Living Positivity & Possibility: Our Fall Day of Service 

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A group of people gather Purple Prairie Clover seeds.

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”    — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  …

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Despite the rumors, imagination ain’t dead yet. 

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People working together to build a lightbulb.

Does it feel like creativity, innovation, and originality are in short supply these days? Or even under attack from the …

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Happy Children’s Book Week!

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A woman and a child read a book together.

In Bruce Eric Kaplan’s marvelous, all-too-true picture book, You Have to Read This Book, a father bear desperately tries to …

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Civic responsibility and our client partners

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People working together to fit various shapes on a wall.

There’s no question that our civic fabric is in need of major repair. Survey after survey finds that Americans have …

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Facing Darkness: What Art Can Do

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Light will triumph over darkness.

When the alarming reports and horrific images of the Russian invasion of Ukraine first appeared, we weren’t ready. Witnessing the …

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Giving in the Era of COVID‑19

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How our impulse to give has, and hasn’t, changed. For the past year, the Lipman Hearne team—like many teams—has pivoted …

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Talking About a Revolution

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Black woman, masked, in front of a colorful mural. Overlay text says We rise together for an equitable and just recovery.

On October 8—the anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire, The Chicago Community Trust—Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, and Chicago businesses and …

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What We Measure—and What We Value

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We’re loving all the conversation around the recently released Giving USA 2020 report. Not surprisingly, 2019 was an extremely strong year for giving⁠—in …

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