Urban Outreach
Urban Outreach serves the North Park University community by creating and facilitating opportunities for city-wide civic engagement. Students, faculty and staff have the opportunity to volunteer with various nonprofits and interest groups through three main tracks that serve as avenues of engagement: compassion/mercy, advocacy, and development/social entrepreneurship.
Urban Outreach also hosts campus-wide projects that serve the community such as Viking Kids Day, the Great Gift Giveaway and Service Day.
Our mission
To inspire, inform and invite North Park University students, faculty and staff to engage the city of Chicago as contemplative activists who effect change and transformation in our urban context (significance and service).
The contemplative is a person who exercises intentionality with regard to one's own faith and values.
The activist acts upon their faith and values and embodies them in the world to the benefit of others.
Our methodology
Urban Outreach has three arms of mobilization and engagement:
Compassion/mercy
Service initiatives place an emphasis on the PERSON in serving those in under resourced contexts.
Advocacy
Advocacy initiatives address structures and POLICIES which undergird societal concerns and imbalances.
Development/Social Entrepreneurship
The development/SE team produces social capital and value through NON-PROFIT ventures or PROGRAMS.
**Special announcement
If you would like to register your daughter/son for Viking Kids Day 2011 on October 8, please click here.