ICA E-News – September 2018
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- Third Annual Uptown Garden Walk this Weekend
- Check out the New ICA Website and Sticky Wall Sale
- ICA Summer Initiatives Published
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Join the Third Annual Uptown Garden Walk this Weekend!
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This Saturday, September 8th, 2018, is the
Third Annual Uptown Garden Walk, a day of exploring the diverse identity of Uptown through its local gardens and parks!
This years Garden Walk offers two self-guided tours, and two scheduled tours, with a
Garden Gathering reception with refreshments in between. Both guided tours start at Clarendon Park Community Center. A theme for both tours is
Common Ground, exploring the ways green spaces in a city are a shared resource and the implications they have on city planning. The
1PM Trees of Uptown Tour will explore this theme specifically through trees, highlighting tree preservation, the finances behind trees, and tree-related resources. The
3PM No Small Plans Tour will explore landscape architect Alfred Caldwell’s plan for Uptown’s coastal trails.
The
2PM Garden Gathering welcomes residents, gardeners, and others to mingle and connect with stewardship opportunities in Uptown. Refreshments are generously provided by
Uptown Donuts and
Middle East Bakery and Grocery!
ICA is dedicated to providing a free and fun celebration of community assets. All are welcome to help support this event through a donation via IOBY (link below). Attendees are asked to RSVP to the event.
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Check out the new ICA Website and Sticky Wall Sale!
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In celebration of our
brand new website
and online store, ICA is having a Sticky Wall Sale!
Use promo code
STICKYWALLSALE
at checkout to save $15 on any order containing a Sticky Wall (including ToP Facilitator Tool Kits)!
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ICA Summer
Initiatives
Published
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The following articles are featured in the latest edition of the ICA Summer
Initiatives. More on each article is available via our website, as linked below.
Initiatives is available on the
ICA website and
via PDF.
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Uptown Education Series Raises Coastal Awareness
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ICA completed
Out and About Uptown’s Coast, a year-long coastal education series focusing on the coastal zone in Uptown, earlier this year. The series focused on increasing awareness, access, and stewardship of the coastal zone. Find the toolkit at
bit.ly/coastaltoolkit.
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Conversations on Social Justice Series Launches with Spotlight on Immigration
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ICA launched a new event series called Conversations of Social Justice, which highlights local resource organizations so that Uptown residents and workers have the opportunity to further connect regarding services, partnerships, and volunteer opportunities.
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Broadening Chicago's Environmental Movement
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So far in 2018 Chicago Sustainability Leaders Network has met at Sacred Keepers Sustainability Lab in the Bronzeville community, Garfield Park Conservatory, University of Illinois in Chicago (UIC) Heritage Garden, and Lurie Garden in Millennium Park.
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Activating Technology of Participation (ToP) Across the United States
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Several improvements to the ToP program are currently underway through the work of ICA staff and trainer teams throughout the US. Read notable updates from projects and teams, and Save-the-Date for the 2019 ToP Gathering in New Orleans.
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Global Archives Go Digital
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From April 22nd to 28th, the Spring 2018 Global Archives Sojourn focused on six major areas included (1) the Global Archives website, (2) Imaginal Education, (3) Social Process, (4) Other World, (5) Sifting through the basement and (6) Organizing digital storage space.
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Innovations Continue at ICA GreenRise
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Plans are beginning to finalize for the close of Phase I financing. Notably, in May the Chicago Community Loan Fund extended to ICA a $3.5 million loan for the purposes of anchoring the total funding needed to begin work on the historic restoration of the building.
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Board Spotlight: Jessica Payne
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"I was born and raised in Stillwater, Oklahoma with a 7-year stint in Chicago working in the financial sector as a Senior Marketing Manager for Wintrust. I now call St. Louis my home and am a practicing macro-level social worker. I currently work in a unique shared staff position between the federally designated St. Louis Promise Zone and Forward Through Ferguson, the nonprofit that was created to carry forward the calls to action from the Ferguson Commission Report that was completed after the killing of Mike Brown in August of 2014. My job is to align the goals and work of the Promise Zone with those calls to action to ensure all of our work is completed with a racial equity lens. "
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