Hyde Park-Kenwood's Community Organizations

In this page:

1)Nonprofits based and focused in HP/K or the mid-South Side, 501 or not, including local service centers, but excluding those found in Religious Organizations, school and park advisory councils (see also in Park Directories, Recreation and Fitness ((includes. youth and athletic organizations)), and institutions such as museums, universities and class providers in Cultural Organizations or Educational Resources). This leaves out some, most centered at the University of Chicago that have extensive outreach in the community such as the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture or student organizations (directory links under University Student... in Social and other Service, below)- and search in uchicago.edu.

Arts and cultural organizations (general)

Arts organizations help- see below in the nonprofits-building resource orgs. section. Specifically Illinois Humanities Council grant workshops. Systematic listings with full contacts and links are in the Cultural and Arts Directory and in After School Providers pages or HPKCC Youth Program Database. Note that it is very difficult to separate nonprofit and commercial an indeed organization from institutional program.

57th Street Art Fair

www.57thstreetartfair.org
Purpose: To organize yearly the oldest juried art fair in America, first weekend in June, and in other ways to foster the arts.

1525 E. 55th Street, Suite 202, 60615, 773 955-2787. http://www.africainternationalhouse.org, info@africainternationalhouse.org. Patrick Saingbey Woodtor.
Serves a a means to expose and educate on works and cultures of African cultures. Flagship program is the African festival of the Arts in Washington Park Labor Day Weekend. Also serves as an exchange umbrella.

K.P. Murphy. 1525 E. 53rd St., Suite 419 60615. 773 243-2566. http://www.alyochildrensdance.com. ALYOCDT5@aol.com. To build and maintain an African -centered arts education institution where the programs and operations provide a cultural link between African culture and other cultures. We offer classes, outreach/residency work and performance to youth and the multicultural community in which we live.

Blacklight aspires to compile a diverse collection of art, prose, and poetry that reflects the many facets of black culture from the vantage point of different authors and artists, and also, by the breadth of subject matter covered in their work. Blacklight depicts the black community as not only a diverse group of people, but also as a unified people. Nabeel Farouk. 914-420-4896. http://blacklight.uchicago.edu. blacklightuofc@gmail.com.

Bronzeville Visitor Information Center, Gift Shop and Exhibit Gallery. And Black Metropolis Convention and Tourism Council. And Black Metropolis Historic Commission.

Paula Robinson general director. Bronzeville Visitor Information Center, Gift Shop and Exhibit Gallery. And Black Metropolis Convention and Tourism Council. Harold L. Lucas, President and CEO. 3501 South Martin Luther King Drive, Suite One East, Chicago, Illinois 60653, Tel # 773-373-2842, E-Mail: visitbronzeville@gmail.com, Revamped Web site portal: http://www.bviconline.info. Remember that Bronzeville Visitor Information Center programs are designed inclusively to enrich and enhance the quality of life for all Bronzeville residents. BVIC programs also attract visitors world wide who are interested in exploring the authentic cultural experiences of the historic Bronzeville community, "a city within the city" of the great northern city of Chicago.

CheckerJAZZ and Committee to Restore Jazz to Hyde Park- see successor organization, Hyde Park Jazz Society-
"CheckerJAZZ" no longer exists and has no connection with the Checkerboard Lounge.

Office- 5720 S. Woodlawn room 102, 773 702-8068. Mandel Hall is at 1131 E. 57th (5706 S. University). Fulton Recital Hall is at 1010 E. 59th. Contact UCP for series, etc. Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, 5850 S. Woodlawn. Shauna Quill, 773 702-1233, squill@uchicago.edu.

Bart Schultz director, Joanie Friedman coordinator. 1115 E. 58th St. #009 Walker Museum) 60637. 773 834-3929. joaniefriedman@uchicago.edu. Erika Dudley, edudley@uchicago.edu http://civicknowledge.uchicago.edu.
Puts on a host of programs to educate, including school children (such as Splash, Cascade, Winning Words ) and low income persons (Odyssey) on the value and uses of arts and humanities and receiving a college education ; provides support services, training, networking and other opportunities for small arts organizations. Publishes a partner contact Directory of its Southside Arts and Humanities Network (qv) and helps small arts and civic organizations. Has an expansive listserve of south side arts events and programs. See more in After School Programs, Green/Sustainable Environment (programs in this area are extensive). It works with the Graham School to conduct college and continuing education classes. Promotes conversation on our civic society and engagement. Ask about Southside Arts and Humanities Network, Partnership for a Sustainable Chicago, others.

5535 S. Ellis Ave. 773 753-4472. 773 702-7005. Artistic Director Charles Newell. http://www.courttheatre.org, info@courttheatre.org.
Special deals such as preview week , student rush available. Many shows have post-play discussion with faculty or staff. Engages with 3,000 area students per year through high school matinee and in-school residencies.
Details in Cultural Calendar-Best Bets

Ljubo Kdrasic, 4851 S. Drexel Blvd. 60615 (the historic M.A. Ryerson mansion). 773 373-4670. http://www.croatian-institute.org. croatljubo@aol.com. Establish and maintain a central collection on Croats and their decedents in the U.S...Museum, archives, library, Research Center, press.

Wendy Norris, 1155 E. 60th St., 285, 60637. 773 702-4407. http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu. wnorris@uchicago.edu. An interdisciplinary center that presents programs on research that contributes to public dialogue about the practical workings of culture in our lives.

740 E. 56th Pl., 773 947-0600, . $3 adult, $2 students and seniors, $1 6-13. Sun. free. New hours - Tu-Sat. 10-5, Sun 12-5. Education: Stephanie Davenport, sdavenport@dusablemuseum.org. http://www.dusablemuseum.org. Permanent: Harold Washington in Office, Treasures of DuSable, Fight to Fly, Africa Speaks, The
DuSable is undergoing a $25 million renovation, at least half underwritten by government grants. Its focus is history and art that illustrate or take on questions about race and culture and the lives of African Americans. Many temporary exhibits, performances, lectures, celebrity appearances, symposia, family and children's programs.-- see in Cultural Calendar.

6100 S. Blackstone. Contact Connie Spreen or Dan Peterman. Includes experimental gallery Monk Parakeet. http://www.experimentalstation.org. conniespreen@experimentalstation.org. A Collaboration that incubates innovative cultural, educational and environmental projects and small scale enterprises, in arts projects and manufactures, especially those with environmental and sustainable implications or avant guard including youths making bicycles.

FOTA is a student-run organization at the University of Chicago that supports and funds student visual and performance art. We maintain year round student galleries on campus and plan a week-long spring festival. Currently Kristine Khouri, 5723 S. Kimbark #1, 60637. 773 786 554-8935. http://fota.uchicago.edu. kkhouri@uchicago.edu.

Folklore Society (University of Chicago)

Puts on the Annual Fiddlers' Picnic and the U of C Folk Festival (2nd weekend in February.) See in Cultural Calendar.
Information 773 702-9793. Folk Festival tickets Reynolds B. O. 773 702-7300. (773 702-1195. Ida Noyes Theater Office 310, 1212 E. 59th, 773 702-1195.)
http://www.uofcfolk.org.

An educational exchange providing information on the history and culture of various minority groups. FOCUS examines architecture and significant sites in an effort to increase cultural awareness by providing historical context so often overlooked and enriching in educational value. Beth Johnson, 1642 E. 56th st., #804, 60637. 773 470-8077, beth@arcfocus.org. http://www.arcfocus.org.

5757 S. Woodlawn 60637. 708 747-1976. (Headquarters 931 Chicago Avenue, Oak Park IL 60302, Mike Glass x234, glass@wrightplus.org.) Daily tours of this most significant Frank Lloyd Wright residence 11, 2, 3. Bookstore 10-5. Special walking tours of the vicinity Fridays and Saturdays, 2 pm $9?. Admission $12, $10 for seniors and youth. Tickets: 708 848-1976 or 773 834-1947 or the website for a full array of programs and tours, and what's on sale in the shop. Undergoing a full renovation and fund drive. http://www.wrightplus.org.

Established to support and gain improvements at the Blackstone Branch Library, 4904 S. Lake Park, 312 747-1105. FOBL is an Affiliate Committee of Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference.
Information is in the Friends of Blackstone page. President Brenda Sawyer, bpsawyer@ameritech.net.

Now located at Hyde Park Union Church, 5600 S. Woodlawn. A not-for-profit dedicated to the instruction and performance of gamelan music (Indonesian). Traces its roots to the Columbian Exposition. Jan Di Girolamo, 2459 Forestview Drive, North Riverside, IL 60546, 708447-2176. http://www.chicagogamelan.org. gamelan@uchicago.edu. Or info@chicagogamelan.org.

Paula Jones President.
1525 E. 53rd St. Ste 720, Chicago, IL 60615. 773 363-8282.
www.harpercourt.com info@harpercourt.com

Established and to considerable degree funded by community residents in 1965 to build Harper Court shopping center. Main Purpose: Own, Operate and Maintain Harper Court shopping area (23 venues) and its vision as a special place for artisans and retail start-ups (being re-emphasized); hold and foster outdoor activities in Harper Court and host other nonprofits (formerly as the Community Art Fair ). The Arts Council was created by the Foundation in 1990. Harper Court is re-invigorating its role as a financial and other resource for arts and arts groups. These include The Arts Circle, a World Music Festival, hosting Spoken Word. At the end of 2008 the Council was soliciting proposals from small organizations for $1000 to $10,000.

Interim Director Irene Sherr, 5100 S. Hyde Park Blvd., 3A. irene@hydeparkculturalalliance.org, or irene@hypachicago.org. http://www.hypachicago.org. More contacts coming.
Dedicated to establishing the position of Hyde Park as a Arts and Culture Destination in Chicago and to promoting Hyde Park's many cultural venues and programs. A major sponsor of the Hyde Park Jazz Festival.

Executive Director Kate Lorenz. Crystal Pernell- communications and marketing, Kate Lorenz- program, Michelle Beckett-admin.
5020 S. Cornell Avenue, Chicago, IL 60615
(773) 324-5520
www.hydeparkart.org. email example cpernell@hydeparkart.org. or info or generalinfo@
Purpose: Local and international arts center and forum promotes the visual arts through art classes, cutting-edge exhibitions, and community outreach. Takes a collaborative and inventive approach to the arts. Non-collecting. HPAC is a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to stimulate adn sustain the visual arts in Chicago; to fulfill this mission, the Center presents innovative exhibitions by primarily Chicago-rooted artists and actively pursues arts mentorship within the community it serves. It is the oldest alternative exhibition space in the City and boasts a long record of education and outreach programming.

Purpose:Was to mount an annual weekend long, multi-venue set of arts events. Defunct or suspended for present.

Dorri Ellis. 5322 S. Cornell. 773 363-5087. Or 773 363-8282 (Harper Court Arts Council). Seeking a new fiscal agent.
www.communityartfair.org.
Purpose: Open the area along side the 57th Street Art Fair (first weekend of June) to qualified artists (especially local) not selected for the juried 57th Street Art Fair. Since 1980.

Hyde Park Cultural Alliance. A collective of art and culture organizations in Hyde Park led by University of Chicago that works together to raise the visibility of each member organization as well as helping to promote Hyde Park as a cultural destination. Irene Sherr, Executive Director, Stephanie Papier President. Mary Harvey. 773 795-0779,
cultural-leaders@listhost.uchicago.edu. See also in http://www.hydeparkjazzfestival.org.

The Cultural Alliance is a consortium that includes University of chicago (including Civic Knowledge's Southside Arts and Humanities Council of partnerships and the departments and museum), Hyde Park Jazz Society, Hyde Park Art Center, Little Black Pearl, Experimental Station, Hyde Park Chamber of Commerce, and more. It seeks not only to promote but expand the creation as well as education on the arts and real cross-disciplinary collaborations and mixing of media and art with social and political endeavors.

