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Kirstin Chernawsky Named 2019 Leadership Greater Chicago Fellow
Erie Neighborhood House executive director Kirstin Chernawsky has been named a 2019 Leadership Greater Chicago Fellow. Leadership Greater Chicago (LGC) is a premiere civic leadership development program that convenes, connects…
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ABE Helps Students Build on Foundation and Construct a Brighter Future
Erika, a student in the ABE program at Erie Neighborhood House in Little Village, stands at a white board with dry erase marker in hand. When she reaches the blank…
Read MoreStatement on Erie House Vote to Unionize
In an election hosted by the National Labor Relations Board on May 1 and 2, a majority of eligible employees at Erie Neighborhood House voted to unionize. As a result,…
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Erie House Receives $150,000 IMC Charitable Foundation Grant
A $150,000 grant from the IMC Charitable Foundation will help strengthen the Early Childhood Education program at Erie Neighborhood House. IMC, an international technology-driven trading firm, provides grants to organizations…
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Q&A with Oz Ortega
Oswaldo “Oz” Ortega is a native New Yorker who works for Chicago-based architecture firm Gensler and serves as president of the Illinois chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects…
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The Chicago Community Trust Awards Unity Fund Grant to Erie House
The Chicago Community Trust (the Trust) has provided Erie Neighborhood House with a $23,000 grant in support of the agency’s Health and Leadership Program (HLP). The grant is being awarded…
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Erie House Receives $50,000 Healthy Communities Foundation Grant
Healthy Communities Foundation (HCF) has provided Erie Neighborhood House with a $50,000 grant to support general operations of its Proyecto Cuídate program and further its efforts to foster wellbeing in…
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Mother from Mexico Wins Asylum Case with Support from Erie House
A new dawn has come for Victoria (name changed to protect identity), a Mexican-American immigrant who arrived at the US border to ask for protection in 2015. More than two…
Read MoreStatement on the would-be DACA Deadline and the Future of the Dream Act
Today marks the would-be deadline for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, an arbitrary date established by the Trump administration last fall in its effort to dismantle the…
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Comcast Foundation Equips Erie House to Meet Community’s Tech Needs
A $25,000 grant from the Comcast Foundation has significantly upgraded the technology lab at Erie Neighborhood House with new computers, monitors and other equipment. The lab is utilized for hands-on…
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