Year In Review 2

Gardens Galore 2

5k Registration! 2

Reconsidering Cont’d

3

Big Thanks 3

Honor/Memory 4

AmeriCorps Job Announcement

4

Spring 2015

Reconsidering a “Record” to House More People

St. James Collaboration

Frank Lowe, Frank Lowe, Frank Lowe, Program Program Program Manager Manager Manager will lead will lead will lead the new the new the new initiative. initiative. initiative.

Respond Now Page 2

Year in Review: An Eye to Improvement

Community Garden Spotlight

! Call for more information

Back to School!

Our annual 5k Run/Walk online registration is open!

www.respondnow.org You may also create an

individual or team fundraising page to help

support the event. September.

Saturday September 12, 9AM Bicentennial Park, Olympia Fields

Page 3 Spring Newsletter

Reconsidered, cont’d

Elvie Maya, Respond Now housing case manager, (left) shares the joy

with her client Juanita Patton (right) who is all smiles as she holds her

apartment keys for the first time after signing her lease in Ford Heights, IL,

Tuesday March 24, 2015. Patton, who was homeless, is Respond Now's

first Housing Authority of Cook County Reentry Pilot Program placement.

Thank Thank Thank

you you you

Exelon!Exelon!Exelon!

RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED

Serve with Respond Now’s AmeriCorps Food Access Program

Manage SNAP Outreach program, Promote increased

food access, Oversee Community Garden program 18 years of age or older, U.S. Citizen, U.S. National or lawful permanent resident, high school diploma or equivalent, 2 years college coursework in health or human services field, Bachelor’s degree preferred, Bilingual English/Spanish a plus.

Apply at www.ipha.com/americorps by June 29