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Civic Leadership Academy Evaluation
An evaluation of the first three years of the Civic Leadership Academy demonstrated how the interdisciplinary program benefits individuals, organizations, an...
Featured impact
UChicago Medicine Community Benefit Report
According to its recently published annual Community Benefit Report, the University of Chicago Medicine provided more than $477 million in benefits and servi...
Profiles
Horizons National Chicago
The “summer slide” is real: During summer break, K–12 students are liable to lose a significant amount of what they learned during the school year — and students from low-income households experien...
J.R. Fleming
Turner School of Construction Management
When J.R. Fleming arrived at the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation for the first session of the Turner School of Construction Management in 2018, he was feeling skeptical. “I wonder...
Boyede Sobitan
OjaExpress
Boyede Sobitan compares the Polsky Exchange to a barbershop — a community hub where everybody shares what’s going on in their lives. That vibrant community of entrepreneurs is one of the reasons So...
Melody Roberts
Liv Labs
In the fall of 2017, Melody Roberts was in the audience of South Side Pitch, co-sponsored by the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the Institute for Justice Clinic on Entreprene...
John Stoops
The Revival
As a member of the first cohort of founders in the Polsky Incubator in 2015, John Stoops was a definite outlier: Rather than a nanotech or biomed company, his startup, The Revival, is a training an...
Owen Elrifi and Spencer Reed
LegUP
Community members know best what their own community needs most. The idea for LegUP — a program through which University students volunteer to help juniors and seniors at UChicago Charter School Wo...