Forever Care No Kill Pet Rescue Foundation Donation

Lerner and Rowe Gives Back April 11, 2017

forever care no kill rescue foundation logo Lerner and Rowe Gives Back donated $1,000 to Forever Care, a foundation dedicated to ending the needless death of healthy pets.

Donations like ours make it possible for the no-kill pet rescue to cover expenses so that trusted volunteer animal caregivers can provide a foster or permanent home for misplaced pets to prevent euthanasia.

One of the pet rescue foundation’s programs donates $200 to local police and fire organizations to encourage them to call them instead of animal control when a pet-owner has been in a car accident or displaced from their home. The main goal behind this program is to prevent an unclaimed pet from being taken to the pound and being euthanized.

How to Give Back & Help Rescue Animals

You too can make a donation and make a difference in the lives of our four-legged community members! Visit forevercarenokillpetrescue.org, call (480) 432-7710 or ask for more details about Forever Care – No Kill Pet Rescue Foundation by emailing [email protected].

Downtown Mesa Easter Basket Giveaway

Lerner and Rowe Gives Back April 7, 2017

Mesa Egg Hunt For the second year in a row our team is giving back at Downtown Mesa’s Tiny Tots Egg Hunt.

In addition to all of the fun activities planned by the Downtown Mesa Association, we will be giving away 400 Easter baskets until they are gone!

We look forward to seeing you there.

Egg Hunt Details

The Easter Egg Hunt is a FREE family event geared towards kids under 8 years of age. Other details include:

Date: Thursday, April 13
Time: 11 AM – 2 PM
Location: Downtown Mesa on Main Street (Between Center Street & Country Club)
Highlights: Egg hunt at participating businesses, face painting, photos with the Easter Bunny and more.

Find even more information, including details about parking, go to downtownmesa.com.

EVENT RECAP

Our team ended up giving all 400 baskets away at Downtown Mesa’s 2017 Tiny Tots Egg Hunt. Here are just a few photos from the event:

The Real Heroes

Lerner and Rowe Gives Back April 5, 2017

Lerner and Rowe Gives Back spends a significant amount of time in local neighborhoods. The lawyers and support staff of our Chicago personal injury firm are very involved in charitable activities and sponsorship opportunities within the communities where we live and work to help improve the lives of others. We share conversations over meals and serve side by side with local leaders. We celebrate our neighbors’ victories and support them in their losses. We become advocates for their local community. As an organization, our Chicago injury law firm never sees ourselves as the answer to a community’s problem or pretend to know it. We come alongside other groups to discover solutions. We ask questions, we listen attentively, and when appropriate, we respond. We are never “THE” answer but we contribute a small part of the solution whenever possible. Often the real heroes are the nameless and faceless individuals. These invisible heroes are out in communities making a difference every day. They volunteer to meet the needs of their neighbors. Many of them do so after working full-time jobs and taking care of their own families. Out of their own pockets, they fund initiatives that meet desperate needs. You and I may never meet them or hear about their work, but they are out there touching lives and leaving lasting marks in the souls of communities. Every so often, we are lucky enough to be in the same room with them, and for a brief moment or even a season, we share in their mission and support their work. On rare occasions, our Chicago personal injury attorneys have the opportunity to tell their story and to bring awareness to the causes that are deep in their hearts. Our effectiveness in community outreach comes from learning the lessons these real heroes teach.

Mrs. Erin Lausen, Dean of Culture at Piccolo School of Excellence

Erin Lausen- One of the Real Heroes

Mrs. Erin Lausen by day serves on the administration team at Piccolo School of Excellence on Chicago’s West Side. The school’s vision is to cultivate a multicultural community that will prepare and educate ALL students with the academic and social skills necessary to be lifelong learners and leaders that will contribute to society. We were first introduced to Mrs. Lausen by an organization called Triple Threat Mentoring, based in Aurora IL, which runs a program called WINGS. Tom Grace, one of our Chicago personal injury attorneys, served as a volunteer through WINGS program at Piccolo. It was through this volunteer opportunity that our relationship with the school and Mrs. Lausen began. Mrs. Lausen not only serves the school as an administrator and a teacher, but also as its 7/8th Grade boys’ basketball coach. Coach Lausen, as she is known to her team, is one of those nameless and faceless individuals that often go beyond the regular job duties to meet students’ needs. After full days of work and sometimes even on weekends, Mrs. Lausen is often found coaching her basketball team and helping them create new opportunities that the game of basketball can offer. The Real Heroes

Coach Lausen understands that the lessons she teaches on the court are often transferable to the players’ day-to-day lives. She helps the students understand that basketball is not just about a game, but a metaphor for life itself. Without people like Coach Lausen, these boys would not have the extra-curricular opportunities they now enjoy. The practices, clinics, and games that she leads faithfully help the students learn discipline and stay focused in school. Lerner and Rowe Gives Back is honored to tell the story of our West Side hero and friend, Mrs. Erin Lausen.

