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“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”
– Napoleon Hill
Kearns Design Group
visual communications
Crafted with purpose. Guided by vision.
Collaboration is at the heart of our process. We partner with our clients to create work that truly reflects their goals, mission, and values. We’re dedicated to delivering quality and attentive service on every project.
Our commitment is simple: to meet each client’s unique needs with creative solutions rooted in sound strategy and business insight, fostering a human connection. Your success is our measure of achievement.
Bold visions. Meaningful purpose. Trusted partnership. We’re ready to bring creativity, dedication, and real value to every client we work with.
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Kearns Design Group, 2010–2025
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Want to give back and be a positive role model for our youths?
We are looking for volunteer coaches for youth soccer, basketball & volleyball.
The River Trails Park District utilizes volunteers in many areas and special events. Each season, we post an updated listing of opportunities for volunteers to assist with our programs’ success. All prospective volunteers must complete and submit a volunteer application, waiver, and release form. If you are selected to be a volunteer, you are required to complete a Criminal Background Check. Special park district perks for volunteers.
Apply today at rtpd.org
For additional information on volunteering, please contact Patti Mitchell, Superintendent of Recreation, at 847.255.1200 or pmitchell@rtpd.org. We appreciate your help!
Help Make Our Vision A Reality
River Trails Park & Recreation Foundation is currently seeking new members! If you have a passion for your community and our parks, want to help put together fun events to help people in your backyard continue to have great programs and scholarship programs, we would love to have you a part of our volunteer team. Contact Kate Erickson at kerickson@rtpd.org or 847-255-1200.
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Program Overview
Lumity’s Student Based Enterprise (SBE) is a STEM-focused job training program that connects high school students with local businesses. Students gain hands-on experience, explore STEM careers, and build valuable skills by creating real-world solutions in areas like cybersecurity, digital media, data analysis, and technology.
Student Based Enterprise
Introducing students to STEM careers through real-world experience
Guided by program staff and volunteer experts, students develop action plans for small business clients—building a win-win partnership that prepares youth for employment while helping businesses grow.
Real STEM Experiences, Real Opportunities
How it Works
• High school students are grouped into teams of 3 or 4; they are paired with local businesses who act as their clients.
Program Timeline (September–March)
The SBE Program creates opportunities for youth and businesses alike.
September Student teams are formed; teams are matched with business clients.
Student teams meet with their clients to identify and understand problems and needs in website and social media integration, tech assessments, cybersecurity, or data analysis.
Student teams work with their small business clients during their SBE project, focusing on one of four areas:
Students receive ongoing instruction in computer science, customer service, professionalism, and entrepreneurism from Lumity staff, classroom teachers, and volunteer coaches.
September –November Student teams meet with coaches and clients to identify and define client needs (minimum of 2 meetings).
Website & Social Media Integration
• The students work together to devise solutions for solving problems and addressing client needs.
December –February Teams develop solutions and action plans, meet with coaches and clients to review progress (minimum of 2 meetings).
More About This Unique Partnership
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Students who engage in these client projects may work on the following:
Each team presents an action plan for its client. Action plans are evaluated, and student teams compete against one another.
Teams showcase their projects at school events, and the winning student teams are invited to present at Lumity’s Annual Benefit.
Creating, transitioning, or updating a company website via Wix templates.
• Conducting company website maintenance and management.
Cybersecurity
February –March Students make final presentations to their clients.
Students who engage in these client projects may work on the following:
Lumity is a nonprofit committed to building a future where STEM education is more equitable, accessible, and uplifting for Chicago’s under-resourced students. Our SBE program succeeds by building connections between:
March Winning student teams present at the Lumity Annual Benefit.
Creating graphic designs for company content.
• Writing content for the website and social media.
Setting the Stage for a Successful Partnership
Developing a social media strategy
Tech Assessments
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Explaining key principles of cybersecurity to company staff.
High School Students
Our SBE students are
• Storing and archiving important company data.
Protecting company data and information, computers, and networks from cyber attacks.
Small Businesses
Local
• Establishing best practices for company password management and recovery.
Identifying and analyzing threats, risks, and vulnerabilities.
Our SBE program helps students achieve their goals thanks to two very important groups. These are the small businesses that serve as clients and the STEM professionals who serve as volunteer coaches. We work closely with each group to set clear expectations and guidelines.
• Identifying different classes of cyber attacks relevant to the company.
Volunteer Coaches
Students who engage in these client projects may work on the following:
Small business client expectations include:
Providing necessary information about the business to student teams.
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Volunteer coach expectations include:
Explaining the fundamentals of a network and devices that can connect them to company staff.
Providing guidance as subject matter experts.
Identifying new and emerging technologies relevant to the company.
Our volunteer coaches want to help students learn more about STEM careers. They are subject matter experts willing to share their business and technical skills to move the needle. They commit to working with their student teams throughout the school year. Lumity works with coaches to develop a schedule that matches their availability and skill set.
• Being available to meet with student teams at least four times between September and February.
Evaluating final presentations using a rubric that Lumity provides.
Inventorying and creating a tracking system/ database for the company’s devices.
• Being able to meet with student teams at least once per month from September through March.
