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- Woodlawn Heroes:
Sister Therese O’Sullivan, Project Brotherhood 11/17/2009 - 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.
- Stimulate this! NCP provides platform for feds 3/17/2009
- Chicago’s working-class neighborhoods are hard hit by the severe economic recession, but LISC’s NCP neighborhoods are positioning themselves to take full advantage of federal recovery programs headed our way.
- NCP providing platform for $tabilization 2/4/2009
- A Jan. 26 special briefing for NCP leaders showed that while there is no formal relationship between NCP and the soon-to-launch, federally funded program to buy and recycle foreclosed housing, several of LISC/Chicago’s New Communities will be expected to lead the way.
- Foreclosures spike; communities respond 8/5/2008
- Many of the neighborhoods hardest hit by the wave of foreclosures now sweeping Chicago are NCP neighborhoods.
- Woodlawn farmers market sprouts up 6/3/2008
- Woodlawn’s new farmers market drew an unexpected crowd to its May 17 opening, with eager customers arriving at 8 a.m. – an hour before the scheduled start time.
- Slideshow features Woodlawn farmers market 5/21/2008
- Day One of the Woodlawn farmers market on May 17 was a near sell-out for nine vendors, with more vegetable and fruit vendors expected as the market continues each Saturday morning at 61st Street and Blackstone Avenue.
- Youngsters join Woodlawn Little League 5/13/2008
- America’s pastime is on base in Woodlawn, in the form of the Woodlawn Little League.
- 900 join in the fun at 'Getting It Done' 4/3/2008
- They came from 24 Chicago neighborhoods and 56 cities for a whirlwind of workshops, tours, hallway skull sessions and even dancing. It was LISC/Chicago’s first national conference for community development practitioners, and by the looks on people’s faces, it was a heck of a good time.
- Download NCP quality-of-life plans here 3/26/2008
- More than 500 neighborhood and city leaders gathered May 18, 2005, to celebrate the rollout of 10 new quality-of-life plans by New Communities Program neighborhoods. The rollout culminated 18 months of planning that involved more than 3,500 people. Three additional plans were completed in 2006 and 2007. Download all the NCP plans here.
- Community Heroes honored at conference 3/25/2008
- All over Chicago, ordinary people go to extraordinary lengths to make life better for their families and their neighbors. Thirty of these “Community Heroes” will be recognized Wednesday night, March 26, during the “Getting It Done: New Tools for Communities” conference organized by the New Communities Program.
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