Each year, approximately 150 cancer patients participate in HEEF’s programming, whether through the tissue bank, gene sequencing, OncoSET program or clinical trials. The organization is seeking generous donors willing to purchase Cancer Care Packages. These packages contain practical comfort items to help ease the symptoms of GI cancer patients enrolled in HEEF funded programs, on or […]
On Saturday, April 6 at the Standard Club, student groups from eight universities competed at the ninth annual Harold E. Eisenberg Foundation Real Estate Challenge for top honors and $10,000 in scholarships. Marquette University’s proposal, The Connect: a revitalization of life and play in Chicago Ridge, impressed the judges, along with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate […]
Teams from Marquette University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign took home top honors at the ninth annual Harold E. Eisenberg Foundation Real Estate Challenge for their proposals to redevelop a vacant 11.7-acre big box space at the Chicago Ridge Mall.
In this year’s Midwest Real Estate Challenge, the Harold E. Eisenberg Foundation is partnering with Starwood Retail Partners to engage real estate students in redeveloping an 11.7-acre site attached to the Chicago Ridge Mall. The 154,000-square-foot department store box, now vacant and awaiting redevelopment, formerly housed a Carson’s.
An evening fit for both a gamer and gourmand, EISENOPOLY is a fundraiser like no other. The evening, hosted by the Associate Board of the Harold E. Eisenberg Foundation, revolves around competitive speed rounds of the family favorite board game Monopoly. The 10th annual EISENOPOLY raised a record of $215,000 for gastrointestinal cancer research at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at […]
The Harold E. Eisenberg Foundation’s 10th annual Eisenopoly raised a record $215,000 for gastrointestinal cancer research at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University. Over 550 guests turned out to face off in speed rounds of the Monopoly-themed board game at the fundraiser, held recently at Revel Fulton Market. “In its tenth […]
Shortly after Harold E. Eisenberg passed away suddenly from liver and pancreatic cancers in early 1999, his family and friends established a foundation in his name to fund research into GI cancers. Twenty years later, the Harold E. Eisenberg Foundation continues to fight cancer, partnering with the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern […]
The Harold E. Eisenberg Foundation will host their 12th Annual Career Day November 1st to 2nd, which kicks off at The Standard Club. The event is designed to bolster young careers, allowing students the unique opportunity to network with industry leaders, while gaining valuable exposure to the Chicago real estate world.
On October 16th, 750 people, largely from Chicago’s esteemed commercial real estate industry, gathered at the the Hilton Chicago for the Harold E. Eisenberg Foundation’s 20th Annual Dinner. The event raised a record-breaking $560,000 to benefit the foundation’s two-pronged mission of funding gastrointestinal (GI) cancer research and advancing real estate education.
Read about the Foundation’s Junior Board and how they are raising money and spreading awareness for GI Cancer Research!