News—It took 12 years and 18 layers of financing, but Wilson Yard opens a new era of cooperation in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Continue…
News—A couple years after its primary funding from The Joyce Foundation ran out, the Building Community Through the Arts program (BCA) continues to help sculpt community development efforts in all three communities.
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News—The world of community development connects only sporadically with the world of information technology. But that doesn’t have to be the case.
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News—Calm Classroom, a program piloted this spring at Perspectives Middle in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood using Elev8 funds, aims to improve student discipline and concentration by triggering the “relaxation response.”
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News—Several hundred residents of Auburn Gresham and surrounding neighborhoods gained healthcare knowledge, availed themselves of basic clinical services, and learned about LISC/Chicago’s Elev8 program from 43 vendors during the Health Fair on the Block.
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News—The report confirmed what the Near West Side Chamber of Commerce and Near West Side CDC already knew — but provided granular data that will be extremely useful in illustrating the potential in their continued development efforts.
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News—Mayor Richard M. Daley and a host of other officials announced “Explore Chicago: Eat, Play, Love Our Neighborhoods,” a new tourism program by the City of Chicago with events throughout the city, including more than a half-dozen neighborhoods in LISC/Chicago’s New Communities Program.
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News—LISC/Chicago will manage a new venture for the national LISC network, the Institute for Comprehensive Community Development.
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News—New Communities Program lead agencies partner with 12 Centers for Working Families in LISC/Chicago network to ensure that connections get made.
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News—Harris Bank, a long-time LISC/Chicago funder, recently renewed its grant commitment to LISC and provided a $4.5 million low-interest loan, which is being shared with LISC/Milwaukee.
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News—Despite the economic downturn, and exceeding all expectations, National LISC did very well in the past year, with results that LISC President and CEO Michael Rubinger termed as “remarkable.”
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News—LISC/Chicago seeks four consultants for its Broadband Technology Opportunity Program to bring broadband Internet to five communities, and an Assistant Program Officer to provide program and administrative support for Development and Communications.
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