Foundation Has a New Name and Look - - the Dupage Community Foun- with Our Friends and Partners

Spring 2015 DuPage Foundation Focus Spring 2015 F O C U S The official newsletter of the DuPage Foundation Foundation Has A New Name and Look - - The DuPage Community Foun- with our friends and partners. The This newsletter is the beginning dation has aDuPage new name Foundation and a new new identity and name change of our transition to “DuPage Foun look and will now be doing busi were approved by the Foundation’s dation” and our new visual identity. ness as the . Board at its November meeting and Thank you for your patience in the The change in name and visual - unveiled at the Annual Benefit on coming months as we implement identity was made to update the November 15, 2014. these changes. look of the Foundation and to sim The colors, font and placement plify its name. “DuPage Foundation is exactly who we are.” “DuPage Foundation is exactly —David McGowan, Foundation president who we are,” said David McGowan, Foundation president. “As the leader in philanthropy in DuPage County, our new visual identity will Inside this Issue: help us put our best foot forward in of the components of the logo were purposefully chosen by the all respects.” - The development of the new Marketing Committee under the visual identity was a project un leadership of its chair Matt Biespiel, 2The 2014 Benefit broke all dertaken by the Foundation’s who serves as the head of Global - records. Marketing Committee during the Brand Development for McDonald’s Corporation. More than 100 pos past several months. The project - sibilities were explored during this- was part of a comprehensive plan The Jim Durham Memorial process and then narrowed to the 3 started in 2013 that focused on Scholarship Fund hon logo pictured above in the mast helping us increase our visibility ors the late broadcasting head of this newsletter and beside within the community, refresh our legend who was the voice of the our former logo below. image, and resonate more strongly Chicago Bulls for 18 seasons. 4-5The DuPage Medical Group - Charitable Fund is celebrating its five-year anni versary with the Foundation. 6The latest news about “Bright & Early DuPage.” The DuPage Community Foundation’s former logo (above, left) has been redesigned to the new look as shown above on the masthead in the horizontal version and above, right, in a more square version. “The new visual identity is simple, direct, and clean,” said Matt Biespiel, chair of the Foundation’s Marketing Committee. 7Congratulations to the Foundation’s three newest Trustees Emeriti. 1 DuPage Foundation Focus Spring 2015 Benefit Breaks All-Time Record for Attendance and Earnings 1 3 2 8 4 7 6 5 1. American English took a walk on the Foundation’s Abbey Road entrance to the Benefit. 2. Livin’ in the Yellow Submarine are (left to right) Marci Myers, Emily Burt, Paula Haggerty, Margaret Giffin and Maria Kruse. 3. Chet and DuPage County Treasurer Gwen Henry enjoy their evening at the Benefit. 4. Foundation Trustee Charlie McKenna (left), President Dave McGowan and dance partner Amy Ross take time off the dance floor to pose for a photo. 5. Bill and Margaret Giffin (Glen Ellyn), Jodi Norgaard (Glen Ellyn), Alison Park (Glen Ellyn) and Foundation Board Chair Steve Burt (Glen Ellyn). 6. The Irish castle created by the Benefit Committee represented Dorothy O’Reilly’s Ireland home, one of the live auction items. 7. Foundation Board members Dick Kuhn (left) and Phil Cabrera enjoy the social aspect of the Foundation’s Benefit. 8. John and Penny Sandoz and Joyce Webb and Walter Hutter (all from Glen Ellyn). - The Foundation’s 2014 Benefit- $26,000 for our newly-established most generous collective contribu “A Hard Day’s Night” was our most Emergency Fund, for a combined tions of time, talent and resources - successful ever in Foundation- his net total of nearly $270,000. This enabled us to take this event to the tory! represents a 21% increase over our next level both in terms of the expe In addition to hosting a re earnings for Benefit activities in rience it delivered to our guests and cord-breaking 236 attendees, we 2013. its success as a fundraiser for us. grossed nearly $340,000 from the Our sincere thanks once again to- Save the Date! event’s total activities and have, the Board, our sponsors, attendees to date, netted nearly $243,000 in and donors, and, of course, our phe support of our Operating Fund and nomenal Benefit Committee whose 2015 Annual Benefit st 2 Saturday, November 21 Spring 2015 DuPage Foundation Focus Jim Durham Memorial Fund Established - - The DuPage Foundation is said Jim’s wife, Helen Durham. - pleased to announce the establish- “Jim was, by nature, an encourag ment of the Jim Durham Memorial er of others. A young friend recent Scholarship Fund for Communi ly