Here is the event video of José Miguel Acosta-Córdova, providing overview and insights of the Latino Neighborhoods Report: Issues and Prospects for Chicago, at the Latino Research Initiative Summit 2024, hosted by the Great Cities Institute, on September 17th, 2024.
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Here is the event video of Rob Paral, providing an update for Serving Illinois’ Immigrant Communities, at the Latino Research Initiative Summit 2024, hosted by the Great Cities Institute, on September 17th, 2024.
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The baby boom generation is retiring from every position in companies including ownership. Small companies have no apparent successor or even a succession plan and are at risk of closing. In Barcelona Spain, leaders in the business community, with government support have confronted this challenge with the creation of Reempresa. This webinar serves as an introduction to this model.
Reempresa is based in Barcelona and represents best international practices in the area of ownership succession challenges and in acquisitions. Since 2011, they have had more than 11,210 enterprises for sale, more than 20,000 potential buyers and more than 4,800 acquisitions, and saving more than 13,400 jobs.
The Federation for a Manufacturing Renaissance believes that this is a model that should be taken to scale in the United States. We have organized this webinar as an introduction.
Event Details:
Date: October 29th, 2024
Time: 9 AM to 11 AM Central/Chicago Time
Type: Virtual – Webinar
Dr. Teresa Córdova from the Great Cities Institute discussed their recent report titled FUERZA MEXICANA on WGN TV.
From WGN TV (To go to the actual article, please click on this link.)
On October 28, GCI released the “Assessing Philanthropic Funding Support for Latines in the Chicago Area” report with partners Nuestro Futuro, and The Chicago Community Trust.
The report provides a comprehensive overview of the philanthropic funding landscape for Cook County’s Latine organizations in priority issue areas. Latines account for 26% of Cook County’s population and Latine. Latine-serving organizations play a critical role in addressing the needs of one of Cook County’s fastest-growing populations.
The report provides a brief profile of the county’s Latine population, explores philanthropic support over time to Latine organizations and populations, and analyzes support in five particular issue areas: economic development, education, health equity, housing, and immigration and language access. This report’s findings explore philanthropic support for Latine-led and Latine-serving organizations compared to Latine population size in Cook County. Key findings include a disparity in philanthropic support to Latine-led and Latine-serving organizations in Cook County.
The report concludes with a series of recommendations to guide philanthropy toward more effectively supporting Latine communities and populations. Key among the recommendations is the need for philanthropy to adopt a more proactive, intersectional funding approach. This includes advocating for improved data quality to better understand community and organizational needs and to ensure those are met through targeted, equitable funding strategies.
Additionally, increasing the representation of Latine voices in philanthropic leadership will ensure that decision-making processes are informed by the lived experiences and insights of the communities philanthropy aims to serve. By taking these steps, philanthropy can better align its investments with the diverse and evolving needs of Latine communities in Cook County, ultimately fostering greater equity and impact.
Katherine Faydash
Editor and Urban Planner
Thea Crum
Associate Director of Neighborhoods Initiative
Teresa Córdova, Ph.D.
Director, UIC Great Cities Institute
Matthew D. Wilson, Ph.D.
Associate Director of Economic & Workforce Development, UIC Great Cities Institute
Timothy O. Imeokparia, Ph.D., AICP
Associate Director of Research and Planning
Samuel G. Freedman (Columbia University) discusses his latest project, a riveting and revisionist account of the young Hubert Humphrey’s fight to embed Civil Rights in the Democratic Party platform in 1948 detailed in his latest book, Into the Bright Sunshine (Oxford University Press, 2023).
Freedman serves as an esteemed and award winning professor of journalism at Columbia University. In his decades-long career at the New York Times he wrote as a staff reporter and contributed award-winning journalism to the “On Education” and “On Religion” columns.
Event Details:
Date: October 28th, 2024
Time: 2 PM to 3:30 PM Central Time
Location: Behavioral Sciences Building, Room 153
Sponsored By: The Departments of History, Political Science, and Black Studies; the Jewish Studies program; the Institute for the Humanities; the Great Cities Institute; and the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy
This article discusses a new report, “Fuerza Mexicana: the Past, Present and Power of Mexicans in Chicagoland,” highlighting the significant role of Mexicans in Chicago, who comprise 21.5% of residents and nearly 74% of the city’s Latino population. Despite their historical contributions, they are overrepresented in low-paying jobs, particularly in landscaping and construction. The report emphasizes the need for improved pathways to leadership and addresses issues like housing and education. Additionally, Luis Gutierrez stresses the importance of voter engagement within the Mexican community, advocating for targeted messaging beyond just translated materials.
From ABC 7 Chicago (To go to the actual article, please click on this link.)
Sasha-Ann Simons hosts this episode of the Reset podcast with GCI Director Teresa Córdova and GCI Senior Fellow Juan Gonzalez to talk about the recent report Fuerza Mexicana: The Past, Present, and Power of Mexicans in Chicagoland. This podcast covers the purpose behind making the report, findings of the report itself, and what the report aims to do.
From Audacy (To go to the actual article, please click on this link.)
In this broadcast segment, Democracy Now!’s co-host and GCI Senior Fellow Juan González speaks on the GCI report Fuerza Mexicana: The Past, Present, and Power of Mexicans in Chicagoland. González covers the necessity of the report, its findings, and Mexican contributions to Chicagoland.
From Democracy Now! (To go to the actual article, please click on this link.)
The Chicago Sun-Times covers the GCI report Fuerza Mexicana: The Past, Present, and Power of Mexicans in Chicagoland. GCI Senior Fellow Juan González and UIC assistant professor Daysi Ximena Diaz-Strong speak about how the report elevates Chicago’s Mexican community in ways not previously seen before.
From Chicago Sun Times (To go to the actual article, please click on this link.)