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Welcome to Women Giving Back Illinois     

Presenting our donation to the Center for Independent Futures
(l) Ann Sickon, Executive Director and (r) Megan Madigan, Program Director

We support local charities doing great things! 

Presenting our donation to the Center for Independent Futures
(l) Ann Sickon, Executive Director and (r) Megan Madigan, Program Director
Donations to date (15 meetings): $132,720
Next meeting: Spring 2023  
Nominate a Charity for our Spring meeting
Our selected charity at the November 2022
Meeting: Lurie Children's Hospital NICU-Cardiac Neurodevelopment Program: Early Childhood Clinic

Total Donations - $16,492
We had three charities nominated for our November meeting. After hearing from each charity, our members chose the Lurie Children's Hospital NICU-Cardiac Neurodevelopment Program: Early Childhood Clinic

 

Thank you to all who donated! 54 members donated to the Lurie Children's Hospital NICU-Cardiac Neurodevelopment Program: Early Childhood Clinic, the selected charity, for a total of $10,600, which included a VERY generous $5,000 donation by one member.

 

In addition, the following 2 nonprofits which were also nominated received significant sums.

When the Executive Director of our last selected charity, Elevated Access, appeared on our Zoom call to update us on how our donations were used, he mentioned that donations on Giving Tuesday were being matched by an anonymous donor up to $30,000. With that, 5 people donated a total of $929.34 online which was matched dollar for dollar, and $336.00 was mailed to me after the meeting.  

 

Finally, some of our past selected charities and nominees received end-of-the-year donations, too. 

 

With the match to Elevated Access and with one person's employer's matching gift to Lurie, we raised $16,391.68.  The total amount of donations given by Women Giving Back to date is $132,720.  Yay us!!!

 

Our next meeting will be in the spring.  We would welcome any new members you can recruit. I hope that circumstances allow us to meet in person so I can serve cake at Sunset Foods!  In the meantime, be safe and enjoy your family and friends.  

Thank you, as always.

Sandy

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Selected Charities to Date

2017

The Nora Project

Curt's Cafe

2018

Center for Independent Futures

Girl Forward

Horsefeathers Therapeutic Riding* 

2019

Fighting for Families

Pride ROC Chicago 

Pets for US Heroes*

2020

Ryan Banks Academy*

Antioch Traveling Closet

Normal Moments

2021

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Bounce Children's Foundation

Our House of Hope

 

2022

Elevated Access

NICU-Cardiac Neurodevelopment Program: Early Childhood Clinic

*No longer in business

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