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Mayor Emanuel’s Neighborhood Opportunity Fund Is Open For Applications!
- Aug 11, 2017
The Neighborhood Opportunity Fund is a new grant to help strengthen our commercial corridors on Chicago's South, Southwest and West Sides. The NOF grant cycle is will open in the fall.
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Ride a Trolley, Sip a Cocktail, Change a Neighborhood
- Reposted from the Urban Landlady, Aug 10, 2017
In a double decker bus on a gorgeous day, the only place to ride is in the top.
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The Changing Face of Auburn Gresham: How Façade Enhancements Energize Neighborhoods.
- Ian Grant-Funck, Aug 2, 2017
Artful changes inspire local hope and pride.
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Constructing Communities: The SARFS Program at the GAGDC
- Ian Grant-Funck, Jul 26, 2017
What's good for our seniors is good for all of us.
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Charting the Course for a New Way to Employ Youth
- Ian Grant-Funck, Jul 19, 2017
A Special Report on an Imporant Partner Program.
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Healthy Lifestyle Building Hub Coming To South Side
- Reprinted from The Citizen News, By Christopher Shuttlesworth, Jul 5, 2017
The Build on 79th Street Jazz & Champagne Reception was an opportunity to purchase a commemorative engraved plated brick that will be permanently affixed to the atrium of the Auburn Gresham Healthy LifeStyle redevelopment project. You can purchase your piece of the hub by calling GAGDC office at 773.483.3696.
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MAPSCorps 2017 Cohort Preparing to Capture #DATA4GOOD
- Norma Sanders, Jul 5, 2017
MAPCorps 2017, youth data scientists begin their first day of work for the Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporation! Here's looking to a great summer of capturing data for health of the community.
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Startups Get Help at Legal Clinic Brunch
- Reprinted from the Citizen News, By Christopher Shuttlesworth, Jun 28, 2017
The Greater Auburn-Gresham Development Corporation (GAGDC) along with The Law Project and other developers hosted a Legal Community Clinic Brunch last week at Pleasant Green Missionary Baptist Church, located on 7545 S. Vincennes, to help small business owners set up their businesses appropriately and legally. Other services and resources that were provided for small business owners included information on business loans, grant opportunities and financial projections.
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The Law Project Changes Its Name!
- Jody Adler, Jun 26, 2017
For more than 30 years, The Law Project was known - first as the Community Economic Development Law Project, and then as The Law Project. Today, they are excited to announce that our new name is the Community Law Project.
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12th Annual 79th Street Renaissance Festival SAVE THE DATE!
- Jun 13, 2017
SAVE THE DATE for the 12th Annual 79th Street Renaissance Festival, coming to you this year for two days, September 9th and September 10th!
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The Racial Wealth Gap | Chicago
- Reprinted from Streetwise By: Suzanne Hanney June 9, 2017, Jun 13, 2017
Black Lives Matter focuses on social justice disparities, but economic disparities can be just as destructive, says a Washington D.C. think tank that is working with JPMorgan Chase & Co., Georgetown University, five Chicago nonprofits, and others across the U.S.
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Perspectives on PEACE
- Jun 2, 2017
Join Perspectives Charter School tomorrow, June 2nd, 9:00am, as we march for peace in the 4th Annual Perspectives Peace March!
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Auburn Gresham Building Gets New Life to Promote Health!
- Reprinted from Chicago Defenders, Shari Noland, Defender Executive Editor, Jun 1, 2017
Can one iconic building along a key commerical cooridor lead the way to improve the health of a neighborhood? Community leaders and organizations in Auburn Gresham are progressing on a transformative plan to bring living wage jobs to a building anchored by a state of art health facility, to make it so....
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Study Calls on Impact Investors to Close Educational Attainment Gaps
- Philanthropy News Digest, June 1, 2017, Jun 1, 2017
Innovative impact investments are needed to address gaps in higher education attainment for low-income students, a report commissioned by the Kresge and Lumina foundations argues.