Board of Directors FY 2011-12
Officers
*Herb Wander, President, Attorney, Katten Muchin Roseman
*Susan Ruder, First Vice President, United Way of Highland Park/Highwood, President Emeritus
Sari Montgomery, Secretary, Attorney, Faculty, School of Law, Loyola University Chicago
Eric Ephraim, Treasurer, Director of Accounting, The PrivateBank Corp. Inc.
Administration
Andrea Kressmann, Executive Director
Barbara Haley, Associate Director
Amy Zisook, Development Director
Agency Representatives
Jean Wallace-Baker, Executive Director, HP Community Nursery School & Day Care Center
Pam Feinberg, Executive Director, Tri-Con Day Care Center
Jordan Friedman, Executive Director, Family Network
Jane Talesnick, Coordinator, HP/HW Home Care Association
Paul Dean, Executive Director, Family Service
Community Members
*Robert S. Baizer, Baizer Kolar & Lewis, P.C.
P. Bryn Benson, Visual Communications, Lake Forest College
*Sharen Berman, Educator
*Gail Feiger Brown, United Way North shore/Highland Park-Highwood Welfare Council
AJ Chalom, Board Member HP Community Nursery School and Day Care Center
*Katie Cohen, Community Volunteer
Janet Freed, Highland Park-Highwood Home Child Care Association, Board of Directors
Maureen Hager, Former NSSD 112 Superintendent
Linda Karmin, Community Volunteer
William Kaufman, Retired Business Executive
*Edith Kaye, United Way of Highland Park-Highwood, President Emeritus
Phil Kurschner, Vice President Personal Trust Administration, Northern Trust
*Brock C. LaMarca,Senior, Mesirow Financial
Claribel Puello, Community Volunteer
Victoria Ratnaswamy, Community Leader
Donald Schindel, Retired Attorney
*John Seder, Executive Vice-President, Milwaukee Valve Corp.
Jane Shapira, Past President HP Community Foundation
*Karen Wander, Community Volunteer
Lori Flores Weisskopf, Commissioner, Park District of Highland Park
*Roberta Wexler, Coordinator JUF Right Start Program
Ex. Officio Member
Anne Flanigan Bassi, Lake County Board
David Behlow, Superintendent NSSD 112
Debbie Hymen, District 113
Susan Garrett, State Senator
Ellen Gussin, Moraine Township
Karen May, State Representative
Liza McElroy, Director, Park District of Highland Park
Nancy Rotering, Mayor, Highland Park
Elaine Waxman, Commissioner, Park District of Highland Park
Honorary Board Member
Michael Belsky, Former Mayor of Highland Park
Barbara T. Bowman, Professor and Past President, Erickson Institute, Chief Early Childhood Education Officer, Chicago Public Schools
Jane Colman, Community Volunteer
Dolores Kohl Kaplan, Founder Kohl Children's Museum, President & CEO, Dolores Kohl Education Foundation
Sophia Siskel, President and CEO, Chicago Botanic Garden
Bernice Weissbourd, Founder, Family Focus
Campaign Steering Committee
* Board members with an asterisk before their name are also members of the steering committee
Robert Baizer, Committee Chair
David S. Ruder. Professor, Northwestern University School of Law
Consultants
Holabird & Root, Architects
!FF (formerly Illinois Facilities Fund), Project Management Consultation
Cheryl Rohlfs & Associates
JB Interaction, New Media Design
Betsy Lazerow
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The Community Family Center is appreciative to all who have generously supported our efforts while we have been a work in progress and look forward to your continued support.
Member Agencies
Family Network
Family Service: Education, Prevention & Counseling
Tri-Con Child Care Center
Highland Park Community Nursery School & Day Care Center
Highland Park/Highwood Home Childcare Association
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Friends of CFC
Colman Family Foundation
Ephraim Family Foundation
First Bank of Highland Park Foundation
Freund Family Foundation
Friends For Health Board
Gemini Foundation
Harken Foundation
Highland Park Community Foundation
I & G Charitable Foundation
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
JP Morgan Chase Foundation
Kaplan Family Foundation
Marshall Frankel Foundation
Mayer & Morris Kaplan Family Foundation
MB Charitable Foundation
Minor Family Foundation
Peter & Stephanie Nolan Fund
Polen Family Foundation
Roger O. Brown Revocable Trust
Trillium Foundation
Woldenberg Family Foundation
BlackRock Financial Management. Inc.
Charitable Foundation of MB Financial
Gewalt-Hamilton Associates
Holabird & Root
Mesirow Financial
Midwest Bank
The PrivateBank
Highland Park Cultural Arts Commission
City of Highland Park - Lease of the Karger Site
Moraine Township
County of Lake
State of Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity
Child Care Coalition of Lake County
Family Network
Family Service: Prevention, Education, Counseling, NPO
Highland Park Community Nursery School and Day Care Center
Highland Park/Highwood Home Child Care Association
Tri-Con Child Care Center
Anne Flanigan Bassi
Baizer Kolar & Lewis, P.C.
P. Bryn Benson
Jane Boutet
Gail Feiger Brown
Chicago Board Options Exchange
Angie Coppi
Foley & Lardner Attorneys
Barbara Haley
Highland Park High School's Media Center
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
Jerry Kane
William Kaufman
Daniel Kaufman
Jeff Kressmann
Lake Forest College Print shop
Betsy Lazerow
Moraine Township
Pedro Moreno
Northern Trust
Susan Ruder
Maria Segal
Slattery Design Group
Fay Stern
Tom Stone
Tom Vogelsang
Jean Wallace-Baker
Herb & Karen Wander
Amy Zisook
There are many ways to contribute. Your time and expertise are vital to the CFC.
Please contact our office at 847-433-5846 to discuss opportunities.
Thank You!
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Testimonials View
Arthur Rolnick, former Senior VP and Director of Research for the Federal Reserve Bank and current Senior Fellow at Humphry School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, says longitudinal studies of comprehensive, high quality early childhood programs have demonstrated that one dollar invested in early childhood can yield benefits to participants and society as high as 7 to 17 dollars. More over, he says, "Parent counseling may be the most important aspect of successful early childhood program."
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