Systematically identifying and fixing problems with company devices and their components.
• Being available for surveys and follow-up interviews once the program is complete.
Installing, updating, and managing software on company devices.
• Being available for surveys and follow-up interviews once the program is complete.
Recommending improvements to the design of staff’s network infrastructure, based on an analysis of how staff interact with company devices.
• Recommending software based on an analysis of how staff interact with company devices.
Comparing various security measures, considering trade offs between the usability and security of the company’s computer system.
Data Analysis
Students who engage in these client projects may work on the following:
Helping students learn to communicate effectively and demonstrate professionalism.
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Identifying a research question relevant to company workstream(s), collecting or retrieving raw data, cleaning data, analyzing data, and interpreting the results.
To learn more about Lumity’s Student Based Enterprise Program or to get involved please contact: Jack Stonebraker Jstonebraker@lumity.org 630-433-1533
Michael Hurley Mhurley@lumity.org 630-881-2076
• Collecting, organizing, and managing data relevant to the company and company workstream(s).
Creating or updating a company data storage infrastructure using a shared file system like Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, or Microsoft SharePoint.
• Using software or an application like Excel, Google Charts, or Tableau to use charts or graphics to create data visualization and tell a story with data.
Amber Taylor Ataylor@lumity.org 312-237-4214
Lumity is a Chicagoland nonprofit that partners with business, community, and school leaders to develop our next generation of STEM professionals and entrepreneurs. We provide teens and young adults from historically under-resourced communities with transformational STEM experiences that inspire and prepare them to pursue STEM careers.
Preparing every student
OUR REACH IN 2018–2019
STEM CAREER PREP PROGRAM
Providing teens and young adults in underserved communities with transformational experiences to prepare them for lifelong STEM careers.
The Lumity STEM Career Prep Program is a four-year program that engages Chicago students in transformational STEM experiences. In the 2018-19 school year, Lumity worked weekly, across Chicago, in 20 classrooms at Amundsen, Chicago Vocational Career Academy and Von Steuben high schools to prepare students for future STEM careers.
Reclaiming Chicago
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joint venture of LCDC and CNI (Reclaiming Lawndale, LLC) is now preparing eighteen (18) city-owned
Olots to construct Out of the first 100 city-owned lots provided, 70 in total are feasible for the development of new construction, single-family homes (e.g., some are actually not owned by the City, some are too small, and some have been claimed by adverse possession). Approximately 52 more homes will be built on these remaining city-owned lots in 2023 and early 2024. The City has committed a total of 250 vacant lots in North Lawndale for the first phase of this effort. LCDC and CNI plan to begin construction on the Homes at 1621 and 1623 S. Avers in North Lawndale.
n January 26, 1966, Martin Luther King, Jr. moved into a ramshackle apartment at the corner of 16th and Hamlin in the North Lawndale neighborhood. He worked with local leaders and institutions to create a new Chicago rooted in love and justice. 57 years later, much has changed. But injustice remains.
We still confront the rubble of racial and economic segregation—the vacant lots and vacant buildings, the rampant disinvestment on our south and west sides, and the horrifying violence that spreads across our city like a cancer. These are moral problems‚but they also threaten the very viability of our city as they contribute to the loss of people and business investment, city budgetary challenges, a growing gap between rich and poor, and the disappearance of workingclass neighborhoods.
Most of the solutions proposed for these problems do not emanate from people or institutions who live the everyday reality of vacancy, violence, and disinvestment. Most of the solutions proposed do not directly involve rebuilding west and south side neighborhoods.
Our solution is to rebuild the core neighborhoods on the south and west sides for everyday people.
Replace the vacant lots and buildings with new affordable homes where working-class families can raise their families and create a new future. Do it with urgency and at scale – create new homeowners and taxpayers, give people opportunities to build wealth through homeownership, and reclaim entire blocks at a time.
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About Hidden Truths Project
Mission
To raise awareness about the pervasiveness of epilepsy and other hidden disabilities, and to improve the wellbeing of those affected—through art, storytelling, and inclusive community engagement.
Founded by Dr. Julie Thompson-Dobkin in 2012, Hidden Truths Project (HTP) was born from a simple but powerful idea: that art can illuminate what medicine alone cannot. Today, our exhibits, workshops, and film series serve as a platform for dialogue and empowerment. We’ve partnered with artists from six continents, raised over $750,000, and inspired thousands—both on-site and online.
Why It Matters
Epilepsy affects over 3.4 million Americans, more than Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, and cerebral palsy combined. Yet it remains among the most misunderstood and stigmatized neurological conditions. By supporting Hidden Truths Project, Lundbeck champions a vital narrative shift—one that replaces silence with visibility, isolation with connection, and stigma with understanding.
Benefit to Lundbeck: Reinforces corporate social responsibility, supports internal and external storytelling, and showcases real-world impact of your partnership in advancing epilepsy awareness and wellness through the arts. Collectively, we can amplify the voices of those affected and shed light on the human experience behind the science!
Your support fuels:
• Artistic empowerment of people living with epilepsy. Public awareness through visually and emotionally resonant experiences.
• Dialogue between healthcare providers, advocates, and community members.
