A Strong Finish to 2025
18 Dec 2025As 2025 comes to a close, we want to extend our heartfelt thanks for your incredible support. Your generosity has fueled meaningful progress this year—strengthening local nonprofits, supporting families, and helping us build a stronger Highland Park and Highwood.
Yet even with this strength, conversations with our partners show that many residents are experiencing increasing hardship.
- Families are facing rising childcare costs, housing instability, food insecurity, and increased need for basic essentials.
- Seniors are worried about food insecurity as well.
- Federal, state, and local funding for nonprofits continues to decline, even as needs grow.
- Significant uncertainty surrounds new Medicaid work requirements, changes to the ACA, and other shifts in funding.
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