This Year's Charity

The 2009 Managers' Ball team is proud to announce that a charity has been selected! The beneficiary for this year's event is Reach the World Company.

Reach the World's mission is to integrate exciting social studies and science material streaming from real journeys, via the internet, into under-resourced elementary and middle school classrooms, broadening students' worldviews and helping them learn with innovative technology. Reach the World empowers approximately 2,250 Chicago Public School students with a global perspective in a unique way: connecting 2nd-8th grade classrooms with real expeditions exploring countries and cultures around the globe.  

To learn even more about this year's great beneficiary organization, click here. An event will also be scheduled through Community Relations in the Winter quarter with Reach the World so that students can have a chance to learn more about the organization in anticipation of the Ball. So please keep an eye out for communication on that!

Fundraising:     All funds raised at the Ball will go to benefit Reach the World Company and help them achieve their mission. Funds are raised through raffle tickets sales before the event and silent auction bids at the event. We will be looking for your help in soliciting items for both of these and detailed information will be coming soon! 

Other Nominations:    Finally, there were 22 wonderful organizations nominated for this year's beneficiary and it was very difficult to choose just one! Thank you to all the students who submitted a nomination! To help promote the great work these students and their organizations are doing we've put together a list of all of the nominated charities with their websites and a brief description of their mission. If you're looking to get involved please click here to see if one of these organizations might be a good fit!

If you have any questions about the charity or fundraising efforts, please contact Sameer Afsar or Elena Reinert.

Thanks!