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Look for information about our annual awards event, happening this year on October 28th.
Photos from our June 19th Saturday Salon Soiree event will soon be posted to our website.
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Awards
The Benjamin Gingiss Award
The Bright Promises Foundation gives an annual award to recognize lifetime achievement to an individual who has shown remarkable leadership and dedication to serving vulnerable Illinois children by promoting their wellbeing. The award will be presented in 2010 at an event on October 28th.
The 2009 Benjamin Gingiss Award recipient was Bernice Weissbourd. Ms. Weissbourd founded Family Focus, an organization which has been providing needed services to thousands of vulnerable children and their families in Illinois since 1976. She is a Life Trustee of the Erikson Institute and has served on the Advisory Committee to the Department of Children and Family Services and on the Governors Task Force on Day Care. Ms. Weissbourd was honored at the Bright Promises Foundation's 140th Anniversary event October 28 at the Elysian Hotel in Chicago.
To nominate someone for the Gingiss Award, click here to download the nomination form which is due back in our office by Friday, July 30th, 2010. If you have any questions, please contact Lauren Krieg at lauren.krieg@brightpromises.org.
Many parents are strapped for time, perhaps working several jobs to make ends meet. They rush home from work and grab a box of high fat and sodium macaroni and cheese with a bottle of soda, or maybe they grab a cheap meal at a fast food restaurant for their kids. After dinner the kids play video games or watch TV before bed.
The Bright Promises Foundation recognizes that parents have a huge impact on their children’s behavior. Permanent changes will not occur in children’s lives unless their parents are also learning about the benefits of a healthy lifestyle, which is why all of the programs funded by BPF include an education component to engage parents as well.
