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The Career Academy Alliance program had its first day this week! We are so excited to welcome this new group as they embark on their journey towards competitive employment. Shoutout to Aspire Chicago for the welcome gifts on their first day!
🫂 Proving that team building can be fun! 🫂 A huge thank you to Wesco for spending the day with us at our Weinberg Career Academy! 🫶 Together we practiced team-building, problem-solving, and time management skills by building structures from marshmallows and toothpicks. It was such a productive and enjoyable day for everyone involved! 🎉 Wesco, we’re so thankful for your continued support and dedication as it truly helps to create a more inclusive community. We can’t wait for our next event with you! 💙 #PoweredbyPossible #VolunteerAppreciation #AspireCommunity Serena Alaily, MBA
A HUGE thank you to our amazing friends at Popular Bank for their incredible support in helping Aspire create three new sensory rooms at our Possibility Academy! 🎉 These rooms are specially designed to provide engaging, calming, and sensory-friendly spaces for those we support. We’re so excited to see the positive impact they’ll have! 🧠💖 None of this would be possible without the generous support from Popular Bank. We can’t thank you enough for helping us build an inclusive future for everyone. 🌟 #PoweredbyPossible #SensoryMagic #DonorAppreciation Serena Alaily, MBA
This week, Aspire had an incredible day volunteering with our friends at Upscale Rummage! 🎉 Three amazing groups from our Possibility Academy, Virtual Life Coaching (VLC), and Philanthropy Team joined forces to sort bags, tag items, and organize donations! 🛍️📦 A huge thank you to Upscale Rummage for letting us spend the day with you and for your continued support of Aspire! We had an absolute blast and can't wait to come back!✨ #PoweredbyPossible #AspirePartners Serena Alaily, MBA
Recently, Aspire and Aspire CoffeeWorks were invited to join Medline Industries, LP at a tabling event hosted by their Disability Awareness & Action Alliance (DAAA). ☕ We had an amazing time chatting with Medline Industries, LP employees about Aspire’s mission and the incredible work Aspire CoffeeWorks does in supporting adults with disabilities. 🌟💙 Thank you so much, Medline Industries, LP for including us in this fantastic day and for helping to build an inclusive future for everyone! ✨ #PoweredbyPossible #AspireCoffeeworks #DisabilityInclusion Serena Alaily, MBA
A huge thank you to Puttshack for joining us at the Weinberg Career and Life Enrichment Academy for a day of volunteering! 🎉 We had an amazing day filled with team-building workshops, fun games like bingo and hangman, and lots of laughter. 😄 Your time and enthusiasm meant so much to us, and we can't wait for more events together in the future! #PoweredbyPossible #VolunteerAppreciation #AspireCommunity Serena Alaily, MBA
Last week, we were thrilled to host Rahnee Patrick, Director of the Division of Rehabilitation Services (DRS); Belinda Swanson, Senior VR Counselor at DRS; and Jennifer Foil, Director of Workforce Policy and Programs at Northern Illinois University! 🎉 They visited our Weinberg Career and Life Enrichment Academy to see our mission in action and the amazing work we're doing together. 🌟 It was an inspiring day filled with great conversations and shared visions for the future! 💬 #PoweredbyPossible #InclusionMatters #EverGreaterPossibilities Serena Alaily, MBA
A big thank you to Bank of America for hosting Aspire at their recent Community Partner Celebration! 💙❤️ Aspire recently received funding from Bank of America as a 2024 #BofAGrants recipient in #Chicago! With this grant, we will continue working on supporting and connecting people with disabilities to ever-greater possibilities for learning, jobs, and safe places to call home. Thank you Bank of America Chicago! #PoweredbyPossible #DisabilityInclusion Serena Alaily, MBA, Rita Sola Cook
