Event: Annual Martin Luther King Day of Service
Sponsored by: The Kindness Connection, Wilmette, and The Volunteer Center, Winnetka
Date: Jan. 18
Location: Winnetka Community House
Volunteers: 600
Event coordinators: Lisa Rosenberg, Executive Director, of the Kindness Connection and Kindness Connection Board members, and Barb Tubekis, Executive Director of the Volunteer Center and Volunteer Center Board
Nonprofits supported by event: 20
Projects completed: No-sew blankets for the Night Ministry and Connections for the Homeless; Dog toys for Orphans of the Storm, Riverwoods; 40 activity books for pediatric patients at LaRabida Hospital, Chicago, and Advocate Good Shepard Hospital, Barrington;; 97 animal cards for patients in Evanston, Glenbrook and Highland hospitals; 16 seasonal banners to be hung at Family Focus of Evanston; 107 bracelets for women and children for Luggage for Freedom; 82 door hangers for Whitehall of Deerfield and other nursing homes; 108 Valentine cards for Veterans at Lovell Federal Healthcare Center, North Chicago, and Hines VA Hospital, Hines; 55 flash cards for Literacy Works and RefugeeOne; Cards2Kids packing baseball cards; Fred Outa Foundation of Kenya, packing school supplies for Kenyan orphans
Websites: thekindnessconnection.org and volunteercenterhelps.org