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Environmental Webinar Series Showcases Participatory Approaches to Climate Change

2/3/2020

 
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ICA Program Manager Caitlin Sarro and CSF Senior Partner Jane Stallman promise to bring the series to life at the 2019 ToP Network Annual Gathering in New Orleans.
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“The power of storytelling is a driving force that engages communities. Stories have been the basis of culture from the beginning of time,” said Adam Gebb, Executive Director of Andes Amazon Conservancy, during the first in a series of webinars on climate change and environmental sustainability co-sponsored by ICA and the Center for Strategic Facilitation (CSF).

Beginning with the premise that “human-caused climate change is a defining issue of our time,” the Success through Participation: Environmental Sustainability Webinars, or “eco-webinars”, was launched to facilitate a multicultural, multinational exchange between leaders and projects who are working to address climate change.

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Sarah's Circle Finds a New Home in Uptown After 20 Years at GreenRise

12/19/2019

 
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Uptown women connect in the Global Guild Suite at the Uptown Women's Networking Mixer organized by the local chamber.
In 1979, Maxine Florell, Jeanette Hupp, and Janet Sullivan began operating a women’s center in Uptown with an aim that differed from many social service agencies of the time—to accept each woman as she was. To embody this value, they implemented a few rules as needed to create a safe, peaceful, and respectful space. In the beginning, that space was a second-story apartment with a handful of regular clients. It would later be named Sarah’s Circle for the cat that spent time with women in the center.

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UPTOWN WOMEN GATHER IN GLOBAL GUILD SUITE AT ICA GREENRISE

7/20/2019

 
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“What value does your work bring to the Uptown community? How do you contribute to the unique culture of Uptown?” asked ICA Program Coordinator Samantha Sainsbury to a group of enthusiastic women crowded into the Global Guild Suite at ICA GreenRise on the morning of June 7th for the Uptown Women’s Networking Mixer.

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ICA REPRESENTED AT NORTH SIDE LISTENING SESSION WITH MAYOR-ELECT

6/12/2019

 
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Chief Operating Officer Lesley Showers joined 30 other community leaders for a North Side meeting with the soon-to-be-Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

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HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE OF ICA GREENRISE DISPLAYED ON LANDMARK PLAQUE

6/12/2019

 
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On May 14th, 2019, a new plaque was installed on the facade of ICA GreenRise, a physical display of the building’s status as a Chicago Landmark. It reads:

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GREENRISE FOCUS OF ICA CEO'S REMARKS AT JUST ECONOMY CONFERENCE

4/2/2019

 
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ICA CEO Ted Wysocki attended the 28th annual Just Economy Conference hosted by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) this past month. He highlighted the role of ICA GreenRise as a community anchor on a panel about Strategies for Preventing Displacement.

Ted shared reflections on his experience at the conference on his personal blog, U2CANDO, in a piece titled “Preventing Displacement & Championing Justice”.
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CONVERSATION ON EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT CLOSES SERIES, OPENS MINDS

12/11/2018

 
When organizing campaigns for housing and equitable development, start by asking three questions: For whom are the rules rigged? Who benefits? What is the dominant narrative?

Jennifer Ritter, Executive Director of ONE Northside, a community organization based in Uptown, Chicago, gave this advice to residents of the neighborhood who gathered on the evening of November 15th, 2018, for Conversations on Social Justice: Equitable Development in Uptown...
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FIRST, DO NO HARM WHEN ADDRESSING HOUSING INSTABILITY

11/8/2018

 
“The cause of harm is a failure of our culture to see housing as a human right”
​–Ryan Spangler, Heartland Alliance Health
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OVER 750 VISITORS EXPLORE ICA GREENRISE DURING OPEN HOUSE

11/8/2018

 
Among the crowd of curious visitors who made their way to and through ICA GreenRise over the weekend of October 13–14th, 2018, one in particular stood out.
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ICA GREENRISE RETURNS TO OPEN HOUSE CHICAGO

10/2/2018

 
For a building like ICA GreenRise, which hosts social service providers that reach over a thousand people weekly, every day seems like an open house. However, during Chicago Architecture Foundation’s annual Open House Chicago tour, architecture buffs, curiosity seekers, and passersby alike are drawn from across Chicago to marvel at buildings which might otherwise remain a mystery. ​
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