Posts Tagged ‘chicago’
What does it take to save a failing neighborhood? A question with no definitive answer, it’s being echoed throughout the Chicago area with urgency. With crime rates skyrocketing, home foreclosures booming and record-setting population loss, community activists are left wondering how to save their city.
A recent article in RedEye, ‘Englewood: Serious Business‘ reflected on the issues one particular Chicago neighborhood faces. Most recently known as the hometown of NBA star Derrick...
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Posted by Alix Matzke | 7/22/11 10:00 AM UTC | Related: Blog | Income
Rashied Davis reads to a group of children in Pritzker Park
With education in the minds of many Chicago parents, teachers, students and citizens as the new school year approaches, a challenge to reach 100,000 good deeds came in the form of connecting art to action. This effort, known as the GO DO GOOD campaign, provides a positive way for Chicagoans to actively participate in improving education in our city.
The campaign, led by United Way of Metropolitan Chicago and the Chicago Loop Alliance, kicked...
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Posted by Alix Matzke | 7/19/11 8:58 AM UTC | Related: Blog
The following blog is posted on behalf of Esther Hicks, Director of Community Investment at United Way DuPage/West Cook.
We always say that you have the most impact when you give, advocate AND volunteer. Over my past three years with United Way, I have definitely found this to be true. I recently finished a two-year tutoring experience with an adult English language learner in my community, and it was literally nothing short of life-changing. I know that the main point of tutoring or mentoring...
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Posted by Alix Matzke | 7/18/11 11:40 AM UTC | Related: Blog | Dupage/West Cook | Education | Volunteer
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago and the Chicago Loop Alliance are connecting ART to ACTION with a summer-wide initiative aimed at helping kids succeed in school. Through Kay Rosen’s art GO DO GOOD the initiative will bring awareness to issues plaguing Chicagoland’s education system and encourage people to do GOOD deeds to help our kids succeed.
The goal? 100,000 acts of GOOD. Each month throughout the summer will focus on important piece of a quality education. June is focused on literacy,...
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Posted by Alix Matzke | 5/24/11 7:45 AM UTC | Related: Blog
True Value Volunteers Interact with Children at Hephzibah
In celebration of volunteerism, United Way created Week of Caring, 7 days dedicated to helping connect volunteers with projects throughout Chicago and the surrounding suburbs. Making its return for a second year, United Way’s Week of Caring 2011 enlisted the help of more than 200 Chicagoans between April 10 and 16. Throughout the week, participants from 20 corporations assisted 19 agencies on a variety of projects, including packaging...
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Posted by Alix Matzke | 5/11/11 10:05 AM UTC | Related: Blog
For decades, Chicago’s infamous Cabrini-Green public housing projects had been collecting the city’s struggling populations into one central location that was synonymous with drugs, gangs, and murder. Something needed to be done. In response, the City of Chicago developed the Plan for Transformation, a 15-year project aimed at breaking the poverty cycle where thousands of these low-income residents were moved out of the projects and into healthier, safer living environments.
According to a study...
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Posted by Beth Esler | 3/4/11 11:14 AM UTC | Related: Blog | Dupage/West Cook
