What shows up on the block.
Every number here is what happened in 2025 in Woodlawn and the surrounding South Side — served, placed, trained, fed, funded.
The numbers.
Where the work landed.
31% fewer gun homicides in 60637
Our outreach team mediated 140+ incidents and responded to 22 hospital bedside interventions. The 60637 ZIP saw a 31% reduction in gun homicides 2024→2025.
Job placements · 72% retained at 6 months
Construction trades, tech, and logistics. $19/hr average starting wage. 72% still employed with the same employer six months out.
380 youth · 94% attendance rate
Entrepreneurship training, tutoring, and mentorship. 94% weekly attendance. 42 youth placed in summer internships.
520 sessions · 0 cost to participants
Individual therapy, group work, and crisis response — entirely free to participants, funded by foundations + individual donors.
The building goes up with the dollars.
Groundbreaking was 2022. Target completion is 2027. Every dollar of the capital campaign goes directly to the build — no operating overhead, fully audited.
"I came in looking for a construction job. I left with a trade, a clean slate, and a plan. That's not a statistic — that's a life."— Workforce program graduate, 2025 cohort