GADC launches Summer Camps for Elementary Youth
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!
Community Highlights
Educating For A Healthy Community
Auburn Gresham’s Health Fair on the block a huge Success!
Health Fair “on the block” Auburn Gresham 2013
Come out and join us, May 30th, from 10am-2pm, corner 79th Racine, for annual Auburn-Gresham Health Fair on the block.
NeighborWorks 2013 Volunteers Needed!
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.!
Youth Organizations Rally For Peace in Chicago
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.
Registration Still Open for Chicago Teens Seeking Paid Summer Jobs Through After School Matters®
Approximately 7,000 apprenticeship and internship opportunities in the arts, communications, sports, science and technology will be offered to teens at nearly 150 locations across Chicago this summer
Earth Day 2013 Celebration Taken to Heart
The Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporation (GAGDC) and GAIA Movement USA come together to take Earth Day to heart in the Auburn Gresham community.
Come and Meet “MOLLY” Roundtable 4/17/13
A discussion about drugs, alcohol and tobacco our youth are abusing. Come learn and do ask questions! RSVP is required Maya Hodari mhodari7@yahoo.com or 773.483.3693
Funding Opportunity: Capacity Building Grants for Culturally Diverse Arts Organizations
The Arts Work Fund invites proposals from multi-cultural and culturally-specific arts organizations that have not previously received a grant from the Fund. Deadline: June 17th, 2013, 6:00pm
CPS Attacks Excelling Clara Barton With Turnaround
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.