Headquartered in the restored cable warming house at 5529 S. Lake Park 60637. 773 493-1893. President Ruth Knack. Founded in the 1980s, HPHS works to document and research the built, geographic and societal environment and memories of the Hyde Park community and township (31st to 135th, State to the Lake), preserve and give recognition to its unique and diverse architecture and structures, maintain an archive in conjunction with Regenstein special collections. Much of what goes through its hands is indeed fine art or cultural artifact. It has a fine website and quarterly publication. See http://www.hydeparkhistory.org, and our page on the Society.

http://www.hydeparkjazzsociety.org. AKA James W. Wagner Jazz Society. President Charlie Thomas, organizer Almarie Wagner, also Judith E. Stein, Irene Sherr. See also http://www.hydepark jazzfestival.org. Puts on the annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival last Saturday in September and is the primary organizer of the 2009-2010 Passport to Jazz community wide program. For 4 years held weekly productions at CheckerJazz at the Checkerboard Lounge until recently moved to another venue (currently Sundays at Room 43). Supports jazz and other events related to jazz and South Side arts, particularly Passport to Jazz 2009-2010 initiative and youth education in such arts. Members include Maggie Brown, Willie Pickens, Kurt Elling, Bethany Pickens, Judith Stein, Bill Gerstein.... and board members of arts organizations. Works with Hyde Park Alliance for Arts and Culture qv. No longer any connection with Checkerboard Lounge. Hyde Park Jazz Society. see http://www.hydeparkjazzsociety.org and click the calendar. Deanna Shoss Volunteer Coordinator Hyde Park Jazz Festival: Intercultural Talk, Inc.
hpjf@interculturaltalk.com, 773/968-1216.

Founded in 1993, the Hyde Park School of Ballet is a not-for-profit school committed to giving professional training to students of all
ages whether they are interested in dance as a career or dance for exercise and recreation. The school emphasizes progressive training in ballet and other dance technique beginning with creative movement for three year olds and continuing through pointe and stage presentation. Supplementing the ballet curriculum are instructional and recreational classes in Modern
Dance, Jazz, Tap and Flamenco suitable for both children and adults. The school is dedicated to sharing dance with the community through public performances and our scholarship program that reaches out to children who may otherwise not have the opportunity to dance.

The Hyde Park School of Ballet does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, in the administration of its
admissions or educational policies, scholarship programs, or any other school-administered program.

The school is located at 5650 S. Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL 60637, with studios at the First Unitarian Church (Studio 1), the Hyde Park Union Church (Studio 2), and the Hyde Park Neighborhood Club (Studio 3).

Provides opportunities to youth as well as adults, including the annual Tellebration. 3rd Tuesday at Hyde Park Union Church, 5600 S. Woodlawn (use 56th entrance). 7:30. Judith Hineman, 773 288-7217. http://www.storytelling.org/ChicagoStorytellingGuild/ (alt. url.- ....storytelling.orgs/Guilds/Chicago.)

Musical instrument learning. 2 sites, 1448 E. 53rd 60615 (United Church of Hyde Park, main office incl.) 773 643-1388; 4541 S. Lake Park 60653, 773 624-4882. http://www.hydeparksuzuki.com. Preferred email hpsi@hydeparksuzuki.com. Lucinda Ali, lali@hydeparksuzuki.com. HPSI is now a nonprofit. Kindermusic, guitar, harp, viola, violin, voice....
Provides access to high quality musical instruction and performance opportunities to a culturally diverse community in Chicago. Programs include Suzuki, Traditional, In-Schools, After-School, Adult and Community music classes. Founded in 1998 by Lucinda Ali of the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra 1st violin section. 10 teachers. Notes, dynamics and understanding. Parent participation. Quarterly public concert. 8-12-week sessions, tuition $140 to $600. Funded in part by City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs Community Arts Assistance Program and Illinois Arts Council.

Contact Joyce Norman 773 562-2369 or Director (auditions) 847-651-5055. Operates from 5600 S. Woodlawn 60637 (Union Church),
http://www.hpys.org, director@hpys.org
The HPYS serves children typically in the 5th to 8th grade range, but also high school students or younger grade schoolers, depending on their ability and interest. There is a tuition, but scholarships are available to families who need them. The group practices once a week, Thursdays, after school from September to June. There are three main concerts a year as well as opportunities for students to perform in small ensemble groups. Donations welcome.
Provides high art experiences to young people in the South Side. Includes composition and performances in such venues as DuSable Museum. Contact Joyce Norman 773 562-2369 or Director William White (auditions) 847-651-5055. Operates from 5600 S. Woodlawn 60637 (Union Church), http://www.hpys.org. director@hpys.or g.

773 493-7465.
Puts on performances and other specials to bring great talent, including that of Lyric into the South Side, give budding performers opportunities, and raise money for Lyric Opera of Chicago.

1414 E. 59th St. 773 753-2274. Global Perspectives, Global Voices and Latin American Briefings are just some of the lectures series. Many festivals and performances. International House is a community of more than 700 graduate students and trainees who represent more than 100 countries each year. It is the most culturally diverse student community located in the most culturally diverse city in the world. This independent, non-profit organization achieves its mission by daily interaction among its residents through programs, facilities and residential life designed to foster diversity of thought and experience. ihouse-programs@uchicago.edu. Mary Beth DeStefano, 1414 E. 59th St, 60637, 773 753-2274, mdestefa@uchicago.edu. http://ihouse.uchicago.edu.

1060 E. 47th St. 60653. 773 285-1211. Mon-Fri 9-6, Sat. 10-1, Wed. artists studio--check. Free. Arts classes (fees vary) and more, training for youth in marketing art, exhibits. Monica Haslip, director. http://blackpearl.org. info@blackpearl.org. Director Monica Haslip, mhaslip@blackpearl.org.

President Bella Perlman. (Claude Weil). HydePark-Kenwood/chapter@lyricopera.org. Local discussions and introductions to the season's Lyric offerings, annual and other benefits for Lyric and for upcoming singers with mini-c0ncerts. (Can join via Lyric Opera website. Contact hpkcc@aol.com for contact to Claude.)

A small Chicago-based collective of artists an designers, alumni of the School of the Art Institute and the University of Chicago. Sarah Black, John Preus. 5467 S. Cornell, 60615. http://www.material-exchange.org. info@material-exchange.org.

http://www.mostlymusicchicago.com. Caution- confusing website.
info@mostlymusicchicago.com. Marie Alatalo, Artistic Director. Jan Feltsman President
312 287-5761, fax 312 268-6318. Or 312 287-5761. 180 N. Michigan Ave., Ste. 908.
Highly regarded and active on many performance and outreach fronts, performs in Hyde Park venues and homes and elsewhere. Was founded and run for many years by Hyde Parker Joyce Turner Hilkevitch; then housed at Northeastern Illinois University, now independent again. Go to their website for schedules, or 773 442-4978. Tickets generally $20, $15 student. Local performances resume next fall.

7127 S. Ellis Ave., 60619. Joan Gray. (Presently at Gary Comer Center, 7127 S. Ellis, 2nd Fl., 60619. Gray: 773 241-6080 Performances often at Du Sable Museum and Harris Theater in Millennium Park and in conjunction with special arts days at U of C. Building at 47th and Greenwood), 773 602-1135, also given as 773 241-6080 x10, http://www.muntu.com. Artistic director Amaniyea Payne. Program contact Lynn Stevenson, lynn@muntu.com. info@muntu.com. Professional performances worldwide including at DuSable Museum. Comprehensive community arts programs serving thousands of youth and professionally training young and emerging artists. Lessons.

57th at Lake Shore Drive. 7773 684-1414 Gen. info, 773 684-9844 bus. Mary.Krinock Strat. Initiatives- Mary.krinock@msichicago.org, 773 752-6207.

Publisher of the Journal of Ordinary Thought, NWA provokes dialogue and promotes change by creating opportunities for adults in low income Chicago neighborhoods to write, publish, and perform work about their lives. Carrie Spitler, 1313 E. 60th St., 60637. 773 684-2742. editors@jot.org. http://www.jot.org.

1155 E. 58th St., 60637. 10-6 Tu, Th, Sat., 10-8:30 W, 12-6 Sun. Sunday afternoon film series, Saturday classes and family programs, Lecture series (select Wednesdays (usually), Wednesdays noontime in another time, classes.
General information 773 702-9514. Carole Krucoff, 773 702-9520, 773 702-9507,
oi-museum@uchicago.edu. Emily Teeter, 77e 702-1062, eteeter@uchicago.edu.
Sunday film series at 2 Free-sometimes film classics or major special/rare screenings. 773 702-9507. Followed by docent-led tour. Education: oi-education@uchicago.edu. http://oi-uchicago.edu.

5811 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-8670. Fax (773) 702-9669
Executive Director: Susanne Ghez. Hamza Walker. Contact Mia Ruyter.
www.renaissancesociety.org. info@renaissancesociety.org.
Purpose: To mount exhibits and events at the Bergman Gallery, University of Chicago, support art research, and foster the arts in Hyde Park and Chicago including with exhibitions, concerts, lectures, symposia. Non-collecting.

5550 S. Greenwood, 60637. 773 702-0200 , and Cochrane-Woods Art Center, 5540 S. Greenwood. 10-4 Tu, W, F; 10-8 Th, 11-5 Sat., Sun. Temporary Exhibit details in Cultural Calendar. The Smart has become a major force in art exhibiting and study. Its permanent collection is solid, a representative selection of its masterworks is almost always up. And it's small enough so you can turn corners and grasp the traditions and changes, connections and reverberations in world, not just Western art. Planning an expansion, mainly for support area. C.J. Lind. Loren Boylan. http://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu. smart-museum@uchicago.edu. smart-education@uchicago.edu.

In addition to its critically acclaimed special exhibitions, the Smart Museum houses a collection of over 9,000 works from classical antiquities to the art of today. Combine a visit with one of the museum's tours or family programs and see why the Smart is a leading university art museum and one of the city's most dynamic art institutions. It's outreach program is outstanding, connecting with 20-25 schools each year, Blackstone Library, and with family and other theme days. Its openings, lectures by professionals, exhibit tours, field trips, and special classes, including in connoisseurship are outstanding.

South Shore Cultural Center

7059 South Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60649
(773) 256-0149
www.chicagoparkdistrict.com Director:
Purpose: To provide a variety of cultural programs, professional performances, exhibits, and oriented education and leisure activities for the community; serves Avalon, Chatham, Hyde Park, South Shore, and Woodlawn communities.

1115 E. 58th St. 60637, 418- Joanie Friedman. 773 834-3929, joaniefriedman@uchicago.edu. http://southside.uchicago.edu. http://civicknowledge.uchicago.edu. thenetwork@uchicago.edu.
A program of UC Division of Humanities Civic Knowledge Project, SAHN leverages the intellectual, spatial and technological resources of the University of Chicago and the city to benefit small arts and humanities on-profit organizations on the South Side of Chicago. We work toward that goal by offering free networking events, professional development workshops and space rental awards of up to $1,000. Ask for the new Directory.

The Woodlawn Collaborative. 6400 S. Kimbark. The Woodlawn Collaborative is establishing an umbrella and a shared space venue and backoffice of students and Chicago South-side residents and organizations to work on collaborative art, intellectual, service and pedagogical initiatives, in partnership with First Presbyterian Church (64th St. and Kimbark Ave.) and the U of C. We aim to create a vibrant cultural center, in partnership with students, artists, educators and members of the Woodlawn community, creating ways to intersect art, education, and community service. Please contact us at woodlawn.collaborative@gmail.com to get FAQ. Caitlin, cmkearney12@gmail.com or Matea Varvodic, mvarvodic@gmail.com. http://www.woodlawncollaborative.org. We are now accepting project proposals.
The Woodlawn Collaborative is a shared space of students and Chicago South Side residents for collaborative work on artistic, educational, and community service initiatives, in partnership with First Presbyterian Church and the University of Chicago. The Collaborative aims to created a shared space for arts, education and community empowerment in the Woodlawn neighborhood, to make possible a more critical engagement with the issues that affect participants' lives, and give them the tools to effect meaningful progressive change. In this way, we will serve as the incubator for a new generation of Chicago artists, activists and social thinkers. Programming began in October, 2009. For Youth: arts, music, leadership training, and youth empowerment, based on partner groups. For artists and musicians: these are invited to share their skills through exhibition, workshops, and performance, and later studio space and biweekly musical jam sessions. For Community Members: meeting space, access to resources, partnership opportunities. TWC has spaces, funds being made sustainable, and seek partnerships.
Some partners: Gingarte Capoeira, The Good Lyfe, Hyde Park Community Players, Hyde Park Learning Resource Center, Jelly, Literacy Works, MAGIC, Queers and Associates, Shower Songsters, Southside Together Organizing for Power, Splash!, SDS, Theater as Weapon, UC Dancers, Woodlawn After School Kids Program (WASKP).

Other business and civic organizations in this page sponsor, promote or award for arts: e.g. South East Chicago Commission.
Consult also Cultural Resources. These include Court Theatre, Museum of Science and Industry, Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, Smart Museum of Art.

University of Chicago, its departments, arts programming sections, an museums are in the Cultural Directory page.

