Urban Life Center

Advertising, Public Relations & Marketing
American Health Information Management Association
 A professional organization that represents more than 38,000  health information management professionals who work  throughout the healthcare industry and the public by managing,  analyzing, and utilizing data vital for patient care—and making it  accessible to healthcare providers when it is needed most.

Back of the Yards Business Association
Neighborhood Chamber of Commerce focusing on outreach, city  and social services.   Back of the Yards is the oldest Community Organization in the United States.

Becker and Associates
Full service meeting management firm that provides services mainly for non-profit  organizations.

Bethel New Life
Comprehensive community and economic development corporation dedicated to  creating affordable communities. Focuses on housing, health and family services.

Blue Fox Gallery

Channel Marketing
 Graphic Design firm.

Chicago Children’s Choir

Chicago Housing Authority
 Chicago’s public housing corporation whose mission is to provide safe, sanitary and  affordable housing to low-income individuals and families.

Chicago Workshop on Economic Development

Comadres Public Relations
Comadres, Inc. is a full-service marketing and communications agency that focuses on companies operating in the multicultural marketplace.  They help their customers build bridges for understanding cultural differences and commonalities, and deliver culturally relevant communications that produce results.

Community Investment Corporation
 Non-profit lender providing below-market financing for rehab of multi-family  housing.

Erie Family Health Center
 Provides a full range of health care and health education services predominantly to  Chicago’s Puerto Rican community.

Food From the Hood

Graphic Concepts

Hyde Park Chamber of Commerce

Ivay Isle Travel

Kenwood-Oakland Community Organization
 Multi-faceted social organization that provides community and social services such  as housing, jobs, welfare assistance,  and healthcare.

League of Chicago Theaters
 An umbrella organization providing service to some 110 constituent theaters in  such areas as marketing, public relations and general auditions.

Marquette National Bank
 Bank located in Marquette Park on Chicago’s southwest side. The bank serves the  community focusing on community investment and development, equal  opportunity, loans and outreach programs, i.e. Habitat for Humanity.

Merchandise Mart Properties
 Center for manufacturers, retailers, designers and wholesalers.

Merit Music Program
 Music school with the mission to serve economically disadvantaged and gifted  youth.  Different levels of orchestras are supplemented by a jazz/pop program.

National Conference on Wrongful Convictions & The Death Penalty
 Organization based at Northwestern University Legal Clinic that seeks to research  and present cases of wrongful conviction in preparation for the national  conference.

New City
 A local free newspaper that focuses on entertainment and event in the Chicago area.

NeoGlyphics
 A web-page design, internet graphics firm whose clientele include large,  multinational corporations.

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African American TV & Filmmakers
AATF is a not-for-profit organization, incorporated February 1997, to bridge a gap in media representation for diversity of African Americans in the television and film industries. AATF provides a building block of cultural diversity in education and support performances in these industries as well as the preservation and cultural awareness.

Artemesia Gallery
Women’s cooperative gallery run by the artists.

Blutter-Schiff Design

Boulevard Arts Center

Chicago Architecture Foundation
The Chicago Architecture Foundation is dedicated to advancing public interest and education in architecture and related design. CAF pursues this mission through a comprehensive program of exhibitions, tours, special events, youth education programs and lectures all designed to enhance the public's awareness and appreciation of Chicago's outstanding architectural legacy.

Chicago Film Office
The Chicago Film Office, a division of the Mayor's Office of Special Events, leads the city's effort to attract and accommodate feature film, television, commercial and all forms of film and video production.  Their mission is to prompt the economic and cultural development that filmmaking provides while striking an effective balance with the needs of the community.

The Clarke House and The Glessner House
The Prarie Avenue Historic District contains homes that have existed in Chicago for over a century.  At the beginning of the 1900’s, Chicago's Prairie Avenue was called "Millionaire's Row," and Victorian-style homes lined the street. The one exception was the “stone fortress” belonging to wealthy businessman John Jacob Glessner.  Chicago’s oldest house, the Clarke House, is also located here.

Comadres Public Relations
Graphic design department of Latina PR firm.

Community Film Workshop of Chicago (CFWC)
provides 16mm film and digital media classes.  The CFWC is the oldest and the first media arts center in Chicago.  Their mission is to provide high quality media education and to promote production by people of color, women and youth.  Current CFWC participants are multicultural and represent a wide spectrum of age, educational background and experiences.

Community Television Networks
CTVN educates Chicago's low-income, minority young adults and children to resolve social issues via the media arts.  Their work goes boeyond how to hold a camera: students create solution-based programs about issues that affect them and their communities, such as violence and racism.

Evanston Furniture Restoration and Conservation
does just that: it refinishes and refurbishes antique and modern furniture, using traditional and modern methods of restoration.

Facet’s Multi-Media, Inc.
 An art-film exhibitor responsible for the Children’s International Film Festival,   and is the nation’s largest rental distributor of classic, independent and    international cinema.

Free Street Programs
 Creates original theatre shows with children in shcools, parks and community  centers, runs job programs in the arts for teens, has two theatre programs for  parenting and pregnant teens, an in-hospital program for children, and senior  theatre.

FilmBureau606

Future/Now Films
Independent film company created to direct and produce a film about the MC5.

Gallery 37
Gallery 37 is an internationally recognized program, offering young people job training in the arts, opportunities for arts-related employment and mentoring relationships with professional artists.  This unique program allows people, ages 14-21, to earn a paycheck while creating visual, literary, culinary, performing and graphic art under the direction of professional artists.

Gallery 312

Graphic Concepts
 Off-set printing company that works on layouts and graphic art.

Wesley Kimler’s Studio 26th & Western

Illinois Film Office

Independent Film Project

International Engineers Consortium
 Event management company that puts on trade shows.

Interfaith House
 (Art Therapy) Interfaith House provides a variety of services, including transitional  housing for homeless recently released from the hospital.

Kartemquin Films
 Renowned documentary company that has produced such award-winning films as  “Hoop Dreams” and “Higher Goals.” The company focuses on a variety of issues  including community concerns, education, social services, culture and family.

Lawyers for Creative Arts
 Provides free legal assistance to lower-income artists and emerging arts  organizations. Also creates publications and conducts workshops pertaining to  artists’ legal rights and responsibilities.

Lil’ Black Pearl Workshop
 Provides places for children to do art projects.

Lill Street Gallery
 A large co-operative ceramics studio featuring innovative original ceramic art and  extensive community outreach programs.

Merchandise Mart Properties (Fashion Design)
 Center for manufacturers, retailers, wholesalers and designers.
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Mexican Fine Arts Center/Museum
 One of Chicago’s finest museums accredited by the American Museum Association,  dedicated to the classic and contemporary work of Mexican and Mexican  American  artists.

Museum of Contemporary Art
 Chicago museum featuring contemporary and late modern artists.

Museum of Contemporary Photography
 Museum featuring work of local, national and international photographers.

Near Northwest Arts Council
 A non-profit artist and cultural activist organization serving the West Town and  Logan Square neighborhoods. It works to establish new economic models for  community culture and for affordable artist housing.

Neoglyphics
 A web-page design, internet graphics firm whose clientele include large, multi-  national corporations.

Nicole Gallery of the Art of Haiti
 River North gallery featuring art of Haiti.

Peace Museum
 Museum dedicated to education and awareness of peace and justice issues on a  local, national and global level. Includes programming for adults and children.

The PEACH Club
 (Art Therapy) Does art and music projects and therapy with at-risk children at  their offices and in the public schools.

PerformInk
 Publication for artists and filmmakers.

Prairie Street Gallery

The Renaissance Society

Puerto Rican Cultural Center/Pedro Albizu Campos High School
 Cultural center focusing on community outreach, youth and programming  designed  for the Puerto Rican and Humboldt Park community.

Renaissance Society
 Associated with the University of Chicago, the Renaissance Society serves as a re source center for artists, that is recreated for each exhibition to provide the best  environment and resources for the artist. The exhibition space has an illustrious  track record of presenting the most challenging contemporary art.

Uptown Baptist Church
 Facilitates a variety of outreach services, including programs for homeless and  victims of domestic violence. (Art Therapy)

Urban Gateways/ Center for Arts in Education
 Provides comprehensive arts-in-education programs serving locally as a resource  and nationally as a model for incorporating the arts in all levels of the public  school  system.

Vietnam Veterans Art Museum
 Displays artwork relevant to the Vietnam War and surrounding issues. All work  featured is created by veterans from both the United States and Vietnam. It is the  only such facility in the nation.

Woman Made Art Gallery
 Gallery owned and operated by women featuring the work of women artists.

Aldo Castillo Gallery
Art gallery in the River North gallery district.  Assist buyers and gallery owner as needed.

Amnesty International
 A world-wide human rights organization which  works impartially for the release of  prisoners of  conscience, fair trials for political prisoners and to  end torture  and executions.

Back of the Yards Business Association
 Neighborhood Chamber of Commerce focusing on outreach, city  and social services.  Back of the Yards is the oldest Community Organization in the United States and is located in a predominantly Mexican and Mexican-American neighborhood. Works to create jobs for local residents through its economic development unit. It has also worked since the closing of the stockyards in 1971 to redevelop the industrial job base for the community. The BYNC also has programs for teens, counseling services, GED and ESL classes, job placement, outreach programs to senior citizens, and is a resource for residents when they are in need.

 Bickerdike Corporation
 Committed to the redevelopment of the West Town and Humboldt Park communities  for the benefit of and control by the lower and moderate income residents of these  areas. Committed to preserving the ethnic and cultural character, while improving  the economic conditions of the community.

C.A.L.O.R.
 Community based organization in Logan Square/ West Town which provides direct  services to Latinos who are impacted by AIDS by running support groups and  prevention education.

Casa Atzlan
 Multi-service organization in Pilsen with programs for after-school, teens, adult  literacy skills, health and family services.

Casa Central La Posada
 Chicago’s largest Hispanic social service agency that assists more than 20,000  individuals every year. Programs respond to the needs of the entire family, from  children to elderly, in order to develop stable communities and families.

Cesar Chavez Multicultural Academic Center
 The mission of this grammar school, grades Preschool through 9, is to prepare all children to succeed in the Twenty-First Century's interdependent world through a global educational perspective utilizing a dual language (Spanish/English), a collaborative, and a technological educational approach.  Thus, all classes are bilingual, group-oriented, and have a technology emphasis.

Center for Communication Resources
 Seeks to provide fair access to communication resources, specializing in video/ television production for community empowerment.

