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Laura J. Freveletti – Past President

Past President 2019 – 2020
Laura J. Freveletti – Senior Program Officer, The Allstate Foundation, Allstate Insurance Company

 

Laura leads Good Starts Young – The Allstate Foundation’s Youth Empowerment signature program. This work integrates strategic philanthropy and corporate responsibility, which includes corporate volunteerism, cultural and civic initiatives. Support for programs and nonprofit partners focus on service-learning where youth develop social emotional learning skills – intrapersonal, interpersonal and cognitive competence – for life success.

Prior to this work, Laura developed and led Community Engagement activating Allstate’s agency owners and employees in service where they live and work around the world. The corporate volunteer platform includes an Officer Nonprofit Board Placement Program, Allstate Fellows – a skills-based initiative, agency owner and employee community service, 110 local Helping Hands committees, and an enterprise-wide volunteer and giving event – Allstate Bring Out The Good Month

Committed to building brand and enhancing organizational reputation through strategic philanthropy, effective communications, stakeholder engagement, and community-facing activities, Laura is an inclusive, collaborative and mission-driven leader. She’s also a successful strategist who translates vision into innovative, results-oriented corporate responsibility programs.

Laura has served on various non-profit boards throughout her career. She is past president of the Corporate Responsibility Group of Greater Chicago and a member of the Community Involvement Roundtable at the Carroll School of Management Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College.

Before joining Allstate Laura served as a development executive at YMCA of Metro Chicago and Lyric Opera of Chicago, and led the corporate volunteer program and Kraft Employee Fund at Kraft Foods. She earned her bachelor of science in business administration from the University of Louisville and holds a certificate in corporate community involvement from the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship.

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Ann E. Murray – Past President 2009-2010

Philanthropy Director, Northwestern Medicine

 

Murray Ann (2)Ann is Philanthropy Director for Northwestern Memorial Foundation of Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where she has been for 17 years. Ann served as the Director of Development for the Block Museum of Art and the Medill School of Journalism, both at Northwestern University, and Alumni and Development Director for The John Marshall Law School. Ann earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois and graduate degree from Indiana University. She has served in leadership roles for and continues to be involved with the Apollo Chorus of Chicago and Fourth Presbyterian Church.

 

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George Nelson – Director

George Nelson has a background in marketing, communications, fundraising, business development and creative writing. He first became involved with the Corporate Responsibility Group in 2005 while an Associate Director of Corporate Relations at Northwestern University. He joined the board of CRG in 2009. George Nelson has worked with start-up companies, consulting on sales, communication and marketing positioning. Prior, he worked as a Proposal Manager with Anexsys (an e-Government solution provider, formerly a joint venture with JP Morgan Chase and U.S. Bank), and also in the business publishing field and printing and graphic arts sector, in business development and marketing roles. He earned his BA from Kenyon College in English Literature and a Masters of Science in Communication from Northwestern University (where he has served on the MSC steering committee). He is also involved with the Evanston Tennis Association, Chicago Dramatists Theatre and a soccer league.

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Amy Newkirk – Past President 2012-2013

Central Midwest Community Relations and Marketing Senior Manager, PwC

Amy_Newkirk_Formal_Photo_04252013Amy leads the firm’s community initiatives in Chicago, Milwaukee, Peoria and Des Moines.  In this role, Amy works to build PwC’s community brand in the marketplace by managing the firm’s charitable contributions, board placement of partners and staff, event sponsorships, holiday giving, volunteerism, and local corporate responsibility efforts.  Prior to this role, Amy served as Community Investment Manager at United Way or Greater St. Louis and as Fundraising Manager at United Way of Metropolitan Chicago.  Amy earned her bachelor of social work from Arizona State University and master of social work, with a concentration in nonprofit management, from Washington University of St. Louis.  Amy is a native of Grand Haven, Michigan and resides with her husband in Frankfort, Illinois.

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Libby Lai-Bun Chiu – Past President 2011-2012

Libby Lai-Bun Chiu, Chief of Staff, Illinois Arts Council

Libby is the Chief of Staff at the Illinois Arts Council, where she also manages the Arts and Foreign Language program, and is advisor to the Education Leaders Institute, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts.  Libby is an adjunct professor at Goucher College where she teaches Arts Education and International Arts Policy.  Libby’s past service includes senior leadership positions at Urban Gateways Center for Arts Education, Harris Theater Chicago, The Boston Conservatory, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities and Boston Public Schools.  In addition to the CR Group, she is active in community service at Asian American and Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy and is on the Board of Overseers of The Boston Conservatory.

