Awards:
Mission Impact Award from Eastern Illinois Foodbank, 2017
Entrepreneurial Excellence Management Award from Champaign County Innovation Celebration, 2017
Illinois Parks’ Top Journalist Award, Illinois Association of Park Districts (IAPD), 2016
Difference Maker Award from the United Way of Champaign County, 2013
Program Excellence Award, Champaign Park District, 2012
Nominee for the Innovation Celebration Social Entrepreneurship Award, 2011
Named Most Knowledgeable in the News-Gazette’s 2010 “CUTweetoff” for our Twitter account, @chambanamoms.
Amy Hatch and Laura Weisskopf Bleill named “Outstanding Women You Should Know” at the 2011 Working Women’s Expo.
Press (sampling):
The WCIA Morning Show: chambanamoms.com on the WCIA Morning Show with Anne Dill on Nov. 19, 2009.
The News-Gazette, Jan. 5, 2010. (article not online)
“Professional Blogging for Dummies”
Smile Politely, Jan. 20, 2010. “It takes a village“
Holstein & Company: The chambanamoms visit the set of WIXY 100.3 FM’s morning show on March 1, 2010.
WICD TV: Happy birthday chambanamoms.com! Nov. 14, 2010
WICD TV: Laura Weisskopf Bleill interviewed about the Unit 4 Superintendent Search, May 13, 2011
WICD TV: Happy Third Birthday, chambanamoms! Nov. 2012
UI7 News: Chambana Moms “Supermom.” Nov. 2013