To honor the 40th Anniversary of the Chicago Freedom Movment (CFM), veterans of the CFM, current civil rights activists, young people, clergy, community members, and historians held the Fulfilling the Dream Fortieth Commemoration Conference on July 23-25, 2006 to challenge continued discrimination in housing, education, and jobs; leverage the CFM experience to support and strengthen a new generation of activists, and develop a revitalized economic and social justice agenda for greater Chicago.
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This report focuses on the role that community-level organizations have had, currently have, and could have in setting regional agendas. Data for the report come from a representative sample of 49 community-based organizations in the City of Chicago, the Illinois counties of Cook, DuPage, Will, and Lake, as well as the Indiana counties of Lake and Porter.
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CURL worked with the National Neighborhood Coalition (a coalition of national and local organizations concerned with building the capacity of neighborhood-level organizations throughout the U.S.) to collect survey data and conduct focus groups that gave NNC an understanding of current and emerging policy issues at the local level. CURL worked with NNC in presenting these results at a Neighborhood Development Trend Summit in Washington, DC in June 2003.
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Passport is a civic engagement curriculum designed for high school-age youth in traditional academic or non-traditional learning environments. It is designed as a teacher’s guide with web-based downloadable activity components and link resources.
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The committee comprised of community-based organization leaders, citywide agency representatives, and university researchers. It built an independent, rigorous research database to inform public policy in the area of housing for extremely low-income families in the Chicago area. This was a joint project of CURL and the Roosevelt University Institute for Metropolitan Affairs and was funded by the Woods Fund of Chicago.
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This paper reviewed the literature that assesses the incidence of severe impairments among parents and children receiving AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) and TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families), and projected that analysis to estimate the number of persons eligible for, but not receiving SSI (Supplemental Security Income) in the Illinois TANF case load.
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Doug Dobmeyer, as one of the first CURL Community Fellows, prepared lectures for presentation at Loyola and at community locations. The subject was public policy creation at the local, state, and national levels. Three lectures were given.
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This conference was sponsored by the Urban University Collaborative and organized by the Policy Research Action Group (PRAG). Loyola/CURL hosted this first bi-annual conference attended by 400 people. A report on proceedings, "Linking Chicago Locally and Globally: Report on Chicago Research and Public Policy," was published.
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