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Kirk A. Hoopingarner – Past President 2010-2011

Partner – Quarles & Brady LLP
Kirk Hoopingarner is a partner in Quarles & Brady LLP’s Trusts and Estates and Tax-Exempt Organizations.  He has been practicing in these areas since coming to Chicago from The University of Michigan Law School in 1984. Kirk is married with four daughters and currently resides in Evanston, where he has played leadership roles in various community organizations, including previously serving as board chair of the Evanston Community Foundation, and currently serving on the board and executive committee of the McGaw YMCA of Evanston. He is also currently active as an Associate member of the Donors Forum and is a member of professional advisors committees for Children’s Memorial Hospital Foundation, Chicago Zoological Society and Lincoln Park Zoo.

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Susan Geller – Director

Institutional Relations Officer, YWCA Metropolitan Chicago

Susan Geller has been a CR Group member for more than 15 years.  She is the Institutional Relations Officer with YWCA Metropolitan Chicago and the primary grant writer for their sexual violence programs. Susan has been with the YWCA since 2002 and previously held senior fundraising positions in Chicago with Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago Boys and Girls Clubs and The Salvation Army. Susan holds a degree in social work from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.

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One Good Deed Chicago

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Speaker: Mayor Richard M. Daley

Host: Bank of America

A Plan to Amplify the Benefits of Volunteerism for Corporations, Non-Profits and the Community, One Good Deed Chicago was born from Mayor Richard M. Daley’s participation in Cities of Service, a bi-partisan coalition of mayors working together to harness the power of volunteers to help solve pressing local challenges.

Please join us to hear from Mayor Daley as he shares with us the City of Chicago’s vision for increasing access to and the impact of volunteer service and how corporations can play a vital role in that effort. One Good Deed Chicago .

Mayor Daley appointed Jenné Myers as the city’s first Chief Service Officer to oversee One Good Deed Chicago and develop a comprehensive local action plan focusing on the vision of making volunteerism more accessible and impactful by better aligning citizens with non-profits, building non-profit capacity to more effectively use volunteers and nurturing the culture of service and philanthropy in the City of Chicago. There will also be an opportunity for discussion, facilitated by Jenné Myers, Amy Newkirk, Manager, Geographic Marketing, PwC and Julie Chavez, Market Development Manager, Bank of America.

For more information on One Good Deed Chicago, click here

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Melissa Giovagnoli

Founder, President, Media Personality

Melissa is one of the world’s leading experts on the development of networks as a means of growing and accelerating brand loyalty and performance improvement inside and outside organizations. For more than a decade Melissa’s organization, Networlding, has provided exceptional relationship marketing and management innovation programs for organizations like AT&T, CNA, UBS, Hewitt, Motorola and Disney. The company specializes in social media and social networking in the business-to-business space.
Melissa is also the author and/or co-author of ten top-selling books. Her seventh book, co-authored with former CMO of Office Depot, Jocelyn Carter Miller, held the #10 spot on Amazon (in Chicago) for a year. Other books include:

  • Networlding: Building Relationships and Opportunities for Success (#10 on Amazon, in Chicago, for 12 months)
  • The Chicago Entrepreneurs Sourcebook (rated one of the top 10 small business books in Chicago)
  • 75 Cage Rattling Questions that Change the Way You Work (McGraw Hill)
  • The Power of Two: Rethinking and Reforming Strategic Alliances (Jossey Bass)
  • Four of Melissa’s books have been on top business book lists including: The Power-of-Two and Networlding, recognized by Booz Allen as two of the top ten alliance management books.

Melissa has also been a guest on both radio and television including The Today Show, CNN, WGN, CNBC and FOX. One of her books was featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show. She is a frequent presenter at conferences looking for interactive sessions. Her unique program, The Extravaganza, has been highly evaluated by Meeting Professionals International (MPI) and she has won a Consummate Speaker of the Year Award.