Chicago Coalition for the Homeless—Latino Task Force
 An advocacy agency for the homeless. Latino Task Force works with immigrants and  day laborers on fair labor and policy issues.

Chicago Historical Society
 Seeks to collect, preserve, interpret and present the history of Chicagoans and a  member of Chicago’s major museum campus.

Chicago Youth Centers
 Social service agency that deals with children.

Comadres Public Relations
 Communications and marketing firm that provides integrated marketing services for advertisers who target the general market and the Latino market. One of their main goals is to correct linguistic, cultural and behavioral errors in advertising  to avoid miscommunication and misunderstanding.

Cook County Juvenile Court/ Probation Department
 Serves the welfare of children and families. Provides guidance, structure and  services needed by the children in its care. Also promotes healing and recovery of  neglected children and the reformation of delinquent children.

Erie Family Health Center
 Provides a full range of health care and health education services, predominantly  to the Chicago Puerto Rican community.

Fellowship House
 Social service organization working with at-risk youth in positive programming  after school and in school including a head start program, after school and teen programs as well as gang and drug prevention within a family atmosphere.

Free Street Programs
 Creates original theater shows with children in schools, parks and community  centers, runs job programs in the arts for teens, has two theatre programs for  parenting and pregnant teens, clown doctors and senior theatre.

Greater Southwest Development Corporation
 Uses funds generated from property owners and engages in tasks necessary to  maintain the vitality of the 63rd Street corridor.

Guild Complex
 Literary performance venue. Sponsors the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Competition,  writing workshops, publishing and other resources and outlets for writers.

Humbolt Park Park Head Start

Interchurch Refugee Center
 Refugee resettlement agency that is the local affiliate for three large national  organizations. Dedicated to resettlement and readjustment services for refugees  who are settling in the Chicago area.

Jorge Prieto Medical Clinic
 Family health care clinic in a Mexican and Mexican-American neighborhood. Named for a pioneering Mexican Chicago doctor, Dr. Jorge Prieto.

Latin United Community Housing Association
 Chicago’s only Puerto Rican community housing group. LUCHA helps tenants and  home owners improve poor housing, work to encourage and support home  ownership, increase decent, reasonably priced housing and carryout a variety of  community improvement projects and social services in the community.

Latino Youth Inc.
 Provides quality programs and services that are sensitive and address the lack of  educational personal development and leadership opportunities in the community  that foster excellence, the acquisition of skills, community awareness and cultural  pride.

Mexican Fine Arts Center/Museum
 One of Chicago’s finest museums accredited by the American Museum Association,  dedicated to the classic and contemporary work of Mexican and Mexican  American artists.

Mujeres Latinas de Accion
 Organization that provides services such as domestic violence counseling, sexual  assault counseling, legal referrals, and immigration issues.

Orozco Elementary School
 K-8 public elementary school in Pilsen, an arty Mexican neighborhood.

Pilsen Coalition for Families
 Takes a human services approach to mental health. Programs are designed  according to community needs and includes a variety of services and divisions.

Pilsen/Little Village Mental Health Center
 Mental Health organization that treats and focuses on the Mexican-American and  Latino community in Chicago.

Por Un Barrio Mejor
 “For a Better Community”: Located in Little Village, one of Chicago’s largest  Mexican/Mexican-American neighborhoods, the organization focuses on outreach,  community and economic development, education, job training and ESL classes.

Puerto Rican Cultural Center/Pedro Albizu Campos High School
 Offers several programs for involvement, including; Alternative High School, a day  care center, AIDS Education Project, Family Education Program for mothers and  children and an alternative clinic.

Rape Victim Advocates
 Provides a crisis hotline, hospital advocacy, legal advocacy and counseling for  adults and adolescents.

Religious Task Force on Central America

Salsedo Press
 Off-set print shop

Southwest Youth Service Collaborative
 Youth related organization that provides programs for Latino youth such as sports,  and community justice.

Street Level Youth Media
 A youth-oriented organization utilizing video production to prevent gang
 recruitment and inter-gang violence.

Su Casa
 A hospitality house for Central American refugees seeking political asylum in the  United States.

YWCA Legal Advocacy
 Work with survivors of sexual assault seeking justice through the court system.
 

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Amnesty International
 A world-wide human rights organization which works impartially for the release of  prisoners of conscience, fair trials for political prisoners and to end torture and  executions.

Angel Island Theater

Back of the Yards Business Association
 Neighborhood chamber of commerce working to serve community needs by  providing a variety of social services.

Becker and Associates
 Full service meeting management firm. Provides service mainly for non-profits.

Blue Fox Gallery

Boulevard Arts Center
 Community cultural center and school of the arts started by and serving residents of  the greater Englewood Community, one of the most diverse communities in Chicago.

Center for Communication Resources
 Seeks to provide fair access to communication resources, specializing in video/ television production for community empowerment.

Center for Conflict Resolution
The Center for Conflict Resolution (CCR), a not-for-profit mediation, was established by the Chicago Bar Association in 1979. It provides free mediation services in  in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. Cases mediated under these programs include landlord/tenant, small claims, neighbor, misdemeanor, and juvenile disputes. In addition, CCR offers conflict resolution training to a wide range of organizations as well as to individuals.

Center for Neighborhood Technology
CNT’s mission is to invent and implement new tools and methods that create livable urban communities for everyone.  CNT has developed programs that: 1.) look at the assets of Chicago communities in order to create opportunities for them; 2.) analyze public policy to organize community-level operations; and 3.) connect communities through information and communications technology.

Chicago Defender
 Chicago’s oldest African-American newspaper.

Chicago Hearing Society
Chicago Hearing Society’s mission is to empower deaf, hard of hearing and hearing people to communicate with each other.  Its programs include domestic violence counseling, sign language classes, and youth services, among others.  It is part of Anixter, which serves Chicagoans with all different types of disabilities (CALOR is part of Anixter).

Chicago Historical Society
 Seeks to collect, preserve, interpret and present the history of Chicagoans and a  member of Chicago’s major museum campus.

Chicago Office of Cable Communication
 City office that produces cable programming.

Chicago Reporter
 Investigative news-magazine published monthly that focuses on issues of race and  public policy.

Comadres
 Communications and marketing firm that provides integrated marketing services  for  advertisers who target the general market and the Hispanic market. One of  their main  goals is to correct linguistic, cultural and behavioral errors in advertising to avoid  miscommunication and misunderstanding.

Community Television Network
 Provides community access to media. Through their work, they empower low- income young adults and children in Chicago to identify, address and resolve  issues through the use and understanding of media arts.

C.R.I.S. Radio
 Radio for the blind.

David O’Connor Casting Co.

Erie Family Health Center
 Provides a full range of health care and health education services, predominantly  to  the Chicago Puerto Rican community.

Facet’s Multi-Media, Inc.
 An art-film exhibitor responsible for the Children’s International Film Festival, and  is the nation’s largest rental distributor of classic, independent and international  cinema.

Feminist Writer’s Guild

Field Museum of Natural History
 Chicago museum featuring exhibits in the following areas: Anthropology, Botany,  Geology, Zoology (Birds, fishes, insects, reptiles and amphibians, mammals,  invertebrates), Conservation and Environmental Biology and the Center for  Cultural Understanding and Change.

First Ward Aldermanic Office

Fourth Ward Aldermanic Office

Future/Now Films
Marketing an independent film about the MC5.

Graphic Concepts
 Off-set printing company that works on layouts and graphic art.

Guild Complex
 An independent, non-profit cultural center which sponsors a variety of  programming and TiaChucha Press. TiaChucha publishes books which strengthen the connections between communities, artists and ideas.

Hyde Park Herald
 Hyde Park’s weekly newspaper.

Imagination Theater
 Working specifically with youth, the company establishes artistic and social issues  residencies to work intensively with a core group of up to 35 participants over a  period of weeks or months.

In These Times
 Non-profit, monthly alternative-news magazine.

International Engineers Consortium
 Event management company that puts on trade shows.

Kartemquin Films
 Renowned documentary company that has produced such award-winning films as  “Hoop Dreams” and “Higher Goals”. The company focuses on a variety of issues,  including community concerns, education, social services, culture and family.

Jenny Jones Show

Jerry Springer Show

Lambda Publications
 Publication company that focuses on the needs of the lesbian, gay and bisexual  community. Includes such publications as Outlines and Windy City Times.

League of Chicago Theatres

Merchandise Mart Properties
 Center for manufacturers, retailers, wholesalers and designers.

Merit Music Program
 Marketing department of music school with the mission to serve economically disadvantaged  and gifted  youth. Different levels of orchestras are supplemented by a jazz/pop program.

Mexican Fine Arts Center
 One of Chicago’s finest museums, dedicated to the work of Mexican and Mexican  American artists.

MTV Networks

Neoglyphics Media Corp
 A web-page design, internet graphics firm whose clientele include large,  multinational corporations.

New City
 Free independent Chicago entertainment newspaper.

Ogilvy & Mather Chicago
 Advertising agency.

Organizational Effectiveness Consultants
Staffed by organizational psychologists.

Outlines
 Bi-monthly newspaper focusing on news relevant to the gay, lesbian and bisexual  community.

Rainbow PUSH Coaltion
Founded by Jesse Jackson, PUSH is a political and grassroots community and activist organization that seeks racial equality and economic redevelopment of minority and low-income people nationwide.

Randolph Street Gallery
 Multi-disciplinary arts organization dedicated to the development and  understanding of new and innovative art. Presents exhibits and performance art by  emerging and established local and international artists.

Street Level Youth Media
 A youth-oriented organization utilizing video production to prevent gang
 recruitment and inter-gang violence.

Streetwise
 Non-profit newspaper to help Chicago’s homeless and formerly homeless. Publishes weekly.  (Opportunities for writing and photography).

Test Positive Aware Network
 Marketing for organization dedicated to education, outreach and providing resources for those  affected by the HIV/AIDS virus.

The Theater Building
 Non-profit theater which owns and rents 3 black-box theater spaces. The Theater  Building also runs theater workshops, camps and programs for youth.

UIC - Office of Admissions & Records
 University of Illinois at Chicago Admissions and Records department.

Urban Gateways/Center for Arts in Education
 Provides comprehensive arts-in-education programs serving locally as a resource  and nationally as a model for incorporating the arts in all levels of education.

