For more than 100 years, the American Lung Association has been leading the fight for healthy lungs and healthy air. The American Lung Association is the leading organization working to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease through Education, Advocacy and Research. For more information, please visit www.lungusa.org.

Benton Community Settlement is a not-for-profit settlement home that has operated for over 90 years. Serving the near South Side of Chicago, their purpose is to enrich the quality of life of both the individual residents and the neighborhood as a whole. The organization exists to promote the stability, economic vitality and cultural growth of the community they serve. They strive to provide an integrated, comprehensive array of individual social services to improve the health, educational, social, recreational, and cultural opportunities for individuals and their families. For more information, please visit www.bentonhouse.org.

Chicago Foundation for Women is a grant making organization dedicated to increasing resources and opportunities for women and girls in the greater Chicago area. The Foundation promotes increased investment in women and girls, raises awareness about their issues and potential, and develops them as leaders and philanthropists. For more information, please visit www.cfw.org.

I want to personally show appreciation to everyone who participated in the Shamrock Shuffle 8k race on Sunday. The race is a charity event, and collectively we were able to raise $3500 in funds to support a wonderful organization, Bright Pink.

Bright Pink's mission is to empower young women to become advocates for their health. It is the only national non-profit organization with an exclusive focus on the prevention and early detection of breast and ovarian cancer in young women. See link below for more information on this charitable organization.

Bright Pink organization: http://www.firstgiving.com/BrightPink

Attached are a few pictures from the event. Thanks again to all who participated, and to those who showed their support of the event. And, thanks to Eric and Damon for organizing our participation.

My hope is to have our firm participate in more events throughout the year to provide our support to organizations such as Bright Pink, and to raise our awareness throughout the community!

The Greater Chicago Food Depository, Chicago’s food bank, is a nonprofit food distribution and training center providing food for hungry people while striving to end hunger in the community. The Food Depository distributes donated and purchased food through a network of 600 pantries, soup kitchens and shelters to 500,000 adults and children in Cook County every year. Last year, the Food Depository distributed 58 million pounds of nonperishable food and fresh produce, dairy products and meat, the equivalent of 119,000 meals every day. Innovative training programs and initiatives developed by the Food Depository also work to provide men, women and children with the tools necessary to break their individual cycles of poverty. For more information, please visit www.chicagosfoodbank.org.

Heifer’s mission is to end hunger and poverty while caring for the earth. For more than 60 years, Heifer International has provided livestock and environmentally sound agricultural training to improve the lives of those who struggle daily for reliable sources of food and income. And since 1944, Heifer has helped 48 million people through training in livestock development and livestock gifts that multiply. For more information, please visit www.heifer.org.

Mark Sheridan Academy provides an academic program built on literacy that supports a rigorous math and science curriculum. The Academy is committed to meeting the unique learning needs of all learners, including those with special needs and who are ELL, by providing a safe, nurturing, child-centered, and diverse environment to develop students' intellectual, social and emotional needs, through structured learning experiences for students, real-life context enrichment activities, support and involvement from parents, and personal/professional development for parents, teachers and staff. The Academy has been recognized as a Spotlight School by the Illinois State Board of Education, a School of Distinction by the Chicago Public Schools, and Chicago Magazine identified Sheridan as one of the Best Elementary Schools in Chicago. For more information, please visit www.sheridan.cps.k12.il.us

Kiva's mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty. Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend to unique entrepreneurs around the globe. For more information, please visit www.kiva.org.

The March of Dimes mission is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality. We carry out this mission through research, community services, education and advocacy to save babies' lives. March of Dimes researchers, volunteers, educators, outreach workers and advocates work together to give all babies a fighting chance against the threats to their health: prematurity, birth defects, low birthweight. For more information, please visit www.marchofdimes.com

Rivendell Theatre Ensemble is a professional theatre company committed to cultivating the talents of women theatre artists and to seeking out innovative plays that explore the unique female experience in an intimate, salon environment. Over the past fourteen years, Rivendell has grown to fill an important role in the Chicago theatre community as the only Equity Theatre in Chicago committed to producing works about women. For more information, please visit www.rivendelltheatre.net.

SOS Children's Villages is an international non-governmental social development organization that has been active in the field of children's rights and committed to children's needs and concerns since 1949. In 132 countries and territories, activities of the organization focus on children without parental care and children of families in difficult circumstances. For more information, please visit www.sos-childrensvillages.org.

The Special Olympics mission is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community. For more information, please visit www.specialolympics.org/