Loyola University Chicago
Here you will find all of CURL's research projects and publications.
CURL is conducting a multi-year evaluation research project on the Chicago Community Trust’s We Rise Together Initiative (WRT) in collaboration with colleagues from Quinlan School of Business and Institute for Racial Justice at Loyola and the community-based organization MAPSCorps.
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CURL is assisting Health and Medicine Policy Research Group in their surveying and analyzing the impact of The Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows Program on the yearly cohorts of health and human service professionals who have participated in the program.
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CURL conducted detailed analysis on sources related to the status of women and girls in Chicago and generated results, graphics, and interpretive findings for the Chicago Foundation for Women's Annual Report.
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CURL is working with Jane Addams Resource Corporation (JARC) to improve tracking of the organization's main outcomes for their career manufacturing trainees in ways that are the most efficient and are disaggregated by race and gender.
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Courtesy of Erie Neighborhood House
CURL is working to create a comprehensive program evaluation plan with Erie Neighborhood House’s (ENH) Proyecto Cuidate (which means Take Care Project in Spanish). ENH works to empower Latinx immigrants and others in the community through health and wellness education, community building and leadership initiatives, counseling, and advocacy. Proyecto Cuidate focuses on families as a whole unit in the Little Village, Cicero, and Berwyn communities by providing free counseling and education with the goals of violence prevention, family cohesion, and Restorative Justice.
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Courtesy of Jane Addams Resource Corporation
CURL is conducting research for the Jane Addams Resource Corporation (JARC) in order to better understand why/why not unemployed and under-employed women are interested in participating in JARC’s Women in Manufacturing job training program. Based on the research findings, CURL will also collaboratively develop a new recruitment strategy to expand the Women in Manufacturing job training program to more qualifying women in the Chicago area.
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Courtesy of Catholic Charities Chicago
CURL is working with its long-time partner, Catholic Charities of Chicago as they begin their agency-wide strategic planning process. The goal is to gather the staff, directors, and other stakeholders to collect their vision for the future of the organization.
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The Englewood Women’s Initiative (EWI) is a program through a coalition of 8 organizations in the Englewood neighborhood in Chicago connecting women in the neighborhood with pathways to incomes over $40k/year through job training, business development, and financial and job readiness skills. CURL is evaluating the pilot and collaborating in creating a database tracking system and benchmarks.
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The Smart Grid, Courtesy of Illinois Green Economy Network (IGEN)
Loyola University Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL), along with the Heartland Alliance Social IMPACT Research Center, conducted a two phase research project to help the Illinois Science & Energy Innovation Foundation (ISEIF) understand the network effect of its grantees’ public education efforts on knowledge and understanding about the Smart Grid.
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The Greater Roseland West Pullman Food Network (GRWP) developed a sustainable model to address food insecurity in the Roseland and West Pullman communities, with the Greater Roseland Sustainability Initiative (GRSI). The GRSI is a collaboration between community, university, and business partners utilizing urban agriculture and social enterprise to increase access to fresh produce, improve STEM skills, and prepare youth for a “green collar” economy.
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