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Business-oriented organizations (see also South East Chicago Commission and 53rd St. TIF in Civic)

Bronzeville Visitor Information Center, Gift Shop and Exhibit Gallery. And Black Metropolis Convention and Tourism Council

Bronzeville Visitor Information Center, Gift Shop and Exhibit Gallery. And Black Metropolis Convention and Tourism Council. Harold L. Lucas, President and CEO. 3501 South Martin Luther King Drive, Suite One East, Chicago, Illinois 60653, Tel # 773-373-2842, E-Mail: visitbronzeville@gmail.com, Revamped Web site portal: http://www.bviconline.info. Remember that Bronzeville Visitor Information Center programs are designed inclusively to enrich and enhance the quality of life for all Bronzeville residents. BVIC programs also attract visitors world wide who are interested in exploring the authentic cultural experiences of the historic Bronzeville community, "a city within the city" of the great northern city of Chicago.

The Empowerment Experiment. Former name Ebony Experiment. Was assoc. with Chicago Urban League, may be but now (also?) with Northwestern University Kellogg School Enterprise. Maggie and John Anderson. Seeks to put people in touch with African American businesses esp. in Hyde Park and Bronzeville and to have people shop them. More info being sought. Look for now in http://www.blackenterprise.com and http://www.ebonyexperiment.com.

Harper Court (Foundation) Arts Council

See in Arts. Focus has changed, but it retains a side mission to grow small business, particularly art and artisan related.

Hyde Park Chamber of Commerce

Moved to 5501 S. Everett, Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 288-0124, FAX (773) 288-0464
www.hydeparkchamberchicago.org, contact@hydeparkchamberchicago.org. Note, both website and email are new.
Executive Director: Lenora Austin. President: Susan Walker, first vice president Joyce Feuer, second vice president Greg Guttman, secretary Greg Guttman, treasurer Ken Sticken. Other members: Cheryl Bonander, Kathy Dusik, Joyce Feuer, Brad Jonas, Christ Nogulich, Michael McGuire, Jim Poueymirou, Jo Reizner, Duel Richardson, Rod Sawyer, Richard Spencer, (new), Jeanne Spurlock, Colette Steward, Laurel Stradford . [Note- this list may now be partially out of date.]

South East Chicago Commission

1511 E. 53rd Street, Chicago, IL 60615
(773) 324-6926. Fax 773 324-6685
Executive Director as of March 1 2010 Wendy Walker-Williams: , e-mail wendywilliams@uchicago.edu. Board President Shirley Newsome.
New website http://www.hydeparkchicago.org
to identify, initiate and advance a set of common economic and community development priorities that will make these communities even more attractive places for residents to live, learn, work and play. “The SECC is poised to serve as an ambassador,” said Williams. “The Organization also serves as a change agent within the area by bringing together individuals from the community who are dedicated to making these communities safe and prosperous.”

See also Hyde Park Kiwanis (in Social and other Services), South East Chicago Commission- Retail Development (Civic) and The Experimental Station and The Resource Center (Social and Other Services); in arts Little Black Pearl. LISC-Quad Cities-New Communities- in civic.

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Civic and Community organizations/Neighborhood Associations- General/Community Development

For the moment we are putting environmental and sustainable organizations in the Civic- ad hoc and specialized section (just starting).

53rd Street CARRD

Defunct but contact: Janet Geovanis (773) 634-7538.
A group dedicated to "responsible retail and residential" development in the 53rd Street TIF district and beyond. Appears to have disappeared, at least for now. However, these people are meeting and have a petition on the Mobil/McDonalds site 2007.

53rd Street Future Steering Committee- subsumed into HPKCC Development, Preservation, Zoning Committee and into the Vision53 process of the TIF Committee

An ad hoc consortium that may become permanent to handle public input into redevelopment of Harper Court/city lot and workshops on 53rd and beyond revitalization. Lead by HPKCC Development, Preservation and Zoning Committee (Gary Ossewaarde chair, George Rumsey organizer/coordinator) and the 53rd Street TIF Advisory Council Business and Environment Development Committee (Andre Brumfield and Jane Comiskey ((coordinator for this project)) ). Involves very informally a large number of other organizations including SECC, Interfaith Open Communities (Pat Wilcoxen) , and Older Women's League as wee as teh Chicago Dept. of Planning and Development and CMAP. Resource/co-coordinator: Irene Sherr of Community Counsel.

This is really a government-attached body appointed by Alderman Toni Preckwinkle (4th) that advises on projects, takes public input and often serves civic purpose, including holding public town hall and workshop meetings. Chair Howard Males. Committees (open to members of the community): Business and Environment, Parking, Planning and Development.

An nonprofit organic garden seeking to bridge communities and create a food and social resource/community in conjunction with the Experimental Station, between Dorchester and Blackstone.
http://61stgarden.org. Manager contact Jack Spicer, jackspicer@earthlink.net.

ACTS/Isaiah

Linda Thisted, (773) 947-9223. Defunct/subsumed into Coalition for Equitable Community Development, Hyde Park Cluster of Interfaith Open Communities, and Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation.
A church and faith-based organization dedicated to bringing faith principles to advocacy on public safety, bringing resources for youth, development issues, and more. Note- has not bee heard from for some time and has effectively passed its tasks on to other groups and organizations, civic and religious.

AREA Chicago, P.O. Box 47691, Chicago, IL 60647. http://www.chicagoatlas.areaprojects.com.
Web-based group that creates maps based on resident's thoughts and experiences; a culture-creating collaborative. Local connections: Experimental Station/Backstory Cafe and Hyde Park Art Center.

Usually meets at Chicago Urban League, 3510 S. Michigan. Also given as 4563 S. Michigan. Anela Higginbotham-Monroe, 773 924-1492, ajhmonroe@aol.com. For info. www.thebarcc.org/schedule.php.
Includes Bronzeville Condo Coalition.

Bronzeville Visitor Information Center, Gift Shop and Exhibit Gallery. And Black Metropolis Convention and Tourism Council

(773) 955-4841. Julian Ball. Coalition based in several area churches and synagogues. Generally meets 1st and 3rd Tuesdays at University Church, 5655 S. University and holds conventions at various times of the year.
www.nodeathpenalty.org, related www.illinoisdeathpenalty.org.

http://www.campuscatalyst.org.
A University of Chicago student-driven (mostly Booth School and Dept. of Economics and the Harris School of Public Policy) consulting corps for nonprofits.

A new organization launched by LeAnne Clause, a student in Chicago Theological Seminary.

4510 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60653
(773) 285-5000
www.thechicagourbanleague.org
President Cheryl Jackson
Purpose: To promote and advocate on African American issues, train African Americans for the workplace, and seek racial tolerance and cooperation.

1125 E. 58th St. 773 834-3929. Bart Schultz. Joanie Friedman. http://civicknowledge.uchicago.edu. rschultz@uchicago.edu. With the Graham School offers courses and projects of interest to and help to arts, civic, environmental, social, political and community groups and organizations. Several off shoots such as South Side Arts and Humanities Network (with database and directory for South Side) and a Sustainability Network.

222 S. riverside Plaza, Suite 2200, Chicago IL 60606-6109. 312 258-0070, www.cicchicago.com.

East Hyde Park Action Committee

Howard Niden prov. leader of this new organization. Email EHPAComm@yahoo.com.
Dedicated to learning and acting upon in a positive way neighbors' concerns between 53rd and 56th, the tracks and Lake Michigan. Top priorities include improving city infrastructure and services (such as sewers, lighting, street cleaning), parking issues, general improvements (a nicer place) and community safety (mostly in reference to CAPS). Meets for now 3rd Tuesdays in the Treasure Island lower level.

East Hyde Park Committee

George Kotnour, (773) 324-5454 or at Marian Realty 773 684-5400
George Kotnour has organized this monthly conclave at which residents and stakeholders meet to hear and discuss community problems and the latest news from Chicago and UC police, Park District, Streets and Sanitation, our aldermen, South East Chicago Commission, HPKCC, MSI, U of C, and local buildings. Meets at Montgomery Place's East Room, 5550 South Shore Drive, 8 am, third Wednesday mornings (except summer and December-January). Contact George Kotnour, or Mickey Conino at South East Chicago Commission 773 324-6926.

Marshall Mathews, President and Technical Director/Co-Host; Ruth M. Fairfax Frazier, MSHSA, Founder and Executive Director, and radio and television producer and host; Annika Frazier-Muhammad, Adv Board Chair and Managing Director.
1507 E. 53rd Street, Suite 228-B, Chicago, IL 60615-4509, 773 493-1485, FAACTorg@aol.com.
Forum to Achieve Altruism, Compassion and Tolerance (FAACT). Over 75 years of promoting peace, harmony, equality, and social justice for all. Seeks to inform and better civic life locally and city wide, including through an interview program on public radio.
Tune in to FAACT: Building Communities--Strengthening Nations, "Improving Lives through Public Service and Volunteerism" Dynamic interviews featuring newsmakers, movers and shakers Tuesdays 7:30 pm and Sunday 8:30 pm streaming live on CRIS Radio@ www.thechicagolighthouse.org.

An international peace and justice organization with a Hyde Park chapter. One contact Ed McManus.

Hyde Park Alliance for Arts and Culture- to establish Hyde Park as a Cultural Destination- see in teh Arts and Culture Section above.

www.interfaithopencommunities.org/hydepark/
Meets 2nd Mondays 8 pm at St. Thomas Apostle Church. Don Coleman, co-pastor of University Church,773 363-8142, Anne Holcomb, 773 643-8961.
For information http://oicillinois.org
Parent: Interfaith Open Communities: http://oicillinois.org
Pat Wilcoxen, now pwilcoxen@oicillinois.org and Ken Oliver at citywide OIC; Locally Stephen Flowers, John and Brenda Murphy; A. Anne Holcomb, 773 643-8961
Interfaith Open Communities (IOC) works with people of all faiths to promote affordable housing and welcoming communities throughout the Chicago metropolitan area.
Affiliated with Balanced Development Coalition?
Purpose: To promote affordable and needy housing and provide transitional housing services on the South Side, modeled on the mentoring services of Bridge Communities in DuPage County. Note, the Transitional Housing project is on its own and most of the activity of IOC is now done by Coalition for Equitable Community Development.

IOC works through local community Clusters to address the housing needs of our region. Local Clusters engage in education, local projects and advocacy in order to foster healthy communities that welcome and reflect the economic, religious and racial diversity of metropolitan Chicago.

IOC is sponsored by Protestants for the Common Good; the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Office for Peace and Justice; Jewish Council on Urban Affairs; and the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago.

A faith-based coalition of the social action committees of several congregations, including First Unitarian, St. Thomas The Apostle, University Church, and K.A.M. Isaiah-Israel. The Hyde Park Cluster is part of Interfaith Open Communities, a coalition of the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago, Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, and Protestants for the Common Good.

Hyde Park Cluster of Interfaith Open Communities- see more under Service including homesharing and Hyde Park Transitional Living programs.

Hyde Park Historical Society

5529 S. Lake Park Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 493-1893
www.hydeparkhistory.org, President: Ruth Knack
Purpose: To promote historical understanding and preservation in the current Hyde Park and Kenwood and throughout the old Hyde Park Town, 39th t0 130th. Sponsors lectures and exhibits, fairs, prizes and recognitions, website, members publication, preservation monitoring and advocacy; maintains historic building and archives mainly at U of C Regenstein Library Special Collections.

Operates from officers' businesses. ?773 363-0202.
Focuses on hearing and vision screening and referrals for children and adults, out of shopping malls, schools. Used glasses donations. Also a social outlet for businesses of diverse background.

Hyde Park and Kenwood Interfaith Council

Organized February 7, 1911. HPKIFC is a 501 c3.
President Rabbi Elliot B. Gertel, VP Rev. Laura Hollinger, VP Rev. John Modschiedler, Secretary Kent Busse, Treasurer Allan Lindrup
Their new website includes:
• A general “Donate” button on the Home page
• Many color photos
• HPKIFC Happenings – Executive Committee, Interfaith Dialogue, Monthly Happenings, Thanksgiving Day Interfaith Worship Service, and the Council By-Laws
• HPKIFC Member Organizations with descriptions of Congregations, Seminaries, and Other Member Organizations – many with links to their websites, and photos from many Congregations
• Services for Poor and Homeless including HPK Hunger Program, Hyde Park Transitional Housing, Sanders Free Medical Clinic, and Angels Outreach – each with a “Donate” button – and Other Programs
• Activities for Children and Youth, and
• Other Social Services

Interfaith Open Communities see Hyde Park Cluster of Interfaith...in Service Orgs also. http://oicillinois.org
Note: Hyde Park Hunger Programs (The Food Pantry and Soup Kitchen) is now managed by Hyde Park Union Church (http://www.hpuc.org)- see in Social Services below or in Community Resources page.

