Funders to approach for Great Vest Side Club of Chicago

Membership in the Great Vest Side Club of Chicago ("gsv") is open to the public of the people who were born between approximately 1922 and 1942 and grew up on the west side of chicago, particularly, lawndale. Gvs derives its revenues from banquets sponsored twice a year that is attended by its members and on occasion other invitees for the purpose of raising money for the various approved 501(c)(3) charities. The board of dirctrors consider and approve all gifts to charities. However, the principal beneficiary of these gifts has been and will continue to be the "american friends of magen david adom or "armda". Armda is an approved 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which serves as the state of israel's emergency medical, disaster, ambulande, blood and healthcare network. Gifts to armda by the gvs has been used primarily to fund the purchases of ambulances for use in israel. Other approved 501(c)(3) organizations that have received gifts from the gvs include [1] israel cancer research fund, [2] israel tennis foundation, [3] weta public television, [4] lukemia research, [5] felicia kaplan memorial foundation, and [6] american committee for share zedek medical center in jerusalem primarily to purchase dialysis machines for use in its pediatric dialysis department. All gvs activities are conducted in the chicago metropolitan area and its suburbs. All of the time of the gvs is allocated or devoted to its charitable purposes and its sole source of funding are the semi-annual banquets. All directors and officers are volunteers and serve without any remuneration or…