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Design sessions elevate insights from male educators of color
In the discourse around increasing the diversity of the teaching workforce, one crucial element has often been missing: the voices of male educators of color.
Posters represent identity for youth enrolled in Educator Pipeline
These are the three themes that 60 Black and Brown high school seniors highlighted as part of a poster project that illuminates and affirms their identities.
Collective Impact 101: Thrive’s mission is rooted in a national movement toward collective solutions for young people
What started as a college readiness initiative in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 2006 has blossomed into a movement that impacts the lives of 13.7 million children nationally and including 8.6 million children of color—more than 192,000 of whom are living here in Chicago. At...
Data Corner: A look at how Covid-19 has impacted Chicago’s youth and their mental health
The Covid-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on Chicago’s Black and Brown communities. In response, Thrive Chicago has adjusted its strategy rapidly to adapt to the public health crisis and galvanize collective action during these difficult times. Thrive’s...
Covid relief funds address secondary trauma across Chicago communities
The Covid-19 pandemic has placed an inordinate strain on Black and Brown families throughout Chicago. Additionally, it’s not only youth and their families who face daunting challenges, it’s the front-line staff of Chicago’s youth-serving organizations as well. Like so...
Video project will counter existing narrative
For students at four Chicago high schools, an array of Apple devices are providing them much more than the latest technology–they’re providing an opportunity to lift their voices in a historically challenging time. In late January, Thrive Chicago along with Chicago...
Directing Pain Into Purpose: Thrive’s Commitment to Chicago’s Youth
Dear Friends of Thrive, It’s not every day that my personal and professional lives collide so significantly, but that’s exactly where I have found myself recently. As some of you may know, about four weeks ago, my family was in the Chicago news because my...
COVID Relief Efforts
COVID Relief Efforts Since July 2020, Thrive has coordinated COVID response efforts across the city as part of a national initiative spearheaded by the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) and the Audacious Project. The initiative focuses on concentrating recovery efforts...
Juneteenth 2021
Today, our country officially marks - for the first time - the 1865 dismantling of one of the last holdouts to Black emancipation from slavery - while, simultaneously, upholding laws and systems in 2021 that provide a daily threat to that very emancipation. If we have...
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