Affordable Housing Consortium

Affordable Housing Fund

Assets Mapping for the Near West Side

CDC Executive Director Professional Development Program

Centro Familiar Guadalupano/Guadalupano Family Center

Chicago Family Case Management Programs

CITYLAB in the City Design Center

Commercial and Industrial Area
Design Workshops

Communities RAP

Community Development Curriculum

Community Health Education Program

Community Technology Center:
Gads Hill Center & Westside Employment Education Center

Community Technology Center: Instituto del Progreso Latino

Project Description
A center that sponsored visual arts classes based on traditional Mexican themes. It Included sound studio workshops, recording and mixing equipment for producing audio tapes. It also aided in leveraging the community's cultural and artistic assets to foster economic development, to provide training in the performing arts and vocational training in arts management for community youth, to create affordable community assembly space, and to develop culturally based programs for children at the Center, designed to increase self-awareness and self-esteem.

Funding Source
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (JCD)

Contact
Nacho Gonzalez

Partners - UIC
School of Art & Design, Latin American Recruitment and Educational Services (LARES)

Partners - Community
The Resurrection Project

Partners - Others

Project Dates
1996-2001