We created the Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Foundation to help us provide necessary resources to bring advances in medicine to our community. It was formed to maintain a continuous development program to raise funds and awareness of the world-class level of our services and research at all three hospitals: Evanston, Glenbrook and Highland Park. But as reimbursements continue to fall, and the costs of salaries, benefits, supplies and malpractice insurance continue to rise, philanthropic support has become even more important. We are gratified to have the level of community support that we have enjoyed for more than 100 years, but it\'s become clear that we need to broaden our base of support.