wrote, ‘Jim helped people around cation Arts. The fund was created him do what God was calling them by the Durham family in memory to do. That was truly one of Jim’s of Jim, who was best known as the greatest legacies. And it would be “voice” of the Chicago Bulls and the- wonderful to honor Jim’s faith by NBA on ESPN Radio. giving assistance to people who The Jim Durham Memorial Schol want to make a difference in the arship Fund for Communication world. I only met Jim a few times,- Arts has been created to benefit but he made me feel special. He juniors and seniors attending made me feel like I could accom Dr. Jack Ramsay (left) and Jim Durham, Benedictine University in Lisle, who plish anything, and he made me Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of are pursuing a bachelor’s degree in feel like my work was important,’” Fame 2011. Jim received the Hall of communications, with preference related Helen. Fame’s Curt Gowdy Media Award in 2011. given to those seeking a career in- “Jim was at an A-level from the sports broadcasting. Recipients of get-go,” wrote Brian McIntyre, the scholarship must be individu former senior communications als who have demonstrated great advisor to the NBA commissioner. personal integrity in their own lives “And he wasn’t just one of the best lead play-by-play announcer for and who are driven by a passion for announcers of all time; he was in The NBA on ESPN Radio with his excellence. The scholarship will the human being Hall of Fame. He broadcast partner, Dr. Jack Ramsay. be advertised by the University to treated people like gold and just Jim also worked for the Chicago its sophomores and juniors in the lived his life the right way.” White Sox, the Dallas Mavericks, spring of their respective semesters Jim passed away from natural - Turner Sports, ABC, CBS, NBC, and with awards issued the following causes on November 4, 2012, at the Houston Astros. fall to be used during the recipients’ the age of 65. He began his profes Jim is survived by his wife, “Jim was at an A-level from the get-go. And he wasn’t Helen; daughter Traci Gilchrist just one of the best announcers of all time; he was in and son-in-law Jason Gilchrist, son Patrick Durham and daughter-in- the human being Hall of Fame. He treated people like law Laurie Durham, son Richard gold and just lived his life the right way.” Durham and daughter-in-law Kara —Brian McIntyre, former senior communications Durham; six grandchildren, Tyler Giraud, Spencer Giraud, Katlyn advisor to the NBA commissioner Gilchrist, Jaclyn Gilchrist, Nicholas Durham and Mia Durham; sister - Sandie Durham Short; and sister- in-law Connie Durham. junior or senior year. sional career in sports broadcast For more information about the “Sports broadcasting will be the ing in 1973, and worked until the Jim Durham Memorial Scholarshipjim- Fund’s primary focus, as it was for week before his untimely passing Funddurhammemorialfund.org for Communication Arts or to Jim, but students pursuing careers in a career that spanned nearly 40 make a donation, please visit in other communication arts may years. Jim attended Illinois State or call also benefit, as Jim would have - University, where he worked at the (630) 665-5556. been just as enthusiastic about campus radio station. He worked other art forms designed to com at WJBC in Bloomington, Illinois, municate a message that would prior to his 18-year career as the make a difference for good in the voice of the Chicago Bulls, with his world, as well as the ‘great good’ of broadcast partner Johnny “Red” describing an exciting sports story,” Kerr. For 18 seasons, he was the 3 DuPage Foundation Focus Spring 2015 - The DuPage Medical Group and our families to give back in an DuPage(DMG) Charitable FundMedical is celebrat Grouporganized fashion.” Celebrates- Five Year Anniversary as Charitable Fund of the DuPage Foundation ing its fifth anniversary as a fund of As the Charitable Fund’s fiscal the DuPage Foundation. - agent, the DuPage Foundation pro The DMG Charitable Fund is a vides administrative support to the donor-advised fund that was cre fund so that its representatives can ated to accomplish the charitable focus on increasing the resources goals of DMG, its physicians and available to make impactful grants employees who seek to care for throughout the community. the community through charitable “We set out to coordinate our giving and volunteer service. giving,” said Peri Todd, director of - Since its founding in 2010, the the DMG Charitable Fund. “This DMG Charitable Fund has made includes our financial giving, volun grants totaling nearly $625,000. teers and in-kind donations.” In addition, several hundred DMG DMG has more than 50 locations DuPage Medical Group employees after volunteering for Habitat for Humanity.

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