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All of us at Conlon Public Strategies would like to congratulate the Haymarket Center for being designated as a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) Look-Alike. The designation recognizes Haymarket’s work providing high-quality, comprehensive, culturally responsive health care services and makes Haymarket eligible for additional resources. This is a tremendous accomplishment for Haymarket, and a win for the Chicago area because it will enable Haymarket to have an even great impact on health equity for some of our most vulnerable neighbors.
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Congratulations to Conlon Public Strategies client Deeply Rooted Dance Theater, which has received a $5 million grant from the City of Chicago to support the construction of a state-of-the-art dance center in Washington Park on the South Side. The center will provide a home for the company, which has outgrown the studios and offices it shares with Ballet Chicago in the Loop. Scheduled to open in December 2024, the 30,000-square-foot building will transform a vacant property into a premier training/presenting space that will fill the need for professional dance facilities and programs on the South Side; celebrate its people, history, and art; and spur economic development in the area.
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On Monday, April 17, Conlon Public Strategies’ Kevin Conlon presented to a group of food banking chief financial officers on how food banks can use effective advocacy to achieve their funding and policy goals at Feeding America’s annual conference in New Orleans. Kevin highlighted the Feeding America organization’s robust government affairs infrastructure and how food banks can take full advantage of these resources in developing relationships with elected and administrative officials and in their advocacy.
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