Lambda Chi and Gamma Phi teeter totter for charity
On Friday, Lambda Chi Alpha and Gamma Phi Beta teamed up for the annual Teeter Totter A-Thon, a philanthropy event with proceeds going towards Northwestern GreekBuild. For $5, anyone passing by the Rock could take a ride on the large teeter totter. For $1, students could grab a slice of homemade pumpkin pie. In the [...]
Kappa Delta paints the Rock: Oct. 21
A speedy devil raced across the Rock Thursday to promote Demon Dash, Kappa Delta’s fall philanthropy project. The Halloween-themed 5K run to support Prevent Child Abuse America will be held 9 am Saturday at the Lakefill. Tickets are available at the Norris Box Office.
Supplies for Dreams looks to bring up Chicago schools through backpacks
The student group teamed up with New Trier High School to give school supplies to low-income students.
NU entrepreneurs combine charity and stunts in BeExtraordinary.org
A profile of the NU student entrepreneurs who started BeExtraordinary.org.
The Chicago co-op with big dreams for old bikes
The Working Bike Cooperative doesn’t underestimate used bicycles.
Students give blood to save lives (and get some juice in return)
The first day of the Norris blood drive attracted more than 150 would-be donors.
Audio from the finale
Listen in on DM’s beneficiaries being presented with their checks:
Evanston Community Foundation:
CARE (plus dancers’ sing-along with “Stacy’s Mom”):
Audio recording by Patrick St. Michel.
The final countdown
This is it. All the bar night fundraising, checks from grandma and last-ditch deposits build to this. The big reveal of the final total of money raised for CURE and the Evanston Community Foundation.
Block by block, the finance committee has been unveiling the totals at different benchmarks, each total growing bigger. This is the number [...]
Loud dance floor, silent auction
Horst Schastok looks at DM’s silent auction. Schatok is the husband of Evanston Community Foundation Executive Director Sara L. Schastok. The ECF receives ten percent of the total funds raised at DM.
Next to the winding caffeine line of Starbucks and a live video feed from the dance floor, DM is still quietly raising money.
The [...]
DM helps CURE, CURE helps DM
CURE’s sign in front of the Dittmar Memorial Gallery at Norris.
Megan Leyden’s brother lived 20 years without epilepsy.
“We don’t know how he got it or why he got it,” Leyden said. “He was doing laundry one day, then he had a seizure.”
Her brother is the reason the 26-year-old Chicago resident joined CURE last April. [...]
Students build igloo on campus for U.N. charity
Students built a snow structure to get donations for the U.N.
