Community Org News
Strides for Peace Announces Strategic Leadership Council
By establishing this Strategic Leadership Council, we are advancing our commitment to equitable relationships with the communities we strive to serve. Our Community Partners have long brought an intrinsic and strategic value to our work through lived and professional experience, as well as a deep understanding of opportunities and barriers to increasing impact in the collective effort to…
Read MoreRace Against Gun Violence: CPD & Youth featured in ABC 7 news piece
Before the race took place at Columbus Park, officers invited kids to talk about the impact violence has had on their lives.
Read MoreRace 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 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 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
Read MoreStrides for Peace community partner I Grow Chicago’s Robbin Carroll named CNN Hero Finalist
We are thrilled to share the news that the incredible founder of our beloved Community Partner #IGrowChicago Robbin Carroll has been named as a 2019 CNN Hero finalist. Her vision and bravery are love in action that unleashes its own special power. Or as I Grow Chicago says: “…we do nothing alone. I Grow Chicago is co-created…
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