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April 21-April 27, 2010 VOL. 18 NO. 17 A PRIL 21-A PRIL 27, 2010 Buy StreetWise only from a badged vendor $2 MISSION: TO HELP PEOPLE HELP THEMSELVES TO SELF-SUFFICIENCYTHROUGHGAINFULEMPLOYMENT From the Director STREETWISE STAFF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/PUBLISHER BRUCE CRANE By Bruce Crane This is probably most true for those with the [email protected] Executive Director most severe needs. Setting up appointments for StreetWise has come a week in the future just does not work for the EDITOR-IN-CHIEF so far, and we really do a immediate needs and day-to-day mentality of SUZANNE HANNEY huge service for the some of our vendors. Thus, we have a goal to [email protected] impoverished or home- expand the services we offer to include the case less communities. management and social work functions. DIRECTOR OF DISTRIBUTION & VENDOR SERVICES We make great strides Like much of what we do, it takes money. GREG PRITCHETT everyday in improving Many of the things we do are done on a “boot- [email protected] lives, one at a time, day strap” budget, with donated items and volunteer PRODUCTION & MARKETING MANAGER in and day out. labor. However, in this area, we need profession- BEN COOK But it is not enough. Clearly, as we see on the als to do the job properly. Our vendors’ situa- [email protected] streets everyday, there is so much more work to tions and needs vary widely. But for those who be done. Perhaps our two biggest challenges are need these services, they need, and we owe DIRECTOR OF ADVERTISING & recruiting new clients, and better supporting them, people who are truly skilled in this area, CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT those we serve. We have a lot of volunteers and and can be here day in and day out to meet GRACE FEDERIGHI staff energies devoted to finding new clients, these needs. [email protected] helping them through orientation, and support- Many of the aspects of my job I am well pre- ing them as they learn the skills of becoming a pared to handle. Dealing with the significant ADVERTISING SALES EXECUTIVES successful vendor. We have another great group emotional, psychological, and cultural needs and MARY FAITH HILBOLDT that helps our vendors with some of the basic problems of our vendors is beyond both my skill PROOFREADER needs of securing a stable housing arrangement, set and the hours in a day. Thus, I have to raise ROBERT CASS clothing and some food. the funding to meet this genuine need, and to do To best support the clients we serve, our ven- it properly. BOARD OF DIRECTORS dors, requires taking our model to a higher level. As a reader of this column, I know that you ROB FEDERIGHI—PRESIDENT JUDD LOFCHIE—FOUNDER Many of them have significant needs that can support our vendors by purchasing StreetWise. SOCORE ENERGY LOFCHIE & ASSOCIATES, INC. best be served by professionals trained in social Thank you for assisting your vendor, helping PETE KADENS—VICE PRESIDENT ADAM MEEK SOCORE ENERGY BROWNFILED MANAGEMENT work and case management. them with a hand up. If you would like to help ASSOCIATES JUDD R. HORWITZ—TREASURER We have tried developing a system of referrals us improve our services we would welcome any JUDD R. HORWITZ & CO. P.C. JASON MERSEY J.P. MORGAN for these types of services with agencies that are donation to StreetWise, either by check or RAY GILLETTE—SECRETARY willing to make appointments for our vendors. through our Web site. NONPROFIT CONSULTING TIMOTHY RAY SONNENSCHEIN, NATH & ROSENTHAL We have tried having a volunteer social work- I would welcome the opportunity to show LEE BARRIE er one day every other week. Many of our you our office so you can see for yourself some KURMAN COMMUNICATIONS, INC. JONATHAN REINSDORF STONEGATE DEVELOPMENT RICHARD BOYKIN vendors live day by day, where today’s needs more of what we do. PARTNERS, LLC BARNES & THORNBURG LLP take precedence at the expense of long-term We truly are more than a magazine. WHITNEY ST. PIERRE EMILY BRINKMOELLER planning. INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES EXTENSION, INC PATRICIA TILLMAN DANNY K. DAVIS VENDOR REPRESENTATIVE U.S. CONGRESSMAN, W here the money goes... 7TH DISTRICT, ILLINOIS KEVIN WARD Vendors buy StreetWise for 75 cents, and the remaining $1.25 goes directly to the licensed vendor. THE FORWARD GROUP LATONYA ELLIS ERIC WEINHEIMER VERIZON WIRELESS CARA PROGRAM PAM FRYE IRA WILLIAMS RETIRED Look for the Badge! JOHN J. LEONARD BERNSTEIN GLOBAL WEALTH Please purchase your copy of StreetWisefrom badged vendors only! MANAGEMENT STREETWISE IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY AND IS SOLD BY THE POOR AND HOMELESS OF For questions or comments regarding our vendor force, please CHICAGO. STREETWISE IS A REGISTERED 501(C)3 NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION AND IS A MEMBER OF THE NORTH AMERICAN STREET NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION. contact Greg Pritchett at (312) 829-2526 or at 1201 W. LAKE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60607 [email protected]. OFFICE: 312.829.2526 FAX: 312.829.2623 2 WWW.STREETWISE.ORG APRIL 21-APRIL 27, 2010 WorldWise Controversy of US deportation quotas Immigrants’ rights advocates push back against new meas- ures that require x number of deportees per agency funding. Also: World News briefs. page 5 Event Calendar Reel Film plus... Earth Day Chicago Events, Pulitzer-prize winning author, Rossini’s Moses in Egypt, plus upcoming events such as Dining Out for Life and a Greek Chicago Tour. 8 page Vendor poetry spotlight Paging Dr. Groove In celebration of poetry month Gospel poet turned job developer StreetWise is publishing the original Geoffrey Watts preaches the word poetry of vendors Donna Marie of employment for all people. McCamey and Roarke Moody. page15 page12 news entertainment streetwise volunteer From the Street page 4 FoodWise page 6 The Playground page 14 Volunteer Chicago WorldWise page 5 DineWise page 6-7 Vendor Spotlight page 15 online at www.streetwise.org Cover Story page 12-13 Theatre page 10 Event Calendar page 8-9 APRIL 21-APRIL 27, 2010 WWW.STREETWISE.ORG 3 From the Streets Inspiration Corp. PHOTO BY ANDREW KOHAN wins $300K grant Inspiration Corporation has received a $300,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation to open a food service training center and social enterprise restaurant in East Garfield Park and to establish an operating reserve fund. The challenge requires that Inspiration Corporation raise an additional $500,000 by February 2011 to complete its $6 million “Catalyst Campaign.” The Garfield Park Cafe will open early next year on the 3500 block of West Lake Street. Similar to Inspiration Corporation’s Cafe Too in Uptown, it will serve nutritious and affordable meals to the public. The site is close to the Garfield Park Conserva- Carolynn Ediger, Jane tory, a tourist attraction, but community need was Addams Sr. Caucus at an important factor in Inspiration’s decision, accord- end of protest April 8. ing to Diane Pascal, the organization’s directorf o In blue shirts are Pat development and external relations. More than 35 Drennan, Barbara percent of East Garfield Park residents live in pover- Ansell, Peggy Griffin, with a media person. ty, and over 20 percent are unemployed. Between 2004 and 2006, nearly 2,100 people returned home to the neighborhood from prison. In addition, the Groups protest nursing home conditions Greater Chicago Food Depository defined the neigh- borhood as a “food desert” because of its limited By Suzanne Hanney added. “We want him [Schlossberg] to bring options for healthy groceries and dining. Editor-in-Chief the level of staffing up to the level of Evanston Roughly half of the cafe’s diners will use “certifi- enior citizens and religious leaders nursing homes.” cates” distributed to working-poor families through staged an April 8 sit-in at the headquar- An 84-year-old man with dementia fell four sto- a network of community partners, from social ters of Alden Health Care & Senior ries to his death at an Alden nursing home at 201 service organizations to schools and religious Living over allegedly discriminatory W. 69th St., according to an investigative report staffing and unsafe conditions in Alden’s published last July in The Chicago Reporter. A congregations. SouthS Side nursing homes. The group sought to lawyer for the man’s family charged neglect. “Maybe a community school would give one to a meet with Alden president Floyd Schlossberg to An analysis by the Reporter of the Illinois child with perfect attendance, or a health-care demand changes. Department of Public Health’s data found that organization would give one to a new parent who’s “I am called to confront Mr. Schlossberg and residents of that South Side nursing home attended parenting classes,” Pascal said. Inspiration risk arrest for the thousands of seniors in nursing received less than half the staff time of those at officials say they haven’t heard of any other organi- homes who cannot fight for themselves,” said Pat Alden’s Evanston facility—2.04 hours versus zation offering this kind of incentivized, mixed- Drennan of the Jane Addams Senior Caucus 5.53. The seniors are calling on the Illinois income fine-dining experience. (JASC) in a prepared statement. “People living in General Assembly to enact legislation mandating Jobs are another factor. The restaurant’s kitchen Alden’s South Side homes face terrible condi- that nursing homes meet federally recommended will provide a site for employment training and tions, and we will not leave until Mr. Schlossberg staffing levels of 4.1 hours per residen t per day. transitional jobs, much like Inspiration’s program commits to improving the race-based discrimina- Clark said Schlossberg was in the building but tion within the Alden network.” didn’t come out. Police told one of the protesters at Cafe Too.
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