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In Season 2, Episode 3 we hear how Mary Johnson, Chief Development & Strategy Officer at Lincoln Park Community Services (LPCS) and team are fighting homelessness. LPCS brings communities together to empower individuals facing homelessness and poverty to secure stable housing and make sustainable life changes. LCPS works with the larger community to ensure their members receive the support, respect, and understanding they need to empower their lives. They also provide a holistic continuum of services that removes barriers and increases self-sufficiency, seek to creating solutions to homelessness in our community, and believe that every person in the community has a stake in and can contribute to ending homelessness.Connect with LPCS: Website: https://lpcschicago.org/ Email: [email protected]: (773) 549-6111Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LPCSchicago/Instagram: @lpcschicagoLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lincoln-park-community-shelter/Know of an individual or group that is working hard to leave a better impact in their community? We want to tell their story! Connect with GTZP! For past and future content, be sure to follow us! Website: GTZP.orgEmail: [email protected] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greaterthanzeropercent IG @greaterthanzeropercent LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/69174296/

We kicked off Greater than Zero Percent project with an impromptu -interview with Joseph Mapp at Precious Blood Ministry Of Reconciliation months ago. Since then we've really defined our mission to highlight outstanding individuals and organizations, it was only natural that we'd come back and do an updated interview with the man who started it all!  

Joseph and the work he and his colleagues do at PBMR continue to help inspire change and growth within the groups of people they serve. Tune in as Joseph and Joseph discuss the meaning of restorative justice and how society can embrace individuals "who are at promise for success".

Know of an individual or group that is working hard to leave a better impact in their community? We want to tell their story!  

Connect with PBMR:

Website: http://pbmr.org/ 

Email: [email protected] Phone: (773) 952-6643 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pbmrchicago 

IG @pbmr_chicago 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/precious-blood-ministry-of-reconciliation-nfp/  

Connect with GTZP! For past and future content, be sure to follow us!

Website: GTZP.org 

Email: [email protected] 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greaterthanzeropercent 

IG @greaterthanzeropercent 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/69174296/

In the first new episode of Season 2, Joseph meets with Janelle St. John, Executive Director of Growing Home Inc, an organization that has been redefining urban farming and bringing opportunity to thousands for decades in Chicago.

Visit them at:

Website: http://growinghomeinc.org/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/growinghomeinc

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/growinghome/

Contact them at:

Phone: (773) 549-1336

Email: [email protected]

In Season 1, Episode 10 we hear from Mark Mitchell, Director of Re-Entry Services at Teamwork Englewood on how he is changing the model and helping formerly encarcerated people find jobs.   

Teamwork Englewood's mission is to be a community facilitator and convening organization that works to catalyze economic development, quality education and healthy living for the Greater Englewood community. These efforts are exercised through partnerships and policy advocacy. These initiatives strengthen the ability of community stakeholders to teach each other how to advocate for and provide services that contribute to the economic, political, and social vitality of the community. That way everyone can have the opportunity to live ultimately in a safe, nurturing and sustainable environment.  

Get connected:

Website: teamworkenglewood.org

Facebook: facebook.com/TeamworkEnglewood

Phone: (773) 488-6600

Email: [email protected]

In Season 1, Episode 9 we hear from LaDarius Beal, Administrative Assistant at True Believers Community Connections on how he is working with youth and new moms!  

The mission of True Believers is to foster community relations & reduce delinquency and violence by offering supportive services to emerging young leaders.  

Get connected:

Website: truebelieverscommunityconnections.org 

Facebook: facebook.com/truebelieverscc 

Phone: (773) 966-5651 

Email: [email protected]

In Season 1, Episode 8 we hear from Tonika Johnson, Creator, Social Justice Artist, and Photographer on how she uses her Folded Map Project to investigate what urban segregation looks like and how it impacts Chicago residents.  

Folded Map Project visually connects residents who live at corresponding addresses on the North and South Sides of Chicago. What started as a photographic study quickly evolved into a multimedia exploration with video interviews. The project invites audiences to open a dialogue and question how we are all impacted by social, racial, and institutional conditions that segregate the city. Her goal is for individuals to understand how our urban environment is structured. She wants to challenge everyone to think about how change may be possible and to contribute to a solution  

Get connected:

Website: https://www.foldedmapproject.com/

Phone: (773) 837-6004

Email: [email protected]

In Season 1, Episode 7 we hear from Rodney Johnson, President of One Health Englewood share his story and plans to advance the public health relations of Greater Englewood through advocacy, health literacy, and community development.  

Get connected:

Email: [email protected]

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EnglewoodOneH/

In Season 1, Episode 6 we hear from Danielle Wallace, Founder & Executive Director of Kingdom Avenue Inc. share her story and how she is connecting community resources to serve youth.

Kingdom Avenue Inc.'s mission is to transform communities one generation at a time through education, inspiration, and unification.

Unity is the anchor for all Kingdom Avenue programming. Whether it be through collaborating with other organizations to provide resources for students or through our approach to program development and implementation, they are dedicated to fostering an environment that promotes collective work and responsibility among their staff and students.

Get connected:

Website: kingdomavenue.org

Phone: (847) 893-0360

Email: [email protected]

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KingdomAvenueInc

In Season 1, Episode 5 we hear from Michelle Rashad, Executive Director of Imagine Englewood if... (IEi) discuss the programs they run for youth and their greater community.

IEi's mission is to strengthen and empower the Greater Englewood community through teaching local youth and their families healthy living, environmental awareness, and positive communication skills. IEi provides youth a safe and positive space to imagine, explore, and grow and teens with a unique and life-changing leadership program all with a vision is to spark generational health.  

Get connected:

Website: imagineenglewoodif.org

Phone: (773) 488-6704

Email: [email protected]

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iengif/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/imagine-englewood-if/

In Season 1, Episode 4 we hear from Deon Lucas, President of E.G. Woode and how his organization provides a sustainable platform where entrepreneurs leverage the capital and assets to rebuild commercial corridors within their neighborhood.

E.G. Woode was established to help relieve the disparities of capital access that minority owned businesses experience. Their platform is an incubator for minority business owners that leverages the power of real estate to aid in the development of their businesses and enhance their operations, marketing, and branding strategies.  

Get connected:

Website: https://egwoode.com/

Phone: (312) 877-6747

Email: [email protected]

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/egwoode

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/egwoode/

Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/egwoode