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10 | January 18, 2018 | The highland park landmark news hplandmark.com Highland Park Community Foundation appoints new chairwoman, vice chairman Jessica Cabe Freelance Reporter Last month, the Highland Park Community Foundation announced the appointment of two new leaders who will focus on growing the foundation’s endowment to provide more grant money than ever to community organizations. Nancy Mills has been appointed chairwoman of the board of directors, and David Reich was appointed vice chairman. “It’s really exciting,” Mills said. “We’re planning a lot of great new things, and I feel like we’ve entered a new stage for the foundation, which set a goal to double the endowment over the next few years. That means we’ll be able to give out more grants, larger grants and address more of the needs of the community. I’m really looking forward to working hard toward that.” The Highland Park Community Foundation was formed in 1992 at the request of the city to build and maintain a permanent endowment fund. The fund serves to support and expand the services of social services, cultural and educational agencies in Highland Park and Highwood by issuing grants based on the fund’s interest. Last year, the foundation issued more than $180,000 in grants to 35 organizations, six of which were first-time recipients. Mills moved to Highland Park as a 3-year-old and, aside from a few years here and there of living elsewhere, has spent her entire life in the city. She said she sought opportunities to make a difference locally about 10 years ago when her children were in middle school. “I realized there were kids going to school with my kids who were hungry, and it just struck me as something that was really heartbreaking, and I wanted to get involved and try to make a difference,” Mills said. “When I found the Community Foundation, I was really excited about the fact that we have an endowment that’s there for perpetuity. And then I met the people, and I was very excited to work with all these lovely people who care so much about the community.” Mills has been on the board of directors for about nine years, serving as both co-chairman on the communications committee and as vice chairman of the board. She is a long-time marketing team member of medical supplies giant Medline, and she has used her background in communications to lead the charge on such foundation initiatives as redesigning the logo and website, instituting a media plan for print, social media and outdoor signage and conceptualizing and producing the foundation’s impact report and e-newsletters. “We’ve really been working on increasing our visibility and our impact in the community,” Mills said. “I feel like the more people know about what the foundation is doing, the more we can help more people in the community. The needs are there, and they’re growing, and government funding is very tight and sometimes unreliable. So we know how much local organizations need support from us.” Mills said she’s looking forward to working with David Reich, who was appointed vice chairman of the board and with whom she has worked for the past eight years. “We were actually classmates in high school, so it’ll be fun to work on a great cause together,” Mills said. Reich has served as the secretary of the board for the past three years and served on the executive committee and grants committee for the past four years. He was born and raised in Highland Park and is a partner at the law firm of Lawrence, Kamin, Saunders & Uhlenhop, LLC. Reich has also served on the boards of the Modestus Bauer Foundation and the Israel Cancer Research Fund for more than 20 years. For more information on the Highland Park Community Foundation, visit hpcommu nityfoundation.com. Brosnahan From Page 4 “House of Cards” and subsequently, Dibo said. Brosnahan was one of the many actors and actresses who wore black to stand up to recent allegations of sexual harassment and assault in the film industry. While she now lives in New York, she still remembers her North Shore roots, as she told The Landmark. “I had a very suburban upbringing in Highland Park,” she said. “What a gift to be able to live so close to Chicago. ... I look back fondly. I had a wonderful time growing up [there]. I do travel a lot and I don’t make it back as much as I’d like to now. But my family still lives there; my parents and my sister are still in Highland Park.” While attending Highland Park High School, Brosnahan took part in wrestling, lacrosse and said she liked snowboarding as well, but theatre was what caught her heart. “I thought I could sing for a period of time, which is unfortunate for everyone who was involved,” Brosnahan said. “I attempted to be in a musical. This is how devastated I was, I can still remember which one it was. It was ‘Beauty and the Beast.’ I auditioned and ultimately did not get cast, which was probably the best situation. But unfortunately for the (future) productions, I did do musicals the next three years.” Brosnahan also worked with Carole Dibo through the Actors Training Center in Wilmette. As many high school students do toward the end of their high school careers, they start to narrow down what they want to do, and there was only one thing on Brosnahan’s mind, she told The Landmark. “It wasn’t something that was acknowledged to me that way,” she said. “But I was never interested in anything else than how I was with theater. ... But I did pick it as my ultimate career. I really only envisioned doing theater. But that has obviously grown and changed and now I love all the different sides of it.” Brosnahan attended the New York University Tisch School of Arts, focusing on theater. Her role in “House of Cards” came almost immediately after graduation, she said. visit us online at hplandmark.com Candidates From Page 6 ed that he, too, is at odds with the NRA over gun legislation he signed in the past. The gun violence discussion grew momentarily heated when Drury clashed with Illinois Senator Kwame Raoul, D— Chicago, over Raoul’s 2013 negotiation of a concealed carry bill. Earlier in his remarks, Drury said the State will not pass meaningful gun legislation unless “people with spines” take it on. “I got a spine, because I have to go home to a neighborhood, and deal with my kids having to deal with gun violence in my neighborhood. I have a spine, that’s why the Illinois Council of Handgun Violence gave me the Lincoln Award in the very year you’re talking about,” Raoul said to Drury. “This is an important issue to me, and I have a spine.” Raoul comes from the Hyde Park neighborhood in Chicago, and has served in the Illinois Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama in 2004. While Drury and Raoul battled on gun violence, other issues were less divisive for the bunch. When discussing police reform, Rotering pushed for implementing resources and metrics to empirically measure how departments are performing and looking at mental health resources for officers who have been involved in violent incidences. “This has to be a priority,” she said. The candidates also generally agreed on voter protection. Former federal prosecutor Aaron Goldstein discussing polling place accessibility said, “why are we voting in the coldest months of the year? It doesn’t make any sense.” He went on to say politicians need to make people want to vote. Chicago attorney Jesse Ruiz concurred, suggesting we should adopt some of the methods used by other countries such as stopping the sale of alcohol on voting days, as his parents’ home country of Mexico does. On the final issue of marijuana legalization, the candidates agreed across the board: legalize it. The eight are vying for the seat presently filled by Lisa Madigan, who announced in the fall she would not seek reelection. There are only two Republicans running, Gary Grasso, a Hinsdale litigator, and Erika Harold, a Harvard-educated Urbana lawyer, who also was the winner of the 2003 Miss America competition.
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