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Alumni
Club of Chicago (KACC)
The
Kellogg Alumni Club of Chicago members showed their strong
community support this holiday season by donating to the Virtual
Food Drive to benefit the Greater Chicago Food Depository.
The Greater Chicago Food Depository is a not-for-profit food
distribution center providing food for hungry people through
a network of 600 pantries, soup kitchens and shelters in the
Chicago area. This was the inaugural year for the virtual
food drive, and according to the organizers it was a "tremendous
success" with KACC's support. KACC members donated $2,300
to benefit families and other community members in need.
Chicago
alums took advantage of this fall and winter to catch up on
their reading. Several alums attended a video presentation,
Q and A session, and book signing with Professors Alice Tybout
and Tim Calkins for their new textbook, Kellogg on Branding.
Attendees met the authors and several of the book's contributors,
including senior Kellogg School faculty and alumni. Bill Welter,
author of The Prepared Mind of a Leader, joined alums
to talk about his new book co-authored with Jean Egmon, a
faculty member at Kellogg, and share strategies on the eight
skills leaders use to innovate, make decisions and solve problems.
The KACC also has two popular book clubs that meet monthly
for alums living downtown and in the north/northwest suburbs.
Several award-winning business books have been featured by
the book clubs in recent months and many more are on the "must
read" list for future meetings.
An
interesting new event, Gateway Tour to Serving on a Nonprofit
Board, was organized this year for KACC members interested
in nonprofit leadership. Kellogg Adjunct Professor Anne Cohn
Donnelly, from the Center for Nonprofit Management, talked
with alums about management skills that can enable boards
to maximize organizational effectiveness, the application
of successful governance strategies from business to nonprofits
and about the popular Kellogg executive education and nonprofit
management programs. Another interesting and enlightening
KACC event featured Mark Kirk (R-IL), who shared his thoughts
with alums on the emerging China-United States relationship
and the economic, environmental and social implications of
China's influence on the Western Hemisphere.
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