Trickster Cultural Center Delivers Care Packages to Veterans and Elderly

Posted May 19, 2020 11:00 pm

Amanda Berrios

This Friday, May 22 at 10AM, staff and volunteers of the Trickster Cultural Center--a Native American cultural arts gallery--will deliver food and hygiene care packages to over 50 veterans and elders throughout their local Schaumburg community.

The team of volunteers will include Cook County Commissioner Kevin Morrison and Illinois State Representative Michelle Mussman.

Trickster CEO Joseph Podlasek said that his team quickly organized the care package drive-which will now take place every Friday-to help those who "slipped through the cracks" of pandemic support.

Trickster is one of several local arts organizations that recently received a relief grant from the Chicago-based Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation.

Acknowledging the potentially cataclysmic financial situation which hundreds of beloved regional small arts organizations are facing, the Board of the Donnelley Foundation unanimously voted to put in place a series of funding mechanisms, including expediting a total of $2 million in general operating funds to its current roster of 175 arts grantees in the Chicago region.

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