Vietnam Veterans Art Museum
 Features art relative to the Vietnam War and surrounding issues. All art-work is  created by veterans, both from the United State and Vietnam.

WBEZ
 Chicago’s public radio station with extensive production of shows dealing with contemporary Chicago issues and national news.

WECAN
Community development.  Woodlawn East Community and Neighbors is an organization  serving Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood.

WTTW
 Chicago’s public television station with extensive production of shows dealing with contemporary Chicago issues and national news, as well as informational and arts programming.

Women Employed
 Organization focusing on career counseling, advocacy, equal employment rights,  equal pay, work-force training and re-entering for women. Also offers job bank  and job search assistance.

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Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council
 Neighborhood Chamber of Commerce focusing on outreach, city  and social services.

Bethel New Life
 Comprehensive community and economic development corporation dedicated to  creating affordable communities. Focuses on housing, health and family services.

Bickerdike Corporation
 Committed to the redevelopment of the West Town and Humboldt Park communities  for the benefit of and control by the lower and moderate income residents of these  areas. Committed to preserving the ethnic and cultural character, while improving  the  economic conditions of the community.

CANDO
Chicago Association of Neighborhood Development Organizations (CANDO)  (pronounced “can do”) is the largest citywide coalition of neighborhood economic development organizations in the United States.  It works to promote economic revitalization in Chicago's neighborhoods, encouraging retail and industrial development in order to create opportunity, employment, investment, income, and goods and services for their communities.

C.A.U.S.E.S. Development

CYCLE
 Offers after school and summer programs for children.

Center for Conflict Resolution

Center for Neighborhood Technology
 Creates jobs and economic activity in low income communities through environment  improvements.

Chicago Anti-Bashing Network
Formed in response to three September '98 anti-gay bashings in Chicago’s "Boy's Town" neighborhood (and the Matthew Shepard murder in Wyoming), the CABN was formed to protest the polititcal climate which encourages discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual persons.  They form marches and vigils, via a phone tree, whenever hate crimes occur.

Chicago Metropolitan Sports Association
 One of the largest social organizations in the Midwest with a mission to provide the  Chicago area Lesbigay community with activities and events that foster friendship,  sportsmanship, and camaraderie in a safe environment.

Chicago Reporter
The Chicago Reporter was established in 1972 as a means of disseminating information about race and poverty in Chicago.  Used by legislators, policy makers, academics and individuals nationwide, the Reporter continues to break the news and influence the agenda in Chicago.  The Reporter is a publication of the Community Renewal Society.

Chicago Urban League
Established in 1916, the Chicago Urban League is a civil rights organization that works to eliminate racial discrimination and segregation and to work for the achievement of equal opportunity for African Americans, other minorities and the poor in every phase of American life. Today the League's work is focused in three primary areas: education, economic development and community empowerment.

Chicago Workshop for Economic Development
 City-wide coalition made up of community based organizations that work in low- income neighborhoods.

Chinese Mutual Aid Association
The CMAA, first begun in 1981 in response to refugees from Vietnam of Chinese origin, helps recent Chinese immigrants and refugees by sponsoring literacy, employment training and community organizing projects.  There are also seniors program, adjustment and counseling services, Chinese language school and Chinese art classes for children.

Community Investment Corporation
 Non-profit lender providing below-market financing for the rehabilitation of multi- family  housing. Resource for loaning money in inner city areas and the six county
 metro areas.

Community Renewal Society

Egan Urban Center

Eighteenth Street Development Corp.
 Based in the primarily Mexican working class neighborhood of Pilsen, they provide  leadership in areas of job development and affordable housing.

Global Chicago
Non-profit organization which aims to link Chicago area businesses and organizations in order to help Chicago become more prevalent on the global scale and address major humanitarian issues.

Greater Southwest Development Corporation
 Uses funds generated from property owners and engages in tasks necessary to  maintain the vitality of the 63rd Street corridor.

Heartland Café
 Community meeting center containing a shop, bar, café, theater, and other  venues for  community activity.

Howard Area Community Center

Hyde Park Chamber of Commerce

Institute of Urban Life
 Strengthens the capacity of established institutions to revitalize inner-city  neighborhoods and provides free technical assistance to community-based and  other non-profit groups.

Kenwood-Oakland Community Organization
 Mulit-faceted social organization that provides community and social services such  as housing, jobs, welfare assistance, and healthcare.

Lawndale Community Organization
Works for affordable housing options on the west side.

LEED Council (New City YMCA)

Marquette National Bank
 Bank located in Marquette Park on Chicago’s southwest side. The bank serves the  community focusing on community investment and development, equal  opportunity, loans and outreach programs, i.e. Habitat for Humanity

Metropolitan Tenants Organization
 Operates a hotline to handle tenant and landlord disputes. Also serves as a liaison  between the two parties.

Midwest Center for Labor Research
 Conducts research and collects information concerning labor issues, movements  and concerns.

Midwest Community Congress
 Non-profit community council providing social and community services for over  50  years.

National Training and Information Center
 Offers special training on getting loans for communities, creating safe  neighborhoods and a wide variety of community development and service  activities.

Neighborhood Housing Services
 Provides loans to lower income families for repairs, construction, buying a home or  renting an apartment.

Northwest Austin Council
 Organization that provides gang intervention, housing information, education,  drug counseling, after-school programs and a variety of other social services.

ONE (Organization of the Northeast)
 Uptown community organizing and development group.

Rainbow PUSH Coalition
 Founded by Jesse Jackson, PUSH is a political and grassroots community  organization that seeks racial equality and economic redevelopment of Chicago’s  low-income neighborhoods.

Por Un Barrio Mejor
 “For a Better Community”: Located in Little Village, one of Chicago’s largest  Mexican/Mexican-American neighborhoods, the organization focuses on outreach,  community and economic development, education, job training and ESL classes.

Public Allies
 Organization whose mission is to  build community leadership among young  adults.

Puetro Rican Cultural Center/Pedro Albizu Campos, High School
 Cultural center focusing on community outreach, youth and programming  designed  for the Puerto Rican and Humboldt Park community.

South Shore Commission
 Organizes block clubs, crime watch groups, CAPS, food pantry services, counseling  and tutoring for youth and also assists with Census taking.

South Side Preparatory Academy

The REACH Project

United Farm Workers

University Village Association
 Economic and community development program that includes senior services.

Urban Poverty Institute

WECAN
 Woodlawn East Community and Neighbors: Organization focusing on the  redevelopment of Chicago’s Woodlawn Community.

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Alternative Schools Network
 Consortium of alternative high schools and progressive education organizations that focuses on public policy and education.

American Indian Health Service
 Non-profit organization administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs that provides a clinic, health services and prevention programs, as well as education and youth after school programs.

American Lung Association - “Open Airways”
 Provides in-school instruction to children on asthma management skills. The “Open  Airways” program is a six week curriculum that takes place throughout the Chicago  Metropolitan area.

Argo Community High School

Beasley Academic Center Elementary School

Best Practice High School

Blue Gargoyle
 Provides services to the Southside including Adult Literacy, GED training, tutoring,  job training and placement services,  and after school tutoring programs.

Blues Kids of America
NonProfit organization which works with blues musicians to teach blues to Chicago Public School children.

CYCLE
 Organizes after school and summer programs for children.

Cesar Chavez Multicultural Academic Center
 The mission of this grammar school, grades Preschool through 9, is to prepare all children to succeed in the Twenty-First Century's interdependent world through a global educational perspective utilizing a dual language (Spanish/English), a collaborative, and a technological educational approach.  Thus, all classes are bilingual, group-oriented, and have a technology emphasis.

Chicago Mennonite Learning Center
 Christian, multi-racial, K-8 elementary school with approximately 75 students.

Chicago Communities in Schools

Chinese Mutual Aid Association
The CMAA, first begun in 1981 in response to refugees from Vietnam of Chinese origin, helps recent Chinese immigrants and refugees by sponsoring literacy, employment training and community organizing projects.  There are also seniors program, adjustment and counseling services, Chinese language school and Chinese art classes for children.

George Rogers Clark School serves the "Island" (i.e. surrounded by an expressway and factories) part of the Austin community and is part of the South Austin Magnet Cluster (with an emphasis on Performing and Fine Arts).  It is a small school (400 students in grades Kindergarten through 8th); it is racially diverse (6% white, 57% black, 37% hispanic); 85% of its students are low-income; and 13% of its students are English-language deficient.

Curie High School
Curie Metro High School is a regular-track school with magnet schools in performing arts and technical programs (i.e. computers).  Additionally, the high school has over 50 clubs and teams, and it has classes offered by no other school in the country.

Daniel J. Nellum Youth Shelter
Residential center for male teens who are wards of the state. Internship offers tutoring and case management.

Designs for Change
 A non-profit child advocacy organization focused on school reform.

Gillespie Elementary School

Greenrose School

Hyde Park Career Academy

I Have a Dream Foundation
 An educational support program targeting low-income students in the Chicago  area.

Instituto del Progresso Latino

John Hope Community Academy
 Chicago public school, grades 6 - 10.

Kenwood Academy
Kenwood Academy, located in Hyde Park, is not only one of Chicago's best high schools: it was recently featured in US News and World Report as one of the nation's best.  Kenwood has successfully combined a neighborhood student body with an academic magnet school, and has maintained a unique racial and economic diversity among its students.

Latino Youth Inc./Latino Youth Alternative High School
This organization provides quality programs and services that are sensitive and address the lack of educational personal development and leadership opportunities in the Pilsen and Little Village communities.  It offers a regular high school curriculum, a college-prep track, vocational training, likeskills workshops, classes in the arts and athletics, and adult education.

Lawrence Hall Youth Services
Residential treatment center for teens.

Lincoln Park High School
is consistently among the top public high schools in test scores and other measures of academic achievement.  85% of the graduates pursue some form of higher education, and all programs have a college preparatory emphasis. Additionally, there are three Magnet programs: International Baccalaureate, Double Honors/Advanced Placement and Performing Arts (drama, instrumental music or vocal music).

Morgan Park High School
is recognized as one of the top five high schools in the city of Chicago, and is the highest rated general admission high school in the city.  It is known state-wide for its sports, and recently began an international baccalaureate program.  Racially, 83% of its students are black, 12% white, 4% hispanic, and 1% Asian.  44% of its teachers have at least a masters degree.  It is part of the Chicago Public Schools.

