basketball at a local gym. Why? “I view coaching as something that is trying to teach kids great life lessons, […]
In 1991, a group of parents convinced Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge to open a primary care clinic two mornings each month for their adult children with Down syndrome. Good ideas flourished and the Adult Down Syndrome Clinic (ADSC) grew into a holistic care center nurturing the physical and mental well-being of more than 4,500 […]
Men—including me—need your help, and not just with our personal hygiene. An incredible international charity event known as “Movember” needs you. Movember is a month-long event raising money for prostate cancer research by having men grow mustaches. It’s a two-pronged approach we hope will literally “change the face of men’s health”: first, the men’s mustaches […]
Here’s your chance to shop and “Make It Better”—all at the same time. Participate in and enjoy a local “Shop For A Cause” this month: 8th Annual Winter Arts + Crafts Expo ”Shop Your Cause” Night Thursday, December 2, 6-9 p.m. Evanston Art Center, Center for the Visual Arts 2603 Sheridan Rd., Evanston | 847-475-5300 Beautiful […]
Sam Weisz, DDS and his colleagues just want to make people smile this holiday season—even if it means giving them a dental overhaul. “We’ve heard so many stories this year of people in the community who are down and out, with foreclosures and other things,” says Weisz. Hearing about patients’ hardships prompted the group to […]
People often think about charity in terms of the tangible, like donating old coats or collecting canned goods—but Metropolitan Services does much more than that, and you can be part of it at their holiday celebration on Dec. 4. But what about intangible needs, like counseling for a family with an out-of-control teen? “We have […]
The people served by Connections for the Homeless aren’t who you think they are. Yes, some are the hard-core homeless, those lost souls who are scarred by mental health issues, substance abuse and the street. For them, Connections provides a safe place to store vital documents, a shower, a warm meal—literally a connection to society […]
Children attending the Westfield Old Orchard Family Harvest Festival offered their Make It Better perspective through words and drawings. Here’s one special letter we received: When I was born, I was very sick. I had heart, lung and stomach problems, and people didn’t know if I would survive. Doctors did surgery on me, putting a […]
The World English Dictionary offers this definition of “philanthropy”:
