Quick and Easy: World Yoga Day

Heaven Meets Earth is participating in World Yoga Day, alongside 272 other yoga studios from around the world. On Sunday February 26th yoga studios from around the world will honor the seventh World Yoga Day. Classes are being held from 11 am to 1 pm local time in each time zone, so that yoga will […]

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? […]

Help Find a Cure for Breast Cancer—with a Bra Party!

Earlier this year, Northbrook sisters Stacy Simpson and Lynn Van Cleave decided to raise money for breast cancer by throwing themselves a “bra-themed” birthday party with some very unique twists.   The hot pink invitations informed guests that “The Girls are Goin’ from Saggin’ to Braggin’”—and that was just the beginning. Everything else was either […]

NU Dance Marathon: Top Chef Evanston

This year’s Northwestern University Dance Marathon (DM)–the 35th one, mind you – will begin on Friday, March 5 at the Norris University Center on the Evanston campus.   Much like the dance marathons of the roaring 20s, dance teams will go all weekend, collapsing in a collective heap on Sunday afternoon. The NU students who […]

Eye Disease Cure May Be 'Within Sight'

We’re all willing to go the distance to make life better for our kids, but not just any parent steps up when that distance is a 1-mile swim, a 23-mile bike ride and a 6-mile run, an Olympic triathlon.   But Wilmette’s Mike and Chrissy Cornell dive right in to raise money for a cause […]