Mt. Carmel High School

Murray Language Academy
Murray Language Academy, a grammar school (grades Kindergarten through 8), believes that studying foreign language from a very young age enables students to succeed in an increasingly global world: the Academy offers Japanese, French, and Spanish.  Beyond foreign language, Murray students consistently score above the norm in reading, writing, math, science, and social studies.

Murray Phillips Fine Arts Academy
 Hyde Park elementary school.

Olive Harvey Middle College

Pedro Albizu Campos High School/Puerto Rican Cultural Center
 Offers several programs for involvement, including; Alternative High School, a day  care center, AIDS Education Project, Family Education Program for mothers and  children and an alternative clinic.

Project Education Plus
 Non-profit organization that offers after school programs, summer camps,  services  for senior citizens, scholar/mentor programs, and a technical center.

Ray Elementary School
 Hyde Park elementary school.

Recovering The Gifted Child Academy

Senn High School

Sheridan Academy
A science magnet elementary school.

Sherwood Conservatory of Music
 Community music school that offers programs for people from birth to as old as  you want to be. Internship involving mainly administrative work.

Southeast Asia Services
 ESL services

Southside Preparatory Academy

Southwest Youth Service Collaborative
 Youth related organization for mostly Latino youth. Focuses on youth, sports, and  community justice initiative.

STEP School
 Public school for the treatment of children with emotional problems.

Sullivan House High School
 An independent alternative high school serving young adults who weren’t able to  succeed in public schools. Programs include speech therapy, art therapy and  counseling. Classrooms consist of 8-10 students and 2 teachers.

Tibetan Alliance of Chicago

Urban Gateways/ Center for Arts in Education
 Provides comprehensive arts-in-education programs serving locally as a resource  and nationally as a model for incorporating the arts in all levels of education.

Whitney Young High School

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Urban Teaching Program

Bethel New Life
 Comprehensive community and economic development corporation dedicated to  creating affordable communities. Focuses on housing, health and family services.

Bickerdike Corporation
 Committed to the redevelopment of the West Town and Humboldt Park communities  for the benefit of and control by the lower and moderate income residents of these  areas. Committed to preserving the ethnic and cultural character, while improving  the  economic conditions of the community.

Boulevard Arts Center
 Community cultural center and school of the arts started by and serving residents of  the greater Englewood community; one of the most diverse communities in Chicago.

CANDO
Chicago Association of Neighborhood Development Organizations (CANDO)  (pronounced “can do”) is the largest citywide coalition of neighborhood economic development organizations in the United States.  It works to promote economic revitalization in Chicago's neighborhoods, encouraging retail and industrial development in order to create opportunity, employment, investment, income, and goods and services for their communities.

Chicago Board of Options
Stock market.

Chicago Mercantile Exchange
is an international marketplace that brings together buyers and sellers of derivatives products, which trade on our trading floors, on our GLOBEX® electronic trading system and through privately negotiated transactions. The Exchange offers futures and options on futures in four basic product areas: interest rates, stock indexes, foreign exchange and commodities. CME has a long history of innovation, which includes pioneering financial futures contracts.

Chicago Rehab League
 Coalition of 35 community based housing organizations which provides services in  community development, advocacy, policy analysis, housing and training/technical  assistance.

Chicago Transit Authority
Accounting Dept. of one of the largest city corporations.

Chicago Workshop for Economic Development
 City-wide coalition made up of community based organizations that work in low- income neighborhoods.

Community Investment Corporation
Non-profit lender providing below-market financing for the rehabilitation of  multi- family housing.

Global Chicago
Non-profit organization which aims to link Chicago area businesses and organizations in order to help Chicago become more prevalent on the global scale and address major humanitarian issues.Harris Bank

Lawndale Community Services
Works to provide affordable housing on the west side.

LEED Council (New City YMCA)

Marquette National Bank
 Bank that offers community investments and developments and focuses on equal
opportunity with loans.

Neighborhood Capital Budget Group
The NCBG is a coalition of nearly 200 community based organizations dedicated to improving neighborhoods through well-planned, targeted public investment. Their mission: To ensure the quality of the infrastructure in order to ensure the quality of life for their communities.

Neighborhood Housing Services
Provides business and home loan programs and training for small business development,
non-profits and residences.

Rainbow PUSH Coalition
 LaSalle Street investment counseling; economic development for  minority and low-income populations.

South Shore Bank

South Shore Commission

WECAN
 Nonprofit economic development organization providing job skills and advocacy to   low-income population.

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Fine Arts - Dance, Theater, Museums, Music
American Theatre Company
 Ensemble based theatre company that focuses  on the woes and triumphs of blue-collar men  and women.

Angel Island Theater

ArchiCenter

Association of Advancement of Creative Musicians
 Administrative duties and concert production for a world-renowned group of avant- garde jazz musicians.

Black Ensemble Theatre
 Professional theater company featuring works with African-American playwrights,  issues, culture and history.

Boulevard Arts Center
 Community cultural center and school of the arts started by and serving residents of  the greater Englewood community; one of Chicago’s most diverse communities.

Chicago Children’s Museum
 Only institution in Chicago dedicated specifically to children. A multi-faceted  children’s museum that is an extended classroom which provides a variety of  opportunities for creativity in many fields.

Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra
The CYSO, founded in 1946, is a multi-faceted organization comprising three orchestras, a chamber music program, international touring, an outreach program, a satellite strings program, and an annual summer residency at Chicago's Grant Park Music Festival.

Comedy Sports
 Fully improvised comedy competition.

DuSable Museum of African American History
 Museum with mission to collect, preserve and educate about the experiences of  people of African descent in the Americas and Africa.

ETA Creative Arts Foundation
One of Chicago’s oldest and leading  performance arts organizations in the African-American  community with a  commitment to the production of new works by Black authors

Field Museum of Natural History
 Chicago museum featuring exhibits in the following areas: Anthropology, Botany,  Geology, Zoology, (Birds, fishes, insects, reptiles, and amphibians) Conservation  and Environmental Biology and the Center for Cultural Understanding and  Change.

Free Street Programs
 Creates original theater shows with children in schools, parks and community  centers, runs job programs in the arts for teens, has two theatre programs for  parenting and pregnant teens, an in-hospital program for children and senior  theatre.

Gallery 37
 City program for teens which partners them with established visual and literary artists, actors, and musicians.

Gerber Library

Goodman Theater
Costume design.

Guild Complex
Performance venue for the literary arts.  Also housing a publishing wing -- Tia Chucha Press.

Imagination Theater
 Working specifically with youth, the company establishes artistic and social issues  residencies to work intensively with a core group of up to 35 participants over a  period of weeks or months.

Improv Olympic
 Teaches improvisation.

Lawyers for Creative Arts
 Provides free legal assistance to lower-income artists and emerging arts  organizations. Also creates publications and conducts workshops pertaining to  artists’ legal rights and responsibilities.

League of Chicago Theaters
 An umbrella organization providing service to some 110 constituent theatres in  such areas as marketing, public relations and general auditions.

Lil’ Black Pearl Workshop
 Provides art programs for children.

Lill Street Gallery
 Midwest’s largest clay facility focusing on contemporary ceramics, glass, jewelry  and frames.

Merit Music Program
 Music school serving 3,000 students with a mission to serve economically  disadvantaged youth. Conducts private, group and public school lessons.

Mexican Fine Arts Center
 One of Chicago’s finest museums accredited by the American Museum Associa tion, dedicated to the classic and contemporary work of Mexican and Mexican  American artists.

Murray Phillips Fine Arts Academy
 Hyde Park elementary school.

Museum of Contemporary Art

Museum of Contemporary Photography

Music Theatre Workshop
 Program dedicated to bringing theater and music to children and teens through  the  inner-city schools, museums, recreation centers and juvenile detention centers. A  core of youth writers speak to their peers in their own language.

National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum
Art museum displaying multi-media, film, photography, scultpure, paintings, poetry created by American and Vietnamese soldiers and nurses in the nation's longest war.  Only national museum of its kind in the nation.Near Northwest Arts Council
 Non-profit artist and cultural activist organization, serving the West Town and  Logan  Square neighborhoods, which works to establish new economic models for  community culture.

NeoFuturarium, The
Improv performing group.

Newberry Library
Fine arts library focusing on literature.

Old Town School of Folk Music
 The school serves 3,000 students per week in a new classroom/concert hall  facility. All American music and many World music types are taught and pre sented  here.

Oriental Institute

Peace Museum
 Art and history museum dedicated to peace, community and culture. Also  conducts off-site programming including public art projects and teaching non- violent conflict resolution skills in public schools.

Pegasus Players
 This important mid-size theater ranges from a direct link to Broadway composer  Stephan Sonheim to its annual Young Playwrights Festival for writers under age 18.

Players Workshop of SecondCity

Poetry Magazine

Scrap Mettle Soul
Theater group in the immigrant neighborhood of Uptown which tells the stories of its residents.

Sherwood Conservatory of Music
 Community music school that provides programs for people from birth to as old as  you want to be. Internship involves mainly administrative work.

Steppenwolf Theatre
Tony-Award winning theatre. Their season consists of 5 main stage productions, 4  studio productions and 2 educational outreach productions.

Theater Building
 Theater management organization which leases three black box theater spaces to
 a variety of theater companies.

Victory Gardens Theater
 Dedicated to the development and productions of new works.

Whirlwind Performance Company
 Non-profit education organization dedicated to changing the lives of public school  students through the arts. The company gives students the opportunity to create  their own music, drama and dance.

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AIDSCARE
Organization dedicated to enhancing the level of wellness in all aspects of people’s lives and to improving the quality of life  for individuals living with HIV and AIDS. They help people  continue to live independently and avoid unnecessary  hospitalizations.

Alexian Brothers- Bonaventure House
 Provides housing and meals for people living with AIDS.

American Health Information Management Association
 A professional organization that represents more than 38,000 health information    management professionals who work throughout the health industry. Such professionals serve the  healthcare industry and the public by managing,  analyzing, and utilizing  data vital for patient  care—and making it accessible to healthcare providers when it is needed  most.

American Indian Health Service
 Non-profit organization administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Provides health  services, prevention programs, summer and after school programs and advocacy.

Athletico Sports Medicine & Physical Therapy
 Physical therapy and out-patient care.

Bethany Hospitals Family Health Center

C.A.L.O.R.
 Community based organization in Logan Square/ West Town which provides direct  services to Latinos who are impacted by AIDS by running support groups and  prevention education.

Campaign for Better Health Care
 Healthcare advocacy group working for better and more affordable healthcare for  the  people of Illinois.

