Big Shoulders Fund will host its biennial Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Humanitarian Award Dinner on Wednesday, May 24, 2023. This year’s honorees are longtime supporters Lindy and Mike Keiser. The Keiser’s have been deeply involved with the Big Shoulders Fund mission, helping to provide access to a quality values-based education to all children for two decades. The Keiser’s are Patrons at Academy St. Benedict the African, St. Francis de Sales High School, and St. Angela School. Their investment in these schools has designed a course for a brighter future for hundreds of students. This is demonstrated through long-term outcomes– 95 percent graduate high school, 81 percent enroll in college, and alumni graduate from college, are employed, vote, donate, and get involved at twice the national average.
We hope you will join us for this one-of-a-kind celebration and help to make a difference in the lives of the 25,000 students we seek to serve.
Honoring:
Mike and Lindy Keiser
Steering Committee:
Elizabeth and Michael Cole
Liz and Kent Dauten
Kim and Lee Henderson
Ellen and Jim O’Connor
Corky and Larry Richman
Monsignor Kenneth Velo
If possible, kindly consider check, stock or wire transfer payment for gifts of $5,000+.
Please send payments to:
Big Shoulders Fund
c/o PJH & Associates, Inc.
70 West Madison Street
Suite 200
Chicago, IL 60602
Event Contact: Molly McDonald
About Big Shoulders Fund
Big Shoulders Fund is an independent charitable organization that serves schools with demonstrated need, which provide a quality, values-based education for Chicago’s children, thereby contributing to stronger communities.
Investing more than $40 million annually in 92 schools educating 25,000 children. 73 percent of students identify as Black or Latino and 65 percent reside in low income households. Big Shoulders students are defying national trends–95 percent of students graduate high school, 81 percent of graduating scholars enroll in college the year following, and alumni graduate from college at nearly twice the national rate, with Black and Latino alumni graduating from college at nearly three and four times the national average respectively.