Serving Poor Kids in a Wealthy Neighborhood

In the heart of Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood North Avenue Day Nursery (NADN) is trying to stay relevant and viable, providing care to children from low-income families, like they’ve always done, and by attracting the neighborhoods new, more affluent families.

“We’re still serving the low-income families that we always have,” said Executive Director of the nursery for the last 11 years, Steven Koll, “but by creating a blend of market-rate children with these other kids; we’re creating a unique blend, reflective of the wider-world.”

Death to Recidivism: Chicago Not-For-Profit Struggles to Find a Path to Success

Chicago based not-for-profit, Tabula Rasa, received their 501(c)(3) status a year and half ago and have since been struggling to get noticed. They believe when people start paying attention they will be able to get the necessary dollars to assist one of this city’s neediest populations.