Hyde Park Kenwood Coalition for Equitable Community Development- see Coalition.....

Seeking contact information. 2009: Seeks, gathering petitions for a dog park in Harold Washington Park.

Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference

1525 E. 53rd St., #907, Chicago, IL 60615 (note new address)
(773) 288-8343
www.hydepark.org. Membership form. e-mail hpkcc@aol.com, President George Rumsey

Purpose: Dedicated to maintaining and enhancing an attractive, secure, diverse, and caring community. It promotes participation of its residents, businesses, institutions, and organizations in programs and activities that advance the interests and concerns of the community and serves as a civic watchdog and facilitator of community conversation (through forums, mediation, internet and publications on those matters that affect neighborhood well-being. Programs focus on development, schools, parks, transit, condo et al owners governance and issues needs, quality of life & safety, affordability, disabilities, environmental sustainability, participation in civic and development decision making, services to other nonprofits including the Garden Fair and Used Book Sale, website development (the main community website), The Conference Reporter (mailed to members). It conducts an ongoing series of public forums community meetings. Support, umbrella and some financial help to certain nonprofits.

Invisible Institute/View from the Ground/Local Human Rights Development Project.

Internet in depth investigation, reportage/coverage and advocacy including mapping the city related to any abused, including by persons in authority, and left out of society. Supports collaborative social justice projects. Human and legal rights, social, community-building and sustainability issues.

5715 S. Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL 60637 (Hillel House)
(773) 684-2644
www.juf.org.

Contact Laura Lunn or Susan Davis c/o South East Chicago Commission 773 324-6926.

To promote, advocate for and underwrite physical improvements and monitor and contro changes in the area roughly Cottage Grove to Lake Park, 47th to 51st. And to seek improvement in public safety, in part through CAPS-affiliated block clubs/block captains, to bring neighbors together.

Kenwood Open House Committee

Executive Director: To be announced, rest may be out of date. Retired Lead was margaret Goldstein.
Contacts: Robert Dawson, (773) 536-4825
Cynthia Aronovitz, Vice-chairman (caronovitz@msn.com)
Laura Sekhar, Treasurer (laura_sekhar@hotmail.com)
Karen O’Mara, Corresponding secretary (dr.karen.omara@gmail.com)
Peggy Studiger, Recording Secretary.

For fifty years the OHC has worked for a successful interracial and prosperous, stable community, having started with introducing prospective, new and continuing neighbors and moved on to many other activities and approaches.

Kenwood Oakland Community Organization (KOCO)

1005 E. 43rd Street, Chicago IL 60653
(773) 548-7500. Director Jay Travis. Schools Jitu Brown.
Purpose: To foster the interests and help residents of the area. Schools is a major focus.

Hyde Park Kiwanis

#13752 of Illinois-East Iowa District, Division 4. Find in http://www.iikiwanis.org, http://www.kiwanis.org. President Marianne Bagnola, Vice President Camille Hamilton-Doyle, Treasurer Jon Will, Secretary Rosemary Snow, Contact Rosemary Snow: Mail all including contributions to Kiwanis of Hyde Park, c/o 1507 E. 53rd St. Box 120, Chicago, IL 60615. 773 324-8645, roses92@sbcglobal.net. Jon Will: 1507 E. 53rd St., PMB 120, 60615, 773-643-8089, Fax 773 643-8091, jnwassoc@sbcglobal.net. Call Wally Jonas at 773 955-5035. Illinois-East Iowa District Governor Kevin McConnell, governor@iikiwanis.org.
For more information about Kiwanis projects or to participate contact Jon Will at jnwassoc@sbcglobal.net. Nationally, Kiwanis.org.
Meets most 1st and 3rd Tuesdays, 12 pm, Ramada Inn, 4900 S. Lake Shore Drive. Call 324-8645.

Since 1921. We're a group of men and women, business and professional leaders of Hyde Park who are members of a world-wide service organization founded in 1916. It is non-sectarian, apolitical an non-discriminatory. Our cause: to serve kids!

Purpose: To raise money for charitable purposes locally and nationally, including Christmas gifts for local indigent children, supporting the Neighborhood Club, supporting a camp for disabled children, research in medicine related to children, and the 57th Street Children's Book Fair in September. And it fosters sociality and the business community. Watch for the peanut vendors several times a year-next September 24, 2004. Looking for young additions! Children can enter through the Builders and Key clubs.
"We're a group of men and women in Hyde Park who are members of a world-wide service organization founded in 1916. The Hyde Park Club dates from 1921 and is composed of business and professional leaders; it is non-sectarian, apolitical and non-discriminatory. Our cause: to serve kids!"
Activities:
-Support Hyde Park Neighborhood Club
-Cosponsor 4th on 53rd July community parade
-Support the Blue Gargoyle Youth Center's Tutorial Program
-Underwrite the board and room costs of a physically handicapped child at Kiwanis Twin Lakes summer camp
-Cosponsor the 57th Street Children's Book Fair
-Prepare food and gift baskets for needy families during the holiday
-Mentor a family from St. Martin De Porres battered women's center going off welfare
-Sponsor and actively support the Kenwood Academy and King High School Key and Builders Clubs, soon to be added in Canter Middle
-Rich Uncle gifts and counseling to sponsored families.

A recent activity was taking kids from St. Martin De Porres center to Universoul Circus.

Peanut Days (last Friday in September), annual fundraiser for charities and projects in March at Seven Ten Pin.

See Hyde Park Cluster of Interfaith Open Communities. Citywide:
CEO Howard Stanback
111 W. Jackson, Chicago, IL, 60604
(312) 341-5678

League of Women Voters/ Chicago /Illinois/ Hyde Park

Local contact: Dorothy Scheff, 5550 South Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois, 60637, 773 753-4647 or Betty Golddiamond also at that address.
Downtown: 332 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60604
(312) 939-5935-President there Esta Kallen, tkandek@aol.com.
www.lwv.org (search by state), www.lwvil.org (state org)
Purpose: To promote citizen participation and integrity in the electoral and civic processes and good government, elucidate public issues. Holds monthly meetings and forums at Montgomery Place. Has held candidate forums.

Operates under KOCO, 1005 E. 43rd St. 773 548-7500. jitubrown@yahoo.com
Advocacy for parents and communities, support and training for lscs, teachers, parents

North Kenwood-Oakland Community Conservation Council.

(No office or email. Suggest contacting the 4th Ward office, South East Chicago Commission, or the Chicago Department of Planning)
Chairman: Shirley Newsome, 4140 South Lake Park Avenue, 60653, (773) 285-8496.
One of a handful of ccc's left in Chicago. It approves development proposals and area plans. It also serves as a community forum. Meets first Thursdays, 6:30, Kennicott Park field house, 4344 S. Lake Park Avenue.

Chicago Tel. no: 773 643-8403
http://www.owlillinois.org/ch_hydepark.html. http://www.owlillinois.org. Hyde Park Chapter. judy.roothaan@gmail.com.
Co-presidents Judy Roothaan, Ken Schug. Alison Hartman allison.c.hartman@usa.net (Illinois Chair) Lorie Rosenblum. E-mail Alice Brown, alice.brown@ameritech.net. Judy Roothan.
The Hyde Park Chapter meets most 1st Saturdays but not summer, October-June- June 2nd Sat., 1:30 or 2 pm (earlier social) at First Unitarian Church (Chris Moore Parlor), 5650 S. Woodlawn.

Open to anyone of all ages. Presents programs and advocates on issues of interest to midlife and older women, and advocates for policy changes on the state and national level. Areas of interest: personal & financial security, health and prescription drugs, image of midlife and older women, access to housing and housing alternatives, ending discrimination against women and the elderly including in the workplace, caregiving, a senior-friendly and accessible community.

Recent contact and organizational information
Editor & Mail List: Alice L. Brown
FAX: 773-643-0486
1367 East 52nd Street, Chicago IL 60615
email:alice.brown@ameritech.net
Get Newsletter: http://www.owlillinois.org/ch_hydepark.html
Member Information: Kennie James
9927 South Wallace Street, Chicago IL 60637
Co-Presidents: Judy Roothaan &
Ken Schug
Vice President for Program: Lorie Rosenblum
Recording Secretary: Joan Staples
Corresponding Secretary: Vicki Suchovsky
Treasurer: Kennie James
Ads: Joanne Kent
HP Owl telephone: 773-643-8403
HP OWL email address: owlhydepark@yahoo.com
OWL ILLINOIS: Phone (312) 957-0011
To join the OWL Listserv: Ellie Hall (773-324-2304)
Email: owl_illinois@yahoo.com
OWL NATIONAL: Power Line: 1 800-825-3695
owlinfo@owl-national.org

1515 E. 53rd st. Suite 433. 773 363-4272.
www.providentfoundation.org, provfound@ameritech.net
To mentor and bring more minorities into medicine (Dr. Hale-Williams mission)--$100,000 in scholarships in the past ten years), to spread the history and achievements of historic Provident Hospital, 500 E. 51st St., and its century old health mission on the south side, and bring together alums and former staff. (Provident is now part of the Cook County Health System.) An exhibit prepared by the Foundation has been been making the rounds and will open at South Shore Cultural Gallery January 14, 6-8 pm: "The Medical Miracle: Provident Hospital and Dr. Hale-Williams."

4659 S. Cottage Grove. 268-7232. Susana Vasauez, Benita Johnson-Gabriel.
In http://www.newcommunities.org (try)
Works to develop and implement Quality of Life Plans and controlled development in the North Kenwood, Oakland, Grand Boulevard, Douglas areas. One of 23 areas where LISC has planning or community redevelopment programs.

930 E. 50th Street, Chicago, IL 60615
(773) 373-3366
www.rainbowpush.org President and CEO. Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. PUSH Chairman Rev. Charles Jenkins.
Purpose: To provide a vehicle for social justice based on lasting values of spiritual regeneration, empowerment, parity, and discipline. Weekly forums, regular conventions job, contractor and other fairs.

South East Chicago Commission

1511 E. 53rd Street, Chicago, IL 60615
(773) 324-6926. Fax 773 324-6685
Executive Director as of March 1 2010 Wendy Walker-Williams: e-mail wendywalker@uchicago.edu. Board President Shirley Newsome.
New website http://www.hydeparkchicago.org
to identify, initiate and advance a set of common economic and community development priorities that will make these communities even more attractive places for residents to live, learn, work and play. “The SECC is poised to serve as an ambassador,” said Williams. “The Organization also serves as a change agent within the area by bringing together individuals from the community who are dedicated to making these communities safe and prosperous.”

Ben Booker Vance, President. http://www.soulinchicago.wordpress.com. jakewerner@gmail.com.
Soul seeks to bridge Woodlawn residents, the larger South Side, and University of Chicago students. Works with Coalition for an Equitable Olympics, Southside Solidarity Network, Coalition for Equitable Community Development and lots others. Supports the Gold Line Metra upgrade and other equitable transit, affordable housing, transparent and accountable government, green revolution and green jobs, minority and women jobs and participation and lots more.

Hallie Trauger, htrauger@uchicago.edu. Mark Hopwood, mhopwood@uchicago.edu. Current web: southsidesn.wordpress.com.
Hyde Park and U of C student based activist group, including on surrounding neighborhoods. Community organizing including into nearby neighborhoods, equitable transit including the Gold Line, green, labor, equitable Olympics and benefits, affordable housing,....

813 E.63rd Street, 2nd Floor, Chicago, Illinois 60637/ 773-753-9674.
http://www.stopchicago.org/ email: mhopwood@uchicago.edu. stopgentrification@gmail.com.
Fights gentrification and reduction/closure of services including health; for affordable housing including Tenant rights; ability of residents to stay in their homes and neighborhood; improved transportation options such as Gold Line; No or equitable Olympics; general neighborhood and South Side advocacy. Allies include Southside Solidarity Network, Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation, and NO Games. Currently seeking to stop health care facilities shutdowns and service cutbacks or upscaling, including at U of C. STOP is also organizing against closure of the U of C Women's Clinic at 47th and Woodlawn as part of CHART- http://chartchicago.wordpress.com/ qv in Civic Ad Hoc below.

Urban League- see under Chicago Urban...

Madiem Kawa. sunshine0711@gmail.com. 773-203-3418.
Our mission statement:
The Washington Park Conservancy is a non-profit organization dedicated to revitalizing green space in Washington Park by preserving wildlife habitat and promoting beautification, environmental education, and cultural programs for the public.

