| |
Chicago Urban League |
Company name:
|
Chicago Urban League Jobs
|
| City & State: |
Chicago ,
IL
|
| Industry type: |
Related Professions
|
| Company Description: |
Established in 1916 by an interracial group of community leaders, the Chicago Urban League
(www.TheChicagoUrbanLeague.com) began as a resettlement organization assisting African-American migrants arriving in Chicago from the rural South. Today the
civil rights organization empowers African-Americans by providing a unique and broad range of powerful resources and tools focused on economic development.
The Chicago Urban League is led by and draws expertise from a Board of Directors comprised of Chicago's more prominent corporate executives and leading
entrepreneurs with strong industry and functional expertise.
Leveraging strong and growing relationships with the business community and government,
the League develops programs and partnerships and does advocacy to address the need for employment, entrepreneurship, affordable commercial real estate and
quality education. The Chicago Urban League is an affiliate of the National Urban League (www.nul.org), the nation's oldest and largest community-based
movement devoted to empowering African-Americans to enter the economic and social mainstream.
The Chicago Urban League recently launched project NEXT,
three new economic development programs, which will help build shared and sustainable wealth within Chicago's African American community:
1.
Employment Diversity Program - focuses on recruiting and placing skilled, temporarily displaced workers as well as coaching, training, and developing entry,
mid-, and senior level African-American managers.
2. Entrepreneurship Center - provides new business acquisition and capacity building services as
well as financing to small businesses that generate revenues between $100,000 and $1 million, specifically professional service, construction, and retail
businesses.
3. Commercial Real Estate Development Initiative - supports commercial real estate developers and connects them with
retail/office/industrial real estate development opportunities in Chicago's African-American communities.
In addition, the League recently forged a
partnership with Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management (www.kellogg.northwestern.edu), which is one of the country's most prominent
training and research institutions for entrepreneurs, managers, and corporate executives. As the academic partner for the Entrepreneurship Center, Kellogg
will help staff the Center with graduate students and faculty. Specifically, they will design the training and coaching models to counsel minority-owned
businesses in marketing their products and services, in securing contracts with private sector companies and governmental agencies and in financing their
businesses.
|
|
|
|
|
| Construction Job Openings |
|
|
| Company News |
Foreclosure rescue a bad PR schemeChicago Defender, United States - Nov 19, 2008I had such an experience last week after receiving an email from the Chicago Urban League’s otherwise even-tempered Director of Housing and Foreclosure ... |
Urban Leaguers bask in golden glow of victoryChicago Sun-Times, United States - Nov 11, 2008BY ELIZABETH HAMEL Timing is everything, as guests of the Chicago Urban League's annual Golden Fellowship Dinner discovered as they gathered Saturday to ... |
Urban League turns its mission to businessCrain's Chicago Business, IL - Nov 1, 2008James Reynolds, CEO of Loop Capital Markets, is chairman of the board of the Chicago Urban League, which hosts its huge annual gala this weekend. ... |
State Constitution: If it’s not broke . . .Chicago Defender, United States - Oct 29, 2008While both sides have valid arguments, we at Chicago Urban League feel it is important for voters to remember that the vast majority of the problems African ... |
|
|
|
