News—LISC/MetroEdge launched a retail study of the Northwest Side Albany Park neighborhood with a meeting on April 22 attended by about 50 residents, business owners, agency representatives and others at the Albank Building. Continue…
News—LISC/Chicago’s New Communities Program (NCP) lead agencies and their partners have been “Getting it Done” for five years now. On March 26-27, they shared their stories at a conference by that name with more than 800 community development practitioners from 56 cities across the country.
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News—NCP/Washington Park kicked off its first public planning effort with a bang: More than 100 people crowded a meeting room at St. Edmund's Church for a community planning workshop on March 29, taking the first step toward creating a quality-of-life plan.
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News—Five NCP neighborhood groups and their school partners in December won a four-year, $18 million grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies to transform local schools with world-class health, education, social services and economic supports. The initiative, known as ISS, for Integrated Services in Schools, is part of a national demonstration that has already rolled out in five New Mexico schools.
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News—About 1,400 community development professionals and other city leaders recently gathered for the 14th annual Chicago Neighborhood Development Awards to celebrate the growth in the field – both in the sheer amount of neighborhood improvement activity and in the comprehensiveness of projects and community planning throughout the city.
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About us—Click here to view our "hot-off-the-presses" 2007 Donor Report as well as annual Donor Reports for the past few years; copies of Working Assets, LISC/Chicago's newsletter; or profiles of community projects within our portfolio.
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