Scholarship Recipients
We are pleased to announce the following scholarship recipients thus far:
2025
- Anna Goldman– Glenbard South HS– volunteer at the Glen Ellyn Children’s Resource Center mentoring students
- Marisa Mehta – Glenbard West HS – countless hours volunteering at the Veteran’s Association (VA) Hospital as an Emergency Room Volunteer
- Matthew Price – Glenbard West HS – hundreds of hours as a volunteer at the Glen House Food Pantry
2024
- Emma Pekkarinen– Glenbard South HS– over 300 hours volunteering at the Glen Ellyn Children’s Resource Center mentoring students
- Wardah Fazil – Glenbard South HS – countless hours volunteering at Good Samaritan Hospital in the Surgical/NICU departments
2023
- Antonio Tapia – Glenbard South High School – countless hours volunteering at Giant Steps and running community needs events through his church
- Ayda Nouman – Glenbard West High School – countless hours volunteering as a tutor with multiple organizations, at the Lombard library and as a political finance intern
2022
- Naomi Friedman – Glenbard South High School – 100 hours at Lombard PADS
- Katherine Hardesty – Glenbard West High School – nearly 100 hours as the Glen Ellyn Food Pantry, Glen Ellyn Children’s Resource Center and Civic Center Environmental Commission
2021
- Arbaaz Basha – Glenbard South High School – nearly 150 volunteer hours at local food banks
- Zachary Noland – Glenbard West High School – over 200 volunteer hours at DuPage PADS
2020
- Mahvesh Arif – Glenbard South High School – nearly 80 hours organizing drives for various food/clothing distribution centers
- Brook Mezgebe – Glenbard West High School – nearly 50 volunteer hours at Rush University Lab helping conduct an organ transplantation research project
2019
- Melissa Blaber – Glenbard South High School – Organizer for Glen Ellyn Toys for Tots and Glen Ellyn Food Pantry and Brookdale Retirement Community Volunteer
- Henry Stachowiak – Glenbard West High School – Tutor and Leader of Supply Drive at the Glen Ellyn Children’s Resource Center
We know Jim would be pleased that there are so many students volunteering in the community – many at the same organizations or on the same topics that were close to his heart.
DONATE NOW to help us to keep funding these scholarships each and every year!
Community Needs
Due to your generosity over the past several years, Keep Doing Great Things has been able to make donations to these three organizations every year since 2020:
- Glen Ellyn Food Pantry
- Glen Ellyn PADS (Public Action to Distribute Shelter)
- Milton Township Food Pantry
Due to the tremendous need during the pandemic in 2020, these organizations still need our help to continue to provide essential services of emergency shelter, support, food and employment assistance on a daily basis.
We ask that you make a DONATION* today – or any day – to help us make another huge impact to those organizations so they can continue to help their clients each and every year. We would appreciate and accept any donation amount – large or small – at any time.
Thanks for your support of our mission – to encourage Glen Ellyn community volunteerism and extend Jim Rasins’ legacy of doing great things for the community by providing college scholarships and funding community-enhancing projects and events.