There is no substitute for action when it comes to community development, whether it is building a playground or rallying neighbors to create safer streets. But it can be just as important to tell the story of the action, so that others are aware of the work and the progress being made. The class was for community development practitioners involved with the New Communities Program.
That's why nine community development practitioners spent six Friday afternoons this fall in a conference room crowded with laptop computers, cables and digital recorders, learning how to create audio slideshows.
Neighborhood: Quad Communities
Producer: Amadi Jordan-Walker
This audio slideshow provides an overview of the commercial development initiative currently underway on Cottage Grove. It also highlights a shoe boutique on Cottage Grove, which is owned by a resident of the Quad Communities.
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Curves Auburn Gresham
Neighborhood: Auburn Gresham
Producer: Maureen Kelleher
Curves Auburn Gresham not only helps women strengthen their physical bodies, it builds a strong social circle among members. In addition, the women of Curves Auburn Gresham are helping strengthen their community by supporting a small business in their neighborhood.
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Neighborhood: Chicago Lawn
Producer: Piotr Korzynski
My audio slideshow is an attempt to highlight a great program run by one of Greater Southwest’s partner organizations, the Southwest Organizing Project.
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Producer: Patrick Barry
One way to improve neighborhoods is to tell stories about the work underway. That's why LISC/Chicago organized a training for community development practitioners so that they could create their own audio slideshows. Watch and listen as the participants add new technical and storytelling skills across the six-week course.
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Music is MAGIC
Neighborhood: Woodlawn
Producer: Richard Muhammad
Music Is MAGIC Woodlawn Stringed Instrument program is a Saturday morning music class for children and parents in the heart of the South Side community. Through little cost and lots of commitment and determination, children learn to play the violin, cello or viola with parents serving as their coaches.
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Affordable & World Class Healthcare for Youth in Auburn Gresham
Neighborhood: Auburn Gresham
Producer: Ernest Sanders
The Greater Auburn-Gresham Development Corporation (GADC) along with Perspectives Charter School-Calumet campus (PCS-Calumet) have partnered with the Chicago Health Corps (CHC) and the University of Chicago’s Pediatric Mobile Care Van Unit (Care Van) to bring affordable healthcare to youth in the Auburn Gresham community.
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63rd and Woodlawn: The Changing Landscape
Neighborhood: Woodlawn
Producer: Arvin Strange
An impromptu discussion with a long standing local business owners relative to the impact of commercial and housing development activity at or near 63rd and Woodlawn after forty (40) years.
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Logan Square Breakfast Program
Neighborhood: Logan Square
Producer: Lucy Gomez
"Universal breakfast" at McAuliffe Elementary School means that all children receive a breakfast and eat it together in their classroom. Teachers and students alike say the improved nutrition makes for a more productive schoolday.
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