Speaking Out Against Poverty

Last Friday, HSP was asked to attend the Naperville Exchange Club’s Allocations Luncheon. A few months ago, the Exchange Club generously donated $4,800 to our Feed the Kids program to provide summertime food for needy families. At the luncheon, HSP Assistant Executive Director Kristin Maxwell, got the opportunity to speak before the club, and representatives from the 49 other organizations the Exchange Club supports, to talk about this program, and the impact that the Exchange Club’s generous donation will have on needy children and their families.

HSP was also invited to attend the meeting of another group who does great work in the community, the Hinsdale-Oakbrook Sunrise Rotary Club, on Tuesday. HSP was represented at the meeting by Georgeann Georges, one of the stellar members of our volunteer speaker team. Georgeann spoke to a group of around 15 members of the rotary updating them on the current state of our programs. We were very excited to have Georgeann speaking at this meeting, because the Hinsdale-Oakbrook Sunrise Rotary has been a supporter of HSP for 16 years, so it was our pleasure to educate them on the current state of our Children’s Birthday Project, Christmas Offering, and Feed the Kids program (all projects the Rotary has supported in the past.) This allowed us to show the club how their past support has helped us serve needy children.

          Keeping engaged with members of the community is extremely important to the continued success of HSP’s endeavors to serve needy seniors and families in DuPage and Kane Counties, so we would like to thank the Naperville Exchange Club and the Hinsdale-Oakbrook Rotary Club for inviting HSP to present at their events. Of course, we would also like to recognize Georgeann, and the other members of our speaker team, for giving their time and energy to represent HSP, allowing us to do such phenomenal outreach for the sake of those served by our programs.