Financial Literacy Month Spotlight: Center for Changing Lives
April is Financial Literacy Month, which raises awareness on the importance of financial education and smart money-making decisions. Over the next few weeks,…
Spotlights on community issues, the people, and the organizations who contribute to effective philanthropy as well as a stronger Chicago region and world.
April is Financial Literacy Month, which raises awareness on the importance of financial education and smart money-making decisions. Over the next few weeks,…
April is Financial Literacy Month, which raises awareness on the importance of financial education and smart money-making decisions. Over the next few weeks,…
Green spaces within an urban environment help cool city temperatures, reduce traffic noise, provide a space for recreation, and have even been shown…
A native of Waukegan, I was born into a community grappling with deindustrialization. Just 21 miles north of the border of the country’s second largest…
Helping people have a positive impact in the world has been my life’s passion—although not through an obvious path. In my college yearbook I mused…
Disinvested neighborhoods. Segregation. Sluggish economic growth. African Americans leaving the Chicago region in droves. All these phenomena are exacerbated when we factor in race, and…
Bruce Springsteen wrote and recorded a song about my hometown, Youngstown, Ohio. When I first heard the track, it was instantly familiar. Springsteen’s raspy voice…
At the young age of 18, my mother left South Korea for Wuppertal, Germany to study nursing. How did a young woman from a rural…