Exclusive Opening Night
Heart
Strings
Creating connection
to the world's children
Created by
Produced by
Presented by
Friday, June 14, 2024
The Ritz-Carlton at Water Tower Place
160 E Pearson St
Chicago IL, 60611
Heart Strings celebrates UNICEF’s work for children and emphasizes the power of youth voice in our communities both locally and around the world.
With your generosity, we raised over $2 million during our opening night celebration. UNICEF empowers communities and amplifies youth voices to save children’s lives, defend their rights and fulfill their potential. Thank you for joining us in the relentless pursuit of this mission.
6:00 PM Experience
7:30 PM Dinner and Program
Attire: Cocktail
Co-Chairs
Erin Amico
Amy Brown
Sheilah Burnham
National Sponsors
As of June 25, 2024
Presenting Sponsor
Visionary Sponsors
Sippi and Ajay Khurana Family Foundation
Seed Funders
and Kasim & Wasam Alfalahi
Susan Littlefield, Martin Roper and Family
Melody Wilder Wilson & David Wilson
Local Sponsors
As of June 12, 2024
Chicago Sponsor
Defenders
The Brown Family
The Dietz Family
The Serrino Family
Champions
The Burnham Family
The Hayek Family
The Macpherson Family
The Scott Family
Advocates
Cresset
Datasite
Epsilon
The Fazlioski Family
Jude Fitzgerald & Marcus Riley
The Graboys Family
The Harvey Family
The McGrath Family
The Merjan Family
Tonise Paul and Eric Harnka
The Prasad Family
Rafanelli Events
The Rawal Family
The Sholl Family
Dr. Samer Shaja
Ava (7) and Isla (6) Silich
Erin and Augustin Amico Wegscheider
About Heart Strings
With Heart Strings, UNICEF invites vou to an interactive experience that brings people together to meet - and listen to - young people, while celebrating their amazing potential. In children's smiles and cries, their hopes and hardships, we find the threads that connect us all.
Chicago Experience:
June 15 - June 30, 2024
Advisory Chair
Maryellis Bunn
Supporting Partners
As of June 25, 2024
UNICEF does not endorse any company, brand, organization, product or service.
Why UNICEF?
Over eight decades the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has built an unprecedented global support system for the world's children. UNICEF relentlessly works day in and day out to deliver the essentials that give every child an equitable chance in life: health care, safe water and sanitation, nutrition, education, emergency relief and more. UNICEF USA advances the global mission of UNICEF by rallying the American public to support the world's most vulnerable children. Together, we have saved and meaningfully improved more children's lives than any other humanitarian organization.
For more information, visit unicefusa.org.
By attending, I agree to be bound by the terms of UNICEF USA's Child Safeguarding and Participation Policy, Diversity, Racial Equity & Belonging Commitment and Photo Release Policy.