Everyone likes a new bracelet—especially when it helps to empower and support Afghan women in need. Peace Cord bracelets were first launched in 2010 by ARZU, a not-for-profit which works to empower Afghan women through fair employment, literacy classes and more. The Peace Cord bracelet is their latest product and is woven from authentic military […]
No one was more surprised than Chicago’s Jud Kinnucan and Geeta Singh when ABC-TV came calling. The nonprofit that Kinnucan founded and Singh directs, Bin Donated was chosen to be featured on the show “Secret Millionaire.” Businessman Steve Kaplan of Buffalo Grove was the featured secret millionaire, in an episode based in Chicago. One […]
In the lower level of the Winnetka Community House is a large room with comfy couches, game tables and a steady stream of activities including pizza and movie parties and video game tournaments. At night, open mic events get kids writing their own music and singing and writing comedy and doing stand-up. The Winnetka Youth […]
Illness affects everyone, and nutrition is often the last thing on your mind when a loved one is sick.
One of Chicago’s crown jewels is Lincoln Park Zoo, which remains free and open to the public 365 days a year.
847 Hoops is offering 7th and 8th graders the chance to hone their basketball skills during the summer, for free. Darren Barndt, a basketball coach at Lake Forest High School, and his former player Aron Khurana founded 847 Hoops to bring people together through the love of basketball. The participants are all of different […]
The Watoto Children’s Choir is bringing inspiring song and dance to the North Shore. Since the first choir was created in 1994, 55 Watoto Children’s Choirs have toured the world to raise awareness for the nearly 50 million orphaned children in Africa. These tours give the children, who have lost one or both parents, […]
Flying through the air in the grandest of ballet jumps at the Evanston School of Ballet is where Melissa Thodos found the joy in dance. Now, as founder and artistic director of Thodos Dance Chicago, where she is also a choreographer, the Evanston native thinks back to those classes as the beginning of her life’s […]
The Junior League of Chicago (JLC) has promoted voluntarism and the potential of women in the community since it was founded 100 years ago. When Lucy McCormick Blair Linn and twelve of her friends founded JLC in 1912, their first projects addressed the problems that women were having in the workplace. Their very first […]
Whether you’re a salesman, a teacher, or an aspiring actor, Piven Theatre Workshop has a class for you. “Our classes help anyone communicate, from children learning to make eye contact, to a social worker who needs to learn to work with kids who are non-verbal,” says Leslie Brown, Executive Director. “Our classes start with groups […]
