News, updates, and insights into the work of the Vistex Foundation and our non-profit partners throughout the world.
Glen Ellyn Childrens Resource Center
The Glen Ellyn Children’s Resource Center (GECRC) provides free after-school and summer programs to children in Glen Ellyn’s elementary school districts. Their students come from low-income, immigrant, and refugee families and the organization teaches them academic and life skills to help them move successfully through grades K-12. Without this program, the achievement gap between low-income students and their non-low-income peers...
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Wellbody Clinic/Partners in Health
For 5 years, The Vistex Foundation has supported the Wellbody Delivery Center in Kono, Sierra Leone, providing grants for maternal health and deliver facilities and for community health worker training. In 2015, the Wellbody clinic became a partner of Partners in Health (PIH), a global health organization with a reputation for long-term commitments to countries in dire need. Our ongoing...
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Mission for Vision
A priority for Vistex Foundation is identifying those most in need throughout the world—particularly in places where aid is hard to come by—and providing access to critical services that can be life-changing. Working with Mission for Vision, we identified just such an opportunity in Khliehriat, an impoverished community in the Meghalaya state of India. A tremendous lack of access to...
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Learning To Fail – ABC7 News
Sanjay Shah and the Vistex Foundation have been vocal supporters of STEAM learning, early childhood education, and creative thinking. In September of 2017, Sanjay, along with a panel that included Connie L. Lindsey, VP and Head of Corporate Social Responsibility at Northern Trust, Ryan Kunkel, CEO at Red Frog Events, Mark Magnesen, CEO at Matt’s Cookies, and several other industry...
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Foundation for Children in Need
In 2017, with the help of a grant from the Vistex Foundation, Foundation for Children in Need (FCN) successfully coordinated their third year of cleft-lip and cleft-palette surgeries in collaboration with Smile Network International and Santhiram Hospital of Nandyal, Kurnool, India. With help from a team of 25 doctors and volunteers, 72 children have benefitted from the life-changing surgeries. Dr....
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DuPage Children’s Museum
As part of our effort to eliminate barriers to success, The Vistex Foundation supports programs that open up learning opportunities to those who may miss out due to financial constraints. The DuPage Children’s Museum provides a wide array of fun, engaging learning experiences for children throughout the suburban Chicago region, and when we asked them how we can bring in...
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ALDEA Water Well, Xepatán, Guatemala
In the past year, the Vistex Foundation began looking for opportunities to help those in need in Central America. Seeking an opportunity to provide drinking water for a community, we established a partnership with ALDEA (formerly the Behrhorst Partners for Development), and developed a plan to build a water well in rural Guatemala. Battling with the forces of nature, construction...
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Mentors International, Honduras and El Salvador
70 new jobs, 137 families helped and over 600 individuals positively impacted The Vistex Foundation awarded a grant to Mentors International, in support of their work in Honduras and El Salvador providing small loans to entrepreneurs who would otherwise have no access to capital. Each loan helps provide training on business and life skills, ensuring that entrepreneurs in developing countries...
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Medical Teams International, Community Health Program, Crochu, Haiti
Five years after a devastating earthquake, Haitians are still struggling to rebuild. In Crochu, Haiti, the Vistex Foundation is partnering with Medical Teams International to fund programs focused on improving community health. The Healthy Children & Safe Motherhood Program ensures babies receive vital immunizations and monthly health checks, children are properly educated about sanitation practices, and rural health systems have...
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Wellbody Hospital Kono, Sierra Leone
The Vistex Foundation first partnered with the Wellbody Alliance in January 2014, funding a women’s health clinic and prenatal services training program in Kono District, Sierra Leone. The Ebola outbreak last summer forced the health center to make significant adjustments to their initial project plans in order to address the pressing and critical health challenge. They ultimately were successful. The...
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New Moms, Inc.
New Moms Inc. supports the livelihood of impoverished adolescent parents and their children, improving their chance for success in life, school and work through their focus on health and birth outcomes. Today, it provides housing and supportive services for 40 homeless families, delivers home-based parent education and mentoring sessions, and offers individualized career planning through the Academy program. By working...
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