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April 15, 2020
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Kitchen Talk (not Walk)
A kitchen featured on the 2018 Kitchen Walk. New Moms had to cancel the Kitchen Walk fundraiser this year but will be giving donors access to a video of local kitchen designers’ pro-tips on April 25 in exchange to a donation to New Moms.
New Moms fundraiser goes online on April 25 By LACEY SIKORA Contributing Reporter
The Kitchen Walk is usually one of the biggest fundraisers of the years for local charity New Moms, and it is the kick-off to the spring housewalk season. In a typical year, New Moms staffers and volunteers work for months to open up 10 Oak Park and River Forest kitchens to the
public for one day of tours. This year is anything but typical and local spring housewalks have been cancelled or postponed. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the organizers of the Kitchen Walk knew the walk couldn’t go on as planned, and they decided to make lemonade out of lemons. Bonnie Andorka, New Moms’ donor relations and events manager, says that in midMarch it became abundantly clear that the walk could not take place on April 25, but the path forward took a while to discern. Organizers considered postponing the walk until a later date, but they realized the future wasn’t clear enough to put a date on
Photo courtesy of Mark Wright Photography
the calendar. New Moms, an organization that employs a two-generation approach to helping young parents with family support, job training and housing, also relies on the roughly $60,000 that the Kitchen Walk brings in every year, so they couldn’t simply abandon the spring fundraiser. Rather than turn the walk into a virtual tour of the 10 already selected kitchens for 2020, Andorka and team created the first-ever Kitchen Talk. The homes selected for the Kitchen Walk 2020 will be featured in 2021. For the Kitchen Talk fundraiser, New Moms is asking friends of the Kitchen Walk and New Moms supporters to make a donation to
New Moms that will go to provide needed supports for moms and their children. Those making a donation will receive access on April 25 to a video created exclusively for New Moms, featuring a handful of local designers offering pro tips about kitchen design. The emailed video will be paired with a discount code for Bright Endeavors candles, the artfully created candles produced in New Moms’ paid job training program. Andorka notes that the past few years, kitchens on the Kitchen Walk have included a pro tip from local designers, printed on See KITCHEN WALK on page B3
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