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Improve Wrightwood Park

Chicago, Illinois
Wrightwood Park is a beautiful, medium-sized park located at Ashland and Wrightwood. For many people in the Lincoln Park and Bucktown areas, Wrightwood Park is the closest and most convenient park to visit. However, in recent years, there have bee...
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State of the Art Park District Facilities

Chicago, Illinois
Support Park District facilities that provide quality programming and state of the art facilities for the whole community - from children to seniors.
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Mentoring & Safe Passage

Fort Wayne, Indiana
Expand mentoring and Safe Passage programs that support youth.
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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"
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Support our Community Bike Ride

Chicago, Illinois
This will be our second annual community bike event that will serve as a means of engaging youth and residents in underserved communities and teaching them about the benefits of wellness via biking and walking. Our organization, We Keep you Rolli...
health safety wellness walking street bicycling

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...

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...
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Bronzeville/35th st. illinois main street project

Chicago, Illinois
Working with disadvantaged youth and young adults in the adjacent affordable housing developments, black metropolis convention & tourism council (bmc &tc) and our affiliate organization bronzeville visitor information center is conducting outreach...

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...
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Create intergenerational senior/youth mentorships

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: NWSHC | CPS, WWC, buildOn, Churches Project Timeframe: Short-term
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EPIC Sustainable Neighborhood Youth Challenge - Lake View

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?"

Outreach to older adults

Chicago, Illinois
Older adults are a key component in our community and should have the resources to better navigate their lives whether living with assistance or independently. We will create an intergenerational health awareness program with older adults and lo...

Teen Book Club

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

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

Outdoor Futsal Court

Peoria, Illinois
Futsal is a form of soccer usually played five a side on a hard surface with a smaller, less bouncy ball. Youth and Adult soccer leagues around Peoria are hugely popular, and I believe an outdoor Futsal Court would be a great attraction in Downtow...

Hive Chicago

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

Park District Youth Programs

Fort Wayne, Indiana
Work in collaboration with the Park District to provide programs and activities for youth and teens.
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Create community art projects in public spaces

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: BC Arts Collective | Park District, Architreasures, Mikva, The REMIX Project, CPS, Churches Project Timeframe: Mid-term"
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Increase summer employment opportunities

Chicago, Illinois
Project lead | Partners: CPS | 30th, 31st & 36th Wards, NWSHC, Park District Project Timeframe: Mid-term"
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