
Crain’s
Invest For Kids, an annual investment conference/fundraising event, and Chicago Scholars, a nonprofit that helps low-income students graduate from college, have launched Emerge, a program that offers paid summer internships to college students from low-income families. Emerge started last summer with 20 students; this summer, it will place 100 students at Chicago-area professional services firms, government offices and nonprofits…
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An investment management event that has arguably become one of Chicago’s biggest is about to pass an important milestone: $10 million raised for Chicago children’s charities over eight years. Invest for Kids, started by investment professionals Ron Levin and Ben Kovler in 2009, has become a not-to-be-missed event for many of their Chicago peers, and even some outside the city. With support from industry heavyweights…
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