11th Annual Childhelp Wings Fashion Show Luncheon

Lerner and Rowe Gives Back March 31, 2017

Childhelp | Fashion Show High fashion and charity wrap into one gorgeous display of giving back at the 11th Annual Childhelp Wings Fashion Show Luncheon.

In addition to sponsoring this worthwhile luncheon, members of our foundation will also take an active role. Lerner & Rowe Gives Back founder Kevin Rowe and his eldest daughter will take to the catwalk in the latest fashion trends to help raise funds that will directly support Childhelp programs.

These programs serve to meet the physical, emotional, educational and spiritual needs of abused and neglected children and their families within our community.

Childhelp Wings Fashion Show Luncheon Details:

Date: Sunday, April 2nd
Time: 10 A.M. – 2 P.M.
Location: Omni Scottsdale Resort and Spa at Montelucia {4949 East Lincoln Drive, Paradise Valley, AZ}
Event includes: Silent auction, live auction, lunch, short program and fashion show.

To reserve a table or to purchase tickets, please call 480- 922-8212 or email [email protected].

Childhelp Stands Up & Speaks Up for Children

Founded in 1959 by Sara O’Meara and Yvonne Fedderson, Childhelp is one of the oldest non-profits in the U.S. and is dedicated to ending the cycle of child abuse and neglect. Through public education and awareness campaigns, Childhelp takes steps to stand up and speak up about the serious epidemic that is child abuse and neglect.

The organization is a powerful resource to those that may not feel there is hope or a means to a happier, healthier and fuller life. Each of the organization’s programs is centered around providing an environment of compassion and kindness.

Please visit childhelp.org or call 1-800-4-A-Child (800-422-4453) to learn more about the programs offered and how you can join us in giving back to help further their cause.

Evening on the Diamond Presented by PetSmart

Lerner and Rowe Gives Back March 28, 2017

Evening on the Diamond 2017 Lerner and Rowe Gives Back is a generous supporter of the Arizona Diamondbacks Foundation’s Evening on the Diamond presented by PetSmart on March 29th from 5 P.M. – 11 P.M. at Salt River Fields.

This heartwarming event celebrates an important milestone in charitable giving for the Arizona Diamondbacks Foundation and the Arizona Diamondbacks. Through the teams fundraising efforts and the generosity of friends and supporters, more than $50 million has been raised to benefit many worthwhile charities over the last 19 years and counting!

Event details to note:

5:30 P.M. – Cocktail reception and silent auction
6:45 P.M. – Dinner on the field
7:45 P.M. – Awards and live auction
8:45 P.M. – Performance by Nashville recording artist Dustin Lynch on the Sanderson Ford Country Stage

Please feel free to reach out to Tara Trzinski at [email protected] or by calling (602) 462-6537 for more details.

2017 Make-A-Wish Arizona Black & White Ball

Lerner and Rowe Gives Back March 25, 2017

2017 make a wish black and white ball Kevin Rowe (personally) and the Lerner and Rowe Gives Back Foundation donated a combined total of $20,000 to the 2017 Black & White Wish Ball to benefit Make-A-Wish Arizona.

Event Details

Date: March 25th
Time: 6 P.M. – 11 P.M.
Location: JW Marriot Scottsdale Camelback Inn Resort & Spa {5402 East Lincoln Drive, Scottsdale, AZ 85253}

The Annual Black & White Wish Ball is Make-A-Wish Arizona’s largest fundraiser. Donations raised from the ball help to grant almost 160 wishes each fiscal year; a total of 365 wishes were granted in 2016.

Even with these impressive numbers, 1 in 3 Arizona kids with life-threatening medical conditions still waits for their wish to come true.

There are multiple ways to that you can join us in making a difference in the lives of these children. Donate online now, check out volunteer opportunities, hold a fundraiser and choose another way to give back.

Photos from 2017 Black & White Wish Ball:

Black White Wish Ball 2017 - Kevin & Ashlyn

Make-A-Wish | Black White Wish Ball 2017

Hope Defined

Lerner and Rowe Gives Back March 20, 2017

Being injured in an accident often leaves a victim traumatized and in the need of a Chicago personal injury lawyer. After seeing a billboard, watching a commercial on television, or by the recommendation of a friend or loved one, our clients come to us in physical and emotional pain and our attorneys are ready to help.

Hope is about trust

Once the person makes that first call and we determine we can help, our Chicago personal injury firm commits to providing the best legal representation available and simultaneously activates the full force of our personnel and our resources. The person hangs up the phone knowing that he or she is in good hands.

Our commitment to exceptional legal representation is an important objective but not the only objective in this client/firm relationship.

Hope is about partnerships that create opportunities

We understand that a majority of our personal injury clients come from broken homes and underserved Chicago communities which lack basic resources. For many of them the slogan “In a wreck, need a check” is a timely message and a possible solution to very real and immediate needs.

