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Corporate Opportunities
Employees of many Chicago companies generously donate their time to help improve Gads Hill Center. Below are a just a few of the stories of corporations that have recently participated in a volunteer project.
Adams Street Partners
Adams Street Partners, a Chicago investment firm, brought dozens of employees to help 100 kids and parents celebrate Club Learn’s Back to School Day in August. Joining the corporate volunteers from Adams Street was the Latin American Professionals Impacting Society (LAPIS), a group from Cook County Juvenile Court. Adams Street Partners donated brand-new backpacks filled with school supplies, while LAPIS contributed crayons, pens, paper, art supplies, and more. Carol Braz, President of LAPIS, said, “It was a great collaboration, and we were thrilled to participate. Everybody had fun – the kids, parents, helpers – everyone!”
PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Employees of the Chicago office of PriceWaterhouseCoopers took a day to work at Gads Hill Center as part of their “Summer of Service.” Volunteers raked, shoveled and distributed gravel donated by Ozinga Brothers, Inc., throughout the parking lot. Two dozen Gads Hill kids worked along side the volunteers, maneuvering wheelbarrows heaped with wood chips, digging weeds and planting new flowers. As Robin Galbreath of PwC said, “We had a great day working with the children and truly moving mountains – of gravel and mulch! The kids were a huge help and made the work much more enjoyable. We hope that our small project made the lives of the kids and their mentors at Gads Hill just a little better.”
Chapman
and Cutler, LLP
Every November, the Human Resource team at the Chicago law firm Chapman and Cutler, LLP asks Gads Hill Center for 240 letters to Santa. In December, the firm delivers 240 special gifts to the eager 6- to 12-year-olds in the Club Learn program. “It’s very popular here,” says Legal Recruiting Coordinator John Brinks. “Our people get really excited to do this every year. Often they will take their own kids shopping to teach them about giving.”
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