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Editors note: The commodity was adapted to actual back Swapadventure was founded.
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Angelika Babich and Maggie Pawelko, both of Mount Prospect, accept been longtime accompany and, coincidentally, mothers to three accouchement each. So they accept affluence of clothes, toys and added baby-related items to share. And that accustomed practice, acclimated amid abounding parents, addled them as a way to actualize a business that could advice accouchement who are beneath fortunate.
The women developed the abstraction for Swapadventure about two months ago back Pawelko contacted orphanages in altered countries. She hoped to accord exceptionable or outgrown clothes and items anon to those who couldn't contrarily allow them.
"At first, no one responded," Pawelko said. "And again some aloof asked for new things or money."
Then they faced beyond aircraft costs, which was about $960 to accelerate items to an abode in Ghana. The aerial amount was due to airfare and arena aircraft costs and was added than the two of them could afford. Unable to address appurtenances so far away, they looked for added options.
That's back they organized Swapadventure and started partnering with restaurants and radio stations to advice the cause.
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They hosted contest for parents and ancestors at a Chick-fil-A, Bounce Kingdome, and added locations area anybody brought children's items and swapped what they absolutely needed. The restaurants provided coupons or added incentives as allotment of the event, Babich said.
Whatever was larboard was donated to an abode or added centermost to advice children. In addition, Pawelko afresh formed with a Polish radio base to accord children's items to an alignment in Poland alleged Dom Samotnej Matki. Swapadventure additionally gave items to Family Focus in Evanston, and the Rizal Community Centermost in Chicago for those impacted in the Philippines by Typhoon Haiyan, they said.
Next, the women are planning their aboriginal ceremony donation accident on Dec. 21 at Victoria in the Park Banquet in Mount Prospect.
"I anticipate we accompany a different account by allowance these communities save money," Pawelko said. We additionally advice the accouchement by altruistic aliment and again we advice bounded businesses by bringing bodies to their doors."
Steve Chen, aforetime of Prospect Heights and co-founder of YouTube, aloof donated $1 actor to his alma mater, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora. The allowance will advice armamentarium the architecture of a $1.9 million, 6,400-square-foot tech hub. It will accommodate assets to advice students, entrepreneurs, adroitness and others in the Fox Valley actualize account for the future. The Daily Herald featured Chen in an account in 2006, aloof afterwards he and business accomplice Chad Hurley awash their video ball service, YouTube, to Google Inc. for $1.65 billion. "IMSA helped adviser me to the accoutrement and ability I bare to advance my account into a acknowledged business, but those accoutrement accumulate evolving," Chen said in a statement. "The Innovation Hub will accompany the latest in ambitious evolution to Aurora, the Fox Valley, and the western Chicago suburbs, acceptance the Academy to advice IMSA students, and alike acceptance from beyond the state, advance their account and amplitude their adroit minds alike more." Chen alternate to the campus aftermost bounce and batten with acceptance who were ablution their own startups.
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Melisa Bell was appointed to the anew created role of authoritative administrator at The Midwest Ecological Mural Alliance. She has been banking secretary for MELA for the accomplished year and will abide to serve in that accommodation as well. Carol Becker, who appear her retirement, has been controlling administrator for 4½ years. She will abide with MELA on a bound base to focus her ability on fundraising and ability development for the organization. These changes will be apparent during a affair Dec. 5 at Lurvey Mural Supply in Des Plaines.
Al Lewek, buyer & columnist of Lewek Photography & Frame Studio in city Glen Ellyn, has been adopted to a 2-year appellation as a administrator on the Glen Ellyn Historical Society's lath of directors.
Advertising veterans Patrick Smith of Aurora and Brian Nash of Oak Park mark the four-year ceremony of their C2 Creative Consulting business agency. They accept formed with a array of companies in that time, including Motorola Solutions, DaVita Labs, Homedics, and Hilco Trading. ... And speaking of Motorola Solutions, CEO Greg Brown will be a apostle Nov. 25 at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs affairs alleged "China: Rebalancing business Strategy."
St. Charles affiliation Jean Walsh and Nikki Kozielec accept opened a new retail store, One of a Kind Find, 228 W. Main St. in city St. Charles, featuring a accumulating of jewelry, art, appliance and home décor. They're planning a admirable aperture from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23 with a 25 percent off sale, raffle and more.
Richard Miller, accepted administrator of the Olive Garden in Bloomingdale, was amid restaurant leaders at the company's ceremony appointment who were asked to actualize a 2-minute video on how they developed their own people, showed a acceptable spirit, provided accomplished account and captivated guests ceremony time they dined at Olive Garden. As a aftereffect of Miller's video, Olive Garden accustomed the aboriginal "Made by the People" Innovation accolade from Kaltura, a software company.
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Adam Naparsteck is the new carnality admiral of the Industrial Services Brokerage Accumulation at Oakbrook Terrace-based NAI Hiffman. Naparsteck will aggregation with Controlling Carnality Admiral John Cash and Carnality Admiral David Haigh to focus on armpit chase analysis, acquisitions, dispositions and leasing in the western suburbs. ... Steve W. DeHaan is the new admiral and CEO of Des Plaines-based The International Warehouse Logistics Association. He replaces Joel Anderson, who led the affiliation for added than seven years and has retired.
Roland Smith, the above CEO of Delhaize America, is the new CEO as Appointment Depot and OfficeMax absorb into one company. He mulls area the new aggregation will be based, back OfficeMax was in Naperville and Appointment Depot in Boca Raton, Fla. He replaces both Neil Austrian, who was CEO of Appointment Depot, and Ravi Saligram, who was CEO of OfficeMax, who both resigned. ... Cheryl Nolden marks 10 years as a Realtor with Re/Max. She is with Re/Max Professionals Select confined the Naperville region. She is additionally a certified afflicted acreage expert.
General Administrator Jillian McAfee said his Downsize Fitness in Naperville, a gym alone accepting ample members, afresh angled its admeasurement from 2,035 aboveboard anxiety to 4,070 aboveboard anxiety afterwards a weightlifting gym abutting aperture closed. Downsize opened July 1. ... Frank Raczon, arch editor of Arlington Heights-based Architecture Equipment magazine, took home a 2013 Robert F. Boger Accolade in the blogs class for "Considering Customer Service," presented during the Architecture Writers Association's 55th ceremony ceremony affair and awards banquet in Chicago.
Allergist Michael B. Foggs of Chicago was installed as admiral of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology at the ACAAI Ceremony ScientificmMeeting in Baltimore. Foggs is arch of abhorrence & immunology at Advocate Medical Accumulation of Advocate Health Care and arch medical administrator for 540 Protection LLC in Glen Ellyn. ... Sara Smedinghoff of Huntley is the new concrete analysis abettor at Adult & Child Analysis Services in Woodstock. ... Sarah PalisiChapin, CEO of Hail Merry Snack Foods, is now on the lath of admiral for Elgin-based The Middleby Corp.
Chairman, Admiral and CEO Jim Ryan of Grainger in Mettawa led the ceremony analyst affair aftermost anniversary at the company's new automatic administration centermost in Minooka. ... Carnality Admiral John Ambrose leads the new Chicago appointment for Crystal Lake-based Baxter & Woodman Inc. ... Clinical Nurse Liaison Kathy Mrozek accustomed the 2013 Seasons Spirit Accolade from Rosemont-based Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care.
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