The Illinois CPA Society, Chicago, hosted its ninth annual CPA Day of Service on Sept. 28, with a record total of 1,474 volunteers participating in events around the state. Volunteer activities included community gardening, packaging food for families in need, collecting books and learning materials for children, and many more.

RSM, Chicago, announced an expansion, with the PGA Tour, of the Birdies Fore Love charitable giving platform through an on-course competition over the first eight events of the 2018-19 PGA Tour season. The top three players who accumulate the most birdies (or better), beginning with the Safeway Open in Napa, California, and concluding with The RSM Classic in Sea Island, Georgia, will be awarded with $300,000, $150,000 and $50,000, respectively, for charitable donations to children- and/or family-focused charitable organizations of choice. (Read the full story.)