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Glencoe Union Church and Chicago’s La Casa Norte Grow Pride and Pumpkins

Gardening is an exercise in optimism – you plant, water, and cross your fingers that something grows. For the 16 young men living at the La Casa Norte’s Solid Ground residential facility in Chicago, that sunny perspective is nearly as foreign as finding fresh food on the dinner table. When a volunteer group from Glencoe […]

by Jennifer Speaker
June 15, 2011

Successful Businessman Rick Kolsky on Sacrificing in Order to Give Back

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, […]

by Adam Wren
November 21, 2010
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