By Whitney Woodward Special to the Tribune
Residents with dementia at Chicago's Norwood Crossing senior community will have a new therapeutic garden to tend next year, thanks to supporters who read about the program online and then made financial contributions. In about two months, the non-profit raised more than $4,600 -- nearly half the cost of the garden -- through a Web site that helps connect potential contributors with non-profit organizations."These people would read our story and were touched by what we do," said Laura Curley, the executive director of the Norwood Life Care Foundation, which supports projects at the residential community. "They wanted to see it happen." Read more>
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