Posts by Mary Stonor Saunders
Race Against Gun Violence: Survivor group Purpose Over Pain featured in NBC piece
A group of survivors are coming together as part of the seventh annual Race Against Gun Violence to make a difference.
Read MoreYou Don’t Have to Climb to the Mountain Top to Make a Difference
I just got my backside whooped — no destroyed – today by Lower Wolf Jaw Mountain (in the Adirondacks). I couldn’t finish it. First time in my life I succumbed to a mountain I set out to hike. So why am I looking so triumphant and what does this have to do with the Race…
Read MoreABC 7 Newsviews Features Strides for Peace Community Partner, Kids Off the Block
Diane Latiker founded Kids Off the Block, turning her Roseland home into a safe place for children. View the feature, Preventing Violence and Protecting Children HERE.
Read MoreABC 7 Interview with Strides for Peace Community Partner, I Grow Chicago’s Robbin Carroll.
Robbin Carroll is founder and president of I Grow Chicago, an organization that has helped Chicago’s South Side Englewood neighborhood thrive, not just survive: “Chicago’s white community must look within to help end systemic racism.”
Read MoreCivil Eats features creative meal delivery solution; Strides for Peace is proud to be involved with this initiative
Project Isaiah, working with airline caterers, has delivered over a million meals. Project Isaiah quickly made use of idle airline catering infrastructure to provide meals to hungry people in 11 cities nationwide — including in Chicago! Read more about this effort here.
Read MoreRemembering Greg Zanis
Words of gratitude and love. Thank you to Greg, the Crossman, for bringing love and light to the darkest times. Thanks to all those who sent videos and the lovely and amazing Patrick Mulvey and Andrew Ramsay of 5x12Films, who put together a short video tribute to share with Greg and his family. View the…
Read MoreChicago Food Bank Expands Operations To Areas Hit Hardest By COVID-19: South And West Sides
Trusted community organizations that will lead the outdoor distribution sites: Apostolic Church of God (and the Network of Woodlawn), Greater Auburn-Gresham Community Development Corporation, Austin Coming Together, Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church, New Life Centers of Chicagoland, South Shore Works and Trinity United Church of Christ. Read more here.
Read MoreFounder of South Side nonprofit doles out COVID-19 supplies to hard hit black community
Kids Off The Block founder Diane Latiker, her husband and volunteers have been driving around distributing food, gloves, masks, sanitizer and information since March 31. Read more about their work here.
Read MoreHelping Charities While Socially Distanced
By Mary Stonor Saunders and Olivia Daniels Read more in Quarantine Times
Read MoreWFMT Premiers Whole Notes: Music of Healing and Peace
WFMT premieres Whole Notes: Music of Healing and Peace, a special program hosted by Kerry Frumkin that looks at the gun violence epidemic in America through the lens of classical music. Includes and interview with Strides for Peace Executive Director, Mary Stonor Saunders. Read more here
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