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| September 24
| | | | | | Axelson Center fall workshops
9 am
North Park University
3225 W. Foster
The Axelson Center for Nonprofit Management at North
Park University offers a series of workshops this fall.
For additional information about each workshop and bios of the instructors,
visit
www.northpark.edu/axelson/workshops
or call (773)
244-5799.
September 24, 2008, 9 a.m. – Noon
Public Affairs
Training for Nonprofits
Avis LaVelle,
President
,
A. LaVelle Consulting Services
LLC
October 8, 2008, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Foundation
Fundraising Basics
Lisa Moultrie, M.A., Founder and Principal, Ace
Strategies, Inc.
October 14, 2008, 9 a.m. – Noon
Creating a Vibrant
Organizational Culture that Produces Results
Eric
Weinheimer, MBA, President, The Cara Program
October 29, 2008, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Building the Case
for Support
Doug Diefenbach, Vice President of Campaign Strategy
and Communications, Advocate Charitable Foundation
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| September 25
| | | | | | Greater Englewood Farmer's Market
9 am–2 pm
Greater Deliverance Temple Church of Christ
6452 S. Ashland Ave. This market will operate every Thursday.
For an
article on NCP lead agency Teamwork Englewood's website, please see http://www.teamworkenglewood.org/display.aspx?pointer=6018
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| September 27
| | | | | | 61st Street Market
9 am–2 pm
61st Street and Dorchester Avenue This independent market in Woodlawn opened May 17 at 61st Street and
Dorchester Avenue and continues through October 25.
To read an article
about it, please click here.
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| September 28
| | | | | | Bronzeville Community Market
10 am–3 pm
44th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue NCP lead agency Quad Communities Development Corporation,
in cooperation with the Mayor's Office of Special Events, will host a weekly
Bronzeville Community Market. The market will offer fresh produce, yummy food,
activities, and more!
For more information, contact Zuri at
qcdcinfo@gmail.com
or see
http://chicagofarmersmarkets.us
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| October 7
| | | | | | Homebuyers' Education Classes
These classes, sponsored by NCP lead agency Lawndale Christian
Development Corp., will run on four consecutive Saturdays in October for one hour apiece, as well
as on Nov. 8 for four hours.
For more information, please call (773)
762-8889 or download this flyer.
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| | | | Improving the Healthcare of Chicago: An Interactive Approach to Reducing Disparities
8 am–11:30 am
Hermann Union Building, Illinois Institute of Technology
3241 S. Federal St.
The seminar is co-provided with Oakton Community College and the Chicago
Asthma Consortium.
The meeting will be the first of two interactive programs
which will consist of lectures and discussions on the topic of healthcare
disparities and its components--cultural competency, health literacy, and
language specificity.
For more information or to register, please click here
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| | | | Dolores Huerta lecture
2:15 pm
Dominican University
Martin Recital Hall
7900 W. Division
River Forest, IL United Farm Workers of America co-founder Dolores Huerta
lectures about her life and work.
After co-founding UFW with Cesar E.
Chavez in 1962, Huerta obtained basic rights such as the provision of toilets,
drinking water, a medical plan, rest periods, job security, a pension fund, paid
vacations and holidays, and protections from pesticides.
At 78, Huerta
continues to work for women, immigrants, workers and youth as the founder and
president of the Dolores Huerta Foundation for Community Organizing.
For
more information, please contact Dr. Christina Perez, associate professor of
sociology, at (708) 524-6693 or cperez@dom.edu.
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| | | | Improving the Healthcare of Chicago: An Interactive Approach to Reducing Healthcare Disparities
8 am–11:30 am
Illinois Institute of Technology
Hermann Union Building This conference will be the first in a series deisgned to
address widening healthcare disparities that impact chronic diseases.
For
more information, please see www.chicagoasthma.org/site/epage/67307_410.htm
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| October 10
| | | | | | The Cara Program's Celebration of Hope
7 pm–11:30 pm
Preston Bradley Hall
Chicago Cultural Center
Washington and Michigan This seventh annual event will help raise awareness of
the challenges surrounding poverty and homelessness, share the achievement of
formerly homeless people bettering themselves, and raise funds to help more do
the same.
For more information, please
click here.