“Photography helps me see the world—and life with epilepsy— more deeply. At first glance, a rose is simply beautiful, but when you look closer, you see its intricate details. Living with epilepsy is similar: it changes us, but when you look beyond the surface, there’s richness, resilience, and complexity.”
— Kaitlyn Keely Chicago, 2025 “1:26 Art of Epilespy” Artist (photo from the 2024 Artist Talk)
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FNBC Wealth Management cordially invites you to attend our
2020 Economic and Market Outlook Reception
GUEST Joseph Cortese III
SPEAKER OCIO Practice Leader, Senior Consultant DiMeo Schneider & Associates, L.L.C.
WHEN Wednesday, October 30, 2019, 7:30 – 9:30 A.M.
WHERE La Grange Country Club
620 S. Brainard Avenue, La Grange, Illinois 60525
RSVP To reserve your seat, please return the enclosed RSVP card, or contact Moira Kawa at 708-482-7705 or mkawa@fnbcbt.com by Monday, October 21, 2019. Please note: This is an invitation-only special event; seating is limited.
Joseph Cortese III
Joe joined DiMeo Schneider in 2008. He provides investment consulting services as part of the firm’s Outsource Chief Investment Officer (OCIO) practice. Joe gives advice and expertise on all facets of effective investment program design including establishing investment objectives, asset allocation and portfolio design, investment research and due diligence and overall practice management.
Joe earned his MBA with concentrations in Analytic Finance and Accounting from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BBA with a Certification in Entrepreneurial Management from the University of Iowa.
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All meeting sessions are designed to build practical skills and knowledge for creating and sustaining successful cross-sector collaborations!
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From Application to Action: How the DCEO Grant is Taking Shape
— Lynn Ankney, Treasurer
e’re using this month’s column to provide an update on the State of Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) grant. As a reminder to our members, Illinois Senators Martwick and LaPointe notified OIPA of the $250,000 operational grant in October 2024, with the official grant timeline spanning until June 30, 2026.
Since October 2024, we have gathered community feedback and completed required forms and budgets to officially begin utilizing the grant. It wasn’t until April of this year that we initiated the reimbursement process, which involves submitting monthly reports that outline our grant expenditures, requested reimbursements, and progress toward our approved grant items.
The process has been a lot of work and a steep learning curve, but the effort is well worth the benefit to our neighborhood! See the snapshot of our budget and progress at right (page 3).
Join us for the next OIPA General Meeting on Wednesday, September 10, 7 p.m., at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 3857 N. Kostner Ave.
to attract businesses, support existing businesses, and improve the overall economic climate of the state. DCEO also provides resources, grants, and assistance to businesses, entrepreneurs, and communities throughout Illinois.
The DCEO acts as a central hub for resources and support to stimulate economic growth and improve the well-being of Illinois
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JDA is committed to on-going customer support – providing tactical solutions to get your company to the next level. We work with you to enhance the functionality of your system by providing information and support on new products and features.
Maintaining a technology momentum helps you run your business in a cost effective way. Keeping updated on your established systems and software ensures that you are getting maximum value, features and flexibility for your technology investment.
That is why we don't want you to miss this opportunity to learn about the innovative upgrades to Exact® software, as well as information about Macola ES and e-Synergy at a one day seminar sponsored by Exact® Trained professionals will guide you through the new features and answer questions about specific functions. This free upgrade has many new enhancements and is vastly different from the current running software. Maintain momentum, ensure flexibility, reserve today.
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CLIENTS | CLIENTS WE’VE HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO WORK WITH, BOTH PAST AND PRESENT.
AIDS Foundation of Chicago
Amate House
Albany Park Community Center
Arlington Heights Park District
Batavia Park District
Bradford Exchange
Carlson Communications
Canright Communications Center for Christian Life Enrichment
Chicagoland Lutheran Educational Fund
Council on Foundations
Community Memorial Foundation
Corluma
Creativity
DataVision
Davidoff Strategy, LLC
Deerfield Park District
Deerfield Park Golf Club
Emotional Brands
Harney Management Partners
Helium
Jason Day & Associates
JRC Dedicated Services
Judith Kruger – KLAY
Keen Consulting
Lifton & Associates
LiveWright
Lumity
Marsha Fuller Real Estate
McCann Windows & Exteriors
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
Neb Medical
North Riverside Park District
Norridge Park District
Plexus
Prairie Organization Credit
PrimeCare Community Health
Prospect Heights Park District
Reclaim the Mother Code
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
River Trails Park District
Saint Viator Parish & School, Chicago
Seasons Hospice
Tafora Designs
TaxSeminars.com
Turnaround Management Association
Topco
United Power for Action & Justice
University of Chicago Medical Center
Wish of a Lifetime, AARP Affiliate
Women’s Council of Realtors
Wright Foundation
Thank you for exploring the work of Kearns Design Group. If you’d like to see how we can help your organization stand out or want to connect with us, please reach out.
For special attention, take action, call:
Kathleen M. Kearns
Kearns Design Group 4106 West Cornelia Chicago, Illinois 60641
773.296.9824
k.kearns@kearnsdesign.com