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Major Donations

Illinois State University - The largest donation ever given by the Ronald and Mary Ann Lachman Foundation is $100,000 over 4 years. This grant was given to the College of Education at Illinois State University in order to add Cued Speech to the curriculum for Teachers of the Deaf. "The grant will be used in three components during the five-year project, said James Thompson, chairman of ISU's Special Education Department. An awareness component will allow future and current teachers to visit the Alexander Graham Bell Montessori School in Mount Prospect, which specializes in cued speech. Lachman attended this school. The beginning-skills component will offer short courses in cued speech. The final component will offer scholarships and paid internships to achieve more advanced competency in cued speech." Quoted from an article on Pantagraph.com

The Grantee which receives the largest ongoing support from the Ronald and Mary Ann Lachman Foundation is AEHI, Alternatives in Education for the Hearing Impaired. The Foundation has donated to this organization on a yearly basis for over 20 years.

ICODA- The Ronald and Mary Ann Lachman Foudation is proud to participate in the capital campaign for ICODA (International Center on Deafness and the Arts).

The Lachman Foundation made two continuing grants of $50,000 each payable over 10 years to The United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. and to The Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois, funding the Lachman Documentation Library. Additional grants to the Illinois Holocaust Museum have lead to the naming of the Lachman Library Collection.

Other Not-For-Profits that have received over $100,000 from the Ronald and Mary Ann Lachman Foundation include:

Beth Emet Synagogue
The Chicagoland Jewish High School
Growing Home
Olin Sang Ruby Union Institute
Solomon Schechter Day Schools

As of 2009, in the area of deafness, the foundation is focusing its efforts on programs to train teachers of the deaf and interpreters to add Cued Speech (cued spoken language) to their skills.

The Foundation is seeking to give a major grant for research which will help those without functioning cochlea to hear.

 

2008 Donations

AAED

$5,000

AEHI new name READ Educational Center

$1,000

Alexander Graham Bell Montessori School

$5,000

American Committee For Weizmann

$1,000

American Society for Yad Vashem

$1,000

Avodah (Jewish Service Corps)

$2,500

Benji Hillman Foundation - Jerusalem Fellowship

$1,500

Beth Emet

$1,000

Beth Shalom Synogague

$200

Cal Poly Foundation-Disability Resource Center

$1,000

Chicago Jewish High School

$15,250

Chicago Women's Foundation

$1,000

Columbia College

$250

Community Foundation for Jewish Education

$750

Friends of Shemesh

$15,000

Friends of the IDF

$300

Growing Home

$36,250

Hillel - Cal Poly

$500

Hillel - Cornell

$500

Hillels of Illinois

$500

Hillel - National

$500

House Ear Institute $500

ICODA-Int'l Center on Deafness and the Arts

$250

Illinois Holocaust Museum

$15,500

Illinois State University

$20,000

Jewish Council on Urban Affairs

$1,500

Jewish National Fund

$300

Jewish United Fund

$10,500

Jewish Women's Foundation of Chicago

$1,000

Keshet

$1,000

Manhattan Jewish Experience

$1,800

MAZON

$500

NCSA - National Cued Speech Association

$2,000

Northbrook Citizens for Drug Awareness

$1,000

Olin Sang Ruby Union Institute Camp

$20,500

Orphans of the Storm

$250

ORT

$250

Peace Child - PEF Israel

$250

People's Resource Center

$1,000

Pitchon Lev

$250

Project Kesher

$1,500

Soaring Eagle Academy

$250

Solomon Schechter School

$1,800

The Lisa Klitzky Foundation

$250

Union for Reform Judaism

$500

World Union for Progressive Judaism

$1,000

Total

$173,650

 

