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BRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL Español History and Mission
Community Area Brighton Park is the second fastest growing neighborhood of Chicago's 77 community areas. In 2001 BPNC was one of nine organizations chosen from over 400 applicants for a national award sponsored by the Rolling Stone Magazine and MTV. In 2000, BPNC won the Award for the Best New and Emerging Organization in Chicago, which is sponsored by the Wieboldt Foundation, the Woods Fund of Chicago, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Chicago Community Trust and Mayer Kaplan Family Foundation. Since its inception BPNC has affected substantial change in the community it serves. BPNC has helped to improve neighborhood schools, increased community lending, increased lawenforcement resources throughout Brighton Park, developed many youth alternatives, won numerous capital improvements and most important brought together adults, youth, businesses, churches, schools and other neighborhood institutions to reclaim a community that had long been forgotten. |
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