Gift Will Help Expand Center for Employment Whether it is a renovation at the Center for Employment & Business Opportunities, a donation to support an ambitious expansion into DuPage County or a Little City job seeker finally landing community employment – the Little City Project has been making life-changing differences for years. The Little City Project is unlike any support program in the organization’s history. It is not a Little City led project as the name may imply, but a widescale campaign of giving and support by the Chicago Club Managers Foundation. The Chicago Club Managers Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the Greater Chicago Club Managers Association – which represents over 112 private city, yacht, athletic, riding, dining, golf and country clubs in the Chicagoland area. The Foundation’s Board of Directors, charged with engaging and giving back to the greater community, chose the unique approach of supporting a single community agency to the strongest level possible and that agency was Little City. “Little City is just very special to all of us,” said Gavin Speirs, Board President, during the 2019 Foundation Golf Outing this past September. “We are honored to support them and help create job opportunities those at Little City deserve.” The Foundation has poured hundreds of thousands of dollars as well as their time and knowledge in support of Little City. The next step in the Foundation’s Little City Project comes courtesy of a groundbreaking $250,000 donation to establish a community employment training center in DuPage County. The center will provide training in life skills, experiences such as job shadowing and volunteering and practice in job interviews to prepare people with disabilities for a job in the community – similar to Little City’s Countryside Center in Schaumburg. And though the Chicago Club Managers Foundation has done so much for Little City already, board members do not expect the Little City Project to end any time soon. Jeff Belting, Chief Operating Officer at Indian Hill Club and former Foundation Board President “It has been the most rewarding relationship I’ve had in my decade on the Foundation Board. A lot of it has really been a growth through a combination of us learning more about Little City firsthand through visits or meetings and learning about potential opportunities to do more. Everything Little 4
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