A Pint For Kim
We have only grown through the incredible support of our community, and that is why we started finding ways to give back!
We have done this through sponsoring organizations (like Naperville Little League!), sponsoring neighborhoods (like Huntington and Saybrook!), sponsoring all of the various Naperville North Boosters events (trivia, golf, fashion show, football parking permits!) as a thank you to the school for hosting our event, sponsoring other charities that fit with our mission (Pierce Foundation!), sponsoring events held by other organizations (like Walk for Charlie!), creating raffle prizes for as many fundraisers as we can (like Gail Neirmeyer’s Walk in the Woods), donating t-shirts to the sports teams Kim’s boys played on (football and water polo), providing pink socks to all football players for Breast Cancer Awareness month, donating to numerous fundraisers (like Polar Plunge!), and so much more!
How do we do this? Because A Pint For Kim is a 100% volunteer organization that does not fundraise throughout the year, any sponsorship money we get for the annual May event that is not spent on the day goes right back to the community in these ways!!
Also, instead of traditional advertising purchases, we choose to sponsor other organizations as a way to spread the “A Pint For Kim” name – our win-win marketing approach!
When we can’t support financially, we also use our platform to help spread information about other important causes!
At our 7th Annual APFK Blood Drive & Festival, we launched another way to give back: we will gave out two $1,000 scholarships to high school senior blood donors!
One went to a graduating senior blood donor from NNHS and the other went to a graduating senior blood donor from any high school.
At our 2027 8th Annual event, we will be adding a third scholarship opportunity, just for Naperville Central students, to show that though our cross town rivalry may be strong, Huskies and Redhawks come together when it comes to saving lives!
Additionally, APFK has started to help other families create annual blood drives for loved ones they have lost too soon.
The first of these blood drives was held in June 2026 in Los Angeles.
You can read more about that movement by CLICKING HERE.
In September 2026, The Chicago Tribune published an article about rising food insecurity in Illinois. The APFK team mobilized to launch the first APFK Food Drive.
Over 25 families across all of Naperville volunteered to be drop-off locations October 2-4 (NNHS Homecoming Weekend and Kim’s Birthday). The food will be picked up on October 5 and distributed to food banks in this area.
To participate in the October 2026 food drive or to learn about upcoming food drives, CLICK HERE.
After Kim passed away in March 2020, her sisters found her journal on her nightstand. These words were written on the very first page, showing that even in the midst of so much hardship, Kim still focused on how to help others. A Pint For Kim’s desire to be more than a blood drive is inspired by the way that Kim lived her life until the very end.
