CHICAGO (December 11, 2007) – Community Health Charities of Illinois (CHCI) will host a workshop on governance and board development for not-for-profit organizations on January 10, at Jenner & Block, 330 North Wabash.  The free seminar will feature Henry M. Schaffer, of counsel at Jenner & Block, speaking on governance, and Nancy McInroy,  Executive Director of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Illinois, speaking on board development,

The program, hosted for CHCI by Jenner & Block, will begin with continental breakfast at 8:00 a.m., with a promised adjournment by 9:30 a.m.   Since space is limited, reservations are mandatory (call 312 360 0382).

Nancy McInroy, Executive Director for the Illinois Chapter of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) since June 2006,  began her non-profit career in 1992 with American Red Cross in Midland, Michigan, where she served for four years as the Director of Health and Safety Services.  For the next nine years, she was employed with ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee and Detroit, Michigan. In addition to her board development activities at LLS, she serves on the nominating committee for CHCI, helping to build its volunteer board. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Central Michigan University. 

Henry M. Schaffer has concentrated his law practice for over three decades in the representation of not-for-profit, tax-exempt organizations, and has been a faculty member at the Institute of Organization Management of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and has also been in demand as a speaker for such groups as the Association Forum of Chicagoland, the American Society of Association Executives, and Meeting Professionals International.  He is a graduate of Columbia, earned his law degree at Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, and taught law at the University of Toledo. 

Community Health Charities of Illinois is part of a nationwide federation of America's premier health organizations that have joined together to stimulate health awareness and voluntarism and raise charitable contributions in the workplace. Community Health Charities distributes close to $58 million annually, based on contributions from millions of employees in corporations, federal agencies, and state/municipal governments nationwide. By designating a “health charity of choice” employees have an opportunity to touch the lives of people they know and love, and at the same time help someone they have never met by having a charitable donation automatically deducted from their paycheck.     

CHCI welcomes reservations for the January 10^th breakfast workshop at 312 360 0382 or info@healthcharitiesillinois.org  from board and staff members of not-for-profits, especially those responsible for recruiting and training board members and assuring that appropriate governance procedures are being followed.  Visits are also invited to www.healthcharitiesillinois.org to learn about workplace giving and about volunteer opportunities at organizations doing medical research, or providing patient services and health education.

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COMMUNITY HEALTH CHARITIES OF ILLINOIS

Member Agencies

Aids Research Foundation (amfAR)     

ALS, Les Turner Foundation   

Alzheimer’s Association                                               

AMC Cancer Research Center

American Diabetes Association

American Hearing Research      Foundation

American Liver Foundation – Illinois Chapter

Arthritis Foundation

Autism Speaks            

Cancer Research Institute                                                                    

Children’s Memorial Hospital

Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation  

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

Easter Seals

Epilepsy Foundation

Hemophilia Foundation of Illinois

Illinois Hospice & Palliative Care Organization             

Illinois Society for the Prevention of Blindness

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

Little City Foundation  

Lupus Foundation of Illinois     

March of Dimes Foundation                                                                 

Mental Health Association in Illinois  

Muscular Dystrophy Association                                              

Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of Illinois

National Alliance for Mentally Ill                                                                     

Parkinson’s Disease Foundation

Sickle Cell Disease Association of Illinois

Sudden Infant Death Services  

Spinal Cord Injury Association of Illinois

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

The Arc/Illinois (Disabled Empowerment)

United Cerebral Palsy   of Illinois

Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization, Illinois Affiliate