Strides for Peace & Partner News
Strides for Peace is proud to support Pride ROC’s Passages program. Read more about this innovative program designed to heal trauma and prevent violence: Pride ROC Chicago: Ending Violence and Restoring Peace from the Inside Out
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Nearly 500 guests gathered at the Fairmont Chicago to advance the comprehensive mission of the Gary Comer Youth Center and Comer Education Campus on October 12, 2018. David Simas, CEO, Obama Foundation and Breana Brown, GCYC Alumna, shared their unique personal stories and perspectives, inspiring the audience to help create new possibilities for youth on…
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Chicagoan Maggie Baczkowski decided in 2014 to do her part to end gun violence in the city she calls home. Baczkowski created Strides for Peace, a nonprofit organization that provides funds to existing organizations in Chicago dedicated to ending gun violence. The Chronicle spoke with Baczkowski about founding Strides for Peace, its annual Race Against…
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Strides for Peace was proud to sponsor this wonderful community race. It was a joyful and successful event — the organizers were expecting 700 and 1000 came! Super Zumba warm up, mariachi youth band at the turnaround and free tamales at the end.
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Diane Latiker thinks a 12-year-old kid should be worried about his grades—not about getting shot on his walk home from school. What’s mundane in other parts of town can be deadly in Roseland, Diane’s South Side Chicago neighborhood. The city’s epidemic of gang and gun violence—most of its victims young, Black and male—makes national news…
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Created by Free Spirit Media youth media makers at the Nichols Tower site in Chicago, IL in partnership with The Pulitzer Center For Crisis Reporting. Summer 2018. Hear Her Voice: Hidden Victims of Gun Violence is a creative and powerful documentary that will change the way people look at gun violence victims. It’s focused…
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Beyond the block: A community organization in West Englewood plays for peace on new basketball court After Chicagoan John Ector served time, he built a contained basketball court – the first of its kind in the area – for the Englewood community. While Ector’s court is located at 6028 S. Aberdeen St., it is open to…
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M.A.S.S. hosted its 4th annual Back-to-School event on Aug 16, 2018 at D.S Wentworth Elementary School. Kids enjoyed food, dancing, pony rides, and working with Ra from Rescue and Recover.
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In one of Chicago’s most violent neighborhoods, ex-gang members and police officers now play friendly games of softball together in this summer’s Peace League by BUILD Chicago. “It brings us closer to each other.” BUILD’s Summer Peace League Featured in the More in Common Show
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