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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…

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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…

Knowledge Exchange Recap: Early Childhood Policy Priorities

A Look at Purging the Poorest

This blog post marks the first of what will be many opportunities for you to read insights and opinions directly from the desks of BPI staff and supporters. Through these posts we hope to spark dialogue about topics that have…

Save The Date for BPI’s Annual Dinner: May 20, 2014

Bryan Stevenson is considered one of the country’s leading public interest lawyers. Founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, AL, he has gained national acclaim for his work challenging bias against the poor and people of…

Neil Guterman and Sheila Kennedy Join BPI’s Board of Directors

Join BPI in welcoming two new Directors! Neil B. Guterman is Dean of the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. He is the director of the Beatrice Cummings Mayer Program in Violence Prevention at the School of…

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