2007 Donations

AEHI new name READ Educational Center

$13,570

Alexander Graham Bell Montessori School

$1,000

American Committee For Weizmann

$1,000

American Friends of the Ghetto Fighters

$250

American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

$250

American Society for Yad Vashem

$1,000

Cal Poly Foundation-Disability Resource Center

$1,000

Chicago Jewish High School

$15,000

Chicago Women's Foundation

$1,000

Columbia College

$250

Community Foundation for Jewish Education

$750

Donor's Forum of Chicago

$770

Friends of Shemesh

$15,000

Friends of the IDF

$300

Green Road Synagogue

$500

Growing Home

$16,500

Hillel - Cal Poly

$500

Hillel - Cornell

$500

Hillels of Illinois

$500

Hillel - National

$1,000

Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois

$10,000

House Ear Institute $500

Illinois Holocaust Museum

$5,500

Illinois State University

$40,000

Jewish Council on Urban Affairs

$1,000

Jewish National Fund

$300

Jewish United Fund

$10,500

Jewish Women's Foundation of Chicago

$2,000

Keshet

$1,000

Maot Chitim of Greater Chicago

$250

MAZON

$500

NCSA - National Cued Speech Association

$500

Northbrook Citizens for Drug Awareness

$1,000

Olin Sang Ruby Union Institute Camp

$20,000

ORT

$500

Peace Child - PEF Israel

$250

People's Resource Center

$1,000

Pitchon Lev - PEF Israel

$500

Project Kesher

$20,000

Save Abandoned Babies

$250

Solomon Schechter School

$2,500

The Lisa Klitzky Foundation

$250

Union for Reform Judaism

$500

World Union for Progressive Judaism

$3,500

Y-Me

$1,500

Total

$194,440

 

2006 Donations

AEHI new name READ Educational Center

$15,000

Alexander Graham Bell Montessori School

$500

American Committee For Weizmann

$1,000

American Friends of the Ghetto Fighters

$250

American Society for Yad Vashem

$800

Beth Emet

$19,000

Cal Poly Foundation-Disability Resource Center

$1,000

Chicago Jewish High School

$17,500

Community Foundation for Jewish Education

$750

Donor's Forum of Chicago

$700

Friends of Shemesh

$15,000

Friends of the IDF

$1,000

Growing Home

$12,800

Hillel - Cal Poly

$1,000

Hillel - Cornell

$1,000

Hillels of Illinois

$1,000

Hillel - National

$750

Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois

$10,000

House Ear Institute $1,000

Jewish Council on Urban Affairs

$1,250

Jewish Fund for Justice $500

Jewish National Fund

$250

Jewish United Fund

$12,000

Jewish Women's Foundation of Chicago

$2,000

Keshet

$3,000

MAZON

$500

NCSA - National Cued Speech Association

$2,250

Northbrook Citizens for Drug Awareness

$1,000

Olin Sang Ruby Union Institute Camp

$20,000

Pancreatic Cancer Network

$250

Peace Child - PEF Israel

$250

People's Resource Center

$2,000

Pitchon Lev - PEF Israel

$250

Save Abandoned Babies

$250

Solomon Schechter School

$2,500

The Lisa Klitzky Foundation

$250

Union for Reform Judaism

$500

World Union for Progressive Judaism

$6,000

Total

$155,050

 

2005 Donations

AEHI new name READ Educational Center

$13,750

Alexander Graham Bell Montessori School

$1,000

American Committee For Weizmann

$1,000

American Friends of Shemesh

$15,000

American Society for Yad Vashem

$600

Beth Emet

$18,000

Cal Poly Alumni Association

$1,000

Cal Poly Foundation-Disability Resource Center

$1,000

Cancer Care

$1,000

Chicago Jewish High School

$15,000

Community Foundation for Jewish Education

$750

Donor's Forum of Chicago

$700

Friends of the IDF

$250

Greater Chicago Food Depository

$500

Growing Home

$10,250

Hillel - Cal Poly

$1,000

Hillel - Cornell

$1,000

Hillel - National

$1,000

Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois

$10,100

House Ear Institute $1,000
Illinois Holocaust Museum $4,000

Inspiration Corporation

$500

Jewish Council on Urban Affairs

$1,000

Jewish Fund for Justice $250

Jewish National Fund

$250

Jewish United Fund

$10,500

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

$500

Keshet

$1,250

MAZON

$500

NCSA - National Cued Speech Association

$250

Northbrook Citizens for Drug Awareness

$1,000

Olin Sang Ruby Union Institute Camp

$20,000

Peace Child - PEF Israel

$500

People's Resource Center

$2,000

Pitchon Lev - PEF Israel

$500

Save Abandoned Babies

$250

Solomon Schechter School

$7,750

The Lisa Klitzky Foundation

$250

Union for Reform Judaism

$500

Total

$145,650

 

2004 Donations

Abraham Fund

$500

ADL (Anti-Defamation League)

