OUR HISTORY
2021
January 2021
Lorenzo's House launches

- Lorenzo’s House is launched
- Board of Directors is established
- Innovation, Medical, & Science Advisors are established
- Joined, MATTER, Chicago’s innovation hub for healthcare startups
- Started connecting w/ care partners (spouses and youth)
February 2021

- Started building relationships w/ experts in the memory care industry
- Appointed our 1st Chief-of-Joy
March 2021

- Created and assembled a design team for Lorenzo’s Camp
- Filed and approved as an official Corporate entity
April 2021

- Launched the Lorenzo’s House website and developed brand guide
- Solidified early partners & collaborators
- Launched our comprehensive social media strategy and platforms
May 2021
- Hired our 1st staff member
June 2021

- Hosted Lorenzo’s Camp -- our inaugural camp for youth w/ a parent living w/ YOAD -- turning “The Longest Day” into “The Brightest Day”
- Invited to speak on the Lori La Bey podcast: Alzheimer’s Speaks
July 2021
- First media hit: ABC7
- The Board of Directors’ have strategic planning retreat at MATTER.
- Youth Camp parents Gathered to discuss support group for caregivers w/ kids
- Guest speaker on Social Entrepreneurship & Healthy Equity at RUSH University
August 2021

- Maude’s Ventures awards $50k to design Lorenzo’s Angels
- Held a youth focus group to design our Light Club, a youth carepartner support club
September 2021

- Launched our first ever fundraising campaign: 100 Days of Lights
- First ever Light Club, our youth care partner support group
October 2021

- Submitted for the Morgan Stanley Multicultural Innovation Lab Accelerator
- Prepared and promoted first ever Young Professionals event: 10+ cities across the globe
- Submitted an abstract to Alzheimer’s Disease International to present on our innovative youth and angels initiatives
- Submitted grant to the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (AFA) for Lorenzo’s Angels
November 2021

- A gift of $1 million made by an anonymous donor
- Hosted our first Young Professionals event: Turn on the Light for Lorenzo’s House
December 2021
End of Our 1st Year

- Evening of the Lights: A night together to celebrate progress, show gratitude, and spotlight our work
- A gift of $50k made by the Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation
2022
January 2022

- Bright Brunch virtual healing space for women carepartner spouses
March 2022

- Launched our Young Professionals board
April 2022
- Outreach specialist joined the team
- Began International outreach strategy
May 2022

- Memory Academy beginning of research and discovery phase
- Premiere of Shifting the Narrative: The Story of Lorenzo’s House
- Media hit (Better.net)
June 2022

- Media hit (American Alliance of Museums)
- Presents at 35th @alzdisint Alzheimer's Disease International Global Conference
- Lorenzo's House toured Hogeweyk
- 1st Annual Family Night in Chicago
- 2nd Annual Youth Summit
- Presented at the Activities Strong Virtual Summit 2022
- Launched our Summer Series of Mindful Movement, a series of weekly movement and meditation sessions led over Zoom by Deb Wineman
July 2022
- Launched in-person Music, Movement & Memory with Old Town School of Folk Music
- Launched Light Lounge- virtual healing space for male carepartner spouses
- Spoke at the Advisory Council on Alzheimer's Research, Care and Research on behalf of families walking a younger-onset Alzheimer's dementias diagnosis.
- Focus groups for Carepartner Companions
August 2022

- Presents at Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, San Diego
September 2022

- Launched 2nd Annual ‘100 Days of Light’ campaign
- Presents at Dementia Action Alliance Conference, Indianapolis
November 2022

- Young Professionals - 2nd Annual ‘Turn on the Lights’ event
- Launched ‘Be The Spark’ campaign - Young Professional Chapters worldwide
December 2022

- 2nd Annual ‘Evening of the Lights’: A night together to celebrate progress, show gratitude, and spotlight our work
- Partner with MATTER - Shifting the Narrative film screening and panel discussion
New 2022 partnerships and allies

- UsAgainstAlzheimers
- Life Molecular Imaging
- Brave New Outpost
- The Naples Players Theater
Help Lorenzo’s House Shine Bright!