2011 Founder's Day Dinner
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ChildServ's 117th Founder's Day Dinner
Thank you to Karen M. Atwood, President, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinos and The Reverend Dr. Philip Blackwell, Senior Pastor, First United Methodist Church at The Chicago Temple for making our first Founder's Day Dinner a huge success!
ChildServ President and CEO James C. Jones poses with Honorees Karen M. Atwood, President, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois and The Reverend Dr. Philip Blackwell, Senior Pastor, First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple.
Terry Mazany, CEO and President of The Chicago Community Trust was our keynote speaker.
James C. Jones, Karen M. Atwood and ChildServ Board of Trustees member Sharolyn Franklin at our Founder's Day Dinner.
The Lucy Rider Meyer Humanitarian Award is inspired by
ChildServ founder, Lucy Rider Meyer. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Ms. Meyer founded the religious settlement movement in Chicago alongside the secular settlement movement led by her colleague Jane Addams. Ms. Meyer built The Chicago Training School of Missions which prepared some 5,000 young women both to answer the call of faith to serve the needy and to professionalize that service which we today recognize as social work. She founded the Methodist Deaconess Orphanage in Lake Bluff, Illinois (1894), which evolved into today’s multi-county/multi-service agency ChildServ. She also founded 39 other philanthropic, academic, health and human service agencies in northern Illinois. The Lucy Rider Meyer Humanitarian Award recognizes and celebrates those who best exemplify her vision, her efforts and her achievements.
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2011 Founder's Day Dinner