Accidents and Inspiration Benefit for The US Holocaust Memorial Museum
To celebrate memoryDecember 1, 2007
CJW Consulting & Services, Inc.Protecting and preserving your institutional memories since 1993
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Woodrow Wilson
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The people who choose to work within thenonprofit community truly enrich the world, andthey never forget the errand.
We are honored to have been allowed to servethis community for the past 21 years.
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Since I began CJW in 1993 in a corner of mybedroom, we have assisted over 300 nonprofitorganizations.
With the introduction of our webinars, we nowhave provided training or consulting tononprofits in 36 US states and 4 Canadianprovinces.
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Our work is about memory: We help organizations create,maintain and use data as institutional memory.
Elie Wiesel said, “Forgetting means the end of civilization, theend of culture, the end of generosity, the end of compassion, theend of humanity.”
Nonprofits work to protect and preserve culture, compassion,humanity. Nonprofits rely on generosity.
We cannot forget.
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The following slides introduce many of theorganizations with which we have worked.
We thank them all for trusting CJW withtheir memories.
EducationTell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin
United Methodist Higher Education Foundation, Nashville, TN; Chicagoland Jewish High School, Deerfield; Catholic Memorial High School, Waukesha, WI; Hadley School for the Blind, Winnetka; Child’s Voice School, Wood Dale; St.
Catherine’s High School, Racine, WI; Latin School of Chicago; Lincoln-Way High School District #210, New Lenox, IL; Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago; Columbia College – Chicago; University of Wisconsin Parkside, Kenosha, WI;
St. Xavier University, Chicago; Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago; Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove; Harper College, Palatine; Illinois College of Optometry, Chicago; Board of Jewish Education, Northbrook
The ArtsWe should always remember that the work of art is invariably the creation ofa new world, so that the first thing we should do is to study that new world asclosely as possible, approaching it as something brand new, having no
obviousconnection with the worlds we already know. Vladimir Nabokov
Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Goodman Theater; Hubbard Street Dance Chicago; Steppenwolf Theater Company; WFMT; WTTW; Music of the Baroque; Union League Civic
and Arts Foundation, all in Chicago; Ravinia Festival, Highland Park; Music Institute of Chicago, Winnetka
NatureForget thee… Never—
Till Nature, high and low, and great and smallForgets herself, and all her loves and hatesSink again into Chaos. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Morton ArboretumLisle, Illinois
Parkways FoundationChicago, Illinois
Ridges SanctuaryBailey’s Harbor, Wisconsin
Wetlands InitiativeChicago, Illinois
MuseumsWe must remember the past, define the future, and challenge the presentwherever and however we can.
Jane O’Reilly
Top: Adler Planetarium; Field Museum of Natural History; Museum of Science and Industry; John G. Shedd Aquarium; Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, all in Chicago, Illinois
Bottom: Burpee Museum of Natural History, Rockford, Illinois; Kohl Children’s Museum, Glenview, Illinois; DuPage Children’s Museum, Naperville, Illinois; Terra Museum of Art, formerly in Chicago, Illinois
Health CareDo not speak like a death’s-head, do not bid me remember mine end.
William Shakespeare
Aurora Health Care, Wisconsin; Visiting Nurses Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Delnor Community Hospital, Geneva, Illinois; Rush Copley Medical Center, Aurora, Illinois; Provena Mercy Medical Center, Aurora, Illinois; AIDS Foundation of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Midwest Palliative CareCenter and Hospice, Glenview, Illinois, Adventist Health System, West
Suburban Chicago; Pediatric AIDS Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Alzheimer’s Association, Skokie, Illinois; Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Evanston, Illinois; Lake Forest Hospital, Lake Forest, Illinois; Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital, Wheaton, Illinois;
Swedish Covenant Hospital, Chicago, Illinois; Cancer Wellness Center, Northbrook, Illinois; Cancer Treatment Research Foundation, Schaumburg, Illinois; Family Institute, Evanston, Illinois; Sherman Hospital, Elgin, Illinois
Children’s ServicesWhat we remember from childhood we remember forever – permanentghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.
Cynthia Ozick
Urban Gateways and Marwen FoundationChicago, Illinois
Sunny Ridge Family Center, Wheaton, IllinoisHephzibah House, Oak Park, IllinoisGuardian Angel Home, Joliet, Illinois
Methodist Children’s Home, Waco, Texas
Campagna Academy, Schererville, IndianaPrevent Child Abuse America, Chicago, IllinoisOMNI Youth Services, Buffalo Grove, Illinois
Project Exploration, Mary Crane Center, Gads Hill Center, Lawrence Hall Youth Services and Chicago
Youth CentersChicago, Illinois
Organizations/AssociationsSweet is the memory of distant friends!
Washington Irving
American Health Information Management Association, ChicagoIowa Farm Bureau Federation, West Des Moines
Serra International, ChicagoIllinois Saint Andrew’s Society, North Riverside
Polish American Association, ChicagoAlpha Phi International Fraternity, Evanston
Faith-BasedRemember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largestfruit of happiness. Henry David Thoreau
Catholic Charities Diocese of JolietSisters of St. Joseph of LaGrange
Old Saint Patrick’s Church, ChicagoMcCormick Theological Seminary,
ChicagoChicago Sunday Evening ClubSeabury Western Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois
Northern Baptist Seminary, LombardFourth Presbyterian Church, ChicagoPreston Hollow Presbyterian Church,
DallasMundelein Seminary
Senior and Family ServicesRemember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thyfather, and he will show thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
Deuteronomy 32:7Air Force Villages, San Antonio, TexasLutheran Life Communities, Arlington
Heights, IllinoisCrisis Center for South Suburbia, Tinley
Park, IllinoisPresbyterian Homes, Evanston, IllinoisFriendship Village, Schaumburg, IllinoisCouncil for the Jewish Elderly, Chicago,
IllinoisFamily Focus, Chicago, IllinoisSarah’s Inn, Oak Park, Illinois
Metropolitan Family Services, Chicago, Illinois
Winnetka Community House, Winnetka, Illinois
Lutheran Child and Family Services, River Forest, Illinois
Social ServiceRemember I have done thee worthy service…
William ShakespeareUnited Way (Community Chest) Oak Park,
River Forest and Forest ParkInterfaith House, Chicago
Volunteers of America, ChicagoShriver Center, Chicago
Crossroads Fund, ChicagoCenter for Enriched Living, Deerfield
Lenscrafters Foundation, Mason OhioShepherd’s Ministries, Union Grove WI
YWCA of Metropolitan ChicagoAnixter Center, Chicago
Chicago Lighthouse for the BlindChicago Foundation for Women
Outreach Community Ministries, WheatonCommunity Renewal Society, Chicago
Chicago HousePAWS Chicago
Shelter, Inc, Arlington HeightsLittle City Foundation, Palatine, Illinois
That is my major preoccupation,
memory, the kingdom of memory.
I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom
and serve it.
Elie Wiesel
Forgetting means the end of civilization, the end of culture, the end of generosity, the end
of compassion, the end of humanity.
And therefore I celebrate memory, and
I try to strengthen it.
Elie Wiesel