September 29, 2023
6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Binny’s Beverage Depot, Highland Park
Incredible Raffle Prizes
Lester Lampert Fine Jewelry Gift Card. Value $1,000
Gathered Goods Seven Bundled Packages. Value over $1,000 (each package)
Includes prizes from ABC Design Jewelers, Abt Electronics, Academic Tutoring Centers, Babydreams, BBQ Pit, Citywoods, Country Kitchen, Courtyard Chicago Highland Park/Northbrook, Dana Reed Designs, Deerfield Park District, Elite Sports Therapy and Wellness, Floral Gardens, Gerber Collision, Goodies, Half Day Brewery, Highland Park Physical Medicine, HP Tops, Jeweled Elephant, Kendra Scott, Long Grove Confectionery Co., Luna Rosa Wine Shop, Midtown Chicago, Norton’s Restaurant, Park District of Highland Park, Professional Artist Jonathan Plotkin, PRP Wine International, Rootz, Ross’s, Salon Lofts, Schneider Deli, Stretchwerks, Style Shack, Sunflower, T & T Nails, Taylor Reese Salons, Vous Vitamins
Ravinia Festival Lawn Tickets for 10 and 3 Priority Parking Passes. Value $650
We are very fortunate to live in a community that wraps its arms around friends and neighbors in need.
With your help, during the last week of October, we awarded 52 HPCF annual grants, totaling $512,550, for programs and services young children, teens, families, and older members of our community need to thrive – and sometimes just to survive. This funding will be used to address unmet needs in five main categories: education, human services, services for individuals with disabilities, senior services, and the creative and cultural arts.
We were super excited about resuming our tradition of “gathering for good” to benefit the Highland Park/Highwood community. But we have been monitoring COVID developments closely and, with everyone’s safety and health being our top priority, we feel this is not the right time to host a large indoor gathering. We have therefore made the difficult decision to cancel our September 24th event at Binny’s.
To help those directly impacted by the mass shooting in Highland Park, the Highland Park Community Foundation has established a July 4th Highland Park Shooting Response Fund. All contributions to the Response Fund will go directly to victims and survivors or the organizations that support them. Please contribute as generously as possible here
The Highland Park Community Foundation was proud to participate in the 14th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service presented by the City of Highland Park and Park District of Highland Park. We were inspired by all the creative and thoughtful service projects sponsored by agencies in our community, including many of our grant recipients.
Thank you to everyone who stopped by the HPCF table to assemble treat bags for our first responders. Each bag contained a granola bar, beef jerky, gum, hand sanitizer, lip balm, and tissues as well as a handwritten note and drawing created by a child from our community. Thanks to your help, we’re ready to deliver 75 “Treats for the Streets” to our police officers, firefighters, and public works personnel for all they do to ensure our safety and well-being.
To help those impacted by Monday’s mass shooting, the Highland Park Community Foundation has established a July 4th Highland Park Shooting Response Fund.
All contributions to the Response Fund will go directly to help the victims’ families and survivors or the organizations that support them.
There is a donation form on our website. Here is also a direct link to the donation form. If you prefer, you may send a check, payable to the Highland Park Community Foundation, to P.O. Box 398, Highland Park, IL 60035.
A renewable energy industry professional, Caroline brings an exciting new focus to the HPCF Board. She has lived in Highwood for 9 years, serves on Highwood’s Planning & Zoning Commission, and contributes to Highwood events as an active member of Celebrate Highwood. Driven by a desire to “give back,” she is excited to be part of an organization that addresses so many different areas of need to positively impact the lives of residents.
Eric recently joined the HPCF Staff as Senior Director. Through a decade of philanthropic consulting that includes the founding of his own business, Precision Giving, he has worked extensively with both nonprofits and the donors that support them. With a lifelong passion for philanthropy and giving back, Eric served on the HPCF’s Associate Leadership Council for two years and is eager, now as a staff member, to provide pathways for more individuals, businesses, and foundations to show their support of our community.
