Mary Campbell poses at Crossroads Fair Trade Goods and Gifts. She and her husband, Hank Campbell, were named Illinois Prairie Foundation Philanthropist of the Year for Bloomington-Normal for 2021.
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BLOOMINGTON – The Illinois Prairie Community Foundation will honor its 2021 and 2020 Philanthropists of the Year at a luncheon on November 18. Hank and Mary Campbell of Normal and Dale Maley of Fairbury were named 2021 recipients.
For 2021 and 2020, the foundation has awarded two awards, one to Bloomington-Normal philanthropists and the other to the wider community of McLean, DeWitt, Livingston and Logan counties, a press release from McLean, DeWitt, Livingston and Logan said on Wednesday. the organization.
The 2020 winners will also be recognized in person at the event. They are Art and Camille Taylor from Bloomington and Susan Hoblit from Atlanta.
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The foundation is also organizing a workshop called “Digital Communication Strategies for Nonprofit Organizations” on the morning of November 18, before lunch.
The Campbells are both retired Illinois State University professors, the statement said. Mary Campbell co-founded two organizations, Labyrinth Outreach Services and Dreams are Possible. She is a member of the Heartland College Board of Trustees and a volunteer for various nonprofits in the area.
In less than two hours on Saturday, approximately 100 McLean County Habitat for Humanity volunteers framed 41 wall panels that will form the structure of a new four-bedroom, 1,200-square-foot home in Bloomington.
Hank Campbell helped create partnerships between Habitat for Humanity in McLean County and the ISU and Illinois Wesleyan University, while being involved with other organizations in the region, the statement said. The couple have donated money to numerous organizations and funds in the region at ISU and Heartland College.
Georgia Nugent, president of Wesleyan University of Illinois, speaks at the Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Women to Women Giving Circle Luncheon at Shepard Park in Normal in June. The foundation will host a non-profit workshop and lunch on November 18.
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Maley is chairman of the Fairbury Improvement Group and the Livingston County Historical Society and vice-chairman of the Fairbury Echoes Museum. Through these, he has been involved in more than 50 projects to beautify Fairbury and preserve the history of Chatsworth and Colfax, the statement said.
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Workshops begin at 8:30 a.m. on November 18 at the Holiday Inn at 8 Traders Circle, Normal. Lunch starts at noon at the same place.
Lunch costs $ 40 per person and the workshop costs $ 25. Two people from a non-profit organization can attend the workshop for $ 25. Registration can be done online at www.ilprairiecf.org/local-philanthropy or by contacting the foundation at [email protected] or (309) 662-4477.
Photos: Students join Reverend Jesse Jackson as they walk for Jelani Day in Peru
Students gathered at the Illinois River to join Reverend Jesse Jackson’s walk to trace Jelani Day’s whereabouts in Peru on Tuesday, October 26, 2021.
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Carmen Bolden Day, center, holds Reverend Jesse Jackson’s hand on Tuesday under the Peru Bridge that crosses the Illinois River where her son Jelani Day was found. Participants called for more attention to the investigation into Day’s disappearance and death.
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Zena Day on Tuesday indicates the location where her brother Jelani Day’s car was found in Peru. An estimated 500 people gathered in LaSalle County for a march demanding responses to the death of Jelani Day, a University of Illinois student who went missing in Bloomington in August.
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A march led by Reverend Jesse Jackson is being held in Peru on Tuesday. Participants called on authorities to find answers to the death of Jelani Day, a University of Illinois student who was found dead in the Illinois River last month.
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The students stood on the bank of the Illinois River across from where Jelani Day’s body was found. The students were part of Reverend Jesse Jackson’s walk that traced Day’s whereabouts on Tuesday, October 26, 2021.
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Illinois State University student Emily Escobedo joined other students who took part in Reverend Jesse Jackson’s walk to trace Jelani Day’s whereabouts in Peru on Tuesday, October 26. 2021.
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Many people from the Bloomington-Normal area joined Reverend Jesse Jackson’s march in tracing the fate of Jelani Day in Peru on Tuesday, October 26, 2021.
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More than 500 people from across Illinois joined Reverend Jesse Jackson’s march to trace Julani Day’s whereabouts when he went missing in Peru on Tuesday, October 26, 2021.
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Carmen Bolden Day and Reverend Jesse Jackson spoke to more than 500 people who gathered to walk through Peru, tracing the whereabouts of Jelani Day on Tuesday, October 26, 2021.
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Students from Illinois State University joined Reverend Jesse Jackson’s walk to trace Jelani Day’s whereabouts in Peru on Tuesday, October 26, 2021.
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More than 500 people listened to Reverend Jesse Jackson motivate them to walk along a route retracing the whereabouts of Jelani Day when he went missing in Peru on Tuesday, October 26, 2021.
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Carmen Bolden Day and Reverend Jesse Jackson spoke to more than 500 people who gathered to walk through Peru, tracing the whereabouts of Jelani Day on Tuesday, October 26, 2021.
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