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Ron Kaplan’s CityPak Surpasses 76,000 Backpacks Distributed to Homeless Individuals Degen Pener Agent and CityPak founder Ron Kaplan
Ron Kaplan, the veteran music agent who recently joined ICM Partners’ music department, was struck years ago by how remote philanthropy sometimes can feel from its impact on individuals. Kaplan ran his family’s foundation and the work mainly involved writing checks of donations at the end of each year. “It felt really disconnected,” Kaplan tells
The Hollywood Reporter. “I said, ‘I want to focus on one thing and do it well.’”
So Kaplan a one-time bass player who grew up in Chicago and spent most of his career there before moving to Los Angeles in 2018 started visiting homeless organizations including the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless. “I realized there was a consistent pattern. These shelters would give food, clothing, temporary bedding and other essentials, but they would never have anything to put
“I never thought I would run for public office.”
Rep. Andy Kim, AB’04, was explaining how he unexpectedly found himself becoming a member of Congress. It was early February, and the University of Chicago alum was holding a virtual meeting with students in the Law and Politics Cohort a specialized track of the College’s Careers in Law program for undergraduates interested in pursuing law and public service.
Kim had already found meaning in his prior career as a diplomat and national security official. After graduating from UChicago in 2004, he studied international relations at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and Truman Scholar, joined the State Department as a foreign service officer, served as an adviser to military leaders in Afghanistan, and worked in the White House National Security Council.
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The city is bracing itself for extreme weather, with the temperature predicted to drop into negative digits for a number of days. During cold snaps like this, many eyes turn toward our unhoused neighbors. This year, homelessness is a crisis within a crisis the pandemic and it has people and institutions pivoting to add resources to protect people experiencing homelessness from this life-threatening cold, as it should. But when the cold abates and shifts back to more moderate winter temperatures, those resources will recede, and success will be measured by how few people were physically harmed rather than how many people are no longer homeless.