6105 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637
773 752-8892, Fax 773 752-8067
Murray Johnson, President

128 E. 58th St., Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 493-0754
http://www.washingtonparkcc.org (includes blog)
Housing and land development issues are among its interests.

6450 S. Stony Island Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637
773 288-3000
http://www.wecanwoodlawn.org, info@wecanwoodlawn.org.
Executive Director Mattie Butler
A longstanding advocacy and service organization dedicated to improvement in the Woodlawn neighborhood and mid South and enabling residents to remain their community. Manages three affordable housing buildings and various services.

6040 S. Harper Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637
773 288-5840; WCDC 773-753-2470
Leon D. Finney, Jr. Chairman. Charles Dyer?, Director. www.thewoodlawnorganization.org.
Organizing, tutoring, counseling, shelter.... Our efforts in civic organizing, family preservation, truancy intervention, child care, substance abuse counseling and economic community development have served to create a bastion of hope for the people of Chicago. Development and building offshoot is Woodlawn Community Development Corporation.

As one of the premier community based organizations in urban America, T.W.O. has set itself apart from other organizations because of its strong focus on impacting the lives of people in the communities we serve. We believe that life necessities such as housing, healthcare and education must first be met before any type of social programs can succeed. Our programs and services are reflective of our commitment. When we build a solid foundation around people, we are able to help strengthen families which support a stronger community. Throughout this year, T.W.O. has been extremely active in organizing communities around issues that have an affect on the lives of the individual and the family.

855 E. 63rd St. 773 363-4300. Mattie Butler, Executive Director. Laura Lane. Runs New Communities-Woodlawn.
http://www.npc-woodlawn.org.
Works with and through Woodlawn Organization,also University of Chicago, LISC New Communities to develop and implement Community Quality of Life Plan. Has a jobs tracking program.

See also, grouped under service, Hyde Park Kiwanis, WECAN, The Woodlawn Organization

Specialized, student or ad hoc civic

Campaign against war with/continued presence in Iraq.

Contact Center for Gender Studies at the University of Chicago, 5733 S. University.

Marcia Rothenberg, one of the organizers. Coalition for Healthcare Access Responsibility and Transparency. A coalition of many groups including STOP (see in Civic, above) seeking to reverse actions by UC Hospitals and others that could turn the area into a health service desert especially for economically disadvantaged. http://chartchicago.wordpress.com/

Coalition for Healthcare Access Responsibility and Transparency (protest UC Medical Center)

Dog owners group seeking a dog park, example Harold Washington Park. Defunct, but now a new one- see Hyde Park Bark Alliance in civic.

No web site.

First Unitarian Disabilities Group, University Church Disabilities Group. S

See contacts under Hyde Park Cluster of Interfaith Open Communities or Religious Organizations. Similar in many congregations

Hyde Park Committee Against War and Racism

Hyde Park-Kenwood Pro-Life Association and the Respect Life/Consistent Life Committee

Associated with the national Sanctity of Human Life Week project. St. Thomas the Apostle Church, 5472 S. Kimbark Ave. 73 947-9729.

Mel Rothenberg
773 684-7938. mel@math.uchicago.edu
Meets 1st Wednesdays?, get info. from contact.

NOLA in Chicago Network. Grasssroots network of New Orleans expatriates and other Chicagoans who care about the future of New Orleans and its displaced citizens. The network aims to be an inclusive and diverse group, bringing together NOLA expatriates who are long-time Chicago residents; hurricane survivors and other recent arrivals; alums of Louisiana universities; and all others who love New Orleans (and its Central Park). Melissa Perrett Cook, 5733 S. Kimbark 60637, 773 684-5239. nolainchicago@yahoo.com.cial other populations

Interfaith Open Communities (Hyde Park Cluster)
http://oicillinois.org
See more under Hyde Park Interfaith Cluster in Services. Pat Wilcoxen, Ken Oliver.

Hyde Park Kiwanis- See in Social and Other Services below. (Kiwanis links across the membership of various Hyde Park civic organizations and includes others and also acts civically, as with the 4th on 53rd Parade.)

New Priorities, Coalition for

Contact: Bernice Bild (Mrs. Sidney) (773) 924-7886
Purpose: To hold government at all levels to accountability and promote people-centered priorities. Spearheading Hyde Park opposition to war incl. with Iraq

Open Housing/Open Communities, Housesharing. See Kenwood Open House Committee (in the next up section), Hyde Park Cluster of Interfaith Open Communities/Interfaith Open Communities, Hyde Park and Kenwood Interfaith Council.

Parents United for Responsible Education (PURE)

Julie Woestehoff, Executive Director
407 S. Dearborn, Chicago, IL 60604
(312) 461-1944

Starting as a student organization, then a faith-based group, it now is based at Meadville Seminary although with several church and seminary groups and reaching out into the community and seeking volunteers and researches. Views green as a stewardship task.

Student-Tenant Organizing Project (STOP) now Southside Together Organizing for Power? More in preceding section.

Seeks to bridge Woodlawn residents and needs and University of Chicago students, including future of Grove Parc public housing complex. Information pending.

Task Force for Promontory Point, Community (or Save The Point)

Contact: Jack Spicer, 773 324-5476, jackspicer@earthlink.net.
www.savethepoint.org
Purpose: To preserve the look, historic integrity, and uses, including enhanced access, of Promontory Point on Lake Michigan at 55th through reuse of limestone. Commissioned, with HPHS, professional studies to present an alternative plan for revetment reconstruction and preservation.

Organized coalition of high school students, starting in the area, that researched schools nationally and has developed a dropout prevention plan. Contacts tba.

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Social and other service organizations and advocates

See also the various congregations in Religious Resources. More distant: Center for New Horizons centers. Matthew House, 3722-28 S. Indiana, 537-3661 (food, men's clothing, toys...). Homeless Help Line- 312 563-1600.

An nonprofit organic garden seeking to bridge communities and create a food and social resource/community in conjunction with the Experimental Station and 61st St. Farmer's Market, between Dorchester and Blackstone.
http://61stgarden.org. Manager contact Jack Spicer, jackspicer@earthlink.net.

Affinity Community Services. with UCAN (separated from Youth Pride Services.) 5650 S. Woodlawn. Kim Hunt dir. Holds drop in nights for mentoring and school work for youth of gay, lesbian, trans or questioning affinity, aged 14-19-1st and 3rd Mondays 4-8, will increase to M-Th. Also Lesbian and bi moms roundtable, UCAN transitioning homeless youth to safe homes (wadeb@ucanchicago.org, 312 738-5966-Uhlich Children's Advantage Network (UCAN) is a multi-faceted social service agency which serves more than 12,000 children, youth and families in Illinois each year.
www.ucanchicago.org).

AKArama Foundation, Inc. Community Service Center. Outreach of Alpha Kappa Alpha and Omega Theta

Sarah Diwan, phdccn@gmail.com. http://www.babyphd.com. This is a network and connecting service of childcare to preschool providers, funded in part by University of Chicago. Its services include wide ranging programs daily at Hyde Park Neighborhood Club.

Better World Books works locally to hold book drives near the end of college spring terms to give to Nonprofits and service organizations. www.betterworldbook.com, yanna@betterworldbooks.com, 773 655-3842.

Chicago Association of Retarded Citizens (CARC).
Main address: 8 S. Michigan Ave. Suite 1700, Chicago, Illinois 60603 312.346.6230.
http://www.carc.info
Evelyn Nelson School, Foster Parent Program and other services: 5333 S. Greenwood. 773 241-5700.

Chicago Child Care Society (CCCS)
5467 S. University Avenue. 773 643-0452. Fax 773 643-0620.
Exec. Dir. Nancy Johnstone. http://www.cccsociety.org (revamped website). Associated Dir. Deborah Hagman-Shannon, Ph.D. Development Erin C. Walton, 773 256-2459, ewalton@cccsociety.org. Child Welfare Programming- Curt Holderfield.
More under The Next Step. Since 1849, when established as an orphanage after the great cholera epidemic, CCCS is Chicago's and Hyde Park's oldest child welfare agency. Mission is to safeguard vulnerable children and reinforce their families first is their aim. Recently received a major grant from the University of Chicago. Funding at the center has been stable, being mostly federal or private, including for early childhood, but state and other cuts and delays threaten girl-oriented foster care, tutoring and mentoring children, and people taking in children of relatives.
Foster care, Counseling, Teen Parenting, Chilc and Family Development Center, Family Support Services.
Right at Home Parent-Baby Drop In, Thursdays 10:30-noon at the Townhouse, 5459 S. University.
Child and Family Development Center serves 2-5s in Community Day Care for working parents.
There is also Homeless Day Care and Protective Day Care. Takes both community and DCFS kids including pick up to and from shelters. "
Clinical family services such as foster care and adoptions. Licensed therapists.
Next Step program prepares teenage mothers and dads for college.
From CCCS: Our mission statement: CCCS exists to protect vulnerable children and
strengthen their families. We strive to be among the premier providers
of high quality and effective child welfare services. We serve both
children and families in the following programs:

* Child and Family Development Center (CFDC): day care program with children between ages of 2 to 5 years old.

* Counseling program: family oriented counseling for the agency's foster care programs and the CFDC program.

* Education Support Program: provides services to children who are experiencing academic, behavioral and attendance difficulties and are at risk of expulsion or dropping out of school.

* The Extended Family Support Program provides short term support to individuals caring for related children.

* The Teen Alliance Program: provides DCFS wards with a unique foster care experience.

* The Safe Life Program: is an HIV/AIDS prevention and education program aimed at providing information to adolescents about sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS.

* The Teen Parenting Initiative Program serves pregnant and parenting teens that are enrolled in the Chicago Public Schools.

* The Next Step Program is a college readiness program with mentoring support for high school mothers with one child.

Admin. offices: 4150 S. King Dr, (773) 373-5700
Director: Sokoni Karanja, board chair Pat Hurston.
http://www.cnh.org
Founded in 1071, CNH is a nonprofit organization that enables children, youth, and families to become self-reliant. Providing programs in five locations throughout the Bronzeville and Riverdale communities on the South Side of Chicago, Centers operates programs in Early Care and Education, Family Support, Youth Development, community Building and Work Force Development.

CNH runs social, afterschool, and preschool/head start programs throughout Bronzeville and beyond. Founded in 1971, Centers for New Horizons is a nonprofit organization that enables children, youth, families to become self-reliant. Providing programs in five locations throughout the Bronzeville and Riverdale communities on the South Side of Chicago, Centers operates programs in Early Care and Education, Family Support, Youth Development, Community Building and Work Force Development.
In 38 years, Centers for New Horizons has educated over 20,000 young children; encouraged thousands of children and youth to stay in and achieve in school; provided community leadership that has generated over $500 MM in capital investment in Bronzeville; provided job training, and placement for thousands of parents and others; supported hundreds of fragile families adn seniors; created new opportunities for resident leadership and participation; and provided leadership in citywide coalitions to improve our public schools, ameliorate poverty, increase the supply and the quality of early childhood education, and provide quality affordable housing for low income families.

Chicago Center (for Urban Life and Culture)

1515 E. 52nd Place, 2nd floor, and other locations, Chicago, IL 60615
(773) 773 363-1312 or 620 245-7692. Fax 7733 363-1150.
Purpose: Counseling and other social services
Scott Chesebro, Executive Dir.
1515 E. 52nd Place, other locations, Chicago, IL 60615. 1-800-747-6059, (773) 667-6419, others. fax: (773) 363-1150.
http://www.chicagocenter.org, http://www.urbanlifecenter.org. info@chicagolifecenter.org, althea@chicagocenter.org.
Purpose: Counseling and other social services. Celebrated 35 years in June 2006.
We're a nonprofit experiential educational organization in Hyde Park.
Urban Life Center engages college students with Chicago's diverse communities through innovative seminars and internships, expanding the traditional classroom through an experience-based, first-voices pedagogy.
Urban Life Center also designs day to week-long LearnChicago! tours and workshops to teach groups about the city's cultures and communities.

Can be reached via the Evergreen office, Hyde Park Cooperative Society, (773) -288-4700.
www.circlepinescenter.org
This organization and ecologically-oriented resort in western Michigan sells the familiar charity-supporting Christmas trees in the Hyde Park Shopping Center courtyard.

Elizabeth Burns. eburns08@cityyear.org. http://www.cityyear.org. 312 375-6806.
City Year is an urban American Peace Corp, in some ways like Habitat for Humanity with orgs with vol. team groups. It seeks to build democracy through volunteerism and entrepreneurship. Projects in our and nearby neighborhoods.