With a BA in Sociology and a J.D. from DePaul University College of Law, Melissa went on to found Service Showcase, Inc., a consulting, training and coaching firm started in 1986. For the past twelve years she has grown the company to include clients like Price Waterhouse, AT&T, Dean Foods and Motorola as well as dozens of smaller companies and organizations. In 1998 she was chosen as one of six extraordinary women of the year by The University of Chicago Women’s Graduate Business Alumni Board. Networlding was recently licensed by Yale University through their graduate school of business.

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Brett Lavery – Director

Community Involvement Deloitte Services, LP

Brett Lavery currently works for Deloitte supporting the Community Involvement activities for the Midwest region. In this role, she serves as the liaison between Deloitte and the local nonprofit community identifying opportunities to leverage Deloitte practitioners’ intellectual capital in a manner that strengthens the community and business. She also assists in efforts to use community involvement as a tool to enhance workforce development, talent, teaming, recruitment and retention. Prior to this, Brett was aligned with Deloitte’s Human Capital Consulting practice where she worked with clients around learning and development as well as change management concerns.

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Social Media and Networking

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Speaker: Melissa Giovagnoli, Founder and CEO, Networlding

Host:William Wrigley Jr. Company

Melissa Giovagnoli, a leading expert on the development of social networks as a means of growing and accelerating brand loyalty and performance improvement inside and outside organizations, will share examples she has seen implemented as well as a number of public examples to help us gain a better understanding of what can and should be done when it comes to implementing effective social media initiatives. She will also discuss what NOT to do as social media spreads more and more into the area of reputation management, impacting everyone in all types of organizations.

 

Melissa and her social media team have spent thousands of hours researching what works and what does not work, providing relationship marketing, social media management and innovation programs for organizations such as AT&T, CNA, UBS, Hewitt, Motorola and Disney. They have also been at the cutting edge of social media innovation. She will share her team’s insights as to what is coming around the bend and even a bit further to help us get ahead of the social media curve.

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Jason Saul

Jason Saul is one of the nation’s leading experts on measuring social impact. He is the founder and CEO of Mission Measurement LLC, a strategy consulting firm that helps corporations, nonprofits and public sector clients to measure and improve their social impact. He has advised some of the world’s largest corporations, government agencies and nonprofits, including: Walmart, Starbucks, McDonald’s, Kraft Foods, Levi Strauss & Co., Easter Seals, American Red Cross, the Smithsonian and the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Jason serves on the faculty of Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, where he teaches corporate social responsibility and nonprofit management. He also serves on the faculty of Boston College’s Center for Corporate Citizenship. He is the author of numerous books and articles on social strategy and measurement, including: Benchmarking for Nonprofits: How to Manage, Measure and Improve Performance (Fieldstone Press 2006); Social Innovation, Inc.: Five Strategies to Drive Business Value through Social Change (forthcoming from Jossey-Bass in October 2010); and The End of Fundraising: How to Sell Your Impact in an Era of Outcomes (forthcoming from Jossey-Bass in February 2011).

Jason holds a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, an M.P.P. from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a B.A. in Government and French Literature from Cornell University. He was awarded the Harry S. Truman Scholarship for leadership and public service and was selected as a Leadership Greater Chicago fellow. In 2008, Jason was recognized as one of Crain’s Chicago Business “40 under 40” business leaders, and in 2010 Jason was named by Businessweek Magazine as one of the Nation’s 25 Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs.

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David Scheffer

David Scheffer holds an endowed professorship and serves as the Director of the Center for International Human Rights. He teaches International Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law, and Corporate Human Rights Responsibility. Scheffer supervises the International Externship Program. He received the Dean’s Teaching Award 2007-2008.

Scheffer was previously the U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001) and led the U.S. delegation in U.N. talks establishing the International Criminal Court. During his ambassadorship, he negotiated and coordinated U.S. support for the establishment and operation of international and hybrid criminal tribunals and U.S. responses to atrocities anywhere in the world.

Scheffer also headed the Atrocities Prevention Inter-Agency Working Group.
During the first term of the Clinton Administration, he served as senior adviser and counsel to the U.S. Representative to the United Nations, Dr. Madeleine Albright, and served from 1993 through 1996 on the Deputies Committee of the National Security Council.

Scheffer recently held visiting professorships at Northwestern Law, Georgetown University Law Center, and George Washington University Law School and taught earlier at Duke University School of Law and Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs.