Chicago House and Social Service Agency
 Organization that provides community-based housing and supportive services  tailored to meet the changing needs of people living with HIV?AIDS.

 Chicago Health Outreach, Inc.
 Provides health care and services to the homeless.

Children’s Memorial Hospital
 Pediatric hospital and health care services.

Chicago Sports & Orthopedic Rehabilitation Center

Child and Adolescent Health
Child and Adolescent Health is a general practice pediatrician office.

Children’s Place
 Mission is to improve the quality of life for children and their families who are  affected by HIV/AIDS or other life-threatening or serious health conditions. The  core program is a 10 bed residential facility that provides short-term care and  housing for children who have been separated from their homes.

Children's Memorial Hospital
Since its founding in 1882, the mission and vision of Children's Memorial Hospital has single-mindedly focused on the needs of children and their families.  CMH specializes in pediatric care, research into the diseases which affect children, education for physicians and nurses (it is the main facility for Northwestern Med School), and advocacy for children.

Cook County Hospital
The Cook Country Hospital is a public teaching hospital serving primarily low-income population.  The hospital is nationally known for its expertise and breadth of services, including its Level 1 Trauma Center, Burn Unit, and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, the largest in the Midwest.  The residency program  is affiliated with Rush Medical College.

Erie Family Health Center
 Provides a full range of health care and health education services, predominantly to  Chicago’s Puerto Rican community.

Gutrich Chiropractic
 Chiropractic center that offers alternative healthcare, focusing on patient education  in nutrition, body-mind connection and lifestyle enhancement to relieve stress and  promote wellness.

Health and Medicine Policy Research Group
HMPRG evaluates local health policy as an independent, voluntary organization with a mission centering on the health of the poor and underserved.  HMPRG is currently the umbrella for three programs: the Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows (whereby med students serve underprivileged populations; the Health Allocation of the Tobacco Settlement; and Women’s Health Coalition.

HealthSouth Sports Med. & Rehabilitation

Horizons Community Services
is the midwest's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender social service agency.  It offers many programs, including the “Anti-Violence Project” which looks at hate crime and domestic violence, education and support services, an HIV/AIDS/STD hotline, a lesbian/gay hotline, legal services, psychotherapy services, mature adult programs and youth services.

Howard Brown Health Center
The Howard Brown Health Center is the Midwest’s largest lesbian, gay, and bisexual health organization.  It is internationally reknowned for its research and extensive social service programs.  Its departments include Counseling and Social Services, Medical Services, Prevention and Education, and Rainbow Families.

The Hyde Park Animal Clinic
is an animal shelter and veterinary clinic located within one block of the Urban Life Center student apartments.  It offers surgical and dental services, care for "exotic animals, reptiles, small birds and small mammals, and a veterinary pulmonologist.

Hyde Park Associates in Medicine
 Family care neighborhood health clinic.

Infant Welfare Society
 Dental and medical clinic for children.

Jackson Park Hospital Emergency Room

Dr. Jorge Prieto Medical Clinic

La Rabida Children’s Hospital & Research Center

Lesbian Community Cancer Project
 Non-profit organization that  provides a number of services for lesbians living with  cancer, among them a free health clinic, a massage and spa, a resource library,  educational workshops. They are dedicated to providing information for lesbians so  that they get routine exams to catch their cancer in time.

Mercy Hospital

Michael Reese Hospital

Miles Square Health Center
 Community health center providing primary health care to the inner city.  Affiliated  with the University of Illinois.

Minority Outreach Intervention Project
 HIV prevention and case management. Free primary healthcare and prevention  aimed primarily at Latinos and African-Americans.

Northern Illinois Crime Laboratory

Novacare
 Outpatient physical therapy services.  Clinics city-wide.

Physicians for Social Responsibility

Pilsen/Little Village Mental Health Center
 Mental Health organization that treats and focuses on the Mexican-American and  Latino community in Chicago.

Rush Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Hospital
 Chicago hospital -- physical therapy and other outpatient services.

Test Postitive Aware Network

Pauletta Young, D.D.S.
Full service dental clinic located in Hyde Park and Bronzeville.

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Black Metropolis History Project
Project involving direct interviewing with community leaders and other history makers about the Black Metropolis, the largest and oldest African American community in Chicago.

Chicago Historical Society
The Chicago Historical Society is a privately endowed, independent institution devoted to collecting, interpreting, and presenting the rich multicultural history of Chicago and Illinois (at present they have over 20 million photographs, documents, and artifacts relating to Chicago), as well as selected areas of American history, to the public through exhibitions, programs, research collections, and publications.

The Clarke House and The Glessner House
The Prarie Avenue Historic District contains homes that have existed in Chicago for over a century.  At the beginning of the 1900’s, Chicago's Prairie Avenue was called "Millionaire's Row," and Victorian-style homes lined the street. The one exception was the “stone fortress” belonging to wealthy businessman John Jacob Glessner.  Chicago’s oldest house, the Clarke House, is also located here.

DuSable Museum of African American History
 Museum featuring the historical, artistic musical and other contributions of African  Americans, as well as extensive historical exhibits about African Americans across the  diaspora.  Hosts programs and speakers from around the world and offers classes,  school programs and other events to the public.

The Field Museum
Country's largest natural history museum.

Mexican Fine Arts Center/Museum
 Museum that provides a place to display Mexican and Mexican-American art. Also  has begun a children’s program to encourage youth in the community to use their  talents.

National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum
Art museum displaying multi-media, film, photography, scultpure, paintings, poetry created by American and Vietnamese soldiers and nurses in the nation's longest war.  Only national museum of its kind in the nation.

Oriental Institute
Archaelogy.

The Peace Museum
 A small museum that focuses on peace and justice. Also has a children’s program.

Polish Museum of America

Vietnam Veterans Arts Museum
 Displays artwork relevant to the Vietnam War and surrounding issues. All work  featured is created by veterans from both the United States and Vietnam.

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Chicago Reporter
The Chicago Reporter was established in 1972 as a means of disseminating information about race and poverty in Chicago.  Used by legislators, policy makers, academics and individuals nationwide, the Reporter continues to break the news and influence the agenda in Chicago.  The Reporter is a publication of the Community Renewal Society.

CityTalk
is a bi-weekly magazine that is part of Network Chicago, which includes WTTW Channel 11 (PBS) and 98.7WFMT (Classical Music).  CityTalk’s mission is to provide information to an audience of engaged community members who want to connect to the issues, stories and events in and around Chicago.

Community Television Network
Non profit media group that allows young people to learn TV produciton and express their ideas through the show, "Hard Cover." Classes teach youth about art of media, how to use TV equipment, and to think critically.

Hyde Park Herald
 Hyde Park’s weekly newspaper.

In These Times
 Non-profit,  alternative news magazine.

Lambda Publications
 Publication company that focuses on the needs and issues of the lesbian, gay and bi- sexual community. Includes such publications as Outlines and Windy City Times.

New City
 Free alternative that publishes entertainment news and city events.

Outlines
 Bi-monthly newspaper focusing on news of the gay, lesbian and bisexual community.

Northwestern University Press
 Publishing company associated with Northwestern University.

PerformInk
 Performance newspaper for artists and filmmakers.

Poetry Journal
 Journal published through the Newberry Library that features contemporary  works of poetry and literature. Chicago legends published in past journals include  T. S. Elliot, Carl Sandberg and Langston Hughes.

Positively Aware
 The journal of Test Positive Aware Network which deals with developments  relevant to those living with and/or working with HIV-AIDS.

The Reader
 Chicago’s free weekly guide to cultural and entertainment events. Includes  reviews, entertainment news, classifieds, concerts, museums, film and live theater.

Tia Chucha Press
 Independent publishing organization in association with the Guild Complex. Tia  Chucha publishes the works of many Chicago area authors and Guild performers.

WTTW
Public television station which produces a Chicago nightly news program, "Chicago Tonight."

Streetwise
 Non-profit newspaper to help Chicago’s underemployed. Publishes weekly.  (Opportunities for writing and photography).

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Access Living of Chicago
One of the oldest and largest centers for independent living in the country. Staffed with a majority of people with disabilities, the center provides independent living services with a focus on community outreach and education, advocacy, community organizing, and civil rights.

Albert, Whitehead & McGaugh, PC
 Albert, Whitehead PC is a law firm specializing in litigation and transaction, and providing opportunities for students to get first hand experience in the legal profession.

Alternative Schools Network
 Consortium of alternative high schools and progressive education organizations that  focus on public policy and education.

American Civil Liberties Union

Amnesty Intenational

Association House of Chicago
 Helps individuals and families become self-sufficient and independent through  culturally competent education, counseling, residential care, case-management and  employment services. Includes six divisions of legal services.

Cabrini Green Legal Aid Clinic
 Provide free legal aid to individuals mostly in Cabrini Green

Campaign for Better Health Care
 Healthcare advocacy group working for better and more affordable healthcare for the  people of Illinois.

Campaign to End the Death Penalty

Center for Conflict Resolution
The Center for Conflict Resolution (CCR), a not-for-profit mediation, was established by the Chicago Bar Association in 1979. It provides free mediation services in  in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. Cases mediated under these programs include landlord/tenant, small claims, neighbor, misdemeanor, and juvenile disputes. In addition, CCR offers conflict resolution training to a wide range of organizations as well as to individuals.

Center for Neighborhood Technology
CNT’s mission is to invent and implement new tools and methods that create livable urban communities for everyone.  CNT has developed programs that: 1.) look at the assets of Chicago communities in order to create opportunities for them; 2.) analyze public policy to organize community-level operations; and 3.) connect communities through information and communications technology.

Chicago Coalition for the Homeless
 Seeks real, long-term solutions for homelessness, advocates for legislation to create  more affordable housing and protects decent paying jobs.

Chicago Rehab League
 Coalition of 35 community-based housing organizations which provides services  in community development, adocacy, policy analysis, housing and training/ technical assistance.

Citizens Utility Board
 Consumer watchdog group.

Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights
 By organizing grassroots movements, the Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights  has taken on key civil liberties struggles which are often uphill battles, but always  vital to preserving the right to dissent in our society.

Cook County Jail
Institutuion which houses inmates who are awaiting sentencing.  Medium and maximum security system for men and women.

Cook County Juvenile Court/ Probation Department
 Serves the welfare of children and families. Provides guidance, structure and  services needed by the children in its care. Also promotes healing and recovery of  neglected children and the reformation of delinquent children.

