Community Resource Center

Where Would You Go if You Couldn't Pay Your Rent?

Your generosity helps children and their families have a place to call homeYour gift gives a neighbor like Sarah a helping hand while she becomes self-sufficient and cares for her family.All of us deserve a chance for a new beginning.For Sarah, the hardest thing was continuing with her studies to become a Medical Assistant, so she could afford rent. She was enduring sleepless nights working as a security guard, borrowing money for school, studying while exhausted and still making sure…

Check Your Privilege: Social Consciousness or Virtue Signal?

Privilege is real, and we should all strive to recognize the role it plays in our lives. But silencing speech and demonizing others in the name of "checking privilege" fails to foster meaningful change.

Yes, Adolf Hitler Really Said He Would 'Make Germany Great Again'

Neo-Nazis around the world have made it clear that they’re optimistic about what a Trump presidency will do for their cause. And while countless people have already pointed out just how dangerous Donald Trump’s rise to power has been, the historical parallels to other authoritarian regimes is still shocking. Take, for instance, this article from 1934. The author explains that Hitler was promising to make Germany “great” again.

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9 Rainforest Facts Everyone Should Know

Protecting rainforests is a powerful natural climate solution that’s critical to our collective future.

How Police Are Watching You on Social Media

How does law enforcement use Twitter, Facebook, and other forms of social media to keep tabs on people? Documents from Chicago's Cook County Sheriff’s Office reveal a few of their surveillance techniques.

DWI Resource Center using data to help find solutions

The DWI Resource Center provides data-driven, research-based solutions to reduce DWI death and injury.

Virtual Senior Center Helps Isolated Elders Stay Connected

If you are caring for someone who lives alone or is isolated due to health and mobility challenges, I encourage you to look into this innovative program. CJE Senior Life – an organization providing a wide range of high quality senior services to Chicagoland for over 40 years – has introduced its Virtual Senior Center...

Let's think critically about pregnancy resource centers

As someone who quite enjoys empowering people to think critically, I have found this quote by Soren Kierkegaard to be ever the more relevant as I consider the absurdly discriminatory and restrictive policies that seek to punish pregnancy resource centers for not providing abortions: “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”

Resource Center: making each other better

It has been a joy to see The Wesleyan Church equip one another and make each other better.

Young Women's Resource Center Blog

The Young Women's Resource Center blog is a collection of articles on topics including teen pregnancy, teen moms, reproductive health, self-esteem and more.

Boulder's Center for ReSource Conservation offering classes on xeriscaping

Boulder's Center for ReSource Conservation will be offering classes on xeriscaping, which is creative landscaping designed to conserve water.

How Crisis Pregnancy Centers Trick Women

Crisis pregnancy centers bill themselves as organizations out to offer "pro-life counseling," in the words of Chris Slattery, the president of E.M.C. P ...

Women of Color Research Initiative

The Women of Color Research Initiative explores the experience of women of color in the law, who experience a unique "worst of both worlds" intersectionality of race and gender.

Center on the Developing Child

Events and employment opportunities at the Center on the Developing Child.