Common Threads.
Although based in the West Loop, this organization will be starting programs in HPK (St. Paul's, Shiloh) under the energetic leadership of Al Smith (Oprah's chef). See details and contacts in Community Resources.

Community Service Center, University of Chicago

5525 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago IL 60637
(773) 753-GIVE (4483)
http://communityservice.uchicago.edu
Director: Wallace Goode?, wgoode.uchicago.edu. Klaas Van Der Wey, Operations Manager,Asst. Dir. David Hays, dhays@uchicago.edu, Program Coordinator Katharine Bierce.
UCSC fosters an active culture of service and partnership between the university and community. Serving 2000 people a year, UCSC facilitates volunteerism, a data base of nonprofit employment, educational programming, and promotes service oriented policy including Service Days. Their big service days are in September-- nonprofits should put in for their students early in the summer.
Summer Links internships in community organizations: David Hays, dhays@uchicago.edu

1526 E. 55th Street
(773) 667-1444 x 1225
Karen Dennis heads the Shut-in Shopper Program. Orders are taken Mondays and filled early Tuesday morning and delivered by volunteer shoppers!

1374 E. 53rd Street
(773) 752-6400. Often not there: try the W. Addison no. (773) 281-5058
Much more affordable than any other kind of mortuary service; once paid you're done. Also complete service such as notifications for death certificate, complete body handling.

D.A.R.E.- Disabled Adult Residential Enterprises
1616 E. 55th St. 773 667-7313.
Maintains fully accessible residential building and provides services and advocacy for people with disabilities. Operated by Lutheran Services but has a board. Government certified.

Shani Britton, 1507 E. 53rd St. suite 911, 60615, 773 426-3400, Hopeinzion@aol.com. http://www.dozin.org.
DOZIN is a Christian non-profit dedicated to saving lives and restoring hope by sharing Gods' love through providing food, clothing, medical care, quality education, clean water and a safe living environment. we focus on children who have been separated from their parents due to death, abandonment, poverty or abuse. We strive to meet each child's specific needs by providing personal development programs, counseling, educational support and spiritual and recreational activities.

The Experimental Station with Blackstone Bicycle Works, 61st Farmers market...

6100 S. Blackstone. http://www.experimentalstation.org. Dan Peterman, Connie Spreen.
Mixes green, arts, trades and community gardening/food resources training and services for youth and adults. The neighborhood's newest full arts and community center.

Also at this collaborative are Invisible Institute, Blackstone Bicycle Works, (in bike sharing and program with U of C), Backstory Cafe, an art gallery, and performance and meeting space.

Blackstone Bicycle Works. Hires youth apprentices to teach bicycle repair, rehabilitation, maintenance, sales to youth. Partners with U of C bike share program.

61st Farmer's Market. Dennis Ryan, Manager. Open May-October, then inside in Nov-Dec. Sat. late mornings. it brings fresh produce to the neighborhood, in different ways and with all options for payment including LINK. Connie Spreen is director of sponsoring Experimental Station and Aaron Schorsch recruits farmer and produce. They seek producers of midwestern organic and sustainable commodities- including meat, produce , cheese, baked goods, flowers and soaps. Woodlawn is one of 23 Chicago food deserts identified in a Mari Gallagher Research and LaSalle Bank study. Food is in short supply and balanced toward the unhealthy in the deserts (incl. prices disproportionately high for nutritious foods- as everywhere but espec. in the deserts leading to consumption of mainly fast foods). The Market also offers cooking and nutrition classes 9-2 on Saturdays. Visit http://www.experimentalstation.org. This includes working with Chicago Careers through Culinary Arts (C-CASP) to develop a sustainable and locally sourced foods teaching program for schools (large program for high schools including at South Shore Cultural Center.)

The Market has a Double Value LINKS program, supported by Wholesome Wave Foundation. For up to $25 weekly.
And the Market has partnered with Whole Foods to create three special Sunday markets at the South Loop Whole Foods, Roosevelt and Canal, while providing gardening and nutrition experts at the 61st Garden.

Experimental Station is 1 of 3 gardens to nourish the South Side food desert with fresh food and a sense of community. In addition to the garden at 61st and Blackstone, it also sponsors the Woodlawn Buying Club, a wood-fired oven and the Urban Farm Project. They began planning a farmer's market in 2007. Featured in the market will be fruits vegetable, dairy, organically raise meats, and some non edible handmade wares- Sat mornings 9-1 May 17-Oct. 25 61st and Dorchester. Hope is to include live music, cooking workshops, nutritional information. Food stamps, WIC, Farmers Market Senior Nutrition Program will be able to purchase through Electronic Benefits Transfer. There is a large contingent of volunteers who are learning these businesses. It also collaborates with Common Threads and Growing Power to provide sustainable market baskets for Englewood.

Starting October 3 2009, LINK values will be doubled at the Garden for Woodlawn residents.

The Faithful Few

Faithful Few. Works using volunteers with children with attention deficit and hyperactivity or bipolar disorders. Founded by Hyde Parker Denard Jacox. Includes softball and work with YMCA, Chicago Park District as well as one on one mentoring. 773 426-3472, http://www.faithfulfew.org.

Feed the People Open Kitchen (See also Hyde Park and Kenwood Interfaith Council for more contacts and website.)

4608 S. Greenwood Ave.
Rev. Leroy Sanders, (773) 373-2861
Noontime meals 5 times a week. Volunteers needed.

6400 S. Kimbark Ave.
Day Care (773) 684-2499, (773) 363-1235. After School (773) 363-4319
Serves lunch to 3000-400 at 1 pm Tuesdays. Volunteers, canned goods and paper supplies welcome.

Established to support the first CPL branch library and gain improvements at the Blackstone Branch Library, 4904 S. Lake Park, 312 747-1105. FOBL is an Affiliate Committee of Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference.
Information is in the Friends of Blackstone page. President Brenda Sawyer, bpsawyer@ameritech.net.

Contacts: Caroline 206-6583. esweeney@uchicago.edu
Organizes over homelessness and Woodlawn issues, seeks to establish student-resident cooperative housing. Works with WECAN.

Dedicated to helping stray and feral cats in the Hyde Park/Kenwood/Woodlawn area, with our main goal being to control feline overpopulation through 'TNR.' TNR (trap-neuter-return) is promoted by the national feline advocacy groups Alley Cat Allies and the ASPCA, as well as 'no-kill' shelters in the Chicago area like PAWS and Treehouse. Quarterly meetings; periodic TNR workshops; email alerts. See blog site for details.
The group has been 'in the news' several times lately:
1. From the Chicago Tribune:
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/apr/27/news/chi-schmich-bdapr27
2. From the UofC's Chicago Maroon:
http://www.chicagomaroon.com/2008/5/8/hyde-parks-feral-cats-gain-local-and-citywide-sympathy
3. From the Chicago Weekly:
http://chicagoweekly.net/2009/02/19/from-feral-to-sterile-hyde-park-cat-lovers-trap-neuter-and-release/

Hyde Park Cluster of Interfaith Open Communities,
Hyde Park Transitional Housing Project (see under Hyde Park Transitional) and Lawyer's Committee for Better Housing, Inc. HomeSharing Program

Meets 2nd Mondays 8 pm at St. Thomas Apostle Church. Don Coleman, co-pastor of University Church,773 363-8142, Anne Holcomb, 773 643-8961.
For information http://oicillinois.org
Parent: Interfaith Open Communities: http://oicillinois.org
Pat Wilcoxen, pwilcoxen-at-thecommongood.org, Don Coleman, co-pastor of University Church,773 363-8142; A. Anne Holcomb, 773 643-8961.
Interfaith Open Communities (IOC) works with people of all faiths to promote affordable housing and welcoming communities throughout the Chicago metropolitan area.
Affiliated with Balanced Development Coalition?
Purpose: To promote affordable and needy housing and provide transitional housing services on the South Side, modeled on the mentoring services of Bridge Communities in DuPage County.

Melody Geraci, HomeSharing Program Coordinator, Lawyers' Committee for Better Housing, 220 S. State St., Suite 1700, Chicago, IL 60604, Program phone 773 627-8201, Downtown 312 347-7600, homesharing@lcbh.org, www.lcbh.org. For more information, visit hydepark.org's Ending Homelessness page.

(A U of C Harris School student org. working on affordability is Community and Economic Development Organization.)

Associated also with a 501 (c) 3 coalition, Coalition for Equitable Community Development of Hyde Park and Kenwood [affordable housing] and 53rd Street Future Steering Committee coalition.

A coalition of the 4th and 5th wards, DARE, HPKCC, HP Chamber of Commerce, Older Women's League, SECC, UC Police. It seeks to make Hyde Park businesses accessible to persons with disabilities and their service animals, to improve our paths of mobility, and improve etiquette including with bicycles and autos towards all with limited ability. A Caring Community. Learn more at the hydepark.org Disabilities page.

The Hyde Park Garden Fair Committee

A programmatic committee of the Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference
Contact: Sue Purrington, 773 363-4368. President: Lesley Bloch.
www.hydeparkgardenfair.org, www.hydepark.org, Committees, Garden Fair.
Purpose: Beautify the community and promote gardening and green space through volunteers and proceeds of its spring and fall sales at Hyde Park Shopping Center.

Wholy owned by Montgomery Place, where it resides, 5550 S. South Shore Drive. 773 358-7437. R. Bradley, Marketing. http://www.hydeparkhomecare.com.
There’s simply no substitute for living in your own home and maintaining your own comfortable surroundings.

5600 S. Woodlawn, Chicago, IL 60615

Operates from Hyde Park Union Church, http://www.hpuc.org, 5600 S. Woodlawn Ave., 773 363-6063.
The Pantry distributes emergency supplies and groceries to residents living between 39th and 60th, Cottage to the lake Saturdays 10 am-1 pm. Volunteers help package, recycle, clean do clerical.
The Kitchen serves hot meals at noon Mon.-Fri. at 4608 S. Greenwood Ave (Kenwood United Church of Christ- Rev. Leroy Sanders (773) 373-2861).
Fort donations see in the Hyde Park Union Church website.

A coalition of K.A.M. Isaiah Israel, First Unitarian Church, and University Church with the national New Sanctuary Committee to raise awareness about immigrant issues and needs and provide aid to endangered or needy immigrants.

Hyde Park JCC (of Jewish Community Centers of Chicago)

5200 S. Hyde Park Blvd., Chicago, IL 60615
(773) 753-3080. Laurie Goldman, Regional Administrator. Sports: Brian Latman, 773 753-3080 x203. HP director is Michael Goldstein.
www.jccofchicago.org/ , slubof@jccofchicago.org
Purpose: Our facilities and programs accommodate a variety of social, educational and recreational needs and interests. Supported by Hyde Park Council of Jewish Organizations and Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation. Programs include gym with league-competing youth and adult bball and vball teams, bowling, ice skating classes, activity rooms, L'dor V'dor program connecting students with seniors, activity rooms, classes on writing, literature/books, cinema... Some activities do have a goodly fee.
Celebrating 100 years. Honoring our past, believing in our future.

Hyde Park/Kenwood Pro-Life Association

Hyde Park Kiwanis

#13752 of Illinois-East Iowa District, Division 4. Find in http://www.iikiwanis.org, http://www.kiwanis.org. President Marianne Bagnola, Vice President Camille Hamilton-Doyle, Treasurer Jon Will, Secretary Rosemary Snow, Contact Rosemary Snow: Mail all including contributions to Kiwanis of Hyde Park, c/o 1507 E. 53rd St. Box 120, Chicago, IL 60615. 773 324-8645, roses92@sbcglobal.net. Jon Will: 1507 E. 53rd St., PMB 120, 60615, 773-643-8089, Fax 773 643-8091, jnwassoc@sbcglobal.net. Call Wally Jonas at 773 955-5035. Illinois-East Iowa District Governor Kevin McConnell, governor@iikiwanis.org.
For more information about Kiwanis projects or to participate contact Jon Will at jnwassoc@sbcglobal.net. Nationally, Kiwanis.org- a focus of serving children is spastic paralysis.
Meets 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 12 pm, Ramada Inn, 4900 S. Lake Shore Drive. Call 324-8645.

Since 1921. We're a group of men and women, business and professional leaders of Hyde Park who are members of a world-wide service organization founded in 1916. It is non-sectarian, apolitical an non-discriminatory. Our cause: to serve kids!

