Englewood Community Groups Launch Quality-of-Life Fund

Posted: November 27, 2016 in Uncategorized

Donate now until #GivingTuesday here – https://www.ilgive.com/organizations/teamwork-englewood

R.A.G.E.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Englewood Community Groups Launch Quality-of-Life Fund

$10,000 Donor Match Already Pledged

 

Chicago—During a summit outlining the next steps in the ongoing transformation of the Englewood community, organizers today unveiled the Englewood Quality-of-Life Fund to raise much-needed funds for community projects. The Fund will launch online on #GivingTuesday, November 29, at http://englewoodqualityoflife.com. The group already has secured a $10,000 matching grant from an anonymous donor to jumpstart this fundraising effort.

“The quality of life fund was created as a mechanism to support the early actions projects that are being developed from the Englewood Quality of Life Plan. It also is an opportunity for the residents and other stakeholders to collectively invest to improve the quality of life for this community,” said activist Asiaha Butler, president of the Resident Association of Greater Englewood. “During the previous planning phase, there were not many resources to support execution of…

View original post 139 more words

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s