Designs for Change
 A non-profit child advocacy organization focused on school reform.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
 Federal agency for environmental protection.

Family Rescue
 Non-profit organization that helps battered women and children through  counseling, legal advocacy, and shelters.

Fourth Ward Aldermanic Office
Assist with neighborhood and city politics with the elected official.

Friends of the Chicago River
 Non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the Chicago River.

Health and Medicine Policy Research Group
 Evaluates local health policy with a mission centering on the health of the poor  and underserved and has developed groundbreaking standards for public  programs.

Heartland Alliance
 Works with homeless individuals and families, immigrants, refugees and other  populations.

Horizons
 An organization dedicated to gay and lesbian issues. They also provide programs  for youth by facilitating programs in schools.

Karen Walker, Attorney
 Independent law office of Karen Walker, Urban Life Center Board of Directors  member, whose practice focuses on tenants and their rights.

Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc.

Lawyer’s Committee for Better Housing

Lawyers for Creative Arts
 Provides free legal assistance to lower-income artists and emerging arts  organizations. Also creates publications and conducts workshops pertaining to  artists’ legal rights and responsibilities.

Legal Assistance Foundation

McNish, Kanabe and Kroning
Law firm specializing in real estate, estate planning, family, and probate law.

Metro Water Reclamation District

National Abortion Rights Action League
 Non-profit organization that stresses the importance of reproductive freedom,  education and choices. Works with individuals, community and political sectors.

National Association of Social Workers
 Develops internships and placements for students interested in legislative advocacy  and electoral politics, social work policy and practice issues, and association  management.

National Conference on Wrongful Convictions & The Death Penalty
 Organization based at Northwestern University Legal Clinic that seeks to research  and present cases of wrongful conviction in preparation for the national  conference.

Northern Illinois Crime Laboratory (Forensic Science)

Northwest Coalition in Defense of Immigrants

People’s Law Office
 Law office handling civil rights cases, police brutality, and misconduct.

Personal PAC
Bi-partisan political action committee dedicated to electing pro-choice candidates.Physicians for Social Responsibility

Rape Victim Advocates
 Provides a crisis hotline, hospital advocacy, legal advocacy and counseling for  adults and adolescents.

Standish Willis, Attorney
 Law office handling civil rights cases, police brutality, and misconduct.

Wrongful Conviction Symposium

YWCA
 Legal advocacy for survivors of sexual assault.

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Advisory Council on Gay and Lesbian Issues
 Part of the Chicago Commission on Human  Relations, dedicated to acting as a liason  between city government and the gay  community, working with other  organizations and businesses to promote  cooperation, better understanding, and  improved services to the gay community, and  to identify discrimination in such areas as  housing, employment, and public  accommodations.

American Friends Service Committee
 A Quaker-based peace and justice organization that works locally, nationally and  internationally. Works specifically with issues of youth, leadership development,  popular education, immigration, economic justice and Palestinian family reunification.

Amnesty International
 A world-wide human rights organization which works impartially for the release of  prisoners of conscience, fair trials for political prisoners and to end torture and  executions.

Apna Ghar
 Center that provides services, education and awareness training for those issues  concerning domestic violence. Includes shelter, resources, public school awareness  workshops etc., serving predominantly for Chicago’s Southeast Asian community.

Center for Conflict Resolution
 Provides mediation services to courts, organizations and businesses and teaches  conflict resolution skills.

Center for Neighborhood Technology
 Creates jobs and economic activity in low income communities through  environmental improvements.

 Chicago Anti-Bashing Network
 Organization that  plans marches against gay-bashings, protests, self-defense  workshops, rallies, and more.

Friends of the Chicago River
 Non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the Chicago River.  Provides river guides on tours and programs
for children, such as "River Rats."

Illinois Federation for Human Rights

Korean-American Campus Ministry

Midwest Center for Labor Research

New World Resource Center
 A bookstore and information clearinghouse specializing in a progressive  perspective on historical
and contemporary social and political issues.

Nicaragua & Solidarity Committee

North Park Village Nature Center

Peace Museum, The
 Art and history museum dedicated to peace, community and culture. Also conducts  off-site programming including public art projects and teaching non-violent  conflict resolution skills in public schools.

Religious Task Force on Central America

Su Casa
 A hospitality house for Central American refugees seeking political asylum in the  United States.

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Chicago Christian Industrial League
 Home to nearly 300 homeless men, women and children who need shelter, food and  clothing each day. They also provide counseling, case management, job training,  education, child care  services and a wide variety of other social services.

Council for Jewish Elderly
 Provides a variety of programs and services that help individuals and their families  successfully manage the responsibilities of independent living.

Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions
 Non-profit organization whose mission is to foster inter-religious dialogue and  cooperation in metropolitan Chicago and around the world.

Interchurch Refugee Center
 Refugee resettlement agency and the local affiliate for three large national  organizations. Their mission is to provide resettlement and readjustment services to  refugees settling in the Chicago area.

Interfaith House

Interfaith Organizing Project of Greater Chicago
 Action Alert Network that responds to policy issues regarding the homeless.  Services to homeless include assessment program, respite program and a  supportive  living program.

Jesus People/Cornerstone

K.A.M. Issaiah Israel Congregation
 Jewish synagogue located in Hyde Park.

Muslim Community Center
 Provides basic services to Muslim community

Olive Branch

The Port
 Offers a variety of social services, including a soup kitchen (The Mantle), food  pantry, clothing department, child care, adult tutoring, health services, etc.

SCUPE
Consortion of Chicago area ecumenical religious leaders focusing on advocacy and ecumenical concerns.

Uptown Baptist Church
 Facilitates a variety of outreach services, including programs for homeless and  victims of domestic violence.

Uptown Ministries
 Offers lots of hands-on learning through a variety of programs. Programs include  self-help groups, spiritual nurture, outreach and community health services.

Uptown Community Parish

Zen Buddhist Temple
 The Zen Buddhist Society for Compassionate Wisdom offers a variety of services  and workshops for members and the public. Workshops focus on meditation, while  the Temple also holds retreats and educational film series.

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Access Living of Chicago
One of the oldest and largest centers for independent living in the country. Staffed with a majority of people with disabilities, the center provides independent living services with a focus on community outreach and education, advocacy, community organizing, and civil rights.

Advisory Council on Gay and Lesbian Issues
 Part of the Chicago Commission on Human  Relations, dedicated to acting as a liason  between city government and the gay  community, working with other organizations  and businesses to promote cooperation, better  understanding, and improved services to the  gay community, and to identify discrimination  in such areas as housing, employment, and  public accommodations.

African Peoples Institute

AIDSCARE
 Organization dedicated to enhancing the level of wellness in all aspects of people’s  lives and to improving the quality of life for individuals living with HIV and AIDS.  They help people continue to live independently and avoid unnecessary  hospitalizations.

Alexian Brothers - Bonaventure House
 Provides housing and meals for people living with AIDS.

American Indian Health Service
 Non-profit organization administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Provides health  services, prevention programs, summer and after school programs and advocacy.

Apna Ghar
 Center located in Uptown that focuses on issues of domestic violence, including  education, awareness, shelter,  counseling and a variety of direct services for women,  predominantly from the Southeast Asian community. Apna Ghar also conducts  awareness workshops in the public schools.

Asian Human Services
 Social service organization providing services to the Asian populations of Uptown and  surrounding communities.

Association House of Chicago
 Helps individuals and families become self-sufficient and independent through  culturally competent education, counseling, residential care, case-management and  employment services. Includes six divisions of legal services.

Austin People’s Action Center
 Social service agency providing health and emergency services and housing to a  variety of clients.

Back of the Yards Business Association
 Neighborhood Chamber of Commerce focusing on outreach, city and social  services. Back of the Yards is the oldest community organization in the U.S.

Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council
 Works to create jobs for local residents through its Economic Development Unit. It  has also worked since the closing of the Stockyards in 1971 to redevelop the  industrial job base for the community. Also serves as a social service/outreach  resource.

Better Boys Foundation - Family Center
 Community based organization committed to bettering the lives of disadvantaged  youth through education, counseling, cultural arts, community involvement and  residential services.

CALOR
 Community based organization in Logan Square/ West Town which provides  direct services to Latinos who are impacted by AIDS by running support groups  and prevention education.

CARA
 An organization dedicated to assisting the homeless and at-risk population in their  efforts to return to a life of economic self-sufficiency and achievement.

Casa Atzlan
 Multi-service organization in Pilsen with programs for after-school, teens, adult  literacy skills, health and family services.

Casa Central La Posada
 Chicago’s largest Hispanic social service agency that assists more than 20,000  individuals every year. Programs respond to the needs of the entire family, from  children to elderly, in order to develop stable communities and families.

Center for Conflict Resolution

Chicago Abused Women’s Coalition

Chicago Childcare Society

Chicago Coalition for the Homeless
 An advocacy agency for the homeless and issues affecting the homeless community.

Chicago Christian Industrial League
 Home to nearly 300 homeless men, women and children who need shelter, food  and clothing each day. They also provide counseling, case management, job  training, education, child care services and a wide variety of other social services.

Chicago Commons - Mary McDowell Center
 Settlement house with food give-away for seniors, singles and homeless. Also has  programs involving youth, families and elderly.

Chicago Department on Aging
 Creates options in eldercare programs and services and ensures the availability of  critical services, benefits and entitlements for the elderly in Chicago. Programs  include Meals on Wheels, Respite Care, Foster Grandparent Programs, Senior  Companions, etc.

Chicago Health Outreach, Inc.
 Provides health care and services to the homeless.

Chicago Hearing Society
Chicago Hearing Society’s mission is to empower deaf, hard of hearing and hearing people to communicate with each other.  Its programs include domestic violence counseling, sign language classes, and youth services, among others.  It is part of Anixter, which serves Chicagoans with all different types of disabilities (CALOR is part of Anixter).

Chicago House and Social Service Agency
 Organization that provides community-based housing and supportive services  tailored to meet the changing needs of people living with HIV?AIDS.

Chicago Housing Authority
 Chicago’s public housing authority whose mission it is to provide safe, sanitary and  affordable housing to low-income individuals and families.

Chicago Metropolitan Sports Association
 One of the largest social organizations in the Midwest with a mission to provide the  Chicago area Lesbigay community with activities and events that foster friendship,  sportsmanship, and camaraderie in a safe environment.

Chicago Youth Centers
 Social service agency that deals with children.