As a neighbor and a business in these same struggling communities, we have committed our personal injury firm to stand in solidarity with other groups and meet some of these needs.

One of our partners serving the Chicago Woodlawn neighborhood is Hope Works Community Development. Since 2014, Hope Works is doing all they can to help individuals get back to work.

Their staff and volunteers work one-on-one to design specific solutions to long-term unemployment in a community where 41 percent make less than $15,000 per year and 32 percent meet the federal standards for “severely impoverished”. www.hopeworkschicago.org.

Hope Works logo

Hope is embodied in small acts of kindness

Lerner and Rowe Injury Attorneys staff became partners of hope by collecting donations of gently used business clothing and shoes for the Hope Works Community Development clients. Our Chicago personal injury lawyers understand that something as simple as a clothing drive can serve as the starting point in someone’s journey out of hopelessness.

Hope Defined can change the world

Jerome’s Story

Jerome came to his first appointment at Hope Works with an interview scheduled for later that week. He was hopeful about the interview but wanted some help preparing for it as well as with applying for other positions.

When his Community Advocate asked him if he had clothes for his interview, Jerome mentioned that he had just moved to town and didn’t have many clothes with him. We were able to find him a new shirt and pants but didn’t have shoes in his size.

Another client was in a meeting at the same time and overheard what was going on. He realized that they were the same size of shoes and offered to give Garvin a pair of his own shoes. Garvin left his meeting with clothes for his interview, transportation so that he didn’t have to walk for 2 miles, and a renewed sense of hope!

David’s Story

David has been working with us for the last eight months. He has a good amount of experience doing security work, and has gotten two unsuccessful interviews since we started working with him. He recently received an interview for a local grocery store and when he was asked what he was going to wear, he was reluctant to tell his Community Advocate.

Upon hearing that Hope Works had clothes that he could have for his interview he asked to look at them. He tried on a shirt that he liked along with the blue jeans that he had come in with. He asked his advocate if it would be appropriate to wear the jeans to an interview.

When he was told that it wasn’t, he was able to find a pair of slacks that he could wear to the interview. He asked multiple times if the clothes were free and if he could keep them. He left his meeting with enhanced interview skills and an outfit to wear for his upcoming interview!

The Value of Relationship in the Community

Lerner and Rowe Gives Back March 10, 2017

The Value of Relationship in the Community

Lerner and Rowe Gives Back community outreach program firmly believes in power of our relationships with neighbor and local community groups and the strength that each relationship provides to the projects and events we sponsor.For example, last November we met with CAPS officer Sabrina King of The Chicago Police Department District 9 at an event in Morgan Park to help provide families with Thanksgiving dinner in Southside Chicago.

The event, which also partnered with 45 other organizations including the Boys and Girls Club and the Salvation Army, was able to provide over 1,000 different families with complete Thanksgiving meals.

This success was largely due to the awareness of Officer King that some of the seniors and shut-ins in her district would miss out on this great chance if delivery was not offered, Officer King took action upon herself. So with the help of her partner, Officer Clark registered the families and delivered the food baskets to their homes personally. Without their help, families would have missed out who were in desperate need of food during the holidays.

Though it has been almost five months since our first introduction to Officer King, we have continued to remain in contact and meet frequently in order to coordinate future community outreach events.

Hope Works Chicago – Thank You Letter

Lerner and Rowe Gives Back March 6, 2017

Dear Lerner and Rowe Injury Attorneys,

Thank you for your very generous donation of professional clothing to Hope Works Community Development.

Your donation supports the work of Hope Works Community Development as we strive to empower our neighbors in Woodlawn to find and keep jobs. We are excited about how our most recent growth will further the work already done through Hope Works to combat long-term unemployment in the Woodlawn neighborhood. Your support directly enhances our ability to offer concrete job training skills and employment in the community, as we continue to equip people to be ready to work.

We are grateful for your support of this work through your generous donation.

With kind regards,

Rebekah S. King

Executive Director, Hope Works Community Development

Hope Works Chicago Thank You Letter

4th Annual Lerner & Rowe Gives Back Charity Golf Classic

Lerner and Rowe Gives Back February 17, 2017

2017 LRGB Golf Classic at Troon North It’s the 4th year for the Annual Lerner and Rowe Gives Back Charity Golf Classic. We are excited to share that thanks to the generosity of many community and individual sponsors, we are trending to surpass last year’s goal of $200k! Plus just like last year, 100% of the proceeds raised will be given back to support local charitable groups and organizations throughout Arizona.

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo at the Charity Golf Classic

Golfers, sponsors and volunteers will enjoy a fun and festive day of giving back and celebrating Cinco de Mayo among the beautiful setting of Troon North Golf Club (10320 E Dynamite Blvd., Scottsdale, AZ 85262).

Schedule of events: