Third Round of Emergency Grant Funding.
A little less than three months ago, COVID-19 hit our community. Its impacts have been intense and relentless, as has our resolve to address them.
The HPCF COVID-19 Emergency Response Appeal was launched on March 17. Since then, through the generous support of more than 250 donors and a grant from the Lake County Community Foundation, we have awarded 40 grants, totaling $119,730, to provide critically needed assistance to our friends and neighbors.
Included in this is a third round of emergency grants, totaling $34,380, which the HPCF Board awarded this week to 14 organizations that serve Highland Park and Highwood children, families, and seniors.
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It’s heartening that all residents 16+ are now eligible for vaccines. As they become more readily available, we look forward to increased signs of COVID recovery and greater stability in people’s lives and our community.
At the same time, however, it’s disheartening that residents still struggle and COVID-related needs, including the following, persist:
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In 2020, we launched our Corporate Champion Program to encourage businesses to serve as our philanthropic partners in making a difference for children and adults throughout Highland Park and Highwood.
Sunset Foods has always supported the work of the Foundation as a sponsor of our Grant Awards Receptions and through other meaningful contributions. We are extraordinarily grateful to Sunset for deepening its support through a 5-year financial commitment as a Silver Level Corporate Champion to advance our mission to address unmet needs in our community.
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Our community – which includes dozens of organizations that provide essential services to help Highland Park and Highwood children and adults – wraps its arms around friends and neighbors in need. On October 19th, the HPCF distributed 63 annual grant awards, totaling $746,925 – $133,725 more than in 2021 – to support the work of these incredible organizations*. This marks the largest number of dollars allocated, as well as the largest number of grant awards, to agencies that address the needs of our community.
We are extremely fortunate that so many organizations are able to help residents. The quality and quantity of their services is astonishing. We are also tremendously grateful for the support of our donors, whose gifts – along with a generous $300,000 grant from the City of Highland Park – made these grants possible.
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Welcome to the fifth edition of your Community Catch Up.
We are honored to highlight our amazing grantees and hope you find our More to Catch Up On section to be a helpful resource for important announcements and impactful opportunities.
Enjoy these final weeks of summer, and thank you again for your continued support!
North Suburban Legal Aid Clinic (NSLAC) provides accessible, quality, equitable, and free legal services in the areas of domestic violence, immigration, and housing to give low-income, at risk community members access to justice and the chance to live productive and secure lives.
Mother’s Trust Foundation (MTF) provides immediate assistance during times of crisis to low-income children living in Lake County. The agency works closely with social workers and school counselors, who identify children in need, to provide necessary support to families who have nowhere else to turn.
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- 13 businesses have made 5-year pledges to help further our mission.
- 33 businesses provided gift items for our Gather for Good event raffle last fall, which made it our most successful raffle yet, and 48 businesses supported our event as Corporate Sponsors.
- 2 businesses, Judy’s Pizza and Lynfred Winery, have both chosen to benefit the HPCF this year through special month-long promotions.
These partnerships provide critical funding for programs and services that address the needs of Highland Park and Highwood residents.
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Become a Corporate Champion Today!
A little less than three months ago, COVID-19 hit our community. The Highland Park Community Foundation has launched a Corporate Champion Program to provide the opportunity for businesses to become our philanthropic partners at a time when Highland Park and Highwood residents need support like never before.
Mesirow Financial has signed on as HPCF’s first Corporate Champion. Mesirow, an independent, employee-owned financial services company, has generously made a 5-year commitment at the Platinum level to support the Foundation’s mission to address unmet needs of our community.
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Michael Rosengarden, owner of Autohaus on Edens, and Alyssa Knobel, marketing professional and former City of Highland Park Councilman, have had very different career paths. For both of them, however, helping others has always been an integral part of their lives.
Both also fully embrace the HPCF’s “Give Where You Live” philosophy. Please join us in welcoming our newest Corporate Champion, Autohaus on Edens, and our newest Board member, Alyssa Knobel, to the HPCF team!
We are delighted they have chosen to help advance our mission to address unmet needs and enrich residents’ lives!
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Thirty years ago to the day, the Highland Park Community Foundation was incorporated. We are humbled to have served our community for the past three decades and look forward to serving our community for decades more.
Wally Nathan, Peter Flanzer, Nancy Mills, David Reich, and Betsy Brint have served as our Board Chairs since our 20th anniversary. We are incredibly grateful for their leadership, under which we have seen tremendous growth – in our endowment, annual and multi-year donations, grant funding, Boards, and community support.
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Together Highland Park Unidos, established by the HPCF to manage the distribution process for donations made to the July 4th Highland Park Shooting Response Fund, has announced the Fund raised a total of $5.8 million and has distributed 100% of those funds to victims of the mass shooting and nonprofit organizations providing mental health and other services for victims and community members impacted by the shooting.
The funds were distributed according to the Committee’s Final Protocol. The individual claims process was managed by the Fund’s Co-Administrators Bruce Boyd and Eric Kessler. The grantmaking process for organizations was managed through the Highland Park Community Foundation.
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