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| October 14
| | | | | | Creating Sustainable Funding for Your Nonprofit
5:15 pm–6:30 pm
Advanced Center for Training (Hilton Garden Inn)
4072 E. Main St.
St. Charles, IL This session will teach your staff, board and
volunteers to build passionate, lifelong individual donors to your
organization.
The session is free, and RSVP is required. Please contact
Josh McLeod at (206) 428-4361 or Josh@benevon.com for more information or to
register, see http://sforce.benevon.com/intros/midwest.htm.
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| October 16
| | | | | | Mobile Exhibitions 3
12 pm–8 pm
Garfield Park Conservatory
300 N. Central Park Ave.
Mobile Exhibitions is an ongoing series of art
installations in rented moving trucks. Since 2006, six trucks have been
displayed, three each year.
Using trucks to display the art in Mobile
Exhibitions creates a unique artistic concept. Not only are the installations
housed in urban artifacts, they are able to move with the rhythm of the city and
to mimic its cycles of commerce.
This makes each Mobile
Exhibition a temporary public art sculpture on the move. In it the urban
landscape is shown to be in constant transition. The work exemplifies
temporality and the impact of individual movement.
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| October 17
| | | | | | Examining the State of Our Environment
12 pm–5 pm
Garfield Park Conservatory Market Place
300 N. Central Park Ave.
Examining the State of Our Environment is a three-day
show of art installations by a conglomeration of Chicago Phantom Gallery Network
artists. The dynamic multi-discipline work focuses on ecology, style and
community.
This show is one of four anchor sites for the 2008 Phantom
Gallery Network. The Phantom Gallery Network is continuing its mission to
provide opportunities for artists to exhibit their art while fostering economic
development in communities through temporary art exhibits in vacant
spaces.
The show extends until 8 p.m. on
Friday, Oct. 17.
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| October 19
| | | | | | Community Health 5K Run/Walk
9 am
Humboldt Park Participants in this event will help raise funds to
provide FREE health care and encourage healthy lifestyles for the uninsured in
Chicago.
For more information, please click
here.
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| October 25
| | | | | | Citizenship workshop
9 am–12 pm
Foreman High School
3235 N. LeClaire This workshop is presented by NCP lead agency Logan
Square Neighborhood Association.
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| | | | Creatures of the Night
12 pm–3 pm
Garfield Park Conservatory
300 N. Central Park Ave. This free Halloween-themed event is a unique take on the
season. Night dwelling animals such as fruit bats, spiders, owls and more have
special adaptations, or "tricks," that help them roam in the dark.
During their rare daytime greenhouse appearance, at special critter
stations, children and families can learn an adaptation trick and then get a
treat. Other fun activities include spider plantings, grow-in-the-dark
necklaces, bat origami, and more!
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| | | | Latino Conference on Alzheimer's Disease: No Me Olvides
University of Illinois - Chicago
Student Center West
828 Wolcott Avenue The Greater Illinois Chapter of The Alzheimer's
Association presents this first annual conference for family members and friends
of those with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
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| October 26
| | | | | | Sunday Parkways
9 am–1 pm
Parkways on the West Side
Explore beautiful North Lawndale, Little Village, and East Garfield Park by
bike, scooter, stroller or on foot.
In Humboldt Park itself, check out
Humboldt Park in Motion, which features basketball, bicycling, aerobics, salsa
dancing and much more, sponsored by the Greater Humboldt Park Community of
Wellness.
For more information, please call (312) 377-5727, visit
biketraffic.org/sundayparkways, or download this flyer.
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| October 28
| | | | | | Financial Empowerment Classes
6 pm–7 pm
SOS Children's Village
7600 S. Parnell
Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corp. and The Banking
Consortium Team present Financial Empowerment Classes 2008.
All classes will be held at SOS
Children's Village, and all are free -- dinner included. To register, please
call (773) 483-3696.
The final class will be held October 28, titled "How
to Start Your Own Business" and sponsored by Beloved Community/Wamu
Bank.
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| November 17
| | | | | | Stakeholders Collaborative Forum
9 am–12 pm
Conference Center at UBS Center
1 N. Wacker, Michigan Ball Room (2nd floor) This forum will feature Donna Mazyck, health services
specialist with the Maryland State Department of Education and president of the
National Association of School Nurses.
Come to network with peers and
administrators to learn about the critical role school nurses play in student
health.
To RSVP, please contact Iyana Mason at imason@lungchicago.org
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