$250

AEHI new name READ Educational Center

$31,000

American Committee For Weizmann

$1,000

American Friends of Shemesh

$16,000

American Friends of the Ghetto Fighters' House

$500

American Society for Yad Vashem

$1,250

Ark

$1,000

ARZA (Reform Zionist Movement) $500

Beth Emet

$19,500

Cal Poly Foundation-Disability Resource Center

$1,000

Chicago Jewish High School

$11,250

Children's Memorial Fund

$500

Community Foundation for Jewish Education

$750

Cued Speech Assn of Minnesota

$250

Donor's Forum of Chicago

$700

Friends of the IDF

$1,200

Gastro-Intestinal Research Foundation

$500

Greater Chicago Food Depository

$1,000

Growing Home

$12,000

Hillel - Cornell

$1,000

Hillel - National

$1,000

Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois

$8,000

House Ear Institute $1,000
Ida Crown Jewish Academy $250

Jewish Council on Urban Affairs

$1,000

Jewish Fund for Justice $500

Jewish National Fund

$2,600

Jewish United Fund

$11,500

Keshet

$2,000

Magen David Adom

$1,000

MAZON

$1,000

MEMRI

$1,000

National Captioning Institute

$250

NCSA - National Cued Speech Association

$250

Northbrook Citizens for Drug Awareness

$1,000

Olin Sang Ruby Union Institute Camp

$13,000

Peace Child - PEF Israel

$500

Pitchon Lev - PEF Israel

$500

Solomon Schechter School

$6,000

The Lisa Klitzky Foundation

$1,350

UAHC -Union of American Hebrew Congregations

$1,000

Y Me

$1,000

Total

$157,350

 

2003 Donations

Abraham Fund

$500

ADL (Anti-Defamation League)

$250

AEHI new name READ Educational Center

$25,000

American Committee For Weizmann

$1,000

American Friends of Shemesh

$15,000

American Friends of the Ghetto Fighters' House

$500

American Society for Yad Vashem

$250

Ark

$1,000

ARZA (Reform Zionist Movement) $500

Beth Emet

$15,000

Cal Poly Foundation-Disability Resource Center

$1,000

Chicago Jewish High School

$10,000

Community Foundation for Jewish Education

$1,500

Cornell Equestrian Team

$5,000

Donor's Forum of Chicago

$660

Friends of the IDF

$1,000

Greater Chicago Food Depository

$1,000

Growing Home

$10,000

Hillel - Cornell

$2,500

Hillel - National

$2,500

Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois

$5,000

House Ear Institute $1,000
Israel Project $1,000

Jewish Council on Urban Affairs

$1,000

Jewish Fund for Justice $500

Jewish National Fund

$1,000

Jewish United Fund

$11,000

Keshet

$1,000

Leo Baeck Educational Center

$500

Magen David Adom

$1,000

MAZON

$1,000

MEMRI

$2,500

National Captioning Institute

$250

NCSA - National Cued Speech Association

$500

Northbrook Citizens for Drug Awareness

$1,000

Olin Sang Ruby Union Institute Camp

$11,000

Solomon Schechter School

$2,500

UAHC -Union of American Hebrew Congregations

$1,000

Total

$136,910

2002 Donations

Abraham Fund

$500

ADL (Anti-Defamation League)

$1,000

AEHI, Alternatives in Education for the Hearing Impaired (READ Educational Center)

$47,600

AEHI, William Krause Memorial Fund

$5,000

American Committee For Weizmann

$3,500

American Friends of the Ghetto Fighters’ House

$1,000

American Friends of Yad Vashem

$500

The Ark

$1,000

ARZA (Refrm Zionist Movement)

$1,000

Beth Emet

$18,000

Cal Poly Foundation-Disability Resource Center

$1,000

Chicago Jewish High School

$50,000

Community Foundation for Jewish Education

$1,540

Cornell Equestrian Team

$10,000

Donor's Forum of Chicago

$660

Friends of Shemesh

$15,000

Friends of the IDF

$5,000

Greater Chicago Food Depository

$1,000

Growing Home

$11,100

Hadassah Chicago Chapter

$500

Hillel - Illinois

$4,200

Hillel - National

$8,000

Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois

$5,000

Jewish Council on Urban Affairs

$2,500

Jewish National Fund

$5,000

Jewish United Fund

$15,000

Jewish United Fund - Argentina Relocation

$1,000

Jewish United Fund - Israel Terror Relief Campaign

$15,000

Keshet

$1,000

Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

$250

Leukemia Research Foundation

$500

Magen David Adom

$1,000

MAZON

$1,000

MEMRI

$5,000

National Captioning Institute

$250

NCSA - National Cued Speech Association

$250

Northbrook Citizens for Drug Awareness

$1,000

Northbrook Speed Skating Club

$250

Olin Sang Ruby Union Institute Camp

$10,000

Paws Chicago

$250

Peace Child, Abraham Fund

$1,000

Pitchon Lev, PEF Israel Endowment

$1,000

Reform Jewish Appeal

$500

Shaare Zedek

$250

SHHH - Self Help for Hard of Hearing

$250

Solomon Schechter School

$2,000

Solomon Schechter School, Worcester

$1,000

UAHC -Union of American Hebrew Congregations

$1,000

University of Illinois (technology lab)

