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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.
financial-literacy tutoring education

Better K-Town

Chicago, Illinois
In k-town, we have abandoned buildings that need to be taken care of. for example, on kostner and washington. some buildings aren’t abandoned, but they are in disrepair. the building i live next to needs to be rebuilt. when people go in and out o...
regeneratechicagoneighborhoods building

Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School

Chicago, Illinois

Universal Literacy Program

Chicago, Illinois
Create a universal literacy program for students, parents and community members across all elementary schools.
develop-partnerships-and-improve-coordination

Bird-Window Collisions at Northside College Prep

Chicago, Illinois
Northside's vast glass windows pose a major threat to migratory birds as they either see vegetation reflected by the window and believe it is a continuation of their environment or they don't even notice the glass is there. Just this past fall mig...
infrastructure species-conservation school

Create a college readiness, vocational & entrepreneurial training program

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: Wilbur Wright College (WWC) | NWSHC, buildOn Project Timeframe: Short-term"
schools

Gwendolyn Brooks Prep School - EPIC Student Group I

Chicago, Illinois
Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy is a selective enrollment public high school located in the Historic Pullman District. We offer a rigorous academic program consisting of Honors, Advanced Placement, and Dual Credit course offerings. We...

Lake View High School - EPIC Student Composting Group

Lake View is an Early College Science, Technology, Engineering and Math School (ECSS), which enables students to earn both a high school diploma and college credits. Microsoft is Lakeview’s ECSS partner.

Gwendolyn Brooks Prep School - EPIC Student Group G

Chicago, Illinois
Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy is a selective enrollment public high school located in the Historic Pullman District. We offer a rigorous academic program consisting of Honors, Advanced Placement, and Dual Credit course offerings. We...

Gwendolyn Brooks Prep School

Chicago, Illinois
Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy is a selective enrollment public high school located in the Historic Pullman District. We offer a rigorous academic program consisting of Honors, Advanced Placement, and Dual Credit course offerings. We...

Permanently remove beg buttons at crosswalks to improve walkability & prevent spread of COVID-19

Oak Park, Illinois
“Beg buttons” are located on traffic signal light polls and, when pressed by a pedestrian, trigger an eventual walk signal. Besides the fact that they prioritize car movement over pedestrian movement (drivers have no equal task), they require a pe...
beg-buttons pedestrian-safety walking street public-space infrastructure

Redraw CPS Belmont Cragin school boundaries

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: CPS | LSCs, NWSHC Project Timeframe: Mid-term
schools

Safer Streets for Our OPRF Students!

Oak Park, Illinois
Each year, more and more OPRF students are riding their bikes. Help improve the safety of the streets around OPRF (Scoville & Erie) by creating safer passage for students walking and riding bikes to school. Oak Park Village Staff has created a ...
safety bicycling public-space walking street infrastructure

Expand technical training and Bridge programs for parents

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: Onward Neighborhood House | WWC, LISC, Center for Changing Lives Project Timeframe: Mid-term
schools jobs

Social and Emotional development and After-school Programs

Fort Wayne, Indiana
Provide social and emotional development in schools and after-school programs such as N.E.S.T. and Second Step.
provide-opportunities

Create intergenerational senior/youth mentorships

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: NWSHC | CPS, WWC, buildOn, Churches Project Timeframe: Short-term
youth-programs schools

Lakeview Compost Bin

Chicago, Illinois
We are Lake View High School LVIA (Lake View Innovation Academy) students, and our plan is to build a hanging compost bin that will be put outside the school next to our football field. The creation of this hanging compost bin can be used to dispo...
park preservation street composting fertilizing

Lake View High School - EPIC Student Food Waste Group

Lake View is an Early College Science, Technology, Engineering and Math School (ECSS), which enables students to earn both a high school diploma and college credits. Microsoft is Lakeview’s ECSS partner.

Washoe County School District

Peoria, Illinois

Exclude schools from downtown off-street parking requirements

Antioch, Illinois
Instead of spending funds on designated parking spaces for people attending functions that draw large crowds (ex: graduation, sporting events), schools should focus their investments on the students, faculty, and the learning environment. When tho...
schools parking-requirements off-street-parking parking

Gwendolyn Brooks Prep School - EPIC Student Group L

Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy is a selective enrollment public high school located in the Historic Pullman District. We offer a rigorous academic program consisting of Honors, Advanced Placement, and Dual Credit course offerings. We...

Expand youth programming and foster youth leadership

Chicago, Illinois
We can and will address the current gap between what the young people in our community need to reach their potential and what is available by creating new opportunities for youth activity, expanding existing youth programming in and outside of sch...

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...
youth education english-as-a-second-language tutoring mentorship

Expand early childhood education

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: CPS | City of Chicago, LSC Project Timeframe: Mid-term
schools