Our Partners | Character & SEL | The Charmm'd Foundation

The Charmm'd Foundation
485 E. Half Day Rd, Ste 200 - Buffalo Grove, IL 60089
Phone: 847-883-9932 - Fax: 847-883-9960 - email: info@charmmdfoundation.org

We have thought partners
throughout North America giving
us guidance and sharing best
practices while working toward
achieving the same goals as the
Foundation.

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Collaborating with the Experts!

Alone we can do so little – together we can do so much. - Helen Keller

The intention is to partner with others to raise sustainable in
schools and communities.

Along with keeping our current sponsors, new sponsors are
needed to show support to their communities and to support
events and functions pertaining to the teach, empower
AND model initiative.

We will then give back to them through advertising their
business, inviting them to workshops, and offering them
resources that will help prepare them to work on social and
character skills with their staffs.

These wonderful partners have provided in-kind support to a
number of various workshops we have had throughout the
years. Please show your appreciation to them!

In-Kind Sponsorship
In-kind donations raise awareness of our work and help to form and retain partnerships with local businesses so they can be a part of
making it ‘happen’.

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Emotionally Strong.
Character Rich.

Advisory Council
For professional development expertise in the communities and to complement what we have going on with our schools, an Advisory
Council has been formed. These experts bring new perspectives and approaches to social emotional skill building and coaching.
We are currently creating multiple business tools so that training can be delivered that best meets our corporate, parent, teacher and
other adult community needs. Dr. Ed Dunkelblau and Lynn Moore, (mentioned above), are apart of our council as well as the
following individuals:

		Bill Burzynski is experienced in talent and performance management, leadership development, and organizational change
		management. He has worked with corporations such as Motorola, WW Grainger, Southern Bell Telephone, Knight Ridder, DuPont, Bell South and Walgreens. Bill holds a Master’s degree in human resource management and a Bachelor’s of Science degree in electrical engineering. His personal style is collaborative and oriented to team effectiveness, yet he brings healthy candor and straight talk to problem solving, decision making and

performance management.

Grace Lichtenstein was born and raised in Chicago and recently moved

back

o the

Midwest

after spending 12 years in

Alaska. While there, as a

licensed

psychotherapist,

she

was part

owner of a wellness clinic which

incorporated

alternative/complementary

medicine techniques with

traditional

psychotherapeutic

methods. Grace also worked as a

counselor

in Alaska’s largest hospital a

well

worked with Native

Alaskans in the

Alaskan bush. Her

previous career of 1

years was in office management.

Through it all,

she has learned that

the secret

to happiness is balance

and

integrity in all

areas of life: home, work, social and spiritual.

		Kathryn Rychel, President of PeopleWorks Inc., has over 25 years in business management and organizational consulting
		for leadership development. Kathy holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Social Work (M.S.W.), is an experienced executive coach and mediator. Her expertise is in emotional intelligence in the workplace, leader development program design, coaching, and behavior change.

		Mary Ashton, Leadership Instructor and Executive Coach, facilitates highly experiential professional development programs
		on topics including emotional intelligence, resiliency, interpersonal communication skills, work/life balance and behavior change. She brings to her organizational clients her perspective as a proven business leader as well as her expertise in combining the clarity of logic with the wisdom that emotional intelligence offers.

Advisory Board
We turn to our Advisory Board, thought partners, and those in each community to guide us with the work in both the schools and the
broader community.

The Advisory Board members are:

		Alicia Oberman – Director of multiple foundations; The Charmm’d Foundation Board Member
		Betty Frank-Bailey – Executive Director of LEAD (Linking Efforts Against Drugs)
		Cheryl Alaniz – Director, Customer Service, Topco Associates, LLC; parent
		Debi Pomerantz – Shoreline parent & active community member
		Earl Melamed – Corporate Attorney at Neal Gerber Eisenberg
		Gregg Miller – West Coast Liaison
		Lynn Moore – Coach, teach, empower AND model initiative
		Roycealee Woods – Lake County Regional Superintendent of Schools
		Scott Hirsch – CFO of The Benida Group, LLC; The Charmm’d Foundation Board Member
		Shana Hayes – Vice President of External Affairs, Kohl Children's Museum of Greater Chicago
		Theresa Loerch – Parent & Advocate

Exemplary Partner Award
The recipients of this annual award have been deemed by The Charmm'd Foundation staff as outstanding partners to the foundation
as well as to the initiative. Check out this year's co-recipients Debi Pomerantz and Shana Hayes and find out what makes them
EXEMPLARY !

Character Education Partnership (CEP)
The Charmm’d Foundation contracted with Character Education Partnership (CEP), one of the world's premier character education
organizations, based in Washington, D.C., to oversee the initiative in the schools.

		Barbara Luther, Barbara Luther is the Project Manager for the teach, empower AND model initiative and is the Associate
		Director of Professional Development at CEP. She works with Charmm’d and with educators around the country in several capacities facilitating the integration of Social/Emotional and Character Development (SECD) in schools. She has worked as a classroom teacher at all levels for many years. She served as the chair of the Character Education steering team at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt, MD, which was a CEP National School of Character in 2002. Barbara can be reached at bluther@character.org.

		Ed Dunkelblau, Ph.D., director of the Institute for Emotionally Intelligent Learning, has
		been a licensed clinical psychologist for 25 years. He is the coach for the New Trier Township schools. His strength is in addressing problem-solving strategies with our schools and facilitating systemic change. Ed can be contacted at teacheq@aol.com.

		Lynn Moore, M.Ed., has over 25 years experience as a counselor with Northbrook,
		Illinois’ District 27 and 28. Lynn’s leadership in SEL/CE was integral to her school receiving the National Schools of Character Award. She coaches our Lake Forest, Lake Bluff and Zion-Benton Township schools. Lynn assists organizations in developing and maintaining cultures which embody character and emotional intelligence. Lynn can be contacted at skillsfortoday@yahoo.com.