United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Tocqueville Society co-chairs Deborah L. DeHaas, Ray McCaskey and Pam Strobel hosted the 14th annual United Way Tocqueville Society Recognition Dinner on March 6 at the Adler Planetarium. Honored at the event were United Way Challenge Grant sponsors National City, ComEd and Blue Cross Blue Shield.

On behalf of National City, Joseph Gregoire accepted an award for the half-million dollar challenge grant, which matches dollar-for-dollar every new or increased contribution of $1,000 or more to the 2007-2008 campaign.

Ray McCaskey from BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois accepted the award for sponsoring the African American Initiative grant, matching, 2-to-1 all new and increased contributions to the African American Initiative.

Frank Clark accepted an award on behalf of ComEd for their sponsorship of the Latino Initiative Challenge Grant, which matched, 2-to-1 all new and increased contributions to the United Way Latino Initiative.