In 1990, driven to action by the blight and crime infecting their streets, six parishes in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood each contributed $5,000 in seed money to start an institution-based community organization to help area residents address these problems.
Nineteen years later, The Resurrection Project (TRP), founded with a mission to build relationships and challenge people to act on their faith and values to create healthy communities through organizing, education, and community development, has leveraged that initial $30,000 to over $174 million in community reinvestment in the neighborhoods of Pilsen, Little Village, and Back of the Yards on Chicago’s southwest side.
TRP works alongside residents to create healthy communities through vehicles like affordable housing, financial literacy, and promoting access to education and health care. To learn more about The Resurrection Project visit their web page http://www.resurrectionproject.org.
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