Purpose: To raise money for charitable purposes locally and nationally, including Christmas gifts for local indigent children, supporting the Neighborhood Club, supporting a camp for disabled children, research in medicine related to children, and the 57th Street Children's Book Fair in September. And it fosters sociality and the business community. Watch for the peanut vendors last Friday in September. Looking for young additions! Children can enter through the Builders and Key clubs.
"We're a group of men and women in Hyde Park who are members of a world-wide service organization founded in 1916. The Hyde Park Club dates from 1921 and is composed of business and professional leaders; it is non-sectarian, apolitical and non-discriminatory. Our cause: to serve kids!"
Activities:
-Support Hyde Park Neighborhood Club
-Cosponsor 4th on 53rd July community parade
-Support Builders and other student project clubs, currently in Kenwood Academy High School, soon in Canter Middle School.
-Underwrite the board and room costs of a physically handicapped child at Kiwanis Twin Lakes summer camp
-Cosponsor the 57th Street Children's Book Fair
-Prepare food and gift baskets for needy families during the holiday
-Mentor a family from St. Martin De Porres battered women's center going off welfare
-Sponsor and actively support the Kenwood Academy and King High School Key Clubs
-Rich Uncle gifts and counseling to sponsored families.

A recent activity was taking kids from St. Martin De Porres center to Universoul Circus. The chapter now provides steady monthly money to and counsels with families identified by social agencies including "rich uncle" money for the family to have fun.

Peanut Days (lat Friday in September), annual fundraiser for charities and projects in March at Seven Ten Pin.

Cheryl, 773 538-6128. Meets/hq at Augustana Lutheran Church, 5500 S. Woodlawn.
Educates and holds discussion on issues related to breast -feeding.

Hyde Park Neighborhood Club

5480 S. Kenwood Avenue
(773) 643-4062, Fax (773) 643-4262
Executive Director: interim Jennifer Bosch. President: Bethany Pickens. Advancement/program/development/outreach Beth Parker. Youth and other programs Abigail Hymen.
www.hpnclub.org. email@hpnclub.org. Purpose: To provide social and recreational services through its facilities and programs. Includes senior and other daycare. Features a variety of programs including recreation and fitness, crafts, education for toddlers, children, teens, adults, seniors, pets and the community, beginning bridge, a community garden, and much more. More information in Collaborers page.

In 2010, the Hyde Park Neighborhood Club proudly celebrates the beginning of its second century of vital service to Hyde Park and the south side of Chicago. HPNC strengthens our community and fosters individual development by complementing and enriching classroom learning for children and youth and by promoting social interaction and wellbeing among seniors. Each day, more than 300 people participate in HPNC programs. This is truly a place “where generations grow together.” Space in the HPNC headquarters, which includes a community garden, is available for rental. HPNC is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.

Hyde Park and Kenwood Interfaith Council- see above in Civic or in the Faith Communities page.

Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago (JUF/JF) - See Hillel/Newberger Hillel House in the Faith Communities page.

Local- 5715 S. Woodlawn Ave. http://www.juf.org.
Hillel: Executive Director: Mr. Daniel Libenson
Contact: Raif Melhado, Operations Manager
Phone: 773-752-1127
Fax: 773-752-2460
Email: raifmelhado@juf.org
Website: www.uchicagohillel.org
Mission: Hillel seeks to engage Jewish students from a plurality of backgrounds and provide them with the tools that they need to interact with Judaism and the Jewish people on their own terms throughout their emerging adulthood.

Jewish Vocational Service - Hyde Park

950 E. 61st St, Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 493-3400
www.jvschicago.org
Purpose: Provide model educational and vocational counseling, job placement, vocational rehabilitation and skills training services to members of the Jewish and general communities, to facilitate and optimize their employment, skills and opportunities.

Deirdre Pullins. 1642 E. 56th St. http://www.jordynecares.org.
Raises funds for families identified by Children's Memorial Hospital and others for burial expenses for children who have died.

Being organized as email based. Contacts being obtained. Call South East Chicago Commission (see above).
To promote, advocate for and underwrite physical improvements in the area roughly Cottage Grove to Lake Park, 47th to 51st. To seek improvement in public safety, in part through CAPS-affiliated block clubs/block captains, to bring neighbors together.

1005 E. 43rd St. 773 548-7500
Contact: Jay Travis
Provides community-development programs, welfare, home repair for seniors and disabled, emergency food pantry open 8:30-5 Mon.-Fri. Monetary donations welcome.

See Hyde Park Cluster of Interfaith Open Communities- Hyde Park Transitional Housing Project

Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities

111 W. Jackson, 12th Floor, Chicago, IL 60604
(312) 341-5678
www.lcmoc.org
Purpose: To replace discrimination and segregation with an open housing market; serving African American and Latino home-seekers in Chicago and six collar counties.

Lions. Hyde Park Lions Club
Operates from officer's businesses. Current contact: 773 363-0202
Focuses on hearing and vision screening and referrals for children and adults, out of shopping malls, schools etc. Has screening vans. Also a social outlet for businesses of diverse background.

950 E. 61st Street, Chicago, IL 60637.
(773) 290-2313.
www.magicchicago.org
Bryan K. Echols, Executive Director, bryane@magicchicago.org. Founder Joseph Strickland.
Dedicated to bringing athletics and academics with civic and personal development and entrepreneurship to youth on the South Side, principally Woodlawn/Grand Crossing. Clubs for girls and for boys. Many cultural activities, programs in schools, health fairs (latter including for HIV in conjunction with National Teen Test Day.

Midwest Workers Association

Robert Sigel, Operations Manager.
5152 S. Halsted Street, Chicago, IL 60609
(773) 285-0485
Purpose: To provide a wide range of social and health survive-and-get-on-your-feet services and referrals for and to organize for advocacy working families not covered by traditional labor laws and organizations. Many Hyde Park businesses, organizations, professionals and individuals are active in it.

Hyde Park Chapter: Chairs Judy Roothaan, Ken Schug. Alison Hartman (also state liaison) E-mail Alice Brown, alice.brown@ameritech.net. Meets 1st Sats. 1 pm 1st Unitarian Moore parlor exc. 2nd Sat in June and not July-Sept.
Southeast Chapter: Irene Nelson, 773 324-0681, Vera Clark, 773 221-1147. Meets at Atlas Srs. Center, 1767 E. 79th St. 1st Saturdays at 10 am.
Open to anyone of all ages. Presents programs and advocates on issues of interest to midlife and older women, and advocates for policy changes on the state and national level. Areas of interest: personal & financial security, health and prescription drugs, image of midlife and older women, access to housing and housing alternatives, ending discrimination against women and the elderly including in the workplace, caregiving. Newsletter.

Among other missions is helping and counseling high school girls who have become pregnant to not become so again and re staying in school and boys about safe and responsible sex, plus other programs for youth. Serving for over 20 years. In various schools through city and suburbs including South Side. Locations 4222 N. Ravenswood, 773 525-4679 and 5646 S. Kimbark, 773 324-9744. Nancy Mosena, President.New website under development.

are two organizations similar to that above but focusing on organizing for provision of child care and related families in the workplace services. (Information sought, contact us if you have any.)

222 E. 135th Street, 70727. (773) 821-1351, fax (773) 821-7462.
http://www.resourcecenterchicago.org e-mail info@resourcecenterchicago.org
Ken Dunn's project-become-business was of the first comprehensive recyclers and green-practice organizations and businesses in the country, it has moved from just south of Hyde Park to 135th with a satellite at 75th and Woodlawn (?). Programs/facilities include Blackstone Bicycle Works that teaches kids bicycle repair and recovery, CHA Recycling, City Farm, Community-Municipal-Business Recycling (including the truck that plys Hyde Park), Creative Rec sources Warehouse (including reusing school books), Items for Sale, and Urban Composting and Community Gardening.

5736 S. Drexel. (773) 324-5437 (KIDS)
rmhuoc@aol.com
A service of Ronald McDonald Charities and the University of Chicago Children's Hospital. Provides lodging and services for parents of children at the Hospital, other child life services. Volunteers needs for a host of tasks incl. cooking.

6423 S. Woodlawn. (773) 643-5843
Battered women and children shelter and services incl. job training, child care, tutoring, GED, substance abuse rehab. Volunteers esp for tutoring children, taking them on outings, visiting the women. Food, clothing, and monetary donations welcome (canned and boxed food and baking supplies).

Contact
Supports multiple charitable activities within the community. One project is seniors Game Day at Hyde Park Neighborhood Club, 9 am 1st Wednesdays.

Contacts Angela Gaylord, Josephine Sanders
South Side Parent Group/South Side Parents. info@southsideparents.org, agaylord@southsideparents.org. http://www.southsideparents.org
312 842-8936, P.O. Cox 16431, Chicago, IL 60616-0431.
Watchdog seeking access, enrichment, empowerment of parents in all kinds of schools, seeing that options are fully explored, as with Early Childhood and Elementary Schools fairs.

Urban Life Center now known as The Chicago Center

1515 E. 52nd Place, other locations, Chicago, IL 60615
(773) 667-6419, others
www.chicgocenter.org Also www.urbanlifecenter.org
Purpose: Schooling, counseling and other social services. Serves as as a nontraditional school open to students from around the country, who learn to live in the city, experience its culture and gain internships and college credit along the way. It works in part via forums and other conversations with participating organizations from around the city. The only independent non profit experimental educational program for college age youth and has been designing travel and community immersion programs since 1970.

1448 E. 53rd St., 773 363-1620.
Breakfast every 4th Saturday in the fellowship hall. 9 am-noon. (Volunteers, show up at 8.)

United Methodist Community Support Services (division of United Methodist Homes and Services)- satellite office in Hyde Park Union Church.

5600 S. Woodlawn. Current contact: Pamela Edwards, Service Coordinator, at 1415 W. Foster Ave. 60640. 773 769-5270.

(Seniors-oriented, this is the group that runs the acclaimed White Crane Wellness Center on the North Side) . They also have a service of reliable home craftsmen, fitness and adult day programs, live-in caregivers, overnight care, personal care and hygiene, housekeeping and laundry, meal preparation, grocery shopping, companionship, respite care, telephone contact, medication reminder, and escort to doctor or hospital from/at various facilities.

United Methodist Community Support Services is a professional and personal approach to home care, enabling older adults to remain independent and safe in the comfort of their own homes.

Current contact: Pamela Edwards, Service Coordinator, at 1415 W. Foster Ave. 60640. 773 769-5270.

800 E. 55th St., 3rd Floor. 847 685-9900
Counseling services, including coping with grief and with illness of a loved one.

University of Chicago Community Service Center- See Community Service Center, above

University of Chicago Service League
www.ucserviceleague.org (site is new, being filled.) Initial contact Mary Rose Shaughnessy.
Dedicated to serving both the University and community through member development (including computer classes and book groups) and service projects, including with the Hyde Park Neighborhood Club.

University of Chicago Student Government, University of Chicago, Registered Student Organizations (SROs)

Urban Life Center (Chicago Center for Urban Life and Culture)
1515 E. 52nd Place, 2nd floor, and other locations, Chicago, IL 60615
(773) 773 363-1312 or 620 245-7692. Fax 7733 363-1150.
Purpose: Counseling and other social services
Scott Chesebro, Executive Dir.
1515 E. 52nd Place, other locations, Chicago, IL 60615. 1-800-747-6059, (773) 667-6419, others. fax: (773) 363-1150.
http://www.chicagocenter.org, http://www.urbanlifecenter.org. info@chicagolifecenter.org, althea@chicagocenter.org.
Purpose: Counseling and other social services. Celebrated 35 years in June 2006.
We're a nonprofit experiential educational organization in Hyde Park.
Urban Life Center engages college students with Chicago's diverse communities through innovative seminars and internships, expanding the traditional classroom through an experience-based, first-voices pedagogy.
Urban Life Center also designs day to week-long LearnChicago! tours and workshops to teach groups about the city's cultures and communities.

WECAN (Woodlawn East Community and Neighbors)

The Women's Board of the University of Chicago

5736 s. Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-6098. Fax: (773) 702-8836, e-mail: g-braidwood@uchicago.edu
www.uchicago.edu/
The Women's Board does not have open membership but is worthy of recognition as an important participant in the community.
Purpose: To learn from, advocate for and promote, and strengthen and support the University of Chicago. One of many UC auxiliary organizations, such as the Brain Research Institute, Friends of Smart Museum, the Gastrointestinal Research Foundation, and the Pediatric Aids Society , which raises funds for charitable purposes in conjunction with the University as well as supporting the University's missions and programs/facilities.

6931 S. South Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Il 60637
Phone: 773-684-2944. Gail Mercherson, President
http://www.wcsc-chicago.org. info@wcsc-chicago.org
Workshops and programs for family and community development and education, financials support at two schools. Meets 2nd Saturdays, 1 pm at Coleman Library, 731 E. 63rd St.

