Law and Civics Reading and Writing Institute

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE FIELD RESEARCH INTERNSHIP PROGRAM: LCRWI Sustainable Communities Initiative has prioritized the creation of an Environmental Justice Initiative in South Chicago's impoverished urban communities whereby environmental assessments of soil, water, and air quality will be performed at the community scale by community members for the ultimate purpose of providing real-time environmental health information community members via a mobile platform (i.e., smartphone app) in real-time. Environmental health metrics such as nutrition accessibility and soil, water, and air quality are urgently needed to protect the physical health of these communities and undo the economic harm that a highly polluted environment has on community growth and investment.

PROJECT INTER-FAITH 378: Law and Civics Reading and Writing Institute (LCRWI) seeks startup funding support from the Foundation to meet capacity-building and additional costs needed to achieve our three goals and mainly works closely with The Black Male Advisory Committees to plan, implement, and facilitate inter-faith listening racial healing sessions and public relations campaigns. The three goals are: 1) Bring together Black men, women, and their allies in select pilot districts to cooperate across their racial, ethnic, and religious differences to create intersecting spiritual values to support community healing. 2) Study and make the American Dream and American Meritocracy real. 3) Develop and implement forward-looking interfaith strategies and sustainable recommendations to remedy Black male racial and gender dis- parities in key program areas.