He has published extensively on international legal and political issues and appears regularly in the national and international media.
Scheffer is a member of the New York and District of Columbia Bars, the American Society of International Law (formerly serving on the Executive Council), and the Council on Foreign Relations, and was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Law Students Association (2004-2008).

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We may take photos or video of segments of meetings, programs and events for use in our print and/or electronic material, and we may identify individuals in such photos or videos by name and/or business/organization affiliation and title. If you do not wish your likeness, name or affiliation to be used in this way, please let us know at the beginning of the event.

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member benefits

Membership benefits:

  • Recognition on CR Group website and link to member’s website
  • Standing invitation for member’s representatives plus one guest to monthly breakfast meeting
  • Invitations for member’s representatives to member-only events, including Annual Meeting and Person of the Year Event.
  • Member’s representatives vote for and serve on the Board of Directors
  • Gain insights and expertise from other members’ representatives and guests
  • Accessibility to leading voices in corporate responsibility in Chicago
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2010 – Speakers

Jason Saul
CEO and Founder
Mission Measurement, LLC
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Richard M.Daley
Mayor, City of Chicago

Jenné Myers
Chief Services Officer
ONE GOOD DEED CHICAGO

Julie Chavez
Market Development Manager
Bank of America

Amy Newkirk
Marketing & Sales
PwC

Melissa Giovagnoli
Founder and CEO, Networlding
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David Kathman
Senior Mutual Fund Analyst
Morningstar, Inc.
Speaker
SRI in the Rockies 2010 Conference

John Hoeppner
Second Vice President of Quantitative Management, Socially Responsible Investing Product Development
Northern Trust Global Investments
Liason
Northern Trust Global Investments and United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) initiative

Francia Harrington
Senior Vice President, Corporate Responsibility
JPMorgan Chase & Company

Ruth Ann M. Gillis
Executive Vice President & Chief Administrative and Diversity Officer
Exelon Corporation
President
Exelon Business Services Company

Richard P. Kiphart
CEO
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Head of Private Client Advisors
William Blair & Company

Shannon Schuyler
US Corporate Responsibility Leader
PwC

Eric S. Smith
Managing Director, Investment Banking Group
JP Morgan Chase & Company

David Scheffer
Mayer Brown/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law
Director of the Center for International Human Rights
Northwestern University School of Law
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Kelly O’Brien
Vice President of Communications and Marketing
The United Way of Metropolitan Chicago

Shirley R. Madigan
Chairman
The Illinois Arts Council

Terry Mazany
President and CEO
The Chicago Community Trust

Kevin Willer
Head of Industry, Technology & Telecom
Jake Parillo
Public Affairs
Google, Inc.

Timothy J. Feddersen
Wendell Hobbs Professor of Managerial Politics
Director of the Social Enterprise at Kellogg Program (SEEK)
Kellogg School of Management
Northwestern University

Nicole Teti
Director of Strategic Management
The American Red Cross of Greater Chicago

Carli Franks
Senior Associate of Community Fundraising
The American Red Cross of Greater Chicago

Bill Geiger
President and CEO
McGaw YMCA, Evanston, IL

Diane Kemp
Executive Director
The American Heart Association, Midwest Affiliate

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2009 – Speakers

Robert Christie
Vice President, Government and Legislative Relations
Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Gaye van den Hombergh
President
Winning Workplaces

Gregory M. Mueller, PhD.
Vice President, Science and Academic Programs

Steve Ball
Director of Corporate Relations
The Chicago Botanic Garden

Adele Simmons
Vice Chair and Senior Executive – Chicago Metropolis 2020
Vice Chair – The Burnham Centennial Committee

Randy Blankenhorn
Executive Director – The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning

R. Rene Friedman
Partner – Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon LLP

Amy Newkirk
Geography Marketing – PricewaterhouseCoopers

Colleen Lennon
Resource Development Director – Boys and Girls Club of Lake County, Illinois

Christopher Clinton Coway
Executive Director – The Joffrey Ballet

James Cuno
President and Eloise W. Martin Director – The Art Institute of Chicago

Thomas Kerwin, FAIA
Managing Partner – Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP

Chef Christopher Koetke
Dean, School of Culinary Arts, Kendall College