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Our Commitment to Chicago
This document provides a snapshot of UChicago’s positive impact for the city and its social fabric—including contributions that will have a lasting effect for generations to come.
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UChicago Medicine Community Benefit Report
According to its recently published annual Community Benefit Report, the University of Chicago Medicine provided more than $519 million in benefits and services to the South Side community in Fiscal Year 2019.
Profiles
Jessica Davenport-Williams
Certificate in Nonprofit Management
In March 2021, Davenport-Williams was among the first 14 nonprofit professionals to complete the free, two-year Certificate in Nonprofit Management program designed to equip nonprofit professionals like her to create, grow, and operate effective community-based organizations.
The Branch Family Institute
Brenda T. Thompson of The Branch Family Institute is a key UChicago Medicine community partner helping to ensure victims of intentional violence get mental health services and other support they need to recover from trauma and reduce their risk of being re-injured.
Dwayne Johnson
Lead Violence Response Specialist, University of Chicago Medicine
Dwayne Johnson came to violence recovery work after losing his uncle to gun violence. He is now the lead specialist at UChicago Medicine’s Violence Recovery Program, the only hospital-based program of its kind in Chicago that serves both adults and children.
Christ the King Jesuit College Preparatory School
During the pandemic, Chicago Booth students in the Booth COVID-19 Volunteers and Booth Social Impact programs helped Christ the King Jesuit College Preparatory School (CTK) find grant opportunities, create a new framework for CTK's work-study training, and identify ways to improve CTK's curriculum.
Taishon Cleveland
HBCU and HSI Bridge Scholarship Program
Morehouse College alumnus Taishon Cleveland says spending a year as a UChicago graduate student-at-large through the University of Chicago Professional Education HBCU and HSI Bridge Scholarship program is helping him “figure out what direction to go" as he explores history and entrepreneurship.
Brittany Read
HBCU and HSI Bridge Scholarship Program
Brittany Read majored in legal communications at Howard University and assumed she would go onto law school en route to a career in government and social policy. Then a merit-based, full tuition HBCU and HSI Bridge Scholarship from University of Chicago Professional Education put her on a new path to her goal.