Children’s Place
 Mission is to improve the quality of life for children and their families who are  affected by HIV/AIDS or other life-threatening or serious health conditions. The  core program is a 10 bed residential facility that provides short-term care and  housing for children who have been separated from their homes.

Chinese Mutual Aid Association
The CMAA, first begun in 1981 in response to refugees from Vietnam of Chinese origin, helps recent Chinese immigrants and refugees by sponsoring literacy, employment training and community organizing projects.  There are also seniors program, adjustment and counseling services, Chinese language school and Chinese art classes for children.

Community Emergency Shelter Organization
 Organization that works to help homeless facilities run better by providing  management support services and skills instruction.

Cook County Juvenile Court/ Probation Department
 Serves the welfare of children and families. Provides guidance, structure and  services needed by the children in its care. Also promotes healing and recovery of  neglected children and the reformation of delinquent children.

Cortland Manor
 Retirement home for low-income senior citizens.

Council for Jewish Elderly
 Provides a variety of programs and services that help individuals and their families  successfully manage the responsibilities of independent living.

Daniel J. Nellum Youth Shelter
Residential center for male teens who are wards of the state.

Deborah’s Place
 Serves women who are 18 or older and homeless. Services include overnight  shelter, daytime support, second stage housing, transitional shelter, supportive  permanent housing, case management, as well as therapeutic, educational and  skills services.

Dorothy Gibbons, Adult Day Care

Duncan YMCA

Ekhart Park
Camps for children, including Campsign, for hearing impaired and deaf kids.

Erie Family Health Center
 Provides a full range of health care and health education services predominantly to  Chicago’s Puerto Rican community.

Erie Neighborhood House
 Multi-purpose organization that provides such services as day care, after school  programs, adult education, and an emergency food pantry.

Family Community Service - Dept. of Medical Social Work
 Outreach services in homes and communities with families referred by Illinois  DCFS. Serves HIV-affected families, pregnant and parenting teen wards to prepare  them for independent living and also serves families under court order of  supervision.

Family Focus Lawndale
 Family focus social service agency. Includes work with pregnant teens, older  parents with children ages 0-5 years, primary prevention program with women  and men, after school programs and home visits.

Family Guidance Center
 Drug addiction treatment facility which provides a variety of assistance programs.

Family Rescue
 Non-profit organization that helps battered women and children by providing  shelter, counseling, and legal advocacy.

Featherfist
It is the mission of Featherfist to eliminate homelessness by giving the homeless “power and purpose” by assisting them in their advancement toward self-sufficiency, residential stability, and self-determination.  Their programs include emergency outreach, case management, and training and employment, and they are quite successful: 75% of clients have found permanent or tansitional housing.

Fellowship House
 Youth Center for children ages 3 to 18.  They have both a Head Start Program as well  as after school programs.

Gateway Foundation
 Largest social service agency providing substance abuse treatment with 30  facilities which target adults, adolescents on an outpatient and residential basis.

Genesis House
 Residential program for women who are trying to get out of the lifestyle of  prostitution. Provides services such as food, clothing, referral, and a crisis hotline.

Greater Chicago Food Depository
 Non-profit food distribution center which solicits, obtains and distributes donated  and purchased foods to member agencies.

Greater Southwest Development Corp.
 Uses funds generated from property owners and engages in tasks necessary to  maintain the vitality of the 63rd Street corridor.

Haitian American Community Association

Heart of Uptown Coalition

Heartland Alliance
 Provides an array of services to people isolated through poverty or displacement.

Horizons Community Services
is the midwest's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender social service agency.  It offers many programs, including the “Anti-Violence Project” which looks at hate crime and domestic violence, education and support services, an HIV/AIDS/STD hotline, a lesbian/gay hotline, legal services, psychotherapy services, mature adult programs and youth services.

Howard Brown Health Center
The Howard Brown Health Center is the Midwest’s largest lesbian, gay, and bisexual health organization.  It is internationally reknowned for its research and extensive social service programs.  Its departments include Counseling and Social Services, Medical Services, Prevention and Education, and Rainbow Families.

HuTech
 Human Service Technologies works to stabilize and secure permanent family living  arrangements for children who are in or at risk of entering the Illinois child  welfare system by helping the caregiver to meet children’s needs without the  intervention of the child welfare system.

Hyde Park Neighborhood Club
 A social and community service agency that offers recreational and educational  programs for people of all ages.

Institute of Cultural Affairs
 Offers training courses designed to help individuals and groups solve problems  and make decisions as a team. Also offer leaderships programs for Native American  youth.  ICA’s goal is to serve as a catalyst and seeks to help people help themselves.

Institute of Urban Life
 Strengthens the capacity of established institutions to revitalize inner-city  neighborhoods and provides free technical assistance to community-based  organizations and other non-profit groups.

Interchurch Refugee Center
 Refugee resettlement agency that is the local affiliate for three large national  organizations. Dedicated to resettlement and readjustment services for refugees  who are settling in the Chicago area.

Interfaith Council for the Homeless
 Action alert network that responds to policy issues regarding the homeless.  Services to the homeless include an assessment program, a respite program and a  supportive living program.

Interfaith House

International Refugee Center

Jane Addams Resource Center
 Community development organization that offers workforce development training  and services to businesses.

Japan America Society
 Non-profit organization dedicated to promoting goodwill and understanding  between the people of Japan and the U.S.

Japanese American Citizen’s League

Japanese American Service Committee
 Organization that connects with an increasingly complex world of social services,  hospitals, legal services and counseling.

Juvenile Probation

Kaleidoscope
 Organization that provides an array of services such as youth development services  and satellite family outreach

Kin Care, Inc.
 An agency that provides housing and other services for developmentally disabled  adults.

Lakefront SRO
 Single Room Occupancy shelter providing services and necessities to homeless  women.

Lakeview Shelter, Inc.
 Community-based, grassroots organization dedicated to helping the homeless.  Provides emergency shelter and a structured day program and is dedicated to  breaking the cycle of homelessness and moving people into stable living situations.

Latin United Community Housing Association
 Chicago’s only Puerto Rican community housing group. LUCHA helps tenants and  home owners improve poor housing, work to encourage and support home  ownership, increase decent, reasonably priced housing and carryout a variety of  community improvement projects and social services in the community.

Lawyers Committee for Better Housing

Lesbian Community Cancer Project
 Non-profit organization that  provides a number of services for lesbians living with  cancer, among them a free health clinic, a massage and spa, a resource library,  educational workshops. They are dedicated to providing information for lesbians so  that they get routine exams to catch their cancer in time.

Little Brothers/ Friends of the Elderly
 Non-profit organization dedicated to meeting the material and emotional needs of  lonely and isolated men and women while respecting their dignity and  independence.

Lutheran Child and Family Services
 Organization that provides foster care, adoption, and a variety of social services  and family assistance.

Maria High School

Marillac House
 A multi-service agency serving the people of the West side. Services include child  and adult day care, child abuse and prevention and a variety of family services.

Mercy Hospital
Medical social work.

Metropolitan Tenants Organization

MidAmerica Leadership Foundation/Vision Chicago/World Vision
 Organization that provides a number of services, among them community  outreach.

Midwest Coalition to Reform Immigration

Minority Outreach Intervention Project
  Social services to the gay, lesbian, bi- and transgendered communities.

Mujeres Latinas de Accion
Provides services such as domestic violence counseling, sexual  assault counseling, legal referrals, and immigration issues.

Neon Street
 Crisis center for teens; primarily run-aways and homeless youth.

New Moms

Olive Branch

Open Hand Chicago
 Provides food and nutritional support for people living with HIV/AIDS. Services  are  delivered by dedicated community volunteers who offer care and compassion  while they promote client dignity and maximum self-reliance.

Operation Brotherhood
 Assists elderly people on the West Side who are not able to meet the basics of  human existence. Includes health programs, on-site clothing store, transportation  program, food center, Meals on Wheels and a variety of other programs.

Organization of the Northeast

Pilsen Coalition for Families
 Takes a human services approach to mental health. Programs are designed  according to community needs and includes a variety of services and divisions.

Pilsen/Little Village Mental Health Center
 Mental Health organization that treats and focuses on the Mexican-American and  Latino community in Chicago, including group therapy, counseling and medical  care.

Por Un Barrio Mejor
(For a Better Neighborhood) - Serves the Mexican neighborhood of La Vilita with tutoring, economic development and
other services.  Oldest community organization in Little Village.

PORT Ministries (inc. The Mantle)
 Offers a variety of social services, including a soup kitchen (The Mantle), food  pantry, clothing department, child care, adult tutoring, health services, etc.

Positively Aware
 The journal of Test Positive Aware Network.

Puerto Rican Community Center
 Offers several programs for involvement including Alternative high school, a  day care center, AIDS Education Project, Family Education Program for mothers  and children, and an alternative clinic.

Rainbow House
 Emergency based shelter that provides individual and group counseling for women  and children.

Rape Victim Advocates
 Provides a variety of assistance including a crisis hotline, hospital advocacy, legal  advocacy and counseling for adults and adolescent survivors of sexual assault.

Ravenswood Hospital Medical Center
 Program designed to educated new mothers about the importance of having their  babies immunized on time.

The REACH Project
 Rogers Park community action network.

Recovering the Gifted Child
 Educational program for children.

REST Shelter
 Provides clothing, food, health resources, education and shelter services for  homeless men and women.

Robert Taylor Boys and Girls Club
 Boys and Girls Club serving the community of Robert Taylor Project Development  (the largest public housing development in the nation, and the second poorest  community in the U.S.) The Boys and Girls Club offers cooking classes, tutoring,  computer training, library time, sports, arts, crafts, peer mentoring and a wide  variety of programming.

Sarah’s Circle
 Drop-in center that offers a welcoming, supportive, non-intrusive, safe haven for  women who are homeless or of low-income. Also offers a variety of free services  and activities.

Sherwood Conservatory of Music
 Community music school that provides programs for people from birth to as old as  you want to be.

Southeast Asia Center
 Social service organization dedicated to providing service to Vietnamese, Chinese,  Thai and Laotian immigrants, including day care and English classes.

Southeast Regional Department on Aging - Atlas Center
 Facility for the elderly. Services includes a meal program, entertainment, arts and  crafts,  weight rooms, pool, checkers, etc.

Southwest Organizing Project
 Social work community organization.

Southwest Youth Service Collaborative
Provides many programs for young people including a rap/hip-hop program, Miranda rights education, soccer, Girl Power,
etc.

