Charities

Com­mit­ment

The YIFC is com­mit­ted to ser­vice. The YIFC not only sup­ports local and national char­i­ties through finan­cial assis­tance (last year we raised close to $40,000) but we also lend sup­port through vol­un­teerism. We invite you to get involved as well. In cel­e­brat­ing our 35th year, the YIFC has cho­sen to sup­port 4 local char­i­ties this year, so con­tact the YIFC Vice Pres­i­dent of the Char­i­ta­ble Com­mit­tee, Brian Babin­ski at brian.babinski@gmail.com or feel free to con­tact the orga­ni­za­tions directly.

2009–2010 Char­i­ties

Maeve McNi­cholas Foundation

Maeve McNi­cholas was only 2 years old when she died of a brain tumor that was unde­tected until 36 hours before her death.  The dis­ease didn’t give Maeve a fight­ing chance.  This foun­da­tion wants to pre­vent other fam­i­lies from going through the heart­break that Maeve’s fam­ily endured in the sum­mer of 2004 by rais­ing money to put towards the research of pedi­atric brain tumors.

http://www.maevesfoundation.org/

Matthew Lee Bai­ley Foundation

The MLB foun­da­tion raises money for a high school schol­ar­ship for one eighth grade stu­dent at Christ the King School to attend Mount Carmel High School.  Matt Bai­ley was 25 years old when he died in a sud­den swim­ming acci­dent. This foun­da­tion has cre­ated this schol­ar­ship in Matt’s name to honor his strong ties to both Christ the King and Mount Carmel.

Michael J. Mur­phy Musi­cal Schol­ar­ship Fund

Michael Mur­phy (Murph) life was cut short sud­denly on June 6th, 2008 when he was struck by a hit-and-run dri­ver.  This schol­ar­ship fund was cre­ated by Murphy’s fam­ily and friends to pro­vide music related lessons and instru­ments to chil­dren from fam­i­lies that do not have the finan­cial means to pro­vide the same oppor­tu­nity that Michael Mur­phy had grow­ing up.

http://www.murphsgiftofmusic.org/

Rais­ing Aware­ness – National MS Society

Tom Berry, Brigid Berry, and Carly Fecht run this orga­ni­za­tion on behalf of their moth­ers (Susan Berry and Mary Fecht) who both have MS. In the U.S. alone, there are 400,000 peo­ple liv­ing with Mul­ti­ple Scle­ro­sis and its dev­as­tat­ing effects. “Rais­ing Aware­ness” has been rais­ing money for the Greater Illi­nois Chap­ter of the National MS Soci­ety for the past 9 years. The Young Irish Fel­low­ship Club of Chicago would like to make a sig­nif­i­cant dona­tion toward the efforts of find­ing a cure for this ter­ri­ble disease.

http://www.nationalmssociety.org/chapters/ILD/index.aspx