Next week is the deadline to apply for a $2,000 CCH college scholarship -- student applications, including two references, must be postmarked by Saturday, May 1, 2010. 

Applicants must be seniors graduating from a Chicago Public high school, or a graduating seniors from a suburban school who are past clients of the CCH Law Project. All applicants must have experienced homelessness at some point during high school.

Copier to give away! CCH was given a Canon NP 6030. In moving it into our office, volunteers broke a part on the side duplexing unit.

Chicago Coalition for the Homeless is ready for Wednesday’s statehouse rally in Springfield – we will join thousands from across Illinois who are expected to turn out to press lawmakers to act now to address the state budget crisis.

CCH participated in a human rights hearing on April 13 at which representatives of the U.S.

The Ravenswood 5K is coming up, and CCH supporters are running to raise money for the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless. The race covers Chicago’s Ravenswood neighborhood, and takes place on Sunday, April 25.  For the second straight year, the CCH Associate Board is spearheading the effort with participation from CCH staff and Board members as well. 

You can support Tim, Shane, Michael, Becca, Dollie, Megan, and Beth as they run for a great cause!

Just click on the name of the person you wish to sponsor.

It is the fifth anniversary of the passing of Les Brown, the founder of the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless.  Les was my boss from 1995 until the time he died, and I miss him greatly to this day. 

Michelle Saddler, a former long-time CCH Board President, met this month with the CCH board to discuss the draconian impact of the FY 2011 state budget, if the plan now on the table is adopted later this spring.

As Secretary of the Illinois Department of Human Services, Ms. Saddler understands, in detail, the devastating consequences of allowing the state's fiscal crisis to continue without an overhaul, including an income tax increase.

Women's organizer Dollie Brewer recently brought 10 of her leaders from Deborah's Place to experience the "Freedom Sisters" exhibit at the DuSable Museum of African American History. The traveling exhibit closes this Easter Sunday, April 4.

It's a wonderful exhibit about 20 African American women who helped make history. They include women such as Fannie Lou Hamer, who became a leader in the voting rights struggle in the South during the 1960s. 

As reported this week in USA Today, a new HUD study demonstrates it can cost the same or less to house someone in permanent housing with services as it does to provide those services in homeless shelters.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-03-25-homeless_N.htm?POE=click-...