In The News

The City of Chicago and Mercy Portfolio Services hosted a recent homebuyer fair at the Kroc Community Center in Chicago’s West Pullman neighborhood. The event was attended by more than 150 individuals from areas throughout the city including Back of the Yards, Cicero, Chatham, Humboldt Park, and several other neighborhoods. Attendees had the opportunity to

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Thanks to you, and supporters like you, 2,280 children go to bed in safe and nurturing homes.  In the first three years of the Moving Forward Together campaign, you have helped build 2,534 homes, create 4,877 jobs, and enable 6,016 people, including 2,280 children, to live in hope. This is the fight of our lifetime.

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Mercy Housing Resident Services offers young residents an exciting opportunity to learn something new and engage with the community through music, so they formed the Gleason Park Electric Violin Ensemble.

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Mercy Housing is committed to community safety and connecting with our neighbors across the state. Over the past month, multiple sites took part in National Night Out, a designated event to connect neighbors with one another. National Night Out is designed to increase community awareness while addressing anti-crime efforts. Mercy Housing sites in Bellingham, Everett,

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Mercy Housing is excited to have the opportunity to continue its revitalization efforts in the Hilltop neighborhood of Tacoma. A $70,000 grant from the J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation will provide funding for two primary efforts – development of a second phase of New Tacoma Senior Apartments and implementation of our Community Health Worker pilot project.

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Mercy Loan Fund staff recently took a look back at some of the loans made years ago and checked in with the borrowers to see where their projects are today.

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After three months of planning, two prep days, and one exhausting day of building, 200 children have a safe and exciting new playground. The play space was built in less than eight hours with the help of 266 community volunteers from Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Mercy Housing Lakefront, Burger King and KaBOOM!. “Everyone deserves a

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Throughout the last several weeks, Mercy Housing Lakefront children celebrated the start of the new school year. Back-to-School events were held at the Austin After-School Program, Wentworth Commons, Pullman Wheelworks Apartments, 850 Eastwood Apartments and Roseland Village. U.S. Bank helped kick off the back-to-school celebrations at Mercy’s Pullman Wheelworks property. The bank donated 180 backpacks

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MetLife Foundation and Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. (Enterprise) today named Mercy Housing Lakefront and Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago as recipients of the 2013 MetLife Foundation Award for Excellence in Affordable Housing, lauding the nonprofits’ Roseland Place Senior Apartments. This year’s MetLife Foundation Award focused on connecting senior housing to health care programs, supportive services

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Sister Lillian Murphy
8/28/2013

Dare to Dream...

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the day Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. declared his dream to the American people. The words he shared from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963 would become a living rallying cry for generations of people who continue the fight for equality for all disenfranchised people in this country and beyond.

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