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ICA SPOTLIGHT: ANDREW CLAYTON

11/1/2017

I saw in their individual passions, in the programming at ICA, in the GreenRise building, in every fiber of the organization a thoughtfulness I find lacking in the wider world. My greater mission as a person is to seek and cultivate this kind of thoughtfulness, and so from the outset I have seen ICA as profoundly fertile soil.

RECAPPING FALL ICA ARCHIVES SOJOURN 2017

10/31/2017

This Fall Sojourn, October 9-13, brought together 54 colleagues, more than any prior Sojourn. In addition to regular sojourn activities, those gathered celebrated the 40th Anniversary of the International Human Development Projects (HDPs). ICA’s HDP’s were ‘concerned with the human factor in world development’ and aimed to build the capacity of communities around the world so that local communities could create and implement their own plans for change.

Alternative Transit Session Recap

10/27/2017

On October 26th, 2017, ICA and the Uptown Coastal Initiative hosted the fifth installment of the Out and About Uptown’s Coast series, Alternative Transit.

Underutilized Community Spaces

8/30/2017

On August 29th, 2017, ICA and the Uptown Coastal Initiative hosted the third installment of the Out and About Uptown’s Coast series, Underutilized Community Spaces.

Cycling Uptown Recap

7/20/2017

ICA and the Uptown Coastal Initiative hosted Cycling Uptown, the second Out and About Uptown’s Coast event, on Wednesday, July 19th, 2017, focusing on biking assets in Uptown.

The event would not be complete without a group selfie by the Divvy station!

BOARD SPOTLIGHT: STEVEN MCCULLOUGH

7/6/2017

I am looking forward to learning more about ICA and how we can spread the word about the work into areas where collaboration and community voice are essential.

CSLN REPORTS ENERGY AND RECYCLING FINDINGS

7/6/2017

ICA has continued to build connections within the Chicago Sustainability Leaders Network (CSLN) and promote the CSLN’s work as a multi-disciplinary network of local experts. As reported in recent ICA e-news, the CSLN completed two major projects in early 2017: Preparing for Rainy Days: Culturally Inspired Smart Grid Education in 3 Communities and the collaborative partnership around recycling with the City of Chicago.

CSLN Meet at CASL

BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS: LOCAL TO NATIONAL

7/6/2017

For many years, ICA has been working on creating intentional and meaningful institutional partnerships with organizations that share our values and are looking for more effective ways to engage their constituencies. The following is a snapshot of four unique collaborative partnerships that have emerged in the past few years.

LISC Chicago Plans training for Quality of Life planning

DONOR SPOTLIGHT: KEN AND RUTH GILBERT

7/6/2017

After years of thinking so strongly about accumulation, it’s not so easy to start to think about distribution. Ken and I have been incredibly fortunate... and that good fortune allowed us to arrive at the point of saying we have ‘enough.’ We want to care for our children and the organizations that matter to us.

"MY SOUL CRIES OUT: STOP!" SPECIAL PERFORMANCE AT ICA

7/6/2017

On May 4, 2017, nearly 100 attendees gathered at the ICA GreenRise for an abridged performance of My Soul Cries Out: Stop! The play was written, directed, and produced by Denise Gathings, a Chicago Police Officer and lifelong resident of the Fifth City neighborhood on Chicago’s west side. Gathings’s aim in creating the play was to spark community transformation throughout Chicago. The play’s content drew directly from her day-to-day interactions with local youth as a community police officer.

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