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 […]
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 […]
Like a shopaholic who has tapped out her Visa, the state of Illinois is maxed out, with a roughly $13 billion deficit and $5 billion in unpaid bills. Awash in red ink, the state is now postponing payments and cutting cash to nonprofit charity and community service providers. Many of these organizations have already faced […]
October offers many opportunities for you to run, walk, ride, cheer, sponsor or even just shop in support of finding a cure for breast cancer. Here are just a few events going on in the area. For more charitable events for breast cancer as well as other causes, visit makeitbetter.net/events. Saturday, October 9 TrekWomen Breast […]
Here’s your chance to shop and “Make It Better”—all at the same time. Participate in and enjoy a local “Shop For A Cause” this month: The Arboretum of South Barrington Back in the Swing Retail Therapy October 11 – 17 Purchase a $5 in the Arboretum’s management office and receive a discount of 20% at […]
Since high school, when she drove a white Chevrolet Caprice, Becky Kennington has been in love with cars. “For a girl, I know it’s kind of weird,” says Kennington, of Skokie. So two years ago, when a fellow car enthusiast invited her to take her butternut 1966 Caprice to a small local car show, she […]
Want to Make It Better for someone today? Here’s a really easy way—the Cure JM Foundation is an organization near and dear to Make It Better—Wilmette residents Jacque and Bruce DenUyl have been actively involved with this group, which supports funding efforts for research and treatment of Juvenile Myositis (JM). JM is a rare automimmune […]
It’s unfortunate how many people lose their lives because their important medical information isn’t available fast enough for first responders. Fern Silver is doing something to change that. The professional motivational speaker recently invented the Mama Care Card—an easy way to carry your emergency medical information with you at all times. It also comes in […]
It takes a special sort of cancer patient to laugh instead of cry when she goes to put on mascara and realizes there’s no reason to because she’s lost her eyelashes. Or to name the two tubes that send chemo into her body “Simon and Garfunkel.” But that was former Long Grove and Highland Park […]
Max Herrick of Barrington just celebrated his sixth birthday. And in his young life, he has already been through more health crises than most people go through in a lifetime. Born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, Max underwent his first open heart surgery when he was just three days old. Shortly after, his name was […]