$1,000

Total

$259,350

2001 Donations

Abraham Fund (Jewish Arab Community)

$50,000

ADL

$1,500

AEHI, Alternatives in Education for the Hearing Impaired

$11,481

American Committee For Weizmann

$1,000

American Friends of Shemesh

$10,000

American Friends of the Ghetto Fighters’ House

$1,500

American Friends of Yad Vashem

$1,000

The Ark

$2,000

ARZA

$1,000

Beth Emet

$15,000

Cal Poly Foundation-Disability Resource Center

$11,500

Central Avenue Synagogue

$1,000

Chicago Community Kollel

$1,000

Chicago Friends of the IDF

$500

Children’s Memorial Hospital, Medical Research

$500

Columbia College

$250

Community Foundation for Jewish Education

$540

Cued Speech Assoc. of Minnesota

$1,500

Donor's Forum of Chicago

$760

Greater Chicago Food Depository

$1,000

Hebrew Theological College

$1,000

HIAS

$250

Hillel - National

$1,000

Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois

$2,000

Jewish Council on Urban Affairs

$1,600

Jewish Federation for Solomon Schechter

$10,000

Jewish Federation for Metropolitan Chicago

$1,000

Jewish Funders Network

$600

Jewish National Fund

$1,000

Jewish United Fund

$11,900

Keshet

$1,000

MAZON

$1,000

National Captioning Institute

$250

Northbrook Citizens for Drug Awareness

$2,500

Olin Sang Ruby Union Institute Camp

$15,500

Project Kesher

$1,000

Reform Jewish Appeal

$500

SHHH - Self Help for Hard of Hearing

$250

Simon Wiesenthal Center

$1,000

UAHC -Union of American Hebrew Congregations

$1,000

United Life Line

$500

University of Chicago Children’s Hospital

$500

University of Chicago Dr. Tobak’s Research

$1,250

University of Illinois (technology lab)

$1,000

University of Illinois Scholarship Association

$500

US Civilian Research & Dev Foundation

$1,000

Waukegan Water Safety Association

$1,000

Total

$173,131

 

2000 Donations

Abraham Fund

$5,000

Abraham Fund (Shemesh)

$15,000

ADL

$500

AEHI, Alternatives in Education for the Hearing Impaired

$49,550

American Committee For Weizmann

$2,500

American Friends of Yad Vashem

$250

American Jewish Committee

$250

The Ark

$1,000

ARZA

$1,000

Avon Breast Cancer 3-Day

$500

Beth Emet

$14,000

Cal Poly Foundation

$5,000

Cal Poly Foundation-Disability Resource Center

$7,500

Cancer Care

$500

Center for Educational Partnerships

$500

Chicago Friends of the IDF

$600

Community Foundation for Jewish Education

$540

Donor's Forum of Chicago

$2,100

FIRST

$2,000

Grantmakers for Education

$250

Greater Chicago Food Depository

$1,000

Hearing Rehab Foundation

$2,500

HIAS

$500

Hillel - Illinois

$1,000

Hillel - National

$1,250

Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois

$1,000

ICODA

$1,500

IQLI

$5,000

Jewish Council on Urban Affairs

$1,500

Jewish Fund for Justice

$2,500

Jewish National Fund

$2,500

Jewish United Fund

$11,000

Keshet

$550

MAZON

$1,000

National Captioning Institute

$250

NCSA - National Cued Speech Association

$2,000

Northbrook Citizens for Drug Awareness

$2,500

Olin Sang Ruby Union Institute Camp

$15,000

Project Kesher

$1,000

Reform Jewish Appeal

$500

San Diego Jewish Academy

$500

SHHH - Self Help for Hard of Hearing

$250

Simon Wiesenthal Center

$10,000

Solomon Schechter Day School

$26,350

Temple Jeremiah

$2,000

UAHC -Union of American Hebrew Congregations

$1,000

United States Adaptive Recreation Center

$1,000

University of Illinois

$2,500

Up-Thumb

$360

Upper Savannah Area Health Consortium

$5,700

USET - United States Equestrian Team

$4,750

Women's American ORT

$1,000

World Jewish Congress

$1,000

World Reform Appeal

$500

Total

$219,500

1999 Donations

Abraham Fund (Shemesh)

