Community Health Charities of Illinois

Community Health Charities Recognizes Workplace Philanthropy With Six Awards At Annual Meeting

(Chicago, May 31, 2007) Six prominent Chicago-area employers will be recognized for their support of health and wellness through payroll deduction employee contributions at the annual meeting of Community Health Charities of Illinois, at 3 PM June 6^th at the Cliff Dwellers Club, 200 South Michigan, Chicago. Tom Bognanno, National President of Community Health Charities, will be the keynote speaker, discussing the new approaches the health federation is taking in providing health resources in the workplace, serving as a conduit to health services and information, volunteer opportunities, and providing important funding to the health organizations that touch each individual most directly and personally.

Over 125,000,000 Americans are touched each year by the diseases and health conditions that are supported through Community Health Charities, which dispenses some $85 million annually for patient services, research and health education.

Awards will be presented to Allscripts for the biggest dollar campaign increase in the private sector, with an honorable mention to Federal Signal Corporation. The University of Chicago will be recognized for the biggest percentage increase in campaign results.

S & C Electric Comapny will be honored as the largest "up" campaign compared to the prior year. The Chamberlain Group, Inc. will be recognized for the most innovative campaign, with special acknowledgment to the Duchossois Family Foundation for its gift matching the amount given by employees through their payroll deductions. In addition, the University of Illinois at Chicago will be recognized as the best campaign in the public sector.

Appreciation will also be expressed to Community Health Charities' campaign partners in its public sector workplace giving activities, Mike Doyle, Linda Moses and John Farmer, the Illinois administrators of the Combined Federal Campaign, the State and University Employees Combined Appeal, and the Combined Charities Campaign.

Bill Heffernan, retiring Board Chair of Community Health Charities of Illinois, will also acknowledge the direct support and underwriting received for the Annual Meeting and the direct services provided by CHCI to its member charities from sponsors Eagle Ridge Resort (donors of a weekend gift package as a door prize); Delaware Bank, Founders Bank, Employee Resource Systems, Principal Elements Corp., Hogan & Marren, John D. Kopczyk, Ltd., Nancy Amicangelo of J.P. Morgan Chase, and Tempel Steel. Other valuable support has been received during the year from the Chicago Wolves hockey team, and from Jenner & Block, which hosts a series of breakfast forums for member charities.

The program for the day will also include the election of new Board members, a report on the operations of the Illinois CHC affiliate, and a review of how the $2 million raised during the past fiscal year has been distributed.

CHCI manages workplace giving programs for such leading health agencies as the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, the Alzheimer's Association, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, the Arthritis Foundation, the March of Dimes, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and 33 others.

CHCI can be reached at info@healthcharitiesillinois.org or 312.360.0382. Visits are also invited to http://www.healthcharitiesillinois.org/ to learn about volunteering at member health charities to raise money for medical research, patient services and health education.