by COFI Admin | Aug 12, 2015 | Health, Food, and Recess, In the Media
The CDC’s Division of Community Health published a short report on the success of POWER-PAC’s Recess for All! Campaign. The document highlights parents’ efforts to work together to bring recess to 236,450 Chicago Public School students. As the CDC points...
by COFI Admin | Jul 22, 2015 | Health, Food, and Recess, In the Media
In partnership with the Greater Chicago Food Depository and the Illinois No Kid Hungry Campaign, POWER-PAC leaders and COFI launched the 4th year of the Food Ambassador Project. Food Ambassadors work during the summer months to spread the word to families about free...
by COFI Admin | Jul 12, 2015 | In the Media
Rosalva Nava, POWER-PAC member and Peacemaker at Wells High School, traveled to Washington D.C. to join Dignity in Schools campaign members from across the nation to participate in a panel discussion on positive alternatives to school discipline. Rosalva was featured...
by COFI Admin | Apr 1, 2015 | In the Media
The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) has released “Assessing to Achieve High Performance: What Nonprofits are Doing and How Foundations Can Help.” COFI’s Executive Director, Ellen Schumer, is interviewed in the report (page 30) discussing how COFI uses...
by COFI Admin | Dec 16, 2014 | In the Media
The Mayor’s Commission for a Safer Chicago recently released a report and accompanying video sharing plans on reducing youth violence throughout the city. In the report, the Mayor’s Commission recommends 28 strategies on reducing the violence throughout the city. As a...
by COFI Admin | Nov 1, 2014 | In the Media
In November, 2014, the Annie E. Casey Foundation highlighted ‘The COFI Way’ report’s capturing of parents playing “an active, hands-on role in changing public policy and systems to benefit their children, families and communities as a whole.” Parents as Advocates...
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