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Marwen. Marwen is a nonprofit organization that provides free arts education to Chicago students from under-resourced neighborhoods and schools. [1] It began as a one-room art studio in 1987, and today serves close to 900 students a year through after-school and weekend arts programming. [2] As of 2017, Marwen has served more than 10,000 ...
Lisa Redfield Peattie (1924–2018) was an American anthropologist and professor of urban anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.She was best known for her work in advocacy planning, a type of urban planning which seeks social change by including all interests and groups in the planning process.
Our black year : one family's quest to buy Black in America's racially divided economy. New York, NY: PublicAffairs. ISBN 9781610390248. LCCN 2011040609. Maggie Anderson (born Margarita; born 1971) is an American activist, author, CEO, and co-founder, with her husband John Anderson, of the Empowerment Experiment. [7] [8]
Savor peace from mind in the practice moment. Practicing for a period of time helps reduce the distracted or transactional nature of the mind—the worries, anxieties, desire to accomplish ...
Chicago Foundation for Women ( CFW) is a nonprofit grantmaking organization that focuses on creating opportunities and resources for women in the Chicago area. [1] Many Chicago based organizations such as South Side Giving Circle and LBTQ Giving Council further help women that face violence, poverty, and discrimination using the resources from ...
Crucibles of Black Empowerment: Chicago's Neighborhood Politics from the New Deal to Harold Washington. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226130729. Hirsch, Arnold R. (2011). Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9781283097598. McKersie, Robert B. (2013).
Patricia Deegan, giving a workshop in Israel, 2019. Patricia E. Deegan is an American disability-rights advocate, psychologist and researcher. She has been described as a "national spokesperson for the mental health consumer/survivor movement in the United States."
The Crossroads Fund is a Chicago -based public foundation that supports community organizations working for social and economic justice in the Chicago area. It is a member of a national network of grantmakers called the Funding Exchange [www.fex.org], all of whom share the motto, "change, not charity." This motto speaks to a shared commitment ...