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Springfield School District 186 faces challenges familiar to many urban school districts. Academic achievement at district high schools lags behind state averages. Parents are voting with their feet as they choose to live outside the district or enroll kids in... Read more... Bus service shapes the geography of accessibility, and this means how we plan bus service is deeply intertwined with social equity, whether we admit it or not. Read more... Black Illinoisans are eight times more likely to experience homelessness than White Illinoisans. We need to reprioritize resources within a racial equity framework to change that. Read more... In Portland, inspiring stories of how resident leaders – mostly lower-income, non-English-speaking, stay-at-home mothers- push for change in their community. Read more... Drought and heat waves are decimating crops around the world in countries like Afghanistan and South Sudan, driving rising hunger crises. The problem of hunger may only get worse as the global population reaches almost 10 billion people by 2050, making it more... Read more... In Highland Park, a small hamlet surrounded entirely by the city of Detroit, 2014 was not the best time to be thinking about expanding primary care and behavioral health services. Detroit had recently declared bankruptcy, and the broader economy was... Read more... Just more than a week after Springfield marked its eighth homicide of the year, hundreds of residents flocked to Jaycee Park for a street festival celebrating the upcoming start of the school year and calling for an end to the... Read more... Trish doesn’t have many places to turn. She’s living at her elderly father’s home without a job because she can’t afford the care he needs. And every day she says the balance sheet seems stained with more red ink. Read more... To more effectively prevent homelessness and intervene in the lives of people living on Springfield’s streets, a local social-service agency is proposing a $3 million Center for Health & Housing where mental-health, health-care and emergency shelter services would be offered... Read more... Our Outreach Workers serve as a direct link between resource providers and underserved populations. Read more...Should Springfield have two high schools?
How to Win the Fight for Fair and Equitable Transit
Applying a racial equity framework to ending homelessness in Illinois
When Green Infrastructure Is an Anti-Poverty Strategy
5 ways social entrepreneurs are trying to cut food waste
How Community Development Lenders Work Around the Legacy of Redlining
Block party celebrates start of school, calls for end to violence
Your Local Library May Have A New Offering In Stock: A Resident Social Worker
‘Health & Housing’ center proposed to better respond to homelessness
Neighborhood Outreach Workers
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