Fundraising

The Junior Board organizes three annual events to raise funds for Rush University Medical Center: a fall car wash, a holiday tea, and a spring fashion show. In 2025, the Junior Board raised over $80,000 for Rush University Medical Center.  These funds were appropriated by the Junior Board to the following Rush initiatives: RU Caring, Haymarket, Pathway Programs, Access Clinics, RNBC Executive Function Skills Building Initiative, Veteran's Committee IMB Guest House, KidsSHIP, Reach Out and Read and One Box Food Pantry. To highlight a few, the RJB fundraising goes to programs that provide many services to the community such as combating food insecurity by feeding a family with 15 pounds of fresh, wholesome food; providing medical care to children and youth living in homeless shelters in the Chicago area; helping to fund the city wide health fair that RJB participates in; providing baby formula for mothers in treatment programs; and helping veterans.