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Make Fast Fashion Transparent Now!

Chicago, Illinois
We would like to solve the issue of fast fashion and how it hurts the environment. We can help reduce this problem by generally educating others and increasing awareness of our issue. We have designed a clothing tag that will inform the public abo...
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Preservation Oak Park

This group is devoted to education about the built environment in Oak Park, Illinois. It celebrates the community's rich architectural and planning heritage and the many ways it has been preserved and restored. Photos, stories and commentary about...

Small Business Program(s)

Peoria, Illinois
Undertake a Small Business Needs Assessment and use the results to develop a targeted Small Business Program to provide business training, educational events, and coaching to empower small business owners and entrepreneurs to grow existing and new...
business-education economic-opportunity small-business entrepreneurship

Ensure Safer Routes to School

Columbus, Ohio
In Ohio's urban school districts, one in 446 students has been hit by a car. In suburban districts, it's one in 1,473. Because schools are often located at the center of communities, safety improvements benefit people of all ages by slowing tra...
forge-ahead

Expand educational workshops and opportunities for parents in CPS

Chicago, Illinois
Examples: Parent mentor and parent university programs Project lead | Partners: CPS | Community First Medical Center, Libraries, Onward Neighborhood House, NWSHC Project Timeframe: Short-term
schools jobs

Provide counseling, education, and training to renters

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: SCH, NWSHC | City of Chicago, Community Investment Corporation (CIC), National Council of La Raza, Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) Project Timeframe: Short-term"
housing building

Expand health care education efforts in Belmont Cragin

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: Patient Innovation Center | PrimeCare Community Health, Community First Medical Center Project Timeframe: Short-term
health

Simpson Academy for Young Women

Chicago, Illinois
Simpson Academy for Young Women is the only fully-accredited Chicago Public School devoted to educating pregnant and parenting teens. The model for Simpson Academy has evolved this year, but our purpose remains the same: to provide a quality e...

Bike Walk Oak Park

Chicago, Illinois
We advocate for the fair and safe use of friendly streets by all our neighbors who walk, roll, ride and drive Bike Walk Oak Park advocates on behalf of all Oak Park residents to ensure the safety and accessibility of pedestrian and cycling infr...

Support the Bilingual Peer Connect of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois
High school students would like to create a mentorship program for English as a Second Language (ESL) students. Newly enrolled elementary ESL students would be matched with a CPS high school students with a similar background, home language, and i...
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More Assistance for Those Suffering from Mental Illness

Buffalo Grove, Illinois
This is has two changes that go hand in hand and need to be changed. I believe the first step is education. Education not only for the residents, but almost more importantly, our first responders. In addition to providing people with ACCURATE, ...

Chicago Academy of Sciences and its Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum

Chicago, Illinois
The Chicago Academy of Sciences was founded in 1857 as Chicago’s first museum dedicated to educating Chicagoans about nature and science through the preservation and display of native specimens, classroom activities, and dissemination of scientifi...

Lindblom Executive Boulevard Team

Chicago, Illinois
This project will beautify, educate, and bring members of the community together at the boulevards.

Develop a Financial Literacy Tutoring Program

Chicago, Illinois
Develop a tutoring program where CPS high school students can provide financial literacy guidance to Chicago middle school students.
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Education

Chicago, Illinois
the things that are changing is the education of children .
land-use public-space preservation schools

Add a street mural to Augusta & Harvey to make drivers more aware

Oak Park, Illinois
When a driver sees artwork on the roadway, it will make them more aware of their surroundings, focusing on where they are, not just where they are going. This increases the likelihood that conflicts with pedestrians and bicyclists are avoided. The...
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Feeding the Community the Healthy Way

Chicago, Illinois
Educating the Community about Growing and Eating Naturally Grown Foods
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Increase education and training programs and resources for parents

Chicago, Illinois
Education is not only for youth. Our community needs increased access to ESL classes, GED classes, educational workshops, and technical training/bridge programs for adults, which we will achieve by building partnerships between local community org...

The Hanging Gardens of Wabash

Chicago, Illinois
Not that the structure of the El isn't beautiful, but we can see it all over town. Wabash can be special by concealing it with a diverse array of living greenery. Sustainable, educational, and the next Wonder of the Modern World.
transforming-wabash

Increase outreach & education to LGBTQ & Latina/o community regarding Affordable Care Act

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: HAS IPC Project Timeframe: Mid-term
health

Gather Usable Data on Social Determinants of Health

Peoria, Illinois
The conditions into which people are born, grow, and age are widely regarded as playing a fundamental role in our health and well-being. Yet, there is an insufficient level of collaboration or monitoring of social determinants and health outcomes....
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Create a Pullman Tech Hub

Chicago, Illinois
The creation of a tech hub in the Pullman Porter Museum would address the digital divide in Pullman by increasing residents' access to technology and by offering education and development events, workshops, and much more.
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Increase community education on health care

Chicago, Illinois
With a diverse community comes the responsibility to widen the scope of health care outreach for residents from a variety of backgrounds and languages. By partnering with major institutions such as schools, churches and nonprofit organizations, lo...

Oak Park Public Library

Chicago, Illinois
Our community is the driver for everything we do. Our vision is to empower every voice in our community, and our mission is to share the information, services, and opportunities that fulfill Oak Park's aspirations of literacy, education, diversity...