We’re Turning 25!

January 2020 News Foundation to Launch a Year of 25th Anniversary Programming Community Memorial Foundation turns 25 in 2020, and we plan to honor our anniversary by celebrating the strength and resilience of our grantee partners. Through an enhanced capacity building program and special grant opportunity, we aim to “turn silver into gold” by strengthening organizational […]

YC2 | The HUB

October 2019 Newsletter Know a young #changemaker? Encourage Them to Apply to YC2 The Foundation is now accepting applications for YC2, a leadership development program designed to educate and empower local youth to become our community’s next generation of philanthropists. The program is open to juniors and seniors at Nazareth Academy and Lyons Township High School. Students will explore our […]

Be the 1

September 2019 Newsletter Be the One to Help this Suicide Prevention Month September is Suicide Prevention Month and the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline has initiated a campaign encouraging each of us to Be the 1 To share action steps and resources for loved ones in crisis. Learn more and take action here. The Foundation and […]

Fueled by Mission | Driven by Data

August 2019 Newsletter   Regional Health and Human Services Agenda strategies are rooted in the Foundation’s mission and driven by community data. We believe that, when hospitalization and demographic data are coupled with community assessment, these tools can elicit changemaking tailored to the needs of our 27 communities.   For the past two years, the Foundation has hosted […]

Leadership Institute 2019

Community Memorial Foundation and Healthy Communities Foundation are partnering to provide grantee board members and executive directors with training in key areas of organizational development.

February 2019 Newsletter

Participants in YC2, the Foundation’s youth philanthropy initiative, have selected teen mental health as their funding focus.

January 2019 Newsletter

Local Foundations Partner to Fund West Suburban Community Health Workers Community Memorial Foundation and Healthy Communities Foundation have jointly invested $535,000 in a pilot program to engage a community health worker network in the Western Suburbs. Community Health Workers, or CHWs, are frontline public health workers with established, trusted relationships within their communities. These relationships […]

Local Foundations Partner to Fund West Suburban Community Health Workers

Community Memorial Foundation and Healthy Communities Foundation have jointly invested $535,000 in a pilot program to engage a community health worker network in the Western Suburbs. Community Health Workers, or CHWs, are frontline public health workers with established, trusted relationships within their communities. These relationships enable the workers to serve as liaisons between community members […]