Doing Well
A collection of stories about people and not-for-profits that help us lift each other up.
He’s urging Black men to be more conscious about their health and to take steps to protect it.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Pinqy Ring, like so many other creatives, has pivoted her business plan to further her brand.
“Harvey World Wall” mural to provide “light” where darkness resides, Hawkins and local creatives say.
As art galleries across the world have lost income due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Chicago’s “Womanish” has attracted about 25,000 visitors since its launch in August.
Jahkil Jackson, known for his work distributing “Blessing Bags” to homeless people, hopes his book “I AM” will help other kids going through teasing or worse.
‘The parents just want to wake up one Christmas morning and to feel like their kids can be like all the other kids,’ Ashley Jones says. ‘If we can provide that and make one day brighter, that’s what matters.’
The nonprofit offers kids space to display leadership and guidance via after-school programs, cross-age peer-mentoring and summer mentoring programs.
Vanille Patisserie partners with the community group I Grow Chicago to distribute holiday desserts to families in need.
ConnectCareHero aims to bridge the gap for services in Black and brown communities hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.
MASK founder Tamar Manasseh had no idea at the time that the “baby playing dress-up, draped in diamonds and platinum,” was the popular drill rapper recently killed in Atlanta.
The inaugural group of local creatives represent five South and West Side neighborhoods/community areas
The brothers, who’ve lost much of their vision to a rare degenerative eye disorder, began their company in 2016 and have donated all profits, more than $700,000, to preclinical research trials to help cure blindness.
The drug, which California-based Gilead Sciences Inc. is calling Veklury, cut the time to recovery by five days — from 15 days to 10 on average — in a large study.
As the club’s membership rises, founder Xaver Walton, an educator and basketball coach, curates ride themes centered around empowerment.
The Guitar Over Guns music program and the Naperville-born creator of an anti-cyberbullying app are among the foundation’s 10 first-ever award recipients.
West Siders continue to support the New Pine Valley Restaurant owner, who came from Mississippi and worked her way up. Some made sure the place was untouched during May’s unrest.
During the NFL season, Bud Light is offering a platform to steer awareness toward Black-owned establishments across the country.
In the update posted on the agency’s website, the CDC again acknowledged recent research showing people with COVID-19 infected others who were more than 6 feet away or shortly after an infected person left an area.
It began in 2016 after his family ran into a homeless woman downtown. He and his volunteers have given out more than 700 backpacks filled with essential items to people in need.
During the social unrest in May, Lumpen Radio’s “Wattz Up!” broached two polarizing subjects: Black Lives Matter and Black and Brown allyship.
The South Side native partners with Varsity Tutors, a live learning platform that connects students to experts in more than 3,000 subjects including history, science and broadcasting.
Paisley and his wife, actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley, have pledged to donate 1 million nutritional meals this month. The initiative is billed as the Million Meal Donation Tour, which kicked off in Detroit last week.
All but eight of 64 Catholic school teams beat the S&P 500 in a months-long competition in which the students invested $3,000.
Manish Mallick’s restaurant, ROOH Chicago, is one of more than 2,400 eateries, from New York City to Oakland, California, working with the non-profit World Central Kitchen to provide meals to the hungry.
The three-part PSA series named “I AM TIRED” is the brainchild of South Side native Deanna Reed-Foster.
A Facebook video of Jeremiah Collier’s Park Manor-based band collective that went viral with the tagline “There’s more Beauty in Chicago than there is Ugly... believe me there is…” has over a million views to date.
The initiative aims to “bridge the gap that’s been around for ages and provide a platform to show that the brewing community is an inclusive place for everyone of any color,” according to a website statement.
Nonprofit leader Joseph Williams says the game is rigged for intentionally divested communities — but he’s not waiting for someone else to save his community.
“It was very simple to us. We were just putting shelves on an abandoned building and calling it a ‘market.’ But to people, it became a place for them to congregate,” said Jon Veal, co-founder of Alt Space.
The North Lawndale Employment Network, working with Sweet Beginnings, LLC, offers a lifeline to formerly incarcerated people in Chicago.