Save the Date - @properties Drive for the Red Carpet Golf Outing
The wonderful agents at @properties will be hosting their 2nd Annual Drive for the Red Carpet Golf Outing. @properties generously selected Urban Initiatives as a beneficiary of their Friends and Neighbors Community Fund. We are thrilled to be partnering with such an incredible organization. Click here [PDF]
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Get in the Game - Join the UI Junior Board!
The mission of the Urban Initaitives Junior Board is to raise funds and awareness for Urban Initiatives. We would love for you to join our team! For more information email Julie Chelovich - julie@urbaninitiatives.org.
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National Service Opportunity - Full Time for the 2010-2011 Service Year
Position: Youth Program Associate - Full Time (1700 service hours)
Description:
The AmeriCorps member at Urban Initiatives will serve as a Youth Program Associate to create and engage youth and their families in health, education, and character development activities throughout the course of the service term. The member serving in this capacity will:
- Assist in the implementation of Urban Initiatives’ health and education soccer program
- Create health and character development handouts
- Organize program field trips and events
- Recruit volunteers
- Create/execute parent outreach work-plan
- Conduct trainings and information sessions with parents
- Identify and build relationships with neighborhood leadership
- Other responsibilities as needed
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Come to Six Points to Benefit UI
Please join UI in celebrating soccer and art in Chicago this Saturday at Six Points, 1529 N. Milwaukee. The event will feature music from Johnny Fonseca and have free food and drinks. Space is limited. Please RSVP to nikesportswear@experient.net.
Nike & Six Points Host Special World Cup Event for UI Kids
On July 7th, Nike and Six Points hosted UI participants from Jenner, Libby and Reavis to watch Spain play Germany in the World Cup Semi Finals. Overall, the event was incredible. The kids came to Six Points to enjoy lunch, watch the game, and play several exciting rounds of foosball. Nike provided vuvuzelas for the kids so that they could cheer on the teams as if they were in the stadium in South Africa.
At halftime, the participants engaged in a Skype conversation with South African youth who were watching the game in the home country. The kids took turns asking questions to learn about differences across the globe. The South African children even taught our kids the South African celebration dance and the UI participants sang the United States National Anthem. Great times were had by all!
Thank you to Six Points and Nike for their ongoing generosity!
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Support UI by Registering for Mulamu
Good news! Urban Initiatives is partnering with a social commerce company called Mulamu, a new and unique fundraising tool that will help us meet our fundraising goals.
Mulamu offers deeply-discounted daily deals from local businesses --primarily restaurants, spas, theaters and other fun opportunities in the North Shore and Northwest Suburbs. And each day, Mulamu will send out these daily deals in an email blast campaign to our supporters and the local community. Each time one of our registered Mulamu users (this means you) purchases one of the deals, a percentage of the proceeds will be supporting Urban Initiatives. Everybody wins!
To sign up and support Urban Initiatives, please enter your email address at this web page:
www.mulamu.com/urbaninitiatives
Thank you for supporting us! Thank you to Mulamu for giving back to their community!
Join UI in Celebrating Soccer in Chicago and Around the World!
Urban Initiatives would invite you to the Pelada Premier Series at Nike's Six Points World Cup Store (1529 N. Milwaukee). Please RSVP, because these events will sell out. Feel free to forward on to friends, family, or colleagues.
Pelada is an all-around inspiring documentary that focuses on the Beautiful Game away from the professional stadiums and manicured fields, there's another side of soccer, in Brazil, the word for pick-up is "pelada," which literally means "naked" - the game stripped down to its core.
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Nike & Six Points Host Special World Cup Event for UI Kids
MEXICO v. SOUTH AFRICA vs. Soccer Match on June 11, 2010
Six Points opens its doors to the fifth and sixth graders of Chicago Public School, Goethe Middle School, for a private viewing of the World Cup match up of Mexico vs. South Africa. The live viewing party takes place from 8:30am – 11am. The attending students will be asked to write a paragraph on what Mexico and Soccer mean to them, and provide 1-3 visuals to help with the t-shirt design.
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Chicago Indoor World Cup - Hosted by Incredible UI Supporter
On June 26th, Chicago Indoor Sports will begin hosting the Chicago Indoor World Cup. 32 Men's teams will compete in a 6v6 tournament for the chance to win $500 and a World Cup replica trophy.
2010 World Cup games will be played live on a giant 12x12ft screen. Food and beer specials will be provided all month. Click here to learn more or register your team for the event.
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Join in the MFC "Move It" 5K FUN Walk/Run on June 2!
Come out to Arvey Field Grant Park (500 S Columbus Drive) to participate in the third annual Chicago Moves Day 5K Fun Run! The event will take place on June 2nd at 6:02pm to celebrate National Running Day. The run is presented by the Mayor's Fitness Council and the Chicago Area Runners Association.
The event is self-timed offering walkers and runners of all abilities a great opportunity to get out and get moving. Bring your dog, bring your kids, and bring yourself to this 3.1 mile walk/run. Download a map of the course now.
Participation is FREE! Go go signmeup.com to register. Click here for additional information.
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