ONE Northside Reacts to COVID-19

Dear ONE Northside Family: Even as we maintain some physical distance from each other, this current crisis makes it all the more clear that we are all in this together. Our fates are intertwined. The lack of physical and mental [...]
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Census 2020 and ONE Northside

ONE Northside is a partner in the 2020 Illinois Census Project, an effort of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR). The goal is to engage our base living in Rogers Park and Uptown so that people who [...]
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Membership Council Dates for 2020

Membership Council is the quarterly gathering of ONE Northside Members. We share information about campaigns, vote on organizational initiatives and celebrate victories. Join us! (Location TBD) – March 12, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. – June 11, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. [...]
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Letter to Senators: Why we need suppo...

Dear Senators: My name is Jon Adams, and I am a leader at ONE Northside. I also am a resident of Wilson Men’s Hotel (and a member of our tenant’s assocation), a Single Resident Occupancy building in Uptown where tenants [...]
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Parents and students deserve well fun...

Loris Tillet, Education Team Leader Loris Tillet is a parent leader on ONE Northside’s Education team. She came to the United States as a child, from Belize, in order to receive the best possible learning opportunities. “School for me, [...]
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Education Team

The Education Team is made up of parents, students, teachers, and resident allies ready to take action via community-based approaches to address challenges of educational equity in Chicago’s Northside public schools. Leaders are intentional about developing a relational culture in which we seek to strengthen ties between our communities and our schools based on shared values and re-defining teacher preparation that takes into account the range of issues that students and families face every day.

Grow Your Own Teachers (GYO)

ONE Northside is a member of Grow Your Own Teacher program (GYO). The Grow Your Own Teacher program is an innovative partnership of community organizations, higher education institutions, and school districts that support parents, community members, and paraprofessionals in low-income communities to become highly qualified teachers.

GYO has set the following goals: create a pipeline of highly qualified teachers of color; improve teacher retention in low-income schools; recruit for hard-to-staff schools and hard-to-fill positions; and increase cultural competence and community connections of teachers.

Currently, ONE Nothside is partnering with Truman College and Northeastern Illinois University to provide the education for the teacher candidates. In addition to Chicago, GYO has sites across Illinois in Rockford, Bloomington, Springfield, Carbondale, East St Louis, and the Quad Cities.

For additional information, please visit growyourownteachers.org

Upcoming trainings to build a grassroots movement!

Do you have a hunger to make the world a better place? Join one of our organizing trainings this fall! ...
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Campaign Leadership School!

We need to take back our democracy and build long-term infrastructure to engage people based on shared values and mobilize ...
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Rogers Park Families Re-Gain Neighborhood Bus Stop

Tuesday, September 6th, approximately 12 people, mostly children, waited with bated breath, for the reappearance of the bus stop closest ...
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Introduction to Community Organizing

Do you want to join the movement for racial, social and economic justice? Do you want to join your neighbors ...
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Community Convention Round Up!

On Sunday, over 1,000 community members joined together re-write the rules and put people first! Over 40 community leaders got ...
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Diverse Communities United for Justice – Sunday, April 10!

Attention ONE Northside Members and Leaders: ONE Northside 2016 Community Convention is on Sunday, April 10, 2016! Doors will open at ...
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