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Jim Elliott

Jim Elliott left a successful career in the media business with the Tribune company to start the Downers Grove-based nonprofit Diveheart in 2001 to help individuals with disabilities through adaptive scuba and scuba therapy. For more info, visit www.diveheart.org.

Diveheart: Stories From the Heart – Award Winning Documentary Changed My Life

In December 2021, I had no idea the documentary Adapting to Dive that film maker David Marsh was making about Diveheart would be an...

Diveheart: Stories from the Heart – The power of water and zero gravity

I’ll never forget when I was inspired to start the nonprofit Diveheart to help children, veterans and others with disabilities through adaptive scuba and...

Diveheart: Stories from the Heart – Robinhood… Watch Out.

Ron Rispoli, recreational therapist Diveheart board member and right arm amputee won’t let anything hold him back. He shares that philosophy with his students...

Diveheart: Stories from the Heart – Patent Pending

I never thought that I’d be a patent holder, but believe it or not Diveheart, the pioneering nonprofit organization that I founded in 2001,...

Diveheart: Stories from the Heart – ‘Adapting to Dive’

For many of us, walking is an ability we often take for granted. For others, like Barbara Mabbs from Aurora, the opportunity to be...

Diveheart: Stories From the Heart – Dedication, service and leadership

Service above self is how I try to live my life and with the help of great service organizations like the Naperville Lions Club,...

Diveheart: Stories from the Heart – Moving beyond Naperville’s high school pools

For years Diveheart has been collaborating with several high schools that serve students in Indian Prairie School District, conducting programs at Waubonsie, Metea and...

Diveheart: Stories from the – Heart Challenge by Choice

I first met Marine Corps Veteran and Naperville Police Officer Steve Woodham through the Aurora Veterans Center in the spring of 2017. Diveheart was...

Diveheart: Stories from the Heart – Diving on the autism spectrum

I met Kristina Jacobson years ago at one of our Diveheart Scuba Experience programs. I discovered that she was born in Russia and adopted...

Diveheart: Stories from the Heart – Naperville’s roll in growing scuba therapy began in 2001

Between the Naperville Rotary clubs, Chamber of Commerce, local businesses and friends, Diveheart has received amazing friendship and support from the Naperville community since 2001. If...