Sean Casey, coordinator of our Global Equality Network and director of Global HIV Initiatives, made Windy City Times' list of the top 30 LGBT leaders under 30.

Statewide budget cuts threaten to leave as many as 150,000 Chicago area children without the daycare subsidies that allow their low-income parents to work, advocates say.

If it seemed like Illinois' financial outlook couldn't get any gloomier, consider this point: For every $1 that the state cuts for programs like homelessness, child care, or domestic violence, agencies who perform those services could forfeit as much as $4 in federal matching funds.

There are over 670,000 people in Illinois living in extreme poverty, which for a family of four is less than $30 a day to pay for food, shelter, medical care, clothing, and all the necessities of life.

World Refugee Day Chicago will be held at the Old Town School of Folk Music on June 20th with performances by eight artists who hail from Burundi to the Caribbean, with a chance to learn more about Chicago’s refugee population—including Heartland’s many programs that help refugee youth.

Heartland Alliance’s new Lincoln Square Health Center offers the community’s diverse population a wide range of affordable health care, including midwife and pediatric services.

CARF International has accredited Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights for a period of three years for several programs in its Heartland Health Outreach subsidiary

The Social IMPACT Research Center (IMPACT), formerly the Heartland Alliance Mid-America Institute on Poverty, announced today that it is expanding its contributions to addressing issues of local and national importance.

Press Release for 2009 Report on Illinois Poverty