Special birthday present for Marge Philbrook
Marge's 85th birthday party was held today at 4750 with many people in attendance. A donor, who wishes to remain anonymous, sent a contribution to ICA-USA for $8,500 (eight thousand five hundred dollars) with some specific instructions. To celebrate her eighty-fifth year, Marge is to designate portions of this $8,500 contribution, in amounts as she sees fit, to the seven major current program areas at ICA-USA. These are: - GreenRise Uptown for creating a green culture within the largest nonprofit service center in the Midwest; - Resilient Communities via the “Accelerate 77” program in Chicago neighborhoods; - Service Learning for leadership development with university students; - Learning Basket for early childhood education and family literacy; - International Initiatives in support of “peer-to-peer” work with other national ICAs; - Global Archives for preserving and passing-on ICA wisdom to future generations; - Technology of Participation (ToP). For the many of you who shared stories about Marge, I thought you would enjoy hearing about this special birthday present. Terry Bergdall
What an amazing gift...it will forward good work in many arenas. And Happy 85th Birthday, Marge! Joyce Bonafield-Pierce ________________________________ From: Terry Bergdall <bergdall2@gmail.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>; Colleague Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Sunday, June 9, 2013 9:14 PM Subject: [Dialogue] Special birthday present for Marge Philbrook Marge's 85th birthday party was held today at 4750 with many people in attendance. A donor, who wishes to remain anonymous, sent a contribution to ICA-USA for $8,500 (eight thousand five hundred dollars) with some specific instructions. To celebrate her eighty-fifth year, Marge is to designate portions of this $8,500 contribution, in amounts as she sees fit, to the seven major current program areas at ICA-USA. These are: - GreenRise Uptown for creating a green culture within the largest nonprofit service center in the Midwest; - Resilient Communities via the “Accelerate 77” program in Chicago neighborhoods; - Service Learning for leadership development with university students; - Learning Basket for early childhood education and family literacy; - International Initiatives in support of “peer-to-peer” work with other national ICAs; - Global Archives for preserving and passing-on ICA wisdom to future generations; - Technology of Participation (ToP). For the many of you who shared stories about Marge, I thought you would enjoy hearing about this special birthday present. Terry Bergdall _______________________________________________ Dialogue mailing list Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net
Amazing people attract amazing things - that's you Marge! Blessings on a life well lived & more to come. Sunny (you've always put a little sunshine in my life.) Terry Bergdall <bergdall2@gmail.com> wrote:
Marge's 85th birthday party was held today at 4750 with many people in attendance. A donor, who wishes to remain anonymous, sent a contribution to ICA-USA for $8,500 (eight thousand five hundred dollars) with some specific instructions. To celebrate her eighty-fifth year, Marge is to designate portions of this $8,500 contribution, in amounts as she sees fit, to the seven major current program areas at ICA-USA. These are:
- GreenRise Uptown for creating a green culture within the largest nonprofit service center in the Midwest; - Resilient Communities via the “Accelerate 77” program in Chicago neighborhoods; - Service Learning for leadership development with university students; - Learning Basket for early childhood education and family literacy; - International Initiatives in support of “peer-to-peer” work with other national ICAs; - Global Archives for preserving and passing-on ICA wisdom to future generations; - Technology of Participation (ToP).
For the many of you who shared stories about Marge, I thought you would enjoy hearing about this special birthday present.
Terry Bergdall
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What an appropriate tribute on behalf of Marge. Doris Hahn On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Terry Bergdall <bergdall2@gmail.com> wrote:
Marge's 85th birthday party was held today at 4750 with many people in attendance. A donor, who wishes to remain anonymous, sent a contribution to ICA-USA for $8,500 (eight thousand five hundred dollars) with some specific instructions. To celebrate her eighty-fifth year, Marge is to designate portions of this $8,500 contribution, in amounts as she sees fit, to the seven major current program areas at ICA-USA. These are:
- GreenRise Uptown for creating a green culture within the largest nonprofit service center in the Midwest; - Resilient Communities via the “Accelerate 77” program in Chicago neighborhoods; - Service Learning for leadership development with university students; - Learning Basket for early childhood education and family literacy; - International Initiatives in support of “peer-to-peer” work with other national ICAs; - Global Archives for preserving and passing-on ICA wisdom to future generations; - Technology of Participation (ToP).
For the many of you who shared stories about Marge, I thought you would enjoy hearing about this special birthday present.
Terry Bergdall
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What fun Marge will have in deciding the amounts to these current programs which all stand on the shoulders of colleagues, especially Marge herself!! Love to you all, Ellen On Jun 11, 2013, at 6:01 PM, Doris Hahn wrote:
What an appropriate tribute on behalf of Marge. Doris Hahn
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Terry Bergdall <bergdall2@gmail.com> wrote: Marge's 85th birthday party was held today at 4750 with many people in attendance. A donor, who wishes to remain anonymous, sent a contribution to ICA-USA for $8,500 (eight thousand five hundred dollars) with some specific instructions. To celebrate her eighty- fifth year, Marge is to designate portions of this $8,500 contribution, in amounts as she sees fit, to the seven major current program areas at ICA-USA. These are:
- GreenRise Uptown for creating a green culture within the largest nonprofit service center in the Midwest; - Resilient Communities via the “Accelerate 77” program in Chicago neighborhoods; - Service Learning for leadership development with university students; - Learning Basket for early childhood education and family literacy; - International Initiatives in support of “peer-to-peer” work with other national ICAs; - Global Archives for preserving and passing-on ICA wisdom to future generations; - Technology of Participation (ToP). For the many of you who shared stories about Marge, I thought you would enjoy hearing about this special birthday present.
Terry Bergdall
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Doris Hahn -
Joyce Bonafield -
RICHARD HOWIE -
Sunny Walker -
Terry Bergdall