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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.

MAKING NEW CONNECTIONS TO SUSTAINABILITY IN UPTOWN

7/6/2017

ICA continues to expand its presence and impact on resident engagement in Uptown through local partnerships and programming, namely through a partnership with the One Earth Film Festival (OEFF) and ICA’s Out and About Uptown’s Coast series.

FALL SOJOURN: CELEBRATING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

7/6/2017

Semi-annual Archives Sojourns provide an opportunity for colleagues from across the country to work and reflect on the future of our past. During the Spring Sojourn, March 13–17, colleagues focused on (1) designing and launching a new ICA Archives website and (2) analyzing and cataloging the Human Development Projects (HDPs).

ICAI LAUNCHES AIDS-FREE COMMUNITY TOOLBOX

7/6/2017

Since 2002, international ICAs have collaborated on the African HIV/AIDS Prevention Initiative, implemented by 10 African ICAs. From 2013 to 2016, ICA Zimbabwe piloted the AIDS-Free Community Campaign in 26 communities in peri-urban Harare. The Campaign Toolbox consolidates what had been learned and organized into key aspects of community responsibility for AIDS prevention into a one-year replicable design.

Urban Ecology Session Recap

5/22/2017

ICA launched the Out and About Uptown series on Sunday, May 21st, 2017, focusing on Urban Ecology. Local partners Susan Ask of animalia project, Melanie Eckner of the Uptown Coastal Initiative, and Ted Jindrich of the Chicago Park District Natural Areas stewards shared their collective expertise covering Uptown’s past, present, and future.

Photo credit: Weiss Memorial Hospital

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