Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago Hosts 26th Annual NeighborWorks® Day

CHICAGO, June 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Saturday, June 1 over 700 corporate volunteers, community leaders, and neighborhood residents participated in Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago's 26^th Annual NeighborWorks® Day.  The day included curb appeal activities in seven of NHS' targeted communities, including Auburn Gresham, Chicago Lawn, Englewood, North Lawndale, Roseland, West Humboldt, and Elgin.  For the projects, volunteers donated 4,290 volunteer hours to revitalize the neighborhood blocks by planting flowers, cleaning vacant lots, and creating community gardens or staffing topical workshops offered at resource fairs.  In total, volunteers spruced up 115 homes, worked on 9 community gardens, cleaned 8 vacant lots and prepared a vacant home for rehab.

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NeighborWorks Day® is a chance for NHS' partners to get personally involved with neighborhood revitalization and see first-hand the impact of their support.  "The connections we made in the community were remarkable and our volunteers were able to transform people's yards in one morning," said NHS of the Fox Valley Director, Mary Lu Seidel.

Volunteers from the following organizations participated:  American Family Insurance, Baker Tilly, Bank of America, BMO Harris Bank, Charter One Bank, Citi, Elgin State Bank, Fannie Mae, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, First Bank of Highland Park, HSBC, Inland Bank, JPMorgan & Chase, Liberty Mutual Bank for Savings, Lowe's, MB Financial Bank, Standard Bank & Trust, State Bank of India, State Farm Insurance Companies, the PrivateBank, Travelers Insurance, UPS, U.S. Bank, Webster Construction Group, and Wide Open West. 

Established in 1975, NHS of Chicago is the city's largest nonprofit community development organization committed to providing Chicago and Elgin residents affordable resources so they can buy, fix, and keep their homes. Since its creation, NHS has created over 4,161 new homeowners.  NHS also works to stimulate community reinvestment through a partnership of residents, businesses, and government.  With this help, NHS has leveraged investment of more than $1.1 billion in Chicago's neighborhoods.  

NHS Chicago is part of the NeighborWorks® America network, which includes 235 independent, community-based nonprofit organizations serving more than 4,500 communities nationwide.

For more information on NHS, call (773) 329-4010 or visit www.nhschicago.org.

Contact: Stephanie Martel, NHS of Chicago
(773) 329-4104

SOURCE Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago

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