Quick and Easy: IWSE's Warm Your Palate

Support the Infant Welfare Society of Evanston by attending their second annual Warm Your Palate fundraising event. What: Local chefs will take guests on a culinary excursion to sample signature appetizers and desserts. Wine, beer and spirits will also be served, and there will be a live auction featuring a 5-night stay at the Radisson Blu […]

Catch Your Breath: Innovative Fundraising for Lung Health

What would you do for a favorite charity? Would you jump off a building?   Okay, maybe not jump, but rappel down the 27-story theWit Hotel to raise money for the Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago.  Eighty people did just that on a recent spring weekend. Each raised at least $1,000 for the organization […]

How To Raise Money for Almost Anything

Want to run the world’s best bake sale? Start a women’s board that will change the world? Shake up the PTA with a new fundraiser? Look no further. We’ve got the philanthropic how-to’s, from capital campaigns to advice for fundraising in the digital age. Fundraising Do’s and Don’ts – Leading or assisting with a fundraiser? […]

The School Fundraiser: A Sample Timeline

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.