$2,050

ADL

$500

AEHI, Alternatives in Education for the Hearing Impaired

$59,450

Alexander Graham Bell Assoc. for the Hearing Impaired

$250

American Committee For Weizmann

$1,000

The Ark

$1,000

ARZA

$500

Bears Care - Breast Cancer Research

$2,700

Beth Emet

$11,500

Boys Scouts of America, Chicago Area

$2,500

Chai Lifeline Chicago

$500

Columbia College

$500

Community Foundation for Jewish Education

$4,040

Donor's Forum of Chicago

$1,000

FIRST

$2,500

Foundation for Hearing & Speech Rehab - Northwestern

$250

Greater Chicago Food Depository

$1,000

Habitat for Humanity

$500

Hillel - Illinois

$250

Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois

$1,500

ICODA

$2,500

Inspiration Cafe

$500

Jewish Council on Urban Affairs

$1,000

Jewish Federation of Chicago

$5,000

Jewish Fund for Justice

$2,500

Jewish Funder's Network

$600

Jewish National Fund

$500

Jewish United Fund

$6,400

Kollel Chesed of Skokie

$360

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

$1,000

Light Opera Works

$250

MAZON

$1,000

National Jewish Medical Research

$250

Northbrook Public Library

$500

Olin Sang Ruby Union Institute Camp

$11,000

Project Kesher

$500

Shalva

$500

SHHH - Self Help for Hard of Hearing

$250

Simon Wiesenthal Center

$250

Solomon Schechter Day School

$10,750

Temple Jeremiah

$1,500

UAHC -Union of American Hebrew Congregations

$500

University of Illinois

$2,500

Up-Thumb

$360

USET - United States Equestrian Team

$2,500

Women's American ORT

$1,250

Y ME National Breast Cancer

$250

Total

$147,960

 

1998 Donations

Abraham Fund (Shemesh)

$15,500

AEHI, Alternatives in Education for the Hearing Impaired

$24,000

American Committee For Weizmann

$1,000

The Ark

$1,000

Beth Emet

$12,500

Beth Emet Music Fund

$500

Chicago Aids Ride

$250

Columbia College

$250

Community Foundation for Jewish Education

$5,500

Donor's Forum of Chicago

$660

Foundation for Hearing & Speech Rehab - Northwestern

$1,000

Grantmakers for Education/The Tides Center

$250

Greater Chicago Food Depository

$1,000

Habitat for Humanity

$500

Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois

$16,000

Inspiration Cafe

$250

Jewish Council on Urban Affairs

$1,000

Jewish Fund for Justice

$1,000

Jewish National Fund

$500

Jewish United Fund

$5,400

Keshet

$1,000

Kollel Chesed of Skokie

$250

MAZON

$1,000

Mitchell Ross Children's Cancer Fund

$250

National Jewish Immunology

$250

NCSA

$16,000

Northbrook Citizens for Drug Awareness

$2,500

Olin Sang Ruby Union Institute Camp

$21,500

Rosenwald School

$250

SHHH - Self Help for Hard of Hearing

$250

Solomon Schechter Day School

$10,750

Temple Jeremiah

$2,000

UAHC -Union of American Hebrew Congregations

$500

University of Illinois

$2,500

USET - United States Equestrian Team

$1,000

Women's American ORT

$1,500

WTTW

$260

Total

$149,560

 

1997 Donations

Abraham Fund

$500

AEHI, Alternatives in Education for the Hearing Impaired

$51,050

American Cancer Society

$250

American Committee For Weizmann

$500

The Ark

$1,000

ARZA - Emergency Israel Building Fund

$2,500

Beth Emet

$13,650

Chicago Foundation for Women

$500

Columbia College

$250

Community Foundation for Jewish Education

$4,000

Couer d'Alene School

$2,500

Donor's Forum of Chicago

$660

Foundation for Hearing & Speech Rehab - Northwestern

$1,050

Friends of the IDF

$250

Greater Chicago Food Depository

$1,000

Habitat for Humanity

$500

Hadassah

$250

Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois

$2,100

Jewish Council on Urban Affairs

$1,000

Jewish Fund for Justice

$2,500

Jewish National Fund

$500

Jewish United Fund

$5,000

Keshet

$1,250

Kollel Chesed of Skokie

$750

Leukemia Society

$250

MAZON

$1,000

National Jewish Immunology

$250

Olin Sang Ruby Union Institute Camp

$5,000

Option Institute

$250

RARE

$250

Rosenwald School

$1,000

SHHH - Self Help for Hard of Hearing

$250

SHEMESH

$10,000

Solomon Schechter Day School

$11,800

Temple Jeremiah

$3,000

UAHC -Union of American Hebrew Congregations

$250

USET - United States Equestrian Team

$1,000

Women's American ORT

$1,000

Total

$128,810

 

 

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