Community Based Organization: Albany Park Neighborhood Council APNC
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At the heart of APNC is a belief in people and our ability to learn, to act, and to reflect together. Our organization is driven by dozens of talented leaders and a small professional staff. Together, we are committed to revitalizing and strengthening the institutions of our community. We are committed to reversing the trend of dwindling participation in our churches, schools, and mutual aid associations. We are committed to rekindling democracy and providing meaningful ways for our members to participate in public life.
We do this work through community organizing. Organizing enables people to imagine a different reality. It involves everyday people having a real voice in the decisions that affect their lives. In the words of one organizer, “Community organizing provides the vehicle by which elements of knowledge, skills, and experience are attained by families and neighborhoods.” APNC’s approach involves formal trainings, research, identifying common issues, creating collective and strategic ways to address those issues, and systematically strengthening institutions.
Projects:
Emerging Communities Education Project
The Emerging Communities Education Project is centered around strengthening and developing school leadership in the neighborhood schools. The goal of the project is to bring together groups of parents, Local School Council members, teachers, administrators, and community members to work together to create a common vision for their school, strategize on how to accomplish those goals, and then take the appropriate steps to achieve their goals. While the project works with individual schools to address their needs and goals, a priority of the project is to help build relationships between schools so that they can take collective action around their common goals.
Immigrant Rights Organizing Initiative
The goal of this initiative is to win support for issues that will improve the quality of life for immigrant families. From affordable housing to driver’s licenses for undocumented people to increased protection of the rights of day laborers to better immigration services to financial aid for children who are undocumented, APNC is committed to working on the challenging issues that face our community.
Project Y
In the spring of 2001, the Council launched Project Y, a youth organizing initiative that seeks to develop youth leadership and organize around specific youth issues. From the beginning APNC has viewed young people as having the capacity to participate meaningfully in the decisions that affect their community. Adults and youth work together as equal participants and as a result create a broader picture of the issues and opportunities in Albany Park.
Affordable Housing
APNC’s Housing Organizing, Purchase, and Education Initiative was created to address this crisis and to develop neighborhood leadership that has the capacity to organize and advocate for affordable housing, improvement of poor housing conditions, and expanded homeownership opportunities for immigrants.
We do this work through community organizing. Organizing enables people to imagine a different reality. It involves everyday people having a real voice in the decisions that affect their lives. In the words of one organizer, “Community organizing provides the vehicle by which elements of knowledge, skills, and experience are attained by families and neighborhoods.” APNC’s approach involves formal trainings, research, identifying common issues, creating collective and strategic ways to address those issues, and systematically strengthening institutions.
Projects:
Emerging Communities Education Project
The Emerging Communities Education Project is centered around strengthening and developing school leadership in the neighborhood schools. The goal of the project is to bring together groups of parents, Local School Council members, teachers, administrators, and community members to work together to create a common vision for their school, strategize on how to accomplish those goals, and then take the appropriate steps to achieve their goals. While the project works with individual schools to address their needs and goals, a priority of the project is to help build relationships between schools so that they can take collective action around their common goals.
Immigrant Rights Organizing Initiative
The goal of this initiative is to win support for issues that will improve the quality of life for immigrant families. From affordable housing to driver’s licenses for undocumented people to increased protection of the rights of day laborers to better immigration services to financial aid for children who are undocumented, APNC is committed to working on the challenging issues that face our community.
Project Y
In the spring of 2001, the Council launched Project Y, a youth organizing initiative that seeks to develop youth leadership and organize around specific youth issues. From the beginning APNC has viewed young people as having the capacity to participate meaningfully in the decisions that affect their community. Adults and youth work together as equal participants and as a result create a broader picture of the issues and opportunities in Albany Park.
Affordable Housing
APNC’s Housing Organizing, Purchase, and Education Initiative was created to address this crisis and to develop neighborhood leadership that has the capacity to organize and advocate for affordable housing, improvement of poor housing conditions, and expanded homeownership opportunities for immigrants.
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