Category Archive

March 2012

  • Americorps Service Spotlight: Travis Moore-Murray

    Every day this week we will celebrate one of our awesome Program Associates! Our office here is small, with 11 full time staff total…and 6 of them are National Service members! We all feel incredibly lucky to have found these fellows. They are 100% dedicated to our soccer players, and bring so much life to…

  • Pizza Party Brings UI Board Members and Staff Together

    Urban Initiatives’ staff and Board of Directors had a fun-filled pizza party this past week. The team assembled at the Urban Initiatives office to enjoy refreshments, mingle, and talk about the importance of the work we do for Chicago’ children. Overall the turnout was great with 11 staff members and 9 Board Members in attendance.…

  • Good Sports Grant Provides Vital Sports Equipment to UI’s Coaches Corps Schools

    Home to Urban Initiatives’ soccer practices full of 2nd to 4th graders in the morning, the Arthur A. Libby Elementary gym hosted a much bigger and louder contest last Thursday. Thanks to a grant from Good Sports that Urban Initiatives secured, Libby received brand new basketballs, enabling it to host eight different elementary schools’ basketball teams as…