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Firm Names Winner of Much Shelist Founders' Award
On Thursday, January 31, 2008, the Sun-Times Judge Marovitz Lawyers Lend-A-Hand to Youth Program held its annual grants reception at the Chicago Bar Association headquarters. Representatives from the firm were on hand to present the $7,000 Much Shelist Founders' Award to Hermosa Community Organization. Created in 2005 to recognize an up-and-coming tutor/mentor program that has been in existence for five years or less, the annual grant was named in honor of the firm's five founders. During Thursday’s event, Lend-a-Hand distributed more than 30 grants to Chicago-area tutor/mentor agencies totaling $240,000.
Hermosa Community Organization, located in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood, is a five-year-old agency that serves the Hispanic and African American communities with one-on-one mentoring activities, including self-development workshops, recreational activities, tutoring and cultural events. Other finalists for the Much Shelist Founders’ Award included the Southeast Chicago Development Commission and the Latino Education Alliance.
For more information on Lend-a-Hand and the firm's involvement with this worthwhile organization, visit http://www.lend-a-hand.net/ or view the 2005 press release.
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