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2004 News
11/19 Wilhelm & Conlon will serve as a
sponsor of the Illinois Women's Institute for Leadership’s annual
benefit on December 2. Michelle Obama will be the honored guest and
Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky the featured speaker. The event is taking
place at Jenner & Block from 6-8pm.
11/19 CONNECTIONS, an Old St. Pat’s Church group for
people 35 and over, just celebrated its one-year anniversary. Since
Founder and President Kate O’Malley launched the group in 2003, over
500 people have joined to participate in service projects, social
activities, and speaker programs. CONNECTIONS hosted a program on Faith &
Politics in the days leading up to the Nov. 2 elections.
11/1 Kevin Conlon won the Loyola Council of
Regents Order of Merit. The award is given to members of the
Council of Regents for ambassadorial service in advancement of Loyola
University’s mission.
10/21 Matt Pickering has joined the Governing
Board of the Taylor
Business Institute, a college whose mission is to provide students
– especially non-traditional students from diverse backgrounds – with
career-oriented educational programs.
10/13 Matt Pickering spoke on a panel at Old St. Pat’s Church
in Chicago. The panel, which focused on “The Quest of the Young Adult
in the Workplace,” was led by Rev. John Cusick, Director of the Office
of Young Adult Ministry of the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago.
10/7 Kate O’Malley has been nominated to the
Board of Advisors for Catholic
Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago. She served on the Legal
Advisory Committee to the board during the past year.
Update: O’Malley was inducted on October 25.
9/24 Children’s Memorial Hospital, a Conlon Public Strategies client since
2002, was included in Chicago Magazine’s list of the 25 Best Places to
Work in Illinois. At number nine, Children’s was the state’s
best-ranked hospital. The rankings appear in Chicago Magazine’s October
2004 issue.
9/15 Jamey Fadim was elected Secretary of the
Board of Trustees at
Music
and Dance Theater Chicago, Inc. This year is his second on the
board.
9/13 Kevin Conlon served as Chair of a reception
for Democracy
for America, the organization founded by former Vermont Governor
and presidential candidate Howard Dean. The event was held at the House
of Blues in Chicago and featured New Jersey Senator Jon Corzine and
Illinois Senator Dick Durbin.
9/8 Rosecrance Health Network, a Conlon Public Strategies client, won the
2004 James W. West quality improvement award for achievements in staff
training at its adolescent substance abuse treatment facility.
Rosecrance accepted the award at a national conference for addiction
treatment providers.
8/26 Conlon Public Strategies advocated on behalf of major substance
abuse treatment providers and helped secure Medicaid and general
revenue funds in the 2004 state budget for people struggling with drug
and alcohol addiction.
8/2 The Illinois Railroad Association was
successful in its efforts to prevent an expansion of Illinois’s Motor
Fuel Tax, which would have cost the industry $40 million annually and
resulted in job loss. It was removed from the 2005 state budget after
Conlon Public Strategies undertook a campaign to educate officials on the impact of the tax.
8/2 Golden Apple Foundation, a Conlon Public Strategies client, received
$2.9 million in restored funding in the state’s 2005 budget. This
funding will allow the continuation of Golden Apple’s Illinois Scholars
Program, a nationally renowned teacher training initiative that places
teachers in schools of need and has been hailed in a Harvard University
study as one of the 15 best uses of taxpayer money in the nation.
7/30 Kevin Conlon, Illinois State Finance Chair
for U.S. Senator John Kerry’s presidential campaign,
finished his work as a delegate at the Democratic National Convention.
The 186 Illinois delegates united behind Kerry.
6/4 Jamey Fadim, Conlon Public Strategies Vice President and General
Counsel, was named to the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra (CSO) Music Director Search Committee. Fadim is
also a CSO trustee.
5/17 Gov. Rod Blagojevich announced a $1.1
million grant to expand the CeaseFire gang violence prevention project to 15
Illinois communities. CeaseFire is an initiative of the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention,
a Conlon Public Strategies client that seeks to stop shootings through the direct
intervention of outreach workers in neighborhoods plagued by gang
violence.
4/8 U.S. Senator John Kerry held a fundraiser in
Chicago that raised almost $2 million for his presidential
campaign. Conlon Public Strategies founders Kevin Conlon, Kerry’s Illinois Finance
Chair, and David Wilhelm, Kerry’s Midwest Finance Chair, played leading
roles in organizing the event. Wilhelm also served as emcee.
3/18 Illinois First Lady Patti Blagojevich held a
press conference at Children’s Memorial Hospital, a Conlon Public Strategies client, to
announce a $5 million state grant to expand the hospital’s pediatric
intensive care unit (PICU). The grant will allow the PICU to add 14
beds and serve 400 more children per year.
3/1 Kevin Conlon, former Illinois State Chair and
National Finance Vice Chair for Howard Dean's presidential campaign,
endorsed Senator John Kerry for president.
2/18
The Safer Foundation announced that it will begin
providing community- and institution-based employment and educational
services at the newly reopened prison for drug offenders in Sheridan,
Illinois. Safer's services are a national model for reducing recidivism.
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