Category: Illinois

An architect's rendering of the new BUILD Chicago campus

Nonprofit BUILD Moves Quickly to Disrupt the Status Quo with a Bold Investment in Community Infrastructure on Chicago’s West Side

Exterior Shot of The 801 in Oak Park, IL

Photo Tour: New Transit-Oriented Affordable Housing Creates an Arts-Centric Gateway for a Local Business District

Establishing Mutually Beneficial Bank-CDFI Referral Relationships: A Q&A with First Bank of Highland Park Senior Vice President Courtney Olson

February 2022 Loan Roundup

Ceremonial groundbreaking taking place at PODER's future headquarters in the Gage Park neighborhood on Chicago's Southwest Side

Built from Within: PODER Begins Construction of Chicago’s First Immigrant Integration and Job Center

February 16, 2022

Model homes developed by Lawndale Christian Development Corporation as part of a community revitalization strategy designed to build generational wealth through homeownership

Virtual Tour: Two model homes on Chicago’s West Side demonstrate proof of concept for a bold community revitalization strategy

February 16, 2022

Building a Dream Incubator: 5 Questions for baso Founder and President Claudette Soto

February 16, 2022

Crain’s Chicago Business: We need to hack appraisal-based lending

February 11, 2022

A group of staff and volunteers from Star Farm Chicago standing in front a van the nonprofit uses to distribute locally grown organic produce in and around Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood

January 2022 Loan Roundup

January 31, 2022

Photo Tour: North Lawndale Employment Network’s First Permanent Campus

January 18, 2022

December 2021 Loan Roundup

December 31, 2021

Full Circle Communities and Christian Community Health Center Take on Link Between Health and Housing in South Suburban Chicago

December 14, 2021

“If you want better, you have to change your narrative”: A Q&A with Dr. Nicole Howell-Scott, Founder and CEO of the American Association of Single Parents

December 14, 2021

November 2021 Loan Roundup

December 1, 2021

A multi-purpose room at the Chatham Workforce Education & Workforce Center

Understanding that we are a collective: How vision became reality for the Chatham Education & Workforce Center

November 16, 2021

ENR Midwest: ENR Midwest Names 2021 Best Projects

November 4, 2021

October 2021 Loan Roundup

October 31, 2021

Ribbon Cutting for Family Christian Health Center's Maternal Health Clinic

Family Christian Health Center Responds to Pandemic by Leaning Further into Its Mission

October 13, 2021

The Night Ministry’s “The Crib” Designed with Both Its Clients and Community in Mind

October 13, 2021

Transforming the Emergency Food System with an Eye on Equity: A Q&A with Greater Chicago Food Depository’s Nicole Robinson

October 13, 2021

XS Tennis' facility with the Chicago skyline in the background

XS Tennis Hosts Venus Williams, WTA for Chicago Tennis Festival – A Historic First

October 13, 2021

Block Club Chicago: Little Black Pearl Will Open A Coworking Lounge, Launch Workshops For Adult Creatives This Month

October 5, 2021

RecycleForce Groundbreaking

September 2021 Loan Roundup

October 1, 2021

Next City: These Street Vendors Needed a Kitchen, So They Bought One

September 21, 2021

Neal Math and Science Academy External Rendering

Equitable Community Development in Action: The Redevelopment of North Chicago’s Neal Math and Science Academy

September 15, 2021

A table reading at the Remy Bumppo Theatre Company in Chicago, IL

August 2021 Loan Roundup

August 31, 2021

Q&A with BDO FMA Managing Director Dana Britto: Building Financial Capacity Post-Pandemic

August 16, 2021

July 2021 Loan Roundup

Red Clay Dance Company Brings “Artivism” to Chicago’s Woodlawn Community

Nonprofits & Real Estate: When to “build capacity” and when to just help