Jefferson Park Forward, working in partnership with Alderman John Arena and Representative Robert Martwick’s offices, continued its effort to enhance the beauty of Jefferson Park. The latest investment in beautifying Jefferson Park involved landscaping the southeast corner of Lawrence and Milwaukee Avenues, near the public art installation…
Carpe Librum
Jefferson Park Forward was a guest operator at the Six Corners pop-up bookstore, Carpe Librum (“Seize the Book”) on Thursday, August 25. In fulfillment of JPF’s mission to revitalize our community, we believe in supporting charitable works whenever possible. Turning the Page, an educational non-profit with operations…
Memberships
Memberships Jefferson Park Forward was formed during the fall of 2015. In that time we’ve done the following things: Organized and defined our organization around a coherent mission and vision statement. Assembled leadership and working committees to carry out our mission and vision. Established our organization as…
Picnic in the Park
Picnic in the Park, held on Sunday, July 24 was a huge success thanks to everyone who showed up. We had around 40 people who stopped by throughout the day. We also had some special guests – the frozen custard food truck from radio…
JPF Plant the Post Office
The JPF Livability & Attractiveness Committee has once again lived up to its name with a beautification initiative targeting the U.S. Post Office on Lawrence Avenue. Check out these pictures from last Sunday. We’ll still need help this coming Sunday to finish up the effort at the…
Austin/Foster Playground Replacement Survey
Please take this JPF designed survey to give feedback to Friends of the Parks and the Chicago Park District on the replacement of the Austin/Foster play lot. This play lot has funding for a full replacement, which is scheduled to begin later this summer. Please…
Jefferson Park Forward May General Meeting
Agenda: 7:00-7:05 – Welcome 7:05-7:15 – Update on Long/Argyle 7:15-7:45 – Committee Updates 7:45-8:00 – Guest Speaker: Leah Levinger, Executive Director, Chicago Housing Initiative 8:00-8:05 – Guest Business Owner: Cosmic Bikes 8:05-8:10 – New Business 8:15 – Adjourn The JPF Fundraising and Services Committee will once…
Participatory Budgeting Voting Recommendations
If you don’t know what participatory budgeting means, you should, because it’s your tax dollars at work in a democratic way. Below is a primer of what participatory budgeting is and our recommendations towards the bottom. Participatory budgeting is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how…
JPF Spring Clean & Green Photo Gallery
Thanks to all of our members who came out to make the Jefferson Park Transit Center beautiful! A few photos of our hard work.
Social Committee Update
As Chair of the Social Committee, I want to thank all who attended and promoted this our first Pub Crawl. Our hosts were overwhelmed with joy and eagerness to learn about us and continue supporting us. We raised almost $500 for the Olive’s Neighborhood Garden…
Jefferson Park Forward is a Non-Profit
JPF is a Non-Profit A little while ago I published a quick announcement on our Facebook page notifying our members that Jefferson Park Forward had its non-profit Articles of Incorporation approved by the State of Illinois. I posted this as a hurrah for all the work…
Bylaws Committee Meeting
The JPF Bylaws Committee will meet on Tuesday, March 26 to continue reviewing bylaws examples and templates. Each committee member will be assigned a section of the bylaws to author and edit as necessary. Agenda Articles of Incorporation / FEIN Bylaws Section Assignments Map the…