10 years of Services for the Greater Auburn Gresham Community
Ernest Sanders
Published: December 1, 2011
Comprehensive community and economic development are not just the latest buzz words, but a complementary menus of programs and services designed to benefit a community’s residents and business owners. Just as a tool belt harnesses many different tools to create, maintain, or repair, so does a comprehensive community development agency as the Greater Auburn-Gresham Development Corporation (GADC).
The impact of GADC on the physical redevelopment of the Auburn Gresham community has been most visible. A casual visitor new to this community would immediately notice the improved streets; the new businesses and buildings along 79th street (a major community thoroughfare); the totally rebuilt intersection of 79th and Racine Avenue (the Times Squares of the Southside of Chicago); and the frenzied pace of redevelopment, programs and services throughout the community.
Our success is mainly measured by our community’s quality of life and partnering relationships with key stakeholders.
In 2003, the Auburn Gresham Quality of Life was created and maintained through today, offering many new developments, programs and services (affecting many audiences) as an offshoot of the original plan. Today a more refined Quality of Life plan gives emphasis to education while continuing to work well with other important facets that has interest towards our community’s well being.
Welcome to the new and improved Auburn Gresham. We dare you to tell someone!
- Academic Rigor
- Adolescent Health
- Adult Learning
- Advocacy
- Arts
- Asset Mapping
- Block Clubs
- Business Development
- Capacity Building
- College Preparation
- Community Development
- Cultivating Relationships
- Data Collection
- Digital Media and Literacy
- Early Action Projects
- Economic Development
- Education Reform
- Employment
- Environmentally Friendly
- Energy Efficient
- Festivals
- Financial Literacy
- Foreclosure Prevention
- Fresh Foods
- Grant Making
- Hard to Reach Populations
- Healthcare
- Health Fairs
- Housing Development
- Housing Preservation
- Leadership Development
- Litter Abatement
- Neighborhood Recovery
- Open Space
- Organizational Development
- Organizing
- Parent Engagement
- Parks/Recreation
- Partnerships
- Prevention and Intervention
- Safe Passage
- Strategic Planning
- Places of Worship
- Publications
- Recycling
- Retail Development
- Senior Citizens
- Social Services
- Sports
- Veterans
- Workforce Development
- Youth Development
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