Tag: Chicago Peace Fellows

By Zeki Salah, Mutual Aid Collaborative Facilitator Goldin Institute Peace Fellow, Annette Kelly, is helping host a series of workshops on Violence Prevention through her work with the Chicagoland Vaccine Partnership (CVP). Annette is the founder of FOUS Youth Development Services and was connected to the CVP through a funder of her organization. The CVP work focuses on sharing quality… Continue reading Building Safer Communities with the Chicagoland Vaccine Partnership

By Reverend Berry Behr, 2021 Global Fellow, South Africa A collaboration between two DePaul University students and the Cape Town Interfaith Initiative (CTII) has yielded a rare treasure – funding for the recording of an important personal account from an interfaith stalwart as part of our efforts to capture an oral history of the interfaith… Continue reading Chicago and Cape Town Collaboration helps Capture History

By Zeki Salah, Mutual Aid Collaborative Facilitator Last summer, the 2021 Chicago Peace Fellows collaboratively designed and launched seven peace building projects geared towards serving and building community with people throughout the Chicagoland area. The Peace Fellows Retreat was one of those projects and was designed to give back to the Fellows in return for… Continue reading Deepening Our Bonds at the Peace Fellows Retreat

By Cree Noble, Team Coordinator On Saturday, February 5th, and Saturday, February 12th, the Ladies of Virtue hosted their annual LOV Day Celebration as an expression of their mission “to instill purpose, passion, and perseverance in girls, ages 9 to 18, while preparing them for college, careers and to become change agents in their communities”. Ladies of… Continue reading LOV Day Hosted by Ladies of Virtue, Chicago

By Cree Noble, Team Coordinator Last December 2021 Chicago Peace Fellow Pastor Victoria Brady and members of Big Mama Movement Chicago (a coalition which she co-founded) hosted The Black Family Reunion on the last 3 days of Kwanzaa. Big Mama Movement Chicago is a group of Black women who are calling for the unification of the Black Family. Pastor… Continue reading Principles of Kwanzaa Can Unite Us

The Chicago Peace Fellows Mutual Aid Collaborative held a press conference on the anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X to amplify the themes of their open letter, A Pathway to Anti-Racist Philanthropy. The Mutual Aid Collaborative members are all Alumni of the Chicago Peace Fellows program — now 60 members strong across the South and West Sides — who… Continue reading Illuminating the Pathway to Racial Justice in Philanthropy

By Cree Noble, Team Coordinator Last summer, our 22 Chicago Peace Fellows collaboratively designed and supported a wide range of peace building projects using a dedicated pooled fund for violence prevention. When creating projects, Annette Kelly noticed many of these projects dealt with youth, health, and well-being, but not with crime prevention directly. During the summer, she… Continue reading Crime Stoppers Microgrant Awarded to StickTalk

By Yusuph Masanja, Co-Facilitator, Global Alumni Network The Chicago Peace Fellows have tirelessly continued to find ways in helping families survive COVID. In the stories below, our Fellows, Jamila Trimuel, Dawn Hodges, and David Gonzalez are making a huge difference in South Side Chicago. Chicago Peace Fellow, Jamila Trimuel, is a founder of Ladies of… Continue reading Solidarity and Survival During COVID

By Yusuph Masanja, Co-Facilitator, Global Alumni Network Goldin Global Fellow from Chicago, Robin Cline, serves as Assistant Director of NeighborSpace, the only nonprofit land trust in Chicago that preserves and sustains gardens on behalf of dedicated community groups. NeighborSpace has helped neighbors and community groups protect over 120 outdoor sites, transforming them into places where… Continue reading Generating food, beauty and safety for neighbors in Chicago

by Frank Latin, 2019 Chicago Peace Fellow My name is Frank Latin and first and foremost I’m a black man. I am also the founding Executive Director of Westside Media Project, a small non-profit organization on Chicago’s West side that works to provide exposure to students (and now adults) in media/technology related fields. I’ve been wanting to get… Continue reading Dear White Funders: I Can’t Breathe Either