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HUFFINGTON
07.15.12
GREATEST PERSON
OF THE WEEK
I
wake up
grateful
and go
to bed
grateful.”
thing from me except for me to be
what I want to be.’ It was quite a
moment,” Joseph says.
“I wake up grateful and go to
bed grateful,” she added, reflecting on how the nonprofit has
changed her life.
Joseph, who has been asked
to speak before churches and local groups, said her community
has always been responsive and
proactive about helping her organization and its clients. Local
dentists provide services for all
of the clients, for instance, while
volunteers mentor the families
and business owners routinely offer their services.
“I think they like the idea that
our program really helps to change
a family’s future,” Joseph says.
“When people tell me they want
to volunteer I ask them do you
want to help a lot of people a little
or a few people a lot?”
“It takes a village,” she added.
“It may be a worn, trite phrase,
but we have quite a
village in Naperville.”
Many in the
Naperville
community
participated
in the
foundation’s
Family Fun
Walk in May.