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Spring Newsletter 2025

Spring Newsletter 2025 Announcing Our New Executive Director and New Program Strategies Photo caption: Senior Program Officer Nathan Stevens celebrates with peer mentors who graduated from a person-centered empowerment initiative at grantee partner Ray Graham Association. In This Issue Meet Our...

Summer Newsletter 2024

Photo: Urban Juncture Foundation opened the 2024 Boxville Marketplace season with Juneteenth celebration. Learn more about this dynamic community hub where entrepreneurs come together to launch, nurture and expand their businesses at www.boxville.org In This Issue We've Moved! Meet our New Grants...

July 2023: Summer Newsletter

From the CEO As much as I welcome summer like any Midwesterner, I admit that the joy of this season has been tempered by what feels like a barrage of bad news in local and national headlines these past...

May 2023: Spring Newsletter

From the CEO Welcome to our spring newsletter! This has been a busy season already of growth and renewal. This newsletter includes an update on our board and staff team, and our first quarter grants list. We started the...

October 2022: Fall 2022 Newsletter

Fall has arrived in Chicago, bringing with it stunning colors, chillier mornings and a world beginning to open up! We've found our sweaters and coats again. We're sitting in more traffic than we have in a while. We see our...

July 2022: Summer 2022 Newsletter

I welcome you to our summer newsletter with a mixture of joy and sadness. While it is a season of much-awaited, long sunny days and family vacations for many, I want to also acknowledge those of us who are struggling....