Erie House and Enlace Chicago launch $4 million capital campaign to benefit new Little Village Community Center at Erie’s Annual Awards Dinner
November 17, 2008
On November 5th, at Erie’s 2008 Future of Promise/Futuro de Promesa Annual Awards Dinner, Erie House, in partnership with Enlace Chicago, launched a $4 million dollar capital campaign to create the Little Village Community Center. Responding to a challenge to raise $50,000 for the Little Village Community Center project, guests at the event donated an impressive total of $50,000 in response, with $100,000 going towards the project by the end of the evening. Erie House will soon be expanding its resources in the Little Village (South Lawndale) Community in partnership with Enlace Chicago. Currently Erie House offers English as a Second Language (ESL), leadership training and Technology classes at a rented space in Little Village. Read »
Comcast Cares for Erie Kids
October 31, 2008
On November 20th, Erie House will honor the Comcast Foundation for their continued support by hosting “Things We Are Thankful For”, a dinner with children and families in Erie’s After School Program. The Comcast Foundation recently granted $20,000 to the “Partners for Reading” initiative in Erie’s After School Program. With this grant, Erie was able to purchase new computers and literacy software that will help children struggling with reading improve their skills. Comcast also hosted an event at Erie House on May 3rd, “Comcast Cares Day”, where Comcast employees led a teddy bear making activity. Erie After School children made teddy bears to take home and for needy children in Erie’s Family Child Care Homes program. After the teddy bear making activity, volunteers read to children. Read »
Get Out the Vote!
October 2, 2008
On Thursday, October 2nd, Erie hosted a press conference with Aldermen Manny Flores, Walter Burnett and Rey Colon to discuss the importance of voting and participation in the democratic process. Erie believes that everyone's voice should be heard and that everyone eligible should vote. The heart of Erie's mission is the idea that community empowerment results from education and civic engagement. All of Erie's programs work towards these goals, particularly our citizenship and advocacy programs. As the election draws near, Erie staff and volunteers are working hard to ensure that all new U.S. citizens are registered to vote and understand the democratic process. Read »
Immigrant voting push strong
October 3, 2008
During the last three months, immigrant groups in Illinois have registered about 24,000 new voters, part of an aggressive last push to influence next month's elections. Although the subject of Immigration has barely been broached by either presidential candidate, frustrations with the system are spurring registration drives in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and elsewhere that have seen nearly half a million new voters registered by immigrant groups in 12 states. Read »
"NCLB Tutoring Outside The Box" Features Erie's after-school program
May 14, 2008
Thanks to the federal No Child Left Behind Act, Eduardo is one of 530,000 poor children nationwide from struggling schools who receive tutoring paid for under the law’s Title I program. Unlike most other tutoring sessions under the law, the one with Eduardo and 12 others at Erie House isn’t happening in a school building or at a corporate tutoring outlet. Those types of providers serve the vast majority of the students receiving tutoring—also known as supplementary educational services, or SES—under the federal law. Read »
