Who We Are
The Springboard Foundation was founded in 1998 by 10 young professionals who wanted to get personally involved in improving the lives of inner-city children in Chicago. From that first year, in which Springboard distributed $50,000 in grants, Springboard has more than 45 members from the city and suburbs, all of whom share the original founders’ belief that our personal involvement in supporting grass-roots neighborhood organizations can make a real difference.
| 2010-2011 Directors | |
| Dave McGranahan, President | |
| Colleen Galagher, Vice President | |
| Doug Mabie, Founder | |
| Prudence R. Beidler | Richard Driehaus |
| E. David Coolidge III | James J. Glasser |
| Active Members | |||
| George Atkinson | Jack Keller* | Bill Patterson | |
| Doug Armstrong | Craig Kirby | Mike Revord | |
| Julie Bessent | Mike Ochsenhirt* | Jim Robinson | |
| Chandler Bigelow | John Halston | Ken Rose | |
| R.J. Bukovac | Stuart Larkins | Tom Seftenberg | |
| Peter Doerr | Bruce Lee | Doug Thompson | |
| Mark Ferguson* | Eric Mogentale |
Keith Yavitt |
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| Gregory Frezados | Doug Mabie* | Marie Burke | |
| Colleen Gallagher | Ernie Butch MacVicar | Graham Cook | |
| Heather Gardner | Rob Mathias | Jon Skinner | |
| John Henderson | Ken McAtamney | Randy Abrahams | |
| Roger Hochschild | Dave McGranahan | Tom Wilson | |
| Tony Hoban* | Jon Skinner | Jeff Moster | |
| Arthur Howe | Corey Minturn |
John Dicola |
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| Scott Hunken | Andy Flynn | ||
| Steve Kaiser* | Allen Smith | ||
| *Former Presidents | |||
| Sustaining Members | ||||
| Barb Sessions | Laird Koldyke | Nate and Sharon Stearns | ||
| Brad Bissell | Ray Crosland | Mark Simanton | ||
| Brian White | Nick Etten | Michael Boehm | ||
| Chris Lindblad | Mike Carothers | Josh Lesnik | ||
| George Bennett | Ned Jannotta | Andy McNally | ||
| Hall Addams III | Paul Johnson | Andy Hick | ||
| Jim Crowder | Paul Svoboda | Greg Welch | ||
| Joe Nolan | Phil Rooney | Joe Flanagan | ||
| Keith Olson* | Steve Ashmore |
Paul Carbery |
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| Mark Fuller* | Ted Bowen | Tom Croghan | ||
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Jeff Kautz |
Tim Dolan |
Ian Larkin |
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| *Past President |
Todd Berlinghof Jeff Urban |
Program Spotlight
Urban Initiatives is a nonprofit organization that runs a health and education soccer program, called the Work to Play Program, in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS). Urban Initiatives’ mission is to is to work with schools, teachers, and parents to boost the physical fitness, health education, academic performance, and character development of children from Chicago’s underserved communities by actively engaging them in safe and structured extracurricular activities through soccer programs. The goal is to reach students at a young age and teach them the importance of exercise and their personal health while also emphasizing the value of education. Urban Initiatives takes a holistic approach to child development in order to provide children, who have the odds stacked against them, with the opportunity to reach their full potential.
Website: www.urbaninitiatives.org