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Firm Hosts Lend-a-Hand Event, Announces Founders' Award Winner

On Monday, December 18, Much Shelist hosted the 2006 Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Lend-A-Hand Program Grants Reception. During the event, approximately 20 Chicago-area tutor/mentor agencies received grants, including the winner of the Much Shelist Founders' Award. Named in honor of the firm's five founders, Much Shelist created the $7,000 annual award in 2005 to recognize an up-and-coming tutor/mentor program that has been in existence for less than five years.

For the second year in a row, the winning agency was Inspired Youth, a two-year-old tutoring program that provides assistance with reading, writing, arithmetic and homework for low-income children in the Uptown/Edgewater community. Other finalists for the award included Hermosa Community Organization, located in the Pilsen neighborhood, and Sunlight African Community Center, which serves the Uptown, Edgewater and Rogers Park neighborhoods.

For more information on Lend-a-Hand and the firm's involvement with this worthwhile organization, visit www.lend-a-hand.net or view last year's press release.