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Imagine Chicago is a non-profit organization that helps people develop their imagination as city creators. It offers everyone, especially young people, the opportunity to invest themselves in the city's future.

Imagine Chicago works in partnership with individuals and local organizations; schools, museums, churches, businesses, and community groups. Together, they design and implement innovative civic projects that build meaningful connections across generations and cultures and have lasting institutional and community impact.

Imagine Chicago encourages individuals and organizations to focus constructively on their capacities and opportunities to make a difference as they:

                    understand what is
                             imagine what can be, and
                                       create what will be.

Imagine Chicago’s work encompasses a variety of initiatives but reflects three core processes. Each process focuses participant’s efforts by asking constructive questions that draw out the best of the past and build on that foundation to design and create a more vital future.

The core processes are:

• dialogue – across cultural, racial, economic and generational boundaries.
• curriculum development – frameworks and organizers to understand, imagine and create projects that build community.
• network formation – to link individuals and organizations committed to developing a positive future for Chicago’s children.

Imagine Chicago identifies change agents in organizations, institutions and communities and gives them development tools and opportunities to make a difference. Imagine Chicago creates personal development opportunities that inspire, inform and can sustain lasting institutional, community and systemic change. Through its many collaborations, Imagine Chicago builds intergenerational and intercultural networks of individuals and organizations committed to developing a vital city-wide community.

The 10th Anniversary Celebration and
International Learning Exchange Continue...

• Possibility Handbook: Ten Years of Imagination in Action
  by Bliss Browne and Shilpa Jain, download (large) PDF file
• Major Chicago program initiatives
  
• Conference Proceedings and Followup Conversations Online
  

Women Alive! A Legacy of Social Justice:
A Tribute to Chicago's Pioneering Women

• Download the new book by Bliss Browne and friends, a record of the 2003 exhibit honoring women pioneers for social justice in Chicago.
• Visit the exhibit website at AliveLTD.org
  

Ubumama: A Global Partnership

• Check out Ubumama, Imagine Chicago's newest global partnership, an arts based initative to save the lives of women now dying in childbirth

Upcoming Events and Publications

• A New Imagine Book is coming to birth this Labor Day! Order early from Taos Institute Publishing.