6040 S. Harper, Chicago, IL 60637
773 288-5840, WCDC 773-753-2470.
Executive Director: Charles M. Dryer, Executive Director Dr. Leon D. Finney, Jr. www.thewoodlawnorganization.org.
Purpose: To provide child care, adult skill training, social services, rehab facilities, community empowerment, Woodlawn Community Development Corp., serving African Americans and all residents in the Woodlawn area. The Woodlawn Organization (T.W.O.) is a not-for-profit community-based organization that consists of an alliance of block clubs, churches, tenant councils and other civic and institutional entities organized for the sole purpose of building a viable and healthy community.

T.W.O. provides many social service programs that ensure that the citizens of Woodlawn receive a fair chance for better health care, illness prevention, fair housing and equal employment opportunities.

Founded in 1960, T.W.O.'s mission is to build community through advocacy, social service programs and community development initiatives.

Program Sites:
Anchor House-Family Preservation
1230 West 76th Street, Chicago, IL , ph#: 773.651.0027

Service Connector
1508 East 63rd Street, Chicago, IL, ph#: 773.256.2900

Community Office
1512 East 63rd Street, Chicago, IL, ph#: 773.363.8864

Entry House
1447 East 65th Street, Chicago, IL, ph#: 773.493.6116

Family Life Center
1510 East 63rd Street, Chicago, IL, ph#: 773.752.0911

Infant Day Care
1445 East 63rd Street, Chicago, IL , ph#: 773.324.5880

WECDC
950 East 61st Street , Chicago, IL, ph#: 773.667.3300

1300 E. 47th St. Suite 223, Chicago Il 60653, yac312@yahoo.com. Assist youth in creating and achieving goals including networking, entrepreneurship, college and scholarship searches, life skills, mentoring, counseling, tutoring.

Youth of gay etc. affiliation or questioning. Serves c. 200 ages 13-19 from HP Neighborhood Club and 4950 S. Dorchester. Includes "University" life readiness by age 21, support groups, Frankie the Magazine, YPC Entertainment (which brings in performing artists from major schools and theaters) , advocacy Foundation, trips to affiliate clubs/programs in other cities and other parts of Chicago. Engagement in school, commitment required. 5480 S. Kenwood, 773 382-0511, youthpridecenter@gmail.com for full prospectus.

25 E. Washington st., Suite 1600, Chicago, IL 60602. 312 877-APLUSIL,
www.aplusillinois.org.
Works with Metropolitan Planning Council on schools, tax reform and other topics

Art and Business Council
70 E. Lake St. #500, 60601, 312 372-1876.
www.arsbiz-chicago.org
Nonprofits in the arts board and organizational development and resources. Grants to orgs. with budget of over $1 million per year.

Chair Robert Starks, Director Theresa Adams?
1809 E. 71st St. Chicago, IL 60649. 773 324-0494
www.bufi.org, tadams@bufi.org

Makes small grants to non-for-profits, acts as a movement to improve quality of life based on local self-help with systematic mechanisms to rally resources for the African-American community.

Executive Director Hoy McConnell, President Bill Farley
25 E. Washington, Suite 1415, 60602. 312641-5570, fax 312 641-5454
www.bpichicago.org
BPI is a public interest law and policy center dedicated to social justice and to enhancing the quality and life for all people living in the Chicago region. BPI' staff of lawyers and specialists uses litigation, research, advocacy, community organizing, and collaboration with civic, business, and community organizations. Focus: transforming segregated public housing, increate affordable housing, improve public education. Local directors include Leon and Marian Despres, staff includes Zoe Mikva.

http://www.campuscatalyst.org.
A University of Chicago student-driven (mostly Booth School and Dept. of Economics and the Harris School of Public Policy) consulting corps for nonprofits.

Scott Bernstein President. 2125 W. North Avenue, 60647. 773 278-4800, 773 278-8198
www.cnt.org
Major, multi-faceted. HPKCC has found them a great help and is working with their transit-oriented Chicagoland Transportation and Air Quality Commission (Jacky Grimshaw manager; Gin Kilgore).

Center for Nonprofit Support, Advocacy, and Finance / Nonprofit Financial Center, Chicago Community Loan Fund, Chicago Jobs Council

29 E. Madison St., Suite 1700, 60602. NFC: 312 252-0420, fax 312 252-0099 www.NFConline.org. CCL: 312 252-0440, fax 312 252-0099, www.cclchicago.org. CJC: 312 252-0460, fax 312 252-0099, www.cjs.net (as of Dec. 1 the websites were "coming soon." ) Connected with Community Renewal Society (which see).
Winter 2003-2004 seminar/training schedule:
Mar. 2-30 5 days, Financial Management Institute
Apr. 13-May 18 6 days, Bookkeepers Institute
June 9-11, Annual Advance Financial Management Boot camp

111 E. Wacker Dr., Suite 1400, 60601. 312 616-8000.
www.cct.org
The Trust has been managing charitable funds since 1915, totaling $1.3 billion in assets funding $60 million annually in grants, and has spearheaded initiatives in education, housing, public welfare, social services and many other spheres.
The African American Legacy fund seeks grant inquiries by nonprofits.

http://www.chicagocares.org. Sends groups of volunteers, mostly from businesses, to do projects in places in communities.

With Graham School of General Studies offers courses, training and support of interest to arts (and other) organizations, providers, artists: Register at http://grahamschool.uchicago.edu. Contact Joannie Friedman or Bart Schultz. Has much more, including South Side Arts and Humanities Network. Location Walker Hall, 1125 E. 58th St. 773 834-3929. http://civicknowledge.uchicago.edu.

222 S. Riverside Plaza, Suite 2200, Chicago, IL 60606-6109
Tel. (312) 258-0070
www.cicchicago.com
Provides information and advocacy on a wide range of issues from homelessness to preservation/rehab, real estate, subsidies, affordable/attainable workforce housing, landlord/tenant relations, government actions that affect the above. It also funnels city money to housing affordable loans.

(One contact: Sonya A. Willis, 312 673-3813, fax. 312 427-6130
332 S. Michigan Avenue, Suite 500, Chicago, Il 60604-4394
Tel. (312) 427-4830, (312) 588-0171
www.communityrenewalsociety.org
One off the oldest, and many find the best. Allied with Center for Nonprofit Support/Nonprofit Financial Center (see schedule there). Publishes The Catalyst: Voices of Chicago School Reform.

Community Resource Network: Directory of Health and Human Service in Metropolitan Chicago.

Community Shares of Illinois-- your way to donate online. http://www.cs-il.org. 218 S. Wabash, Ste 540, 60704, 312 379-0190.

DePaul University Msgr. John J. Egan Urban Center/New Chicago School of Community and Economic Development (NCS) (see also next)

25. E. Jackson Blvd., Suite 1300, Chicago, IL 60614-2216
http://www.depaul.edu/~euc
Intellectual and practice-based determination and application of strategies to break barriers to meaningful community and social redevelopment and revitalization.

814 S. Western, Chicago, IL 60612. 312 236-7252.
http://www.designsforchange.org
Primarily researches and lobbies schools and school issues including local control, but other topics as well.

208 S. LaSalle St., Chicago IL 60604 312-578-0090
http://www.donorsforum.org
Information, research and tracking on grant providers and grants given. Many finders and publications are now online.

25 E. Washington [suite ? 1300?], 60604. 312 580-1840
The largest nonprofit provider of management and governance consulting services in Chicago. Aids governments, nonprofits and schools in improving their performance through consulting projects and performance coaching.

http://www.ilculturaldata.org or contact the Illinois CDP Help Desk at help@ilculturaldata.org or 1-866-99- ILCDP (1-866-994-5237).
A consortium of 10 of the largest foundations in Chicago to train organizations, provide easy records and reporting and document and track the arts. See the Seminars section below.

Up to date information on Illinois funders plus foundation research and grant tracking for nonprofits. see also Donors' Forum above.

17 N. State St. Chicago, IL, ste. 1400, 60602-3296. 312 422-5580. Illinois Humanities Council. 312 422-5580. Sponsors The Public Square- same email "prairie". Conducts "cafes", forums and discussions by trained facilitators in venues like the Experimental Station, Valois Cafeteria..., makes grants in the humanities. Dimitra Tasiouras, 17 N. State St., Suite 1400, 60602. 312 422-5580. info@prairie.org. events@prairie.org. http://www.prairie.org. Nonprofit and arts orgs. workshops.

Landmarks Illinois

53 West Jackson Boulevard, Suite 1315, Chicago, IL 60604-3562. www.Landmarks.org. Replacement for retiring David Bahlman being sought. Has worked to identify and highlight endangered structures in Hyde Park, provide landmark easement which secure properties, a partner in the all-party working group to find a Dept. of Interior consistent design for Promontory Point preservation and repair, jointly found an architect that developed an alternative plan to preserve and adapt Illinois Central Hospital, and more. It now has an online, peer-reviewed Guide to Restoration Resources, http://www.landmarks.org/restoration_resources.

213 West Institute Place, Suite 403, Chicago, Illinois 60610 | 312.649.4111. http://www.law-arts.org. Walks organizations through filings and much more.

28 E. Jackson, Suite 710, 60604, 312 341-4733
Multifaceted advocacy org and coalition of community groups. Several Hyde Parkers involved.

Columbia College, 600 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60606
www.newstips.org
Runs conferences on how to get media coverage.

Nonprofit Financial Center- see Center for Nonprofit Support (Community Renewal Society)

New address: 29 E. Madison, Suite 1005, Chicago, IL 60602. 312 252-0420, fax 312 372-7062
www.NFConline.org

Bobbi Ball, Executive Director
Partners In Community Building
3424 S. State St. Ste 1 F6-1, Chicago, IL 60616
Bobbi Ball @ 312 328-0873, fax 312 328-0879
http://www.picbchicago.org

PICB is a housing resource center with available affordable single family housing and shared housing with informational resources for maintaining housing and financial literacy for youth thru adults. PICB partners with banks in the Chicago area to offer banking at school to grammar thru college students that improve reading, writing and critical thinking skills.

215 N. Desplaines, 312 648-0995. www.cs-chicago.org
Builds and trains non-profits, much like Community Renewal Society and NCBG.

We the People

2411 S. Ashland, 773 529-9900, Social Service 800 548-9343
www.wethepeoplemedia.org
Gabriel Piemonte one contact.
A wide range of South Side programs from social, training and informational to coalition building and advocacy.

Some seminars etc. in the area:

Many organizations have nonprofit workshops. One is Community Renewal Society.

Community Nonprofit Organizations and services to nonprofits and communities

Arts and cultural organizations (general)

CheckerJAZZ and Committee to Restore Jazz to Hyde Park- see successor organization, Hyde Park Jazz Society- "CheckerJAZZ" no longer exists and has no connection with the Checkerboard Lounge.

South Shore Cultural Center

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Business-oriented organizations (see also South East Chicago Commission and 53rd St. TIF in Civic)

Harper Court (Foundation) Arts Council

Hyde Park Chamber of Commerce

South East Chicago Commission

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Civic and Community organizations/Neighborhood Associations- General/Community Development

53rd Street CARRD

ACTS/Isaiah

East Hyde Park Action Committee

East Hyde Park Committee

Hyde Park Historical Society

Hyde Park and Kenwood Interfaith Council

Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference

Kenwood Open House Committee

Kenwood Oakland Community Organization (KOCO)

Hyde Park Kiwanis

League of Women Voters/ Chicago /Illinois/ Hyde Park

North Kenwood-Oakland Community Conservation Council.

South East Chicago Commission

Specialized, student or ad hoc civic

Campaign against war with/continued presence in Iraq.

Hyde Park Committee Against War and Racism

New Priorities, Coalition for

Parents United for Responsible Education (PURE)

Task Force for Promontory Point, Community (or Save The Point)

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Social and other service organizations and advocates

The Hyde Park Garden Fair Committee

Hyde Park JCC (of Jewish Community Centers of Chicago)

Hyde Park/Kenwood Pro-Life Association

Hyde Park Kiwanis

Hyde Park Neighborhood Club

Jewish Vocational Service - Hyde Park

Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities

Midwest Workers Association

Urban Life Center now known as The Chicago Center

WECAN (Woodlawn East Community and Neighbors)

The Women's Board of the University of Chicago

Some seminars etc. in the area:

CheckerJAZZ and Committee to Restore Jazz to Hyde Park- see successor organization, Hyde Park Jazz Society-
"CheckerJAZZ" no longer exists and has no connection with the Checkerboard Lounge.