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- November 11, 2019
Chicago Tribune: Longstanding preschool in Highland Park celebrates new home: ‘We just were not going to let it die’
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- October 30, 2019
Crain’s Detroit Business: JPMorgan Chase investing $675,000 to help 20 nonprofits led by or serving people of color
Category: Press - October 29, 2019
Chicago Tribune: Starbucks gives $10 million to help boost small business in Chicago’s neighborhoods
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- October 10, 2019
People Helping People Podcast with IFF’s Joe Neri and Omar Elhagmusa
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- May 29, 2019
Press Release: Kresge, Kellogg and PNC foundations announce $2.5 million to bolster Detroit childcare facilities
Category: Press - May 22, 2019
Nonprofit Quarterly: An Illinois CDFI Leader Explains Why Appraisals Reinforce Structural Racism
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- April 12, 2019
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Only one in five Milwaukee families has access to licensed child care for their pre-K kids
Category: Press - April 05, 2019
Crain’s Chicago Business: To tackle a lack of affordable housing, nonprofits become developers
Category: Press - March 22, 2019
Crain’s Chicago Business: AbbVie donates $40 million to rebuild Neal Math & Science Academy
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- March 01, 2019
Chicago Tribune: AbbVie pledges $40 million to fund construction of new middle school in North Chicago
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- February 05, 2019
Model D: Inside Marygrove College’s new direction: How it was saved and where it’s going
Category: Press - December 07, 2018
Chicago Sun-Times: The Hatchery, a $34 million food/beverage incubator, opens in East Garfield Park
Category: Press - December 05, 2018
WBEZ: Vacant School Buildings Litter Chicago Neighborhoods After Mass School Closings
Category: Press - November 30, 2018
WBEZ: Chicago Has A Plan To Build Near CTA Trains. But Who Does It Help?
Category: Press - September 14, 2018
Crain’s Detroit Business: Kresge puts $50 million behind Marygrove ‘cradle-to-college’ center
Category: Press - September 04, 2018
The Real Deal Neighborhood Spotlight: Can North Lawndale’s future live up to its past?
Category: Press - August 07, 2018
Voices of Cody Rouge: Chris Uhl of IFF on the importance of early childhood education
Category: Press - June 26, 2018
Model D: Voices of Cody Rouge: How a local church and its partners saved a key community resource center
Category: Press - June 14, 2018
Chalkbeat: As caregivers struggle to make ends meet, 28,000 Detroit children go without care
Category: Press - June 07, 2018
Ground broken for new Arts @ Large Community Center, to be ‘hub of activity’ in Walker’s Point
Category: Press - May 15, 2018
Chicago Reader: Chicago’s civic and business elite put on epic display of wokeness, roll out racial equity plan
Category: Press - February 23, 2018
Daily Reporter: Work begins on affordable housing project in Milwaukee
Category: Press - February 13, 2018
Press Release: Nonprofit Lender Promotes New Systems Change Vision and Leaders in Chicago
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- January 23, 2018
Michigan Public Radio: Early childhood education needs aren’t being met in several Grand Rapids neighborhoods
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