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Open a Belmont Cragin neighborhood community center

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: NWSHC | 30th, 31st & 36th Wards, CPS, LSC, Block Clubs, Churches Project Timeframe: Long-term
arts health safety youth-programs public-space park building

Create an intergenerational health awareness program with older adults & students

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: NWSHC | CPS, Mather's-More than a Cafe, Riveredge Hospital Project Timeframe: Long-term
health youth-programs

CPD Youth Academy

Chicago, Illinois
Partner with CPD to create a youth academy for ages 10-16.
supporting-young-people safety

Support the Lunch N Learn Initiative

Chicago, Illinois
Lunch N Learn is a proposed initiative in which Circle Urban Ministry would send inspiring and caring adults to speak with pre-teen and teen boys in Austin during their lunch hour. Our goal would be to reach 250-300 students per month at local mi...
education mentorship youth

EPIC Sustainable Neighborhood Youth Challenge - North Park

Chicago, Illinois
The EPIC Sustainable Neighborhood Youth Challenge is a program, funded by the Hive Chicago Fund at The Chicago Community Trust, that fosters student-driven campaigns that answer the question, “How can we make your neighborhood more sustainable?"

Open a community school at a Belmont Cragin high school

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: CPS | NWSHC, LSC, CPS Family and Community Engagement (FACE) Project Timeframe: Mid-term
safety youth-programs schools

Youth peace clubs (vijana wa amani project)

Goma, Nord-Kivu
This project aims to mobilize at least 10.000 youth to get involve in peacebuilding activities and programs, and to get involve in community recovery programs, in community services, in social and economic reintegration of disadvantaged people, ch...

Belmont Cragin Youth Community Center

Chicago, Illinois
Belmont Cragin could use another community center to help kids who are in gangs get out of them and better their lives. This is important to me because the child who got shot in this article was one of my old friend’s cousins. The thing that bothe...
regeneratechicagoneighborhoods building

EPIC Sustainable Neighborhood Youth Challenge

Chicago, Illinois
The Chicago Academy of Sciences and its Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, US Green Building Council - Illinois, and Civic ArtWorks are working together to support Chicago-area students in developing projects that answer the question: “How do you ma...

Operation Social Media Presence

Peoria, Illinois
I propose using social media such as Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, and Facebook, to target the Millennial demographic in over crowded cities like Chicago. Young people need to see that Peoria is a fun place to live, while remaining more affordable...
small-business social-media increasing-population youth-retention

Address safety concerns through Belmont Cragin youth leadership

Chicago, Illinois
Address safety concerns through a Belmont Cragin youth leadership, gang intervention and prevention program. Project lead | Partners: NWSHC | After School Matters (ASM), Mikva Challenge, CPS, Churches Project Timeframe: Early Action Project"
safety youth-programs schools

A New Change for a New Old Town

Chicago, Illinois
Some of the issues in my neighborhood are the guns, violence,drugs,poverty. i want to change them.i want to build a mosaic mural to show the history of african-americans such as mlk. i want to show that my neighborhood can be positive. gangs are ...
regeneratechicagoneighborhoods building

Helping At-Risk Youth Living in Underserved Communities

Chicago, Illinois
The current social problem that is plaguing Chicago is an abundance of high crime and violence. There has been an overwhelming amount of news reports that focus on youth violence and crime as being a major concern. To help solve this problem, "...
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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...

Hold an Austin Community Conversation & Survey Picnic

Chicago, Illinois
There are barely any leisure entertainment activities for community members, particularly youth, in Austin. I would like to hold a community picnic centered around discussing this issue. At the event I will gather quantitative and qualitative data...
youth picnic entertainment

EPIC Sustainable Neighborhood Youth Challenge - North Lawndale

Chicago, Illinois
The EPIC Sustainable Neighborhood Youth Challenge is a program, funded by the Hive Chicago Fund at The Chicago Community Trust, that fosters student-driven campaigns that answer the question, “How can we make your neighborhood more sustainable?"

Support the Art Xellence Pilot Summer Program

Chicago, Illinois
Art Xellence is an after-school and summer program that intends to reduce teen violence and recidivism while preparing youth for the workplace in Englewood and Austin. The program is targeted towards elementary and high school students. We anticip...
recidivism violence technology graphic-design theater dance music arts youth teens

Expand summer youth sports programming

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: Belmont Cragin Youth Task Force/Mikva | CPD, NWSHC, Churches Project Timeframe: Short-term"
safety youth-programs park

Teen Book Club

Chicago, Illinois
Create a Teen Book Club utilizing the library during the summer learning initiative.
promote-youth-leadership

Hive Chicago

Washington, Illinois
Hive Chicago brings together civic and cultural institutions to create greater learning opportunities for youth.

Expand Local Programs, i.e. art, dance

Chicago, Illinois
Expand local programs such as art, dance, computer programming, video, and web design.
promote-youth-leadership

Rock Climbing Wall Utilizing Public/Private Structures Already In Place

Peoria, Illinois
Chattanooga, TN, in cooperation with private and public enterprises, turned currently existing structures in their downtown area into a world class rock climbing destination. We have a lot of private buildings downtown, as well as existing (new an...
regional-draw youth-activities rock-climbing bicycling public-space park

Promote Youth Leadership

Chicago, IL
To promote youth leadership and training opportunities for teens and young adults

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