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Alumni Club of Chicago (KACC)

The Kellogg Alumni Club of Chicago members showed their strong community support this holiday season by donating to the Virtual Food Drive to benefit the Greater Chicago Food Depository. The Greater Chicago Food Depository is a not-for-profit food distribution center providing food for hungry people through a network of 600 pantries, soup kitchens and shelters in the Chicago area. This was the inaugural year for the virtual food drive, and according to the organizers it was a "tremendous success" with KACC's support. KACC members donated $2,300 to benefit families and other community members in need. 

Chicago alums took advantage of this fall and winter to catch up on their reading. Several alums attended a video presentation, Q and A session, and book signing with Professors Alice Tybout and Tim Calkins for their new textbook, Kellogg on Branding. Attendees met the authors and several of the book's contributors, including senior Kellogg School faculty and alumni. Bill Welter, author of The Prepared Mind of a Leader, joined alums to talk about his new book co-authored with Jean Egmon, a faculty member at Kellogg, and share strategies on the eight skills leaders use to innovate, make decisions and solve problems. The KACC also has two popular book clubs that meet monthly for alums living downtown and in the north/northwest suburbs. Several award-winning business books have been featured by the book clubs in recent months and many more are on the "must read" list for future meetings.

An interesting new event, Gateway Tour to Serving on a Nonprofit Board, was organized this year for KACC members interested in nonprofit leadership. Kellogg Adjunct Professor Anne Cohn Donnelly, from the Center for Nonprofit Management, talked with alums about management skills that can enable boards to maximize organizational effectiveness, the application of successful governance strategies from business to nonprofits and about the popular Kellogg executive education and nonprofit management programs. Another interesting and enlightening KACC event featured Mark Kirk (R-IL), who shared his thoughts with alums on the emerging China-United States relationship and the economic, environmental and social implications of China's influence on the Western Hemisphere.

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