Each year, the Junior League of Kane & DuPage provides outreach services to organizations and individuals in Kane, DuPage, Will, and Kendall Counties in Illinois through the hosting of events and fundraisers, volunteering their time and services, and more. This fall, they will debut their first annual Readers on the Run fundraiser to promote childhood literacy … Continue Reading
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The Midsummer EVE of the EVE is a halfway celebration to the EVE of the EVE on December 30th. The Midsummer event will be held on June 8th in Chicago, IL and the upscale casual event will feature an open bar, heavy hors d’oeuvres, music, silent auction, and cash raffle.
More than 370 guests gathered at Chicago’s InterContinental Hotel on January 29 to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Haiti and raise funds for UNICEF’s Build Back Better initiative. The event raised nearly $550,000, exceeding the Midwest Regional Office of the U.S Fund for UNICEF’s goal during the fourth annual Message of Hope Gala.
HighSight hosted its seventeenth annual charity event, EVE of the EVE, on Thursday, December 30th as a way to say goodbye to 2010 in syle and jump-start the New Year’s celebrations.
Vivanista recently sat down with development director, Melinda Green- to learn more about the 17 year old fundraiser, Eve of Eve that benefits Highsight of Chicago.
Ganchiff taught the school to see fundraising in terms of long-term, deep, mutually beneficial relationships that need to be cultivated. His funding team developed a powerful “development backpack” – twenty different types of proposals that would dovetail with a potential funder’s unique interests.
It’s her passion for improving the lives of those in East Africa that motivated Abbie DeSantis to chair “A Night for African Education” Gala in Chicago benefiting the Indigenous Education Foundation.
