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On December 6th, 60 Take the Lead Team Captains came together from across Chicago for the annual Captains’ Classic at Chicago Indoor Sports. Take the Lead Team Captains act as leaders for their Work to Play teams who are made up of 1st to 4th graders. Not only is the Captains’ Classic is an opportunity…
Urban Initiatives’ Community Resource Coordinator William Green is helping kids and families in Englewood take ownership of their school. For the last 13 years Urban Initiatives has provided many opportunities to make change in Chicago through academic success, healthy living, and leadership development. At the start of the 2016 – 2017 academic year for Chicago…
Coach Cecilia shares highlights from her parent/player scrimmages at Stevenson Elementary! The primary goal at Urban Initiatives is to empower Chicago’s youth to become agents of community change through academic success, healthy living, and leadership development. Family involvement within the Work to Play program is very important at Urban Initiatives. During the course of the last…
Our Take the Lead retreat at William Blair was a huge success. Friday morning, the city was buzzing in anticipation of the Cubs World Series parade. That did not stop 160 of our finest Team Captains from having a great experience at the William Blair Headquarters in downtown Chicago, even though classes were not in…
On Friday, October 21st, over 100 Urban Initiatives participants from Jahn, North River, Howe, Bateman, and Jordan took a trip to Wilmette to play in the 16th Wilmette Crosstown. One of the longest running UI events, the Wilmette Crosstown demonstrates one of the hallmarks of our programs: using sport and play to bridge communities. As UI teams arrived at…
REC Coordinators are vital to Urban Initiatives’ mission of empowering Chicago’s youth to become agents of community change through academic success, healthy living, and leadership development. They drive systematic change by connecting stakeholders and strengthening the social fabric of the community. Meet Dorrian, one of UI’s newest REC Coordinators! Basic info: Name, birthday, where you last went…
REC Coordinators are vital to Urban Initiatives’ mission of empowering Chicago’s youth to become agents of community change through academic success, healthy living, and leadership development. They drive systematic change by connecting stakeholders and strengthening the social fabric of the community. Meet Anna, one of UI’s newest REC Coordinators! Basic info: Name, birthday, where you last went…
The weather had begun to cool, but the chill in the air did not stop Urban Initiatives’ Work to Play students and a group of volunteers from PwC from traveling to Chicago Indoor Sports on October 21 for a Friday afternoon Game Day. Participants from Claremont, Davis, Greene, and Morrill played in three rotations of…
On a beautiful fall afternoon, four volunteers from Motorola Mobility joined Goethe Elementary’s Work to Play squad for a series of scrimmages at Haas Park in Logan Square. The Goethe students were excited for the scrimmages – they had worked hard in practice and in the classroom all week, and this afternoon of friendly competition…
It had been cold and rainy all day, but the gloomy weather did not deter the dedicated group of volunteers from William Blair that came to Garfield Park to serve as assistant coaches to Urban Initiatives’ participants on their first game day of the year. Students in UI’s Work to Play and Take the Lead…