St. Leonard’s House for Ex-Offenders
 Episcopal Charities organization that houses 40 ex-offenders who stay from their  release from the prison system up to 4 months. Programs help residents with  recovery programs, low income housing, employment and possible educational  opportunities.

St. Martin de Porres
Residential shelter for women and children.

Test Positive Aware Network
Support services for people with HIV/AIDS.

Thresholds South (Psychology)
Provides psychological services including family and individual counseling.

Tibetan Alliance of Chicago

Uptown Baptist Church
 Facilitates a variety of outreach services, including programs for homeless and  victims of domestic violence. (Art Therapy)

Uptown Hull House - Arts Program
 Mission is to promote leadership skills and self-sufficiency to encourage community  participation and to enhance communication, cooperation and interaction among  people of all ages, cultures, ethnicity and economic means through various  programs.

Uptown Ministries
 Offers lots of hands-on learning through a variety of programs. Programs include  self-help groups, spiritual nurture, outreach and community health services.

Vietnamese Association of Illinois
 Non-profit community organization established to respond to the needs of  Chicago’s 14,000 Vietnamese residents. Provides refugees with knowledge and  opportunities  needed to become independent Americans, as well as job preparation  and placement.

Vision House
 In-house independent living organization.

WECAN—Woodlawn East Community and Neighbors

West Side Future
 Case management for children and infants, pregnant moms. Offer focus groups and  counseling as well as medical services.

Women Employed
 Organization focusing on career development and job training for women.

Women’s Place Resource Center

Women’s Self Employment Project
 Help low to moderate income women and business entrepreneurs by offering  classes and assistance.

YWCA or Metropolitan Chicago Loop Women’s Services
 Assist with the Rape Crisis Hotline and the Medical Advocacy Program. Intern may receive training to work with survivors of sexual assault and their significant others in an  emergency room setting and on the crisis hotline.  Assist with public education.

Young Parent Program
 Support and information for parenting to pregnant teens through home visits and  group work.

Senior Social Work Semester
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Chicago Abused Women Coalition/Greenhouse
 Founded in 1977, CAWC established Chicago's first 24-hour domestic violence hotline and opened Greenhouse Shelter, Chicago's first safe refuge for battered women and their children. CAWC's keystone programs and services continue to provide comprehensive life-saving assistance to over 1,000 women and children each year. In addition, CAWC has become known for innovative model programs and partnerships

Deborah’s Place
 Serves women who are 18 and older who are homeless. Services include overnight  shelter, daytime support, second stage housing, transitional shelter, supportive  permanent housing, case management, therapeutic services, education and skills  development.

Family Rescue
 Domestic violence program with emergency shelter, outreach/prevention program,  counseling, transitional housing with 22 apartments, day care center, 24 hour crisis  center and speakers bureau.

Feminist Writer’s Guild

Genesis House
 Social service agency that helps women who have been involved in prostitution.  There  are three locations, two drop-in centers, two food pantries, clean needle  exchange, some health care, court outreach, street outreach, HIV program, living  program and career services.

Grace House
 Women’s shelter.

Heartland Alliance Women’s Program

Irene’s Place
 Serves women who are homeless by providing a variety of social services,  including  art therapy.

Maria’s Shelter
 Shelter that provides clinical psychology, case management, healthcare, a learning  lab, job training, as well as a shelter for women and children.

Midwest Women’s Center
 Non-profit organization that gives disadvantaged women resources and  opportunities  to improve their economic conditions. The program focuses on  training, education and employment.

Mujeras Latinas de Accion
 Organization that provides domestic violence counseling, sexual assault counseling,  work training, legal referrals, and assists with immigration issues.

National Abortion and Rape Rights Action League
 Non-profit organization that stresses the importance of reproductive freedom,  education and choices. Works with individuals, community and political sectors.

New Moms

Personal PAC
Bi-partisan political action committee dedicated to electing pro-choice candidates.

Planned Parenthood - Chicago Area
 Provides health care and health care education distribution.

Rape Victim Advocates
 Provides crisis hotline, hospital advocacy, legal advocacy, counseling for adults and  adolescence. Training is available to student interns.

Sarah’s Circle
 Drop-in center that offers a welcoming, supportive, non-intrusive, safe haven for  women who are homeless or of low-income, offers refuge from the street and free  services and activities such as counseling and support groups, and a variety of  activities.

Southwest Women Working Together
 Helps with women and children victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse via  counseling, employment, shelters, and assistance with the search for affordable  housing.

St. Martin De Porres
 Women’s shelter and counseling center.

Women Employed
 Organization focusing on career development and job training for women

Women’s Place Resource Center

Women’s Self Employment Project

YWCA or Metropolitan Chicago Loop Women’s Services
 Assist with the Rape Crisis Hotline and the Medical Advocacy Program. Deal di rectly with survivors of sexual assault and their significant others in an emergency  room setting and on the crisis hotline. Interns also have the opportunity to  assist with speaking engagements and public education, and would learn about  daily operations of a non-profit women-centered agency.

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American Indian Health Service
 Non-profit organization administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs that provides a  clinic, health services, and prevention programs along with after school programs for  children.

American Lung Association - “Open Airways”
 Provides in-school instruction to children on asthma management skills. The “Open  Airways” program is a six week curriculum that takes place throughout the Chicago  Metropolitan area.

Better Boys Foundation - Development Office
 Oversees all fundraising, meetings and special events of the agency.

Better Boys Foundation - Family Center
 Community based organization committed to bettering the lives of disadvantaged  youth  through education, counseling, cultural arts, community involvement and residential  services.

Boys & Girls Club of Chicago
 Downtown administration of various youth clubs throughout the city.

CYCLE
 Organization that provides after school and summer programs for children.

Casa Atzlan
 Multi-service organization in Pilsen with programs for after-school, teens, adult  literacy skills, health and family services.

Center for Communication Resources
 Promotes fair access to communication resources. Interns can teach assist and work  with youth in various environments.

Chicago Children’s Choir

Chicago Children’s Museum
 Only institution in Chicago dedicated specifically to children. A multi-faceted  children’s museum that is an extended classroom which provides a variety of  opportunities for creativity in many fields.

Chicago Youth Centers
 Provides a safe place for recreation, socialization and many other activities. Centers  are located in low-income neighborhoods and respond to local needs.

Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra
 Brings together high school musicians from 50 communities for a strong program  in  performance training in orchestra and chamber music.

Child and Adolescent Health

Child Care Initiatives (JAC)

Child Serve
ChildServ is a non-profit, private child welfare agency that helps children and their families build better lives.  Their wide range of programs and services, for over 4000 children,  include daycare, tutoring, foster care and adoption, early childhood education and parenting support.

Children's Memorial Hospital
Since its founding in 1882, the mission and vision of Children's Memorial Hospital has single-mindedly focused on the needs of children and their families.  CMH specializes in pediatric care, research into the diseases which affect children, education for physicians and nurses (it is the main facility for Northwestern Med School), and advocacy for children.

Children’s Place
 Mission is to improve the quality of life for children and their families who are  affected by HIV/AIDS or other life-threatening or serious health conditions. The  core program is a 10 bed residential facility that provides short-term care and  housing for children who have been separated from their homes.

Chicago Communities in Schools

Chinese Mutual Aid Association
The CMAA, first begun in 1981 in response to refugees from Vietnam of Chinese origin, helps recent Chinese immigrants and refugees by sponsoring literacy, employment training and community organizing projects.  There are also seniors program, adjustment and counseling services, Chinese language school and Chinese art classes for children.

Community Television Network
 Empowers low-income children and young adults by teaching them the use of  media  arts through video instruction classes. Students produce, with the  supervision of the educators, “Hard Cover”; a cable access TV show.

Daniel J. Nellum Youth Shelter
 Residential  center for male teens who are wards of the state.

deMicco Youth Services

Duncan YMCA

Ekhart Park
Camps for children, including Campsign, for hearing impaired and deaf kids.El Hogar del Nino

Elliot Donnelly Youth Center

Fellowship House
 Social service organization working with at-risk youth in positive programming  after school and in school including a head start program, after school and teen  programs as well as gang and drug prevention within a family atmosphere.

Food From the Hood

Free Street Programs
 Creates original theater shows with children in schools, parks and community  centers, runs job programs in the arts for teens, has two theatre programs for  parenting and pregnant teens, clown doctors and senior theatre.

Horizons Community Service
 Community program that deals with gay and lesbian issues. They also focus on  youth and help facilitate programs in schools. Midwest's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender social service and advocacy agency.  Includes a help line, anti-violence project, educationa nd support services, psychotherapy and youth services.Humboldt Park Head Start

HuTech
 Human Service Technologies works to stabilize and secure permanent family living  arrangements for children who are in or at risk of entering the Illinois child  welfare system by helping the caregiver to meet children’s needs without the  intervention of the child welfare system.

I Have a Dream Foundation
 An educational support program targeting low-income students in the Chicago  area.

Howard Area Community Center

Jane Addams Center/ Hull House
 Non-profit organization which strives to help the community in numerous ways.  They have an after-school program for children along with a summer camp,  numerous recreational options for all ages and provide under-privileged teens  with job training and socialization.

Latino Youth Inc.
 Provides quality programs and services that are sensitive and address the lack of  educational personal development and leadership opportunities in the community  that foster excellence, the acquisition of skills, community awareness and cultural  pride.

Lawrence Hall Youth Services

Maria High School

Merit Music Program
 Music school serving 3,000 students with a mission to serve economically  disadvantaged youth.

Music Theatre Workshop
 Program dedicated to bringing theater and music to children and teens through  the  schools, museums, recreation centers and juvenile detention centers.

Neon Street House
 Crisis center for teens; primarily homeless youth.

ORR Infant Center

Ounce of Prevention Fund

Project Education Plus

Recovering the Gifted Child Academy

Robert Taylor Boys and Girls Club

Sheridan Day Care Center - JAC
 Day care center.

Southwest Youth Service Collaborative

Street Level Youth Media

Training Alliance, The

Whirlwind Performance Company
 Non-profit education organization dedicated to changing the lives of public school  students through the arts. The company gives students the opportunity to create  their own music, drama and dance.

Yollocalli Youth Museum

STEP School
 Public school for the treatment of children with emotional problems.

Youth Services Committee of the West Side

Youth Services Project
 Assist with youth between the ages of 16 and 21 via eleven different programs.

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