2008 Golf Benefit Event Sponsors
Thank you for sponsoring this year's Golf Benefit:

Steve Miller of Legacy Mortgage www.legacyhomemtg.com
Ed Wehmer, CEO of Wintrust Financial Corporation, www.wintrust.com,

and

Peter Andreotti, National City Mortgage, 1 East 22nd Street, Lombard, Il. http://www.nationalcitymortgage.com and,

FBOP Corporation, http://www.fbopcorporation.com


Event Sponsors ($5,000 each) are the corporate leaders who show their support for volunteer-based tutoring/mentoring by their generous contributions to support the 2008 Jimmy Biggs Memorial Cabrini Connections Golf Benefit.

If your company would like to be a sponsor, at any level, you can submit your sponsor donation using the forms and Pay Pal donation system on the Sponsor page of this web site.



2008 Golf Benfit Co-Chair Announced
The 2008 Jimmy Biggs Memorial Cabrini Connections Golf Benefit will be on July 17 at the Highland Park Country Club.

Steven Miller, President of Legacy Home Mortgage and Kurt Kittner, former University of Illinois and NFL quarterback, will serve as co-chairs for the event.

Miller and Kittner are both members of the Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection Board of Directors. While Steve has been chair of the Golf Benefit for several years, Kurt has just joined us to help quarterback our team. Kurt continues to be active in broadcasting Illinois football and is a Sales Associate for the The Staubach Company, a privately-held commercial real estate advisory firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

We're now accepting donations and inviting sponsors to support the 2008 event. If you'd like to participate, as an event sponsor, or at any other level, you can submit a donation using our online PayPal system, or call 312-492-9614, or email tutormentor2@earthlink.net.

Your donations will help us provide tutoring/mentoring to inner city kids in Chicago for the coming 2008-09 school year.



Cabrini Connections Holiday Fund
While the Annual Golf Benefit is in July, the Holiday Fund offers a different opportunity to share your success and help inner city kids connect with tutors/mentors.

Visit to make a Holiday Fund donation to Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection.



Cabrini Connections Year End Dinner Video
On June 12th Cabrini Connections celebrated its 16th year. This flash presentation shows the community of parents, students, volunteers and leaders who came together to celebrate.

In May the Tutor/Mentor Connection hosted a conference to help expand the range and quality of tutor/mentor programs in the Chicago region. View this flash presentation to see examples of how we support Cabrini Connections and hundreds of other programs via the T/MC.
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Your sponsor donation helps make this work possible. Thank you.



Directions to Highland Park Country Club
The July 17th Golf Benefit will have a 1pm Shotgun start. Registration begins at 10am so you can have lunch and go to the driving range.

From the North - take U.S. 41 (or Edens Expressway) South to Park Avenue West. Go east and the course will be on the left side (less than 1/2 mile from U.S. 41)

From the South - take Edens Espressyay / U.S. 41 North to Park Avenue West. Go east and the course will be on the left side (less than 1/2 mile from U.S. 41)

From the West - Take I-294, exit at Deerfield Road East. Take Edens Espressyay / U.S. 41 North to Park Avenue West. Go east and the course will be on the left side (less than 1/2 mile from U.S. 41)

To call Highland Park Country Club for directions, the number is 847-433-4000



Success Stories from Cabrini Connections
Visit our web site and meet some of the teens who are succeding thanks to the help of Cabrini Connections and its volunteers. Your sponsor dollars and golf fees help make this possible http://www.cabriniconnections.net



Golf web site tops on Google
I encourage you to search for the words "Chicago Golf Benefit" on the http://www.google.com search engine. The Jimmy Biggs Memorial Golf Benefit site came up second out of more than 1.8 million listings when searched on Dec. 4, 2007.

As a sponsor, your link on our sponsor page gets a potential hit every time someone in the Chicago region searches for a golf benefit!

Thanks for your support. Use the registration form on the sponsor page if you'd like to add your company to this list.



Meet Jimmy Biggs - View Cabrini Videos
Jimmy Biggs was one of the student-founders of the Cabrini Connections video group. For those who attended the 2007 Golf Benefit we showed one of the videos Jimmy helped create to tell others about Cabrini Connections. You can see two of these videos by following these links:

The Real Cabrini

Cabrini Connections Music Video

When you view these videos, you can also find additional videos that have been created by our teens and volunteers. Show these to your friends and co-workers and help recruit other volunteers and sponsors to support this work.