This summer UI continued its partnership with chicago Cubs charities by running its second year of summer of sports summer camps at four cps schools lloyd elementary in belmont-craigin, kozminski elementary iN HYde Park, gunsaulus Scholastic academy in brighton Park and BEIDler Elementary in garfield park. throughout July students came together every day to play…
Hi, justin Smart here. Let me tell you about my time at nolS pacific northwest.
This past week four of our Take the lead participants (and one coach) had the chance to participate in a week-long boy Scout camp in the northwoods of wisconsin. camp makajawan is about 4 ½ hours north OF Chicago and offers all sorts of outdoor activities (hiking, FIShing, camp fires, boating). to say the least,…
“These guys are fun!” Four words, spoken by a rising second grader, that perfectly summed up the thirty AbelsonTaylor volunteers who spent Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday at Beidler Elementary in Garfield Park last week.
With the end of July came the end to our summer camps across the city. Beidler, Gunsaulus, Lloyd, and Kozminski all enjoyed a summer full of soccer, water games, and most importantly baseball! We had the pleasure of partnering, for a second consecutive summer, with the Chicago Cubs and their Cubs on the Move Fitness…
MLB.com reporter Carrie Muskat covers Urban Initiatives’ great partnership with the Chicago Cubs! Read about it here: http://m.cubs.mlb.com/news/article/102179654/the-cubs-season-of-giving-lasts-all-year-long
On July 15, Urban initiatives was lucky to welcome our two newest members to the team: Ana acosta and joy nelson. ana is joining the operations team as the Administration coordinator and joy is joining the PrograM management team as a play with Potential program ManageR. wheN asked about why he is most excited about…
What’s better than an afternoon at the Field Museum? An afternoon at the Field Museum with Corpsgiving and LinkedIn!
Last month’s World Cup showed that countries can be united through the beautiful game, but sometimes it’s hard to grasp what that means on an individual scale. on july 23, the kids at uI’s GUNSaulus academy summer camp got to experience soccer’s gLOBal scoPE thanks to a visit from a group of iraqi high schoolers…
On Thursday, July 16 Urban Initiatives worked on a Corpsgiving-coordinated project with 350 volunteers from Digitas. The mission: give Lawndale Elementary Community Academy a much-needed makeover!
Coach adam and Coach brendan attended the attucks 8th grade graduation on monday, june 9th to watch Urban initiatives’ very first Attucks Work to Play soccer players Justin Smart, Daquan Hall and Renardo Coburn graduate!
