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Centers for New Horizons 
Full Circle Overview
Centers For New Horizons proposes to create a map of assets within the
Bronzeville community. Bronzeville, which runs south to 67th, west
to the Dan Ryan, east to the lake and north to 22nd, is a community rich in
resources. The assets include churches, schools, social and business
establishments, associations, clubs, etc. Our plan is to go block by block to
determine what each parcel of land is within the community. Along with this
info, we are looking to determine what the childcare needs are for this
community. This will be done with Centers staff and volunteers from within the
community. This information will assist us with our strategic planning and help
us to continue to build quality childcare where it is needed.
Centers has extensive expertise in the three technical areas of focus of
Full Circle: technology, community research, and participatory community
planning. Centers:
- Is fully automated,
with client, financial, donor, and personnel databases; a MIS department;
computers in early learning classrooms; three CTCs for parents and youth; and
staff technology training capacity.
- Routinely involves
staff and youth in community inventories and surveys.
- Has extensive
history and expertise with participatory community planning, engaging hundreds
of residents and community stakeholders in a land use plan 15 years ago and in
a visioning and action process more recently.
- Was a partner with
CMAP in Common Ground, involving dozens of community residents, most of them
youth, in that regional planning process.
About Centers for New
Horizons
Founded in 1971,
Centers for New Horizons (“Centers”) has played a significant role in the
redevelopment of Chicago’s Bronzeville community, providing programs that build
the community’s human capital and building community collaborations that have
engaged residents in community life and leveraged significant community
reinvestment. Centers provides quality center-based early childhood education,
youth development, family support, child welfare, and community building
programs that, collectively, serve nearly 2000 individuals daily in 15 different
locations in Bronzeville and Riverdale. Centers has
also played a key organizational leadership role in the evolution of Bronzeville
from a community of concentrated poverty to one of mixed income redevelopment.
Centers is a 501©3 nonprofit with a staff of over 200, many of them community
residents, and a 23 member board comprised of civic, community, and business
leaders.
For 33 years, Centers
For New Horizons has been at its essence a “community builder”, bringing
different groups of residents and other stakeholders together and drawing them
into the processes of community visioning, planning, and action. While Centers
is most visibly a provider of quality early childhood education, the
organization is a pioneer nationwide in “using” early childhood education to
drive a more comprehensive community building agenda by engaging early learning
center parents as an organizing base, by creating jobs for community
resident-leaders, and by providing organizational leadership focused on the
well-being of children and the quality of their educational opportunity. As
results, Centers is an anchor institution in Bronzeville’s redevelopment and
the organizational instigator of community-driven planning and action.
Click Here for Center for New Horizons Official
Website
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