2024 RED JACKET OPTIONAL SPONSORS

Red Jacket Optional is essential to making Uniting Voices Chicago’s life-changing programs accessible. Every year, we connect thousands of diverse youth across Chicago through high-quality music education. Your investment empowers our students to make a lasting impact both at home and around the globe.


Fortissimo ($60,000)

ROSE & BOB FEALY

JACQUELINE GRIESDORN, KEVIN MATZKE & CLARIUS PARTNERS, LLC 

THE HATHERLY
FAMILY

DAVID & LESLY KOO


Forte ($30,000)

ELLEN-BLAIR CHUBE

DAMICO FAMILY FOUNDATION

Michael & Meeghan Nemeroff And

Matt & Carrie
PArr And

MRIDU & CHANDRA SEKHAR


Mezzo Piano ($15,000)

himal agarwal & Shimul Lahoti and

ANONYMOUS

TIM CALKINS &
CAROL SALTOUN

CAROLINE &
ADAM DETTMAN

SUZANNE EL-MOURSI & DR. BASSEL ERICSOUSSI

J.S. FRANK
FOUNDATION

KALA & MIKE
MOYNIHAN

RAHUL SEKHAR & LAUREN JOHNSON SEKHAR

DENEESE WALIA LEVIN & MATTHEW LEVIN


Pianissimo ($10,000)

Ariel Investments

Patrick & Ruth Boehmer

Capital One Healthcare

Heiji Choy Black & Brian Black

Craig & Co. | Joan Craig & Peter Ruggiero

Egwele & Company | Brian & Amber Egwele

Cornelia Grumman & James Warren

Jeff & Laura Haxer

Douglas A. Hirsch & Holly S. Anderson Family Foundation

J.P. Morgan Private Bank | Lilla & Morrie Bossen

Nora Jaskowiak & Matthew Hinerfeld

Erin & Peter Lane

Latham & Watkins | Ebba Gebisa & Euler Bropleh

Ann Marie Lipinski & Steve Kagan

McCormick Foundation

Donielle & Michael McCutcheon

Stephanie & Neil Murray

Oil-Dri Corporation of America

Diane & Jim Pearse

Peoples Gas Community Fund

Renee & John Salomon

Joe & Jennifer Shanahan

Kanwar & Avanti Singh

Laura & Scott Stern | First Unitarian Church of Chicago

Crista Sumanik & Chris Pemberton

Jamie & Brian Vandenberg

Ron & Patty Weiss

Dr. Steven Won & Dr. Rosemary Bush

Wynnchurch Capital


Sotto Voce ($7,500)

Accordion | Melissa Kibler & Vince Lazar

Erin & Dan Brown

Toby Herr

Suzanne Muchin & David Brown

SLOAN


Event Partners