Subscribe: SpotifyThe South Side of Chicago faces significant challenges. Violence and gangs are ubiquitous, poverty and unemployment rates are high, particularly among Black youth. And properties sit vacant, seemingly abandoned like many of its residents. But one...
Subscribe: SpotifyNew Moms is a Chicago-based organization offering housing, job training and family support to help young moms overcome poverty and homelessness. Integral to their work is their social enterprise, a candle-making business called Bright Endeavors which...
Subscribe: SpotifySince 1991, Chicago-based organization, Cara, has been helping people experiencing poverty and homelessness move toward self-sufficiency by assisting them in finding jobs and opportunity. Thanks to Cara and its two social enterprises, over 10,000...
The achievement gap is a phrase used to describe the disparity in standardized academic performance that exists between groups of students, most often between the wealthy and impoverished, white students and students of color, and in some cases, between males and...
Subscribe: SpotifySince 1997, one organization has been providing invaluable funding and advisory services to social enterprises focused on employment. Celebrating 20 years investing in jobs and hope, we take a look today at REDF (Roberts Enterprise Development Fund)....
