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LAH Receives $2,000,000 Cy Pres Award From the Chicago Sun-Times
May 25-26, 2006 Tutor/Mentor Conference at Northwestern Law School
June 10, 2006: Lifting for LAH IV: Dan Cotter & Mike Abramson powerlifters
June 12, 2006: CBA Golf Outing & Silent Auction to benefit LAH
July 11, 2006: Third Annual My Hero Awards Luncheon at the Standard Club
October 23, 2006: 2006 Grant Applicaiton Deadline
Highlight of Past Events:
March 4, 2006:
Fifth Annual Barristers Big Band Benefit Ball held in Winter Garden Room, Harold Washington Library
Co-chairs: Ty Fahner and Manny Sanchez
Honorees: Peer and Sarah Pedersen
$10,000 Sponsors: Blue Ribbon Committee Members
AT & T Midwest
Huron Consulting Group
Illinois Tool Works, Inc.
Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw LLP
Sanchez, Daniels & Hoffman LLP
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP
$5,000 Piano Patrons
Cogan & McNabola
Dean & Rosemarie Buntrock Foundation
Reyes Holdings
Williams Montgomery & John Ltd.
$2500 Saxophone Sponsors
Corboy & Demetrio
Gardner Carton & Douglas LLP
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Lord, Bissell & Brook LLP
Much Shelist Freed Deneberg Ament & Rubenstein, P.C.
Navigant Consulting, Inc.
Nuveen Investments
Winstrust Financial Corporation
Catering by Eurest and Wolfgang Puck Catering
December 2005
Karina Ayala-Bermejo, Mayor Daley, and Andrew Marovitz (grand-nephew to the late Judge Marovitz)
meet after the grant presentation to remember Judge Marovitz who the Mayor called "Unlce Abe".
Mayor and Lawyers in Chicago Lend-a-Hand to Inner-City Kids
On December 8, 2006 Mayor Richard M. Daley joined members of the Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Lend-A-Hand Program in Chambers of the Chicago City Council to present $45,000 in grants to 17 volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs serving at-risk youth in areas across the city including Cabrini Green, Humboldt Park, Uptown, and South Chicago.
2005 LAH Grant Recipients: BUILD, Inc. ; The Bridges Program; Cabrini Connections; Centro Comunitario Juan Diego; Chicago Youth Programs, Inc.; Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church; Christopher House; East Village Youth Program; Family Matters; Hermosa Community Organization; Horizons for Youth; Inspired Youth, Inc.; Life Directions; Maywood Youth Mentoring Program; McGaw YMCA Project SOAR; Midtown Education Foundation; and, Sunlight African Community Center.
December 2005
Much Shelist Honors Founders with $35,000 Contribution to Lend-a-Hand... MORE>>Much Shelist
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, December 8, 2005 – Much Shelist Freed Denenberg Ament & Rubenstein, P.C., in celebration of the firm's 35th anniversary this year, has honored its five founders with a $35,000 contribution to the Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Lend-a-Hand Program. The money will be used by Lend-a-Hand to create and fund the new Much Shelist Founders' Award, which will be given annually to an up-and-coming tutor/mentor program in Chicago that has been in existence for less than five years.
July 2005
Second Annual My Hero Awards Luncheon Honoring 100 Years of Judge Abe!
July 28, 2005 held at The Standard Club
Jugde Rovner received the Inaugural Marovitz Mentoring Award. Judge Rovner pictured with her husband Dr. Rovner.
Second Annual My Hero Awards Luncheon ...MORE >>
The Law Firm of Butler Rubin adopts Centro Comunitario Juan Diego:
Kids Day, Back to School Drive, Thanksgiving Food Drive, and Christmas Angels ...MORE >>
Attorney Dan Cotter Raises Funds...MORE >>
2004 Lend-A-Grant Recipients ... MORE >>
Cabrini Connections Wins the 2004 Thomas A. Demetrio Award...
The Law Firm of Butler Rubin Saltarelli & Boyd new home for Lend-a-Hand Program...
The Law Firm of Corboy & Demetrio Commits to a multi-year $10,000 contribution to Lend-a-Hand Program...MORE >>