Leadership Greater Chicago Celebrates 35 Years of Convening, Connecting and Mobilizing Chicago’s Leaders

Leadership Greater Chicago (LGC) is the region’s premier civic leadership development organization that convenes, connects, and mobilizes bold leaders to effect meaningful civic change across the Greater Chicago region. 2018 marks the 35th anniversary of Leadership Greater Chicago’s founding by The Chicago Community Trust. Since 1983, LGC has developed a diverse network of nearly 1,100 civic leaders […]

by Candice Warltier

Chicago Community Trust Study Shows Chicago is the Epicenter of Philanthropy

We’ve long known that ours is a very generous, other-centered, philanthropic community. But now—thanks to a survey conducted by Indiana University’s Lilly School of Philanthropy on behalf of The Chicago Community Trust (the Trust)—we know that our community is at the national epicenter of philanthropy. No hyperbole. “Chicagoans are generous…significantly more generous than the national average—by some […]

by Susan B. Noyes