Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities History

August 01, 2006 / Teresa

The Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities was a nationally recognized fair housing organization founded at the end of Martin Luther King's Chicago Freedom Movement in 1966. For 40 years the Leadership Council fought against racial segregation in Chicago and around the country through litigation, direct housing assistance services and educational programs for real estate professionals. In 2006, the Council was disbanded for financial reasons. CURL worked to collect an archive of information, interviews and documents about the history of the Council.

categories / Housing, Race & Ethnicity
tags / Past

Fulfilling the Dream: The Chicago Freedom Movement, Fortieth Anniversary 1966-2006

January 01, 2006 / Teresa

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.

categories / Policy, Race & Ethnicity
tags / Past

South Asian American Policy & Research Institute (SAAPRI) Oral History Project

January 01, 2005 / Teresa

South Asian students at a picnic in Chicago, circa 1959. Courtesy of SAAPRI.

Center for Urban Research and Learning at Loyola University (CURL) is a partner in the South Asian American Policy and Research Institute (SAAPRI) Oral History project and the Devon Community Development Planning initiative.

categories / Community Need / Asset Mapping, Race & Ethnicity
tags / Past

Impact of Gentrification and Displacement on Different Racial and Ethnic Communities in Chicago

December 30, 2004 / Teresa

In partnership with the City of Chicago Commission on Human Relations, researchers from CURL and multiple Loyola University departments examined the cycle of community reinvestment, displacement and its impact on low income residents, particularly those living in predominantly African American or Latino communities.

categories / Housing, Race & Ethnicity
tags / Past

Native Americans in Philanthropy: A Demographic Profile of Independently Incorporated Native American Foundations and Selected Funds in the United States

March 12, 2004 / Teresa

In partnership with Native Americans In Philanthropy this report gives basic demographic information on 60 grant making entities grouped into three categories: 1) Native foundations that are independently incorporated; 2) 501c3 Native organizations; and 3) tribal funds. These categories capture the variety of Native controlled approaches currently at work in the field.

categories / Race & Ethnicity
tags / Past

Anawim Community Dispersion and Needs Assessment Study

January 01, 2004 / Teresa

Anawim Center (currently known as the Kateri Center), a Native American spiritual and cultural center under the Office of Evangelization and Catechesis of the Archdiocese of Chicago formed a research collaboration with the Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL) at Loyola University Chicago and the Office of Research and Planning of the Archdiocese of Chicago for a needs assessment study to determine the whereabouts, needs, and interests of the Native American community in Metropolitan Chicago.

categories / Community Capacity Building and Strategic Planning, Community Need / Asset Mapping, Race & Ethnicity
tags / Past

American Indian Health Services Needs Assessment Study - Chicago Metropolitan Region

June 01, 2003 / Teresa

American Indian Health Services (AIHS) is a health care organization that provides direct services to American Indians and Alaska Natives in Metropolitan Chicago. The organization sought to undertake a review of the health status of American Indian/ Alaska Native people in its service areas so as to ascertain health needs, per the requirements of its major funding agency, Indian Health Services (IHS). As such, AIHS collaborated with the Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL) at Loyola University Chicago on a needs assessment study to meet the said requirement.

categories / Community Need / Asset Mapping, Health and Healthcare, Race & Ethnicity
tags / Past

Native Gathering: A Meeting with Native American Elders, Activists, Select Funders and Scholars

June 01, 2003 / Teresa

PARTICIPANT GROUP PHOTO (Sitting L to R) Elizabeth Richards, LaDonna Harris, Mary Thomas, Luz Vega-Marquis, Wilma Mankiller, Jo Ann Kauffman (Standing L to R) Louis Delgado, Winona LaDuke, Warren Kontz, Gail Small, Octaviana Trujillo, Charlie Soap, … — PARTICIPANT GROUP PHOTO (Sitting L to R) Elizabeth Richards, LaDonna Harris, Mary Thomas, Luz Vega-Marquis, Wilma Mankiller, Jo Ann Kauffman (Standing L to R) Louis Delgado, Winona LaDuke, Warren Kontz, Gail Small, Octaviana Trujillo, Charlie Soap, Lucille Echohawk, Kyle Smith, Valorie Johnson, Sydney Beane, Paula Starr, Michael Chapman, Michael Smith (Not in picture) Beatrice Medicine, Michael Roberts.

On June 20-21, 2003, the Marguerite Casey Foundation (MCF) brought together a group of Native people from across the country to participate in a consultative session designed to help the Foundation develop a comprehensive strategy to strengthen and support indigenous families and communities. With the help of CURL, a report was written up document the meeting.

categories / Community Need / Asset Mapping, Race & Ethnicity
tags / Past

Current State of Stable Racially and Ethnically Diverse Communities

October 01, 2002 / Teresa

CURL did a survey of diverse communities around the country. It was an update to the 1998 research on sustainable and stable diverse communities in the United States (The Emergence of Stable Racially and Ethnically Diverse Urban Communities: A Case Study of Neighborhoods in Nine U.S. Cities). A presentation was made at Colorlines Conference at the Kennedy School of Public Policy at Harvard University in 2003.

categories / Housing, Race & Ethnicity, Diverse Communities
tags / Past

Transcending Boundaries: Investigating Domestic Violence among South Asian Immigrant Women (Apna Ghar Project)

March 01, 2002 / Teresa

Apna Ghar, an organization on the north side of Chicago providing multi-lingual, multicultural services including shelter to South Asian women and their children seeking lives free from violence, partnered with CURL to investigate the following: Effective models of service and outreach that are used to address the needs of domestic violence survivors within the context of South Asian immigrant culture and circumstance; the current status of policies and laws impacting immigrant women who access social services; and the incidence and the trends of domestic violence in Metropolitan Chicago, particularly with respect to the South Asian population.

categories / Domestic Violence, Race & Ethnicity
tags / Past

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