Catholic Charities Lake County Services needs 3,000 donors to help with the annual Celebration of Giving Gifts Collection. This program matches donors who contribute toys and clothing with the requests of some 10,000 Lake County children and families. “The soft economy has really hit us hard these past few years,” said Jim Wogan, a retired […]
The Junior League of Evanston-North Shore has partnered with the Huggies® Every Little Bottom campaign to host a diaper drive to help moms and babies in need. Huggies® Every Little Bottom is a national campaign to create awareness about diaper need. According to a Huggies® study, one in five moms in diaper need say they […]
Inside a couple of cramped rooms of a former high school, accessed via a hidden, unsigned entrance then a maze of corridors, works a team that just might reinvent volunteer deployment. The Volunteer Center of Northwest Suburban Chicago has been channeling human resources to area nonprofits for more than 40 years. Its website at once […]
Pam Weston worked in the fitness industry for 30 years, founding Pam Phillips Fitness Limited and Spynergy Cycling Studio in Winnetka. She decided to sell her successful business several years ago, but wanted to remain involved in the fitness industry and give back in some way. Weston knew that the best time to instill healthy […]
You will enjoy your feast more after this family to family basket of groceries donation. The program, created in partnership with Make It Better in 2008, supports a 3-block area surrounding the Good News Community Soup Kitchen. The kitchen receives between 200 and 500 laundry baskets filled with food and goodies for the low-income families […]
On December 12, 2009, Chicago residents Mike and Mariann Stanton went to wake up their 4-year-old son, Danny. They found him blue in his bed. They performed CPR and dialed 911, but it was no use. Danny had died after suffering from a seizure in his sleep. The cause of Danny’s death was SUDEP, Sudden […]
Bill McGrane knows a good story when he sees one. After all, he’s spent the last five decades of his professional life telling them—first as a reporter for newspapers such as the Minneapolis Tribune, and later as a public relations writer for the Chicago Bears and Minnesota Vikings. “I’ve been writing all my life,” McGrane, […]
How Central School raised a bundle, how your charity can do it too All it takes is one volunteer with a good idea and a terrific cause to support. In the case of the most successful fundraiser in Central School history, that idea came from my co-chair, Linda Steen. She blurted it out over her […]
Are you in line to lead next year’s big school fundraiser? Central School (in Wilmette) holds its annual fundraiser in late February, but PTA jobs, like fundraiser chairs and committees, are slated the preceding May. This timeline assumes a similar calendar.
Are you leading or assisting with a fundraiser? Here’s a few pointers:
