Politics & Government
Highland Park Nonprofits Hold Grant Dinner
YEA! Highland Park and Highland Park Community Foundation gave $360,000 in grants to local groups Wednesday.
Local politicians, artists, educators and others gathered Wednesday night at for YEA! Highland Park and the Highland Park Community Foundation's sevent annual grant awards dinner.
About 30 local organizations, including the and District 112 School District, received $360,000 in grants at the event.
"We're very proud of what we accomplished," said Highland Park Community Foundation chairman Andy Livingston. "It's a phenomenal nonprofit experience."
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According to Patty Pell, YEA! Highland Park president, the Highland Park Historical Society will use its grant to digitize its photo archive. Nuestro Center, another grant recipient, will use its grant to finance a dance program called "Ensemble Espanol."
"It's a terrific community event where community builds community," Pell said.
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Attendees of the event included , , president Welz Kauffman and the executive director Gabrielle Rousso.
"We have former mayors, current mayors," Pell said, "then little old me at the podium. How'd that happen?"
YEA! Highland Park was started 15 years ago by former Highland Park mayor Ray Geraci. The organization teamed up with the Community Trust years later.
"We work well together," Livingston said.
Check out the photos from Wednesday's event above.
