Counting down to the 8th Annual 79th Street Renaissance Festival – TOMORROW! The 79th Street Renaissance Festival and Family Jam for Peace is Saturday, September 7th, 10:00am – 7:00pm, starting at the intersection of 79th and Racine. See you there!
Apply with the Chicago Police Department, 17th Ward Alderman Latash Thomas and S. Sabina Employment Resource Center will host an Information Session Sept. 5th, 10am at St. Sabina Church, 1210 W. 78th Place. Open to all!
Beloved Community Family Services, Inc. (BCFS) wishes to formally invite you to share your community program and/or class with our 2013 Fall session of the Saturday Enrichment Program (October 12 – December 14, 2013). BCFS will grant each selected class $750 for sharing your time and knowledge with our neighborhood children! Applications are due ONLINE Sunday, September 15, 2013 at 11:59pm.
Every Father and Every Man in America should Take A Child to School on the First Day of School for the Million Father March!!! This is How We Make America Great!!!
Now is the time to register for the Fall 2013 semester at City Colleges of Chicago before the first day of class begins August 26. City Colleges of Chicago offers a wide-range of quality, affordable educational options from certificate and associate degree programs to English as a Second Language and GED high school equivalency instruction.
Greater-Auburn Gresham Development Corporation (GADC) offers new summer educational mini-camp for elementary students, at Oliver S Westcott Elementary School, 409 W. 80th St., July 1st – 31st!
Auburn-Gresham/Englewood Neighborhood Housing Services (NHS) is looking for volunteers for the annual NeighborWorks event, on June 1st, from 9:00am to 1:00pm. Sign up and come join us! NeighborWorks works to provide decent homes and safe healthy communities for low- and moderate- income residents. Neighborhood Housing Services, a NeighborWorks member partners with NeighborWorks American, because they are a preminer provider of community development training in the U.S.!
Auburn Gresham High Schools (Perspectives, St. Leo, Robinson) march from their schools, to the corner of 79th and Racine to hold a Rally for Peace, celebrating I Care for Peace Week. Not because parents and teachers forced them to…because they care about restoring and maintaining peace in the community where they live and attend school.
Faculty Fireside Chat with SSA Professor and UChicago Crime Lab Co-Director Harold Pollack: “How do we reduce Chicago’s youth violence problem?“ Monday, April 22, from 4:30pm to 6:00pm, at Harper 103 (1116 East 59th Street)
Chicago Public Schools Board is arbitrarily clarifying Clara Barton Elementary School for Turnaround status. Usually the Turnaround process takes place after a school has been formally placed on probation and has a record of “no progress” in the deficit areas that placed the school on probation. In the case of Clara Barton, they were not placed in this category nor were they ever on the Turnaround list.
