Forum - March 2011

In celebration of its 100th anniversary, the American Society of Safety Engineers in Des Plaines, Ill., has released a new film — titled “American Society of Safety Engineers – Celebrating 100 Years of Safety” — that tells the story of work safety and tragedy through the decades. The film is narrated by Chicago-based actor Alan Wilder of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company.

The Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council recently celebrated its 75th anniversary. Formerly known as the Chicago Hospital Council, MCHC was chartered on Nov. 26, 1935, with 23 members. Today, its membership includes 94 hospitals in the metropolitan Chicago area, with an

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additional 55 hospitals and health care organizations represented as associate members.

The JW Marriott Chicago hotel recently opened in downtown Chicago. Located in the Continental & Commercial National Bank Building, which originally was designed by famed Chicago architect Daniel Burnham, the new hotel is Marriott’s first JW Marriott hotel in Chicago. The property, which has undergone a $396 million restoration, features 610 guest rooms and 44,000 square feet of meeting space, as well as an onsite restaurant, upscale bar, and 20,000-square- foot spa and wellness center.

The city of Rosemont, Ill., has followed in Chicago’s footsteps by endorsing the landmark convention reforms that were passed last year for McCormick Place. The reforms — which were passed in May 2010 by the Illinois state legislature — established new labor work rules at McCormick Place, where they also have expanded exhibitor rights and made it possible for shows to select outside electrical and foodservice contractors. In a letter to its customers, Rosemont’s Donald E. Stephens Convention Center said the cost-saving measures enacted in Chicago would be implemented and duplicated for Rosemont exhibitors, effective immediately.

Nonprofit HR Solutions has expanded its operations with the recent opening of its Chicago office on North Michigan Avenue. Established in 2000, the Washington, D.C.-headquartered Nonprofit HR Solutions is the nation’s only full-service firm dedicated exclusively to meeting the HR needs of nonprofit organizations.

"We are excited about this expansion and what it means for our firm as well as the many underserved organizations in the Chicago area that may be in need of nonprofit-specific human capital consul-tation," says Lisa Brown Morton, presi-dent/CEO of NPHRS.

Photo Caption: (L to R) Grant DePorter, president & managing partner, Harry Caray's Restaurant Group and GNMAA Foundation’s vice chairman; Kenneth M. Staral, principal, Ogden International School of Chicago; Annette E. Findling, CFP, CFP partner, Stonebridge Advisors LLC and GNMAA Foundation’s president; John C. Chikow, president & CEO, GNMAA

The Greater North Michigan Avenue Association’s Magnificent Mile Charitable Foundation recently awarded 10 area nonprofit organizations $47,500 total in grants. Nine worthy causes each received a $2,500 grant and the Ogden International School of Chicago received a $25,000 grant to build the school’s literacy resources and strengthen its reading and mathematics tutoring programs.

“Our association’s membership feels
strongly that giving back to this commu-
nity is vital, and education enrichment
and support is one of the targeted causes
we support through the Magnificent Mile
Charitable Foundation,” says John C.
Chikow, president & CEO of GNMAA. “In
total, our organization’s charitable branch
has proudly donated more than $700,000
to 35 nonprofit organizations since 1990.”
Additional grants of $2,500 each were
presented to the following causes:
• Alliance for Community Peace
• Cabrini Green Tutoring Program, Inc.