Report release

A team of staff and volunteers to Haiti will establish long-term services for survivors of last week’s devastating earthquake.

2009 Self-Sufficiency Standard release

DIRTT Environmental Solutions opens its penthouse showroom doors on Thursday, October 8, to host a fundraiser for WomanCraft, a social enterprise of Heartland Alliance, which provides artisan positions and transitional jobs to women overcoming barriers to employment.

WomanCraft, the social enterprise of non-profit Heartland Alliance, will open its studio on December 11 and 12 for its annual Open House and Studio Sale.

The Board of Directors of Heartland International Health Center (HIHC) welcomes new members and leadership for the coming year.

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

Press release for Supportive Housing In Illinois: A Wise Investment

Heartland Alliance and Partners Host Forum to Raise Awareness of Global LGBT Issues

Low-income students on Chicago’s North Side will now have improved access to affordable dental care.

You can find dozens of life-changing gifts in the new Hope for a Hurting World gift catalog from Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights. It’s a great answer for anyone looking to recapture the true spirit of the holidays in a meaningful way and make a statement in their gift-giving that provides both hope and inspiration.

The U.S. Census Bureau will release its annual income estimates, poverty rates, and health insurance coverage numbers from the American Community Survey and Current Population Survey for the year 2007 on Tuesday, August 26.

Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights kicked off the Chicago Community Oral Health Forum, an effort to improve oral health care for Chicago area residents.

Marking World Refugee Day, refugee youth from Heartland Alliance will help lead a rally- themed “Protection for Those We’ve Left Behind”- in downtown Chicago.

A groundbreaking ceremony held today in Milwaukee marks the start of construction of new permanent, supportive housing for low-income Milwaukee residents experiencing homelessness, mental illness, and other disabling conditions.

In another sign of the state’s slumping economy, the number of Illinoisans living in poverty surged by a whopping 19 percent in the past five years, according to a new report released Wednesday by Heartland Alliance’s Mid-America Institute on Poverty.

During a period when they were widely thought to have flourished economically, the Chicago suburbs over the past 25 years have recorded an explosive 114.5 percent increase in the number of people who are poor, according to a new report released Wednesday by Heartland Alliance’s Mid-America Institute on Poverty.

As the economic downturn and housing slump create increasing hardship for more Illinoisans, legislative and civic leaders called for the creation of a state commission to eradicate poverty in Illinois.