HM-Giving Back

By Larry Atseff As a reader of this magazine, you live either in Hinsdale, Clarendon Hills, Burr Ridge, Oak Brook or Downers Grove. You live in one of the wealthiest areas in one of the wealthiest counties in the state and the nation, meaning there are large numbers of individuals, families and businesses with considerable…

help HCS Family Services celebrate 85 years By HM Staff HCS Family Services celebrated its 85th birthday with members of the ’85 Superbowl Champion Chicago Bears. Kurt Becker, Mike Hartenstein, Emory Moorehead, Jim Morrissey, and Otis Wilson visited with neighbors during pantry distribution and then joined neighbors, volunteers, friends, donors and partners for birthday cake…

Two Thousand attend in-person Walk for Wellness House – Welcome Home! By HM Staff The annual Walk for Wellness House 3k walk/5k run, held on Sunday, May 1, 2022, brought cancer survivors, families, friends, and volunteers together and in-person for the first time in two years at the main location in Hinsdale, Chicagoland and beyond.…

By HM Staff Sixty students participating in Community Memorial Foundation’s youth philanthropy program have awarded $30,000 in grant funding to four local nonprofit organizations working to provide basic needs services within the Western Suburbs. The program, known as YC2 (Young Community Changemakers), unites students from Hinsdale Central, Lyons Township, Nazareth Academy, and Riverside-Brookfield high schools…

Community Rallies Behind Local Foundation By Emma Wolf In 2007, Brian and Bridget O’Meara decided to start the Mend a Heart Foundation after their son, Liam, was born with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS), which means that he is missing the left side of his heart. Congenital heart defects affect 1 in 100 babies in…

By Larry Atseff On November 30, 2021, the Oak Brook Chapter of the Auxiliary of the Infant Welfare Society of Chicago welcomed everyone once again, in person, to Mistletoe Medley, at Drury Lane. In 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, the event had to be remote, but fundraising efforts met the challenge through a…

For the Oak Brook Chapter of the Infant Welfare Society, helping underserved children and their families is time-honored tradition. By Kerrie Kennedy After working in the PR and publishing industries for decades, Liz Berglund decided it was time to focus on giving back. By chance, a friend invited her to a meeting at the Oak…

By HM staff While the world was focused on shutdowns, restrictions and doing less, the Clarendon Hills Infant Welfare Society (CHIW) focused on how to do more in order to achieve its goal of supporting those less fortunate. Embracing the challenges and obstacles that COVID presented, the 50-member volunteer organization pivoted quickly to LIGHT UP…

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the holiday season became more widely known as “The Giving Season? By Alice Wood, JD, Director of Gift Planning, Dupage Foundation In the world of philanthropy, this is a make-or-break time of year for many of the not-for-profits in our area. DuPage Foundation was created with a single purpose: to…

By HM staff Assistance League has adapted our major fundraising campaigns to reflect the “new normal” of these past two years. This year our signature fundraiser Books & Brunch, held as a virtual event in November 2020, became hybrid this November. Guests were able to attend in person or through a live stream. Attendance and…