Community Service

Teddie Kossof is a "corporate player" in the community, helping local businesses find innovative ways to help area youth.

Hot Dog and Hamburger Sale to Benefit Youth Services of Glenview/Northbrook

Friday & Saturday - June 26 & 27, 2009

Get ready to make a difference while stocking up on barbeque essentials. Vienna Beef will team up with Teddie Kossof Salon for the Vienna Beef Tent Sale to benefit Youth Services of Glenview/Northbrook (www.youthservices-gn.org).

“Fourth of July and backyard summer celebrations will not be complete without these grilling ingredients.”

The sale will be held on Friday, June 26, 2009 and Saturday, June 27, 2009 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the parking lot of Teddie Kossof Salon at 281 Waukegan Road, Northfield, IL 60093. Items for sale include the same products served at Chicago hot dog stands and restaurants, including franks, jumbo franks, polish sausage, hamburgers, bagel dogs and Chicago-style condiment kits. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Youth Services.

“Fourth of July and backyard summer celebrations will not be complete without these grilling ingredients,” said Howard Eirinberg, president of Vienna Beef. “This sale allows Chicagoans to purchase tasty barbeque items at a great price and help a worthy organization at the same time.”

Youth Services of Glenview/Northbrook is a not-for-profit social service agency devoted to the mental health, character development and physical well-being of children and families in the community. Each year over 3,500 local children and their parents take advantage of an enormous scope of vital programs that include: Crisis Intervention and Violence Prevention, Individual and Family Counseling, Outreach Programs for Youth-At-Risk, and Mentoring for Children and Parents.

Youth Services of Glenview/Northbrook is located at 3100 W. Lake Ave., in Glenview, Ill. For more information, visit www.youthservices-gn.org, or call (847) 724-2620.

Business Help Sought for Youth Services Kids

February 5, 1998 • Pioneer Press

If you have a business and a heart, you can do something to help out area youths.

That’s the message Teddie Kossof, owner of the Northfield Teddie Kossof Salon and Spa and chairman of the new Youth Services of Glenview/Northbrook’s Business Leaders’ Children’s Fund has sent to area businesses.

“Without giving, there’s no getting,” said Kossof. “I know that for sure.”

Kossof gives haircuts to kids who need them for free, and figures other business people can provide such in-kind gifts as well.

Recently, he’s written local business leaders to ask their firms to sign up to be a “corporate player” for Youth Services, with donations that range from $300 to a $1,000 “MVP” donation.

The funds are being sought to “establish a fund that will provide children” who are Youth Services clients “ with those ‘extras’ we and our children take for granted.”

Cash gifts from business people can provide a host of possibilities: library cards for kids in unincorporated areas of Cook County who cannot afford the hundreds of dollars out-of-district-cards cost; cribs for infants whose parents can’t afford them; transportation to after-school activities for children whose only parent has to work in the afternoons.

A relatively new program of Glenview/Northbrook Youth Services is a relatively new boys’ club for youngsters from Glenview’s Sunset Mobile Home Park. “Some of them for sure” would benefit from a little financial help from local businesses, said the agency’s Executive Director Nancy Bloom. “A lot of these kids have very little, especially in comparison to the rest of the community they’re in.”

“Without giving, there’s no getting,” said Kossof. “I know that for sure.”