In a few weeks, we will celebrate Mother’s Day – an opportunity to remember our own mothers and to reflect on how we mother those we love, whether they are our children or not. Mothering can be seen as the daily expression of one’s values and passions. Sue Duncan, an important figure in the history of […]
“Every day, we hear about people in this world who are hungry, but you don’t have to go to a third world country to see hunger,” says Dan Jariabka, President of the Hunger Resource Network. “Hunger is here!” According to the Hunger in America Study for 2014, every year, 1 in 6 of our neighbors in […]
If you think about it, we are given a license or certificate when we master something like driving or CPR. Yet, adults are not required to have any type of education when it comes to one of the most important responsibilities of their lives—parenting. In 1996, Katharine Bensinger was working as a mental health clinician […]
Julia Smarto is a teacher’s assistant at a well-recognized school. In her free time, the 20-year-old teaches dance to preschoolers. Her lifelong friend Kelly Neville, 23, runs a jewelry business with her mother, Karen. Both women’s success is the result of hard work and unwavering support from their families, who ignored doctors’ “doom and gloom” outlooks […]
Joy Tristano jokes that her 8-year-old son, Matt, was a $3 million baby. But it’s true. Matt was born three months prematurely, weighing 1 pound 11 ounces. Sadly, he contracted several infections, including spinal meningitis, which caused hydrocephalus, a condition marked by high levels of cerebral spinal fluid on the brain. “We were told he’d be […]
The Better Makers section of our print magazine features photos of guests and honorees from some of the top fundraisers across Chicagoland. We highlight these events in order to shed light on all of the hard work the people of Chicago and the North Shore are doing to raise awareness around important causes and make […]
Sunday, March 8 is International Women’s Day (IWD). It’s a day to inspire women and celebrate their achievements. This day has been observed since 1910, when a woman named Clara Zetkin proposed the idea at the Second International Conference of Working Women in Copenhagen. She thought there should be a day when women in every […]
A $90,000 Community Development Block Grant from Cook County will allow Turning Point’s Behavioral Health Care Center to begin developing an innovative drop-in program for the homeless. Next comes the exciting work of identifying the full range of social services to be offered. The grant money will be used to rehabilitate a 3,500-square-foot space in Turning […]
Almost everyone likes dogs—the cuddling, the love. SitStayRead, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting the love of learning and improving literacy proficiency for at-risk kids, capitalizes on that idea. Dogs allow SitStayRead (SSR) to tackle the sobering issue of childhood literacy with a positive spin: they address reading fluency in a fun way by incorporating reading […]
Most recently updated: December 2020 Imagine fleeing your home because of war, terror or persecution, only to find yourself in a foreign land with few resources. For the many refugees who come to the Chicago area each year, RefugeeOne provides crucial assistance during that difficult transition. The Chicago-based resettlement organization helps refugees find housing, acclimate […]
