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- CWF model a national winner 10/13/2011
- Program to help families “earn it, keep it, grow it” wins federal grant competition … and a new branch at Kennedy-King College
- U. of C., South Side NCPs Do Grand Rounds 10/10/2011
- Community Grand Rounds program brought a broader definition of health issues to a broad range of the community
- Project maps South Side health, vitality 10/10/2011
- Partnership between University of Chicago, South Side NCPs focuses on healthcare and other services.
- Growing green healthy neighborhoods 9/29/2011
City and regional land-use experts get behind bottom-up, NCP-style planning for neighborhoods full of wide open spaces
- Points of light amid foreclosure funk 8/2/2011
Failed mortgages continue to dog Chicago neighborhoods, but new or improved programs show promise
- NCP and the 2010 Census 3/3/2011
Most shrank, some steadied, but all NCP neighborhoods can learn much from 2010 Census data
- KaBoom! Brand new playground rises 10/7/2010
- The 150 or so children who live in the Brand New Beginnings supportive housing complex near 58th and Michigan and others in the surrounding Washington Park community are receiving a brand new playground thanks partly to NCP.
- Neighborhoods salute beginning of school 9/11/2010
- Community organizations in three NCP neighborhoods on August 28 took advantage of the waning days of summer to help residents gear up for the challenges and opportunities that a new fall season inevitably presents. Vacations are over, school’s beginning, life goes on.
- Washington Park Hero: Rev. Dr. Richard Tolliver 11/16/2009
- The people – the community heroes – saluted by the New Communities Program lead agencies and their partners are the ones doing the heavy lifting, often with little acknowledgement or reward.
- Washington Park rally decries gun violence 10/1/2009
- The message at the first annual Washington Park Peace Festival and Back-to-School Rally was non-violence and personal responsibility.
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