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A Look at New Deal Ruins

This blog post is part of our ongoing series of insights and opinions offered directly from the desks of BPI staff and supporters. Through these posts we hope to continue to spark dialogue about topics that have implications for the…

Bob Herbert at UIC Great Cities Institute’s “The Poverty Puzzle: Ending Poverty in America”

On Thursday, April 24, Bob Herbert, former New York Times columnist, delivered a stirring keynote address at the University at Illinois Chicago’s Great Cities Institute Spring 2014 Lecture Series examining “The Poverty Puzzle: Ending Poverty in America.” BPI served as…

Celebrating the 2014 Champion of the Public Interest Awardees

Each year at our Annual Dinner, BPI recognizes exceptional contributions to the public interest by individuals and organizations across a broad range of endeavors working to create a more just society with our Champion of the Public Interest Awards. In…

Knowledge Exchange Recap: The Learning Gap

Each month we’re reporting out on our Knowledge Exchanges, held as part of our Visiting Fellowship in Urban Poverty with Loyola University of Chicago’s Center on Urban Research and Learning (CURL). In April we had two discussions, the first of…

What’s Missing from the Lathrop Plan?

Today’s blog is penned by Julie Elena Brown, Co-Director of our Public Housing program and Senior Staff Counsel, and is part of an ongoing series of posts designed to provide insights and opinions directly from the desks of BPI staff…

You’re Invited to BPI’s 2014 Annual Dinner

Tuesday, May 20 5:30 Reception | 6:30 Dinner Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park 200 North Columbus Drive Please join us on May 20 for a special evening of social justice spirit and substance to help support BPI’s work. This year’s event…

Congrats to Former BPI Intern Michael Janusek on Receiving the 2014 Kale Williams Award!

Michael Janusek – 2013 summer intern with BPI – and Risa Visina have been named as recipients of the 2014 Kale Williams Award for Exceptional Work in Promoting Human Rights and Social Justice by our friends at Loyola’s Center for…

Yale Professor Andrew Papachristos Explores Chicago’s Social Networks

In a lecture at Loyola University Chicago on March 13th, 2014, Center for Urban Research (CURL) alum and current Yale professor Andrew Papachristos explored how understanding the growing field of network science helps understand Chicago’s gun violence epidemic. Using data…

Knowledge Exchange Recap: Addressing Poverty through Two Generation Approaches

Each month we’ll be reporting out on our Knowledge Exchanges, held as part of our Visiting Fellowship in Urban Poverty with Loyola University of Chicago’s Center on Urban Research and Learning (CURL). In March we had two discussions, the first…

Thank you for attending our final School Policy Forum of 2014

Nearly 200 leaders joined us for our final forum of 2014, “How one region is using numbers to get everyone on the same page, from cradle to career,” which focused on “collective impact” movement advanced by civic, institutional and grassroots leaders…

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