Honoring The Twin Orchard Country Club Team
Little City is thrilled to present Gavin Speirs and the Twin Orchard Country Club team with this year’s Morrie Kellman Humanitarian Award.
June 8, 2023

Little City is thrilled to present Gavin Speirs and the Twin Orchard Country Club team with this year’s Morrie Kellman Humanitarian Award.
For more than 60 years, the Little City Invitational has been a flagship event for Little City, raising millions of dollars for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities over the decades. The annual event has become one of Chicagoland’s longest running charity golf outings and continues to grow and thrive in no small part to the commitment and dedication of Gavin Speirs and his team.
Gavin, the general manager and chief operating officer of Twin Orchard Country Club in Long Grove, has made his golf course and country club the perfect home for the Little City Invitational over the years, creating a perfect environment for people to gather for a day of golfing, networking and connecting with Little City and its mission. The event has become one of Little City’s most crucial and successful days of fundraising and has introduced countless new donors and supporters to Little City.
Gavin’s incredible passion for Little City goes beyond hosting the LCI as he has personally made life-changing differences for those we serve. Gavin spearheaded a Culinary and Kitchen Arts Program that gave adults at Little City hands-on training and classroom experience to learn about the skills needed to find community-based employment in kitchen settings.
The program made a life-changing difference for multiple participants like Kevin, who has worked for years at Lou Malnati’s thanks to the program’s training, and Howard, who now works at the Cheesecake Factory after having worked multiple years at Twin Orchard Country Club after impressing in the program.
The legacy of the program continues on at Little City after Gavin helped inspire the Greater Chicago Club Managers Association to make a substantial donation to Little City that allowed the kitchen at the Center to be transformed into a space where continuous learning and skill development happens every day for participants.
To say Gavin and the Twin Orchard Team has gone above-and-beyond for Little City would be an understatement. Their years of commitment and dedication to supporting Little City’s mission and helping our agency grow through events like the LCI is unprecedented. We truly would not be where we are today without Twin Orchard’s incredible impact.