Engaging the Community on the Economy

Economy

WILL Portal for online media relating to economic issues in East Central Illinois.

WILL

Illinois Public Media

2010

N. First Street Community Garden Aims to Feed Spirits, Minds and Bodies

Community Gardens

Blog entry on C-U Fit Families on newly being developed community garden on North First Street.

Kimberlie Kranich

C-U Fit Families Blog

April 15, 2010

Engaging and Empowering Youth

Youth Media

Engaging and Empowering Youth (E2Y) is a year-long collaboration between talented teens and adult mentors. Based in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, these African-American teenagers worked to map local teen resources and share their findings with youth and youth-serving organizations.

Illinois Youth Media

Illinois Public Media

2009-2010

Organic Gardener Maps Gardens in African American Community

Gardening, Health

Aaron Ammons has turned the greater part of the backyard at his north Urbana home into an organic garden. His wife Carol, and their sons Jelani and Amir, actively maintain the family's garden along with Aaron.

C-U Fit Families

BlogSpot

June 23, 2009

Message from Home: A Tribute to Brother Jack McDuff

Music

A new WILL-FM production, Message From Home: A Tribute to Brother Jack McDuff, is a musical tour through more than 40 years of McDuff recordings. Airing on WILL-FM at 8 pm on Saturday, September 15--two days before McDuff would have turned 75, the program starts with his 1959 recordings with Willis "Gatortail" Jackson and continues through his 1999 release, "Bringin’ It Home." The special will be followed by a two-hour live program featuring more McDuff music and local reminiscences about McDuff, who grew up in Champaign-Urbana.

WILL-FM

WILL Public Media

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Voices of Great Schools Together

Schools

Great Schools Together is a community-focused, facilitated planning initiative created by Unit Four to assist them in establishing a long-range plan that enables the school district to proactively meet the program, infrastructure and community-partnership needs of the district.

WILL Public Media

2008

Alvin Griggs

Teaching

Alvin Griggs moved to Champaign in the early 1960s and taught in the Champaign School District during the desegregation of the district. At Centennial High he was a coach, physical education teacher and assistant principal.

WILL Youth Media Workshop