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Abby Enck, 10
Philanthropist
Crystal Lake’s Abby Enck has spent a lot of time at Park Ridge’s Advocate Lutheran General Children’s Hospital, where her younger brother has been treated for cerebral palsy. In 2009, she noticed that most of the hospital’s crayons were broken. After a friend asked her to help create a lemonade stand, Enck used her share of the proceeds to buy 36 boxes of crayons for the hospital’s Child Life Program. “It felt good,” Abby says of her first charitable effort. So she upped the stakes. In 2010 she sold lemonade kits (lemonade mix with bottles of water), raising $551 for 1,009 boxes of crayons (plus markers and colored pencils) for Lutheran General patients. Once the hospital was fully stocked with crayons, she asked what else it needed. In 2011, she created a Jiffy Pop “popcorn kit” to raise funds—$1,014 in total—for new DVDs, microwave popcorn and candy for movie nights, which Abby attended. (They watched Despicable Me.)

Abby plans to continue fund-raising. This year, she’s selling personalized sand buckets to raise funds for a pediatric outdoor patio. (Her parents pay her annual start-up costs so that 100 percent of her proceeds go to the hospital.) And her philanthropic bug is spreading. “Some friends who live near me did a lemonade stand and bought Play-Doh because the hospital ran out. [Another] friend collected food for a food pantry.” Her advice for others wanting to do some good: “Everyone can make a difference. It does not take much to help.”—Margaret Littman

 

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