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2015 Competitive Grant Cycle

The Lake County Community Foundation announces its 2015 competitive grant cycle is now open and Project Screening Forms will be accepted until Friday February 13, 2015. “Last year we had an amazing pool of nonprofit organizations with excellent proposals and we are looking forward to seeing the diversity of potential impact this year’s projects may bring,” said Maggie Morales, the …

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New Officers For Board of Directors

The Lake County Community Foundation announces impactful changes among the Foundation’s board leadership. During the November 2014 annual meeting Anne Reusché assumed the role of Chair. Reusché, daughter of founding board member Robert F. Reusché and owner of a communications consulting business, takes the role after A. Stewart Kerr’s two years of service as Chair. Kerr will remain active on …

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Meeting needs in real-time

WAUKEGAN, IL – When Donna Funk got a call from The Lake County Community Foundation, she felt a relief she had not even let herself dream about. Amidst a contentious, community-dividing teachers strike that was dragging on longer than anyone thought possible, Funk, the Resource Development Director at The Boys & Girls Club of Lake County, closed her eyes and …

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Adeline “Addie” Morrison

Contact: Maggie Morales The Lake County Community Foundation 847-377-0520 ext. 22 [email protected] The Lake County Community Foundation to Honor Founding Board Member Adeline “Addie” Morrison at The Lake Forest Shop’s “Shop Your Cause” Charity Event Waukegan, IL—September 25, 2014 – The Lake County Community Foundation is pleased to announce it will be honoring founding board member Adeline “Addie” Morrison during …

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Management Training Initiative

Area Nonprofits Complete The Lake County Community Foundation’s Two-­‐ Part Financial Management Training Initiative     Waukegan, IL—July 1, 2014 – Thinking about internal planning, setting a strategic financial direction and best practices for annual budgeting may strike fear into some nonprofit organization leaders’ hearts. But it’s probably the most foundational and important activity to ensure that missions don’t suffer …

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2014 Grant Recipients

Waukegan, IL—June 26, 2014 – The Lake County Community Foundation, an affiliate of The Chicago Community Trust, announced $153,000 in grants to local nonprofit organizations serving the urgent needs of the most vulnerable individuals and families in the county. The following grant recipients have demonstrated exceptional commitment to making Lake County a better place to live, work and raise a …

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Raise awareness about escalating suburban poverty

The Lake County Community Foundation along with the Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County and Lake County Community Development department convene local funders, municipal and government leaders, and elected officials to raise awareness about escalating suburban poverty and discuss solutions for Lake County. North Chicago, IL—April 14, 2014 – One could almost hear an audible gasp escape the crowd convened …

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GRANT MAKING GUIDELINES

The Lake County Community Foundation (Foundation) asserts that the quality of life of Lake County can be improved through an earnest effort to bring organizations, government, businesses, corporations and civic leaders together to establish a common vision, adopt a shared set of measurable goals and pursue evidence-based activities that reinforce one another’s goals as a means of addressing the most …