The Developing Communities Project (DCP) is a
faith-based organization
A faith-based organization is an organization whose values are based on faith and/or beliefs, which has a mission based on social values of the particular faith, and which most often draws its activists (leaders, staff, volunteers) from a particula ...
in
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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Illinois
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. DCP was organized in 1984 as a branch of the
Calumet Community Religious Conference
Calumet may refer to:
Places United States
*Calumet Region, in northern Illinois and Indiana
**Calumet River
** Calumet Trail, Indiana
** Calumet (East Chicago)
*Calumet, Colorado
* Calumet, Iowa
*Calumet, Michigan
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(CCRC) in response to lay-offs and plant closings in Southeast Chicago in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1986, DCP was incorporated as a not-for-profit organization under the leadership of its first executive director
Barack Obama
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. It continues to provide literacy, job training and leadership development programs, for which it has received multiple awards, such as the 2007 Chicago Community Organizing Award.
Its mission "is to help community residents to use community organizing to effectively improve the quality of life in Chicago's Greater Roseland Community Areas."
One of its current projects is to work with Loyola University's Center for Urban Research & Learning (CURL) and the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) on the CTA Red Line Extension.
References
External links
Former website
* {{Official website, https://www.cct.org/what-we-offer/grants/developing-communities-project//
Community organizations
Organizations based in Chicago