HEART in Chicago

08/22/2014

Exciting news - the anchors from Fox 32 Good Day Chicago will be at our bowling fundraiser next month! Join us at Timber Lane Bowling Alley on Sunday, September 21st to bowl with the Good Day Chicago Team and support our important work.

We'll be bowled over if you grab some friends, or the whole family, and celebrate with HEART Chicago and the Fox 32 Good Day Chicago Team as we reach a huge milestone - reaching our 10,000th Chicago youth! With your continued support, our goal is to reach 10,000 more students by 2017!

06/17/2014

Humane education teaches a great many things. Leadership, compassion, critical thinking, empathy, selflessness, and how to put ideas into action for the benefit of others. Another big thing that humane education teaches? Gratitude.

� So, how does humane education inspire students to practice gratitude? One of our first lessons in our Humane Living Program is always about child labor.

05/06/2014

Despite the fall like weather, students at Courtenay Language Arts are getting ready to tend to their Peace Garden (a HEART project started by the Class of 2013). The Class of 2014 is creating a rock mural to add to the garden. What would your rock say about you?

05/05/2014

We couldn't be more impressed by the example of active citizenship displayed by our students at CICS Lloyd Bond. They wrote letters to President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama to ask them to end child labor here in the United States.

04/25/2014

Students at Courtenay Language Arts held a FUNdraiser for The Puppy Mill Project. They made anti-puppy mill awareness buttons and held a basketball tournament. Their compassionate efforts raised over $370! Woot! Woot! --- or should we say Woof! Woof!

04/22/2014

In honor of Earth Day we put together a collection of fun and eco-friendly activities you can do with kids. Whether it’s making art out of trash, thinking up creative uses for the paper that normally gets tossed in the recycling bin, or re-imagining the plastic water bottle, we’ve got great activities for you.

In honor of Earth Day we put together a collection of fun and eco-friendly activities you can do with kids. Whether it’s making art out of trash, thinking up creative uses for the paper that normally gets tossed in the recycling bin, or reimagining the plastic water bottle, we’ve got great activitie…

04/15/2014

The American Association of University Women invited HEART to speak at its April meet up. Participants learned to look through the lens of empathy and compassion when making everyday choices. They were most surprised to learn about the connection between child slavery and chocolate. Are you surprised by the connection?

One wonders with a title as ‘provocative’ as this, what’s to follow; regrettably, nothing more than a truthful and bitter tale of greed and child slave-labour, mainly because of what I like to call “The Chocolate Wars”. These corporate battles have been going on for quite some time, and are still, m...

04/10/2014

These tiny but mighty change makers want you to know that, "Pit bulls are friends not fighters." Like, if you agree!

During the first ever Caring Kids: Animal Ambassadors program created by Animal Haven Shelter & HEART, children participated in a number of service learning ...

04/09/2014

We couldn't be more excited to share this video with you! HEART Chicago has come a long way since starting in 2008 and this video is a testament to the power and promise of humane education. We could not have done it with out you, our fans, so THANK YOU! Please feel free to share this video on your page, it's a great way to explain your love for HEART.

HEART's services significantly impact the way young people think about their responsibility to one another, animals and the environment. Students are given t...

04/07/2014

We'd like to thank Moomah Magazine for recognizing the important and powerful work the HEART does. In correlation with Earth Day, they dedicated their monthly "Make Nice Mission" to our Environmental Ethics program. In their online magazine they wrote, "[HEART's] lessons were so well laid out and inspiring. We encourage you and your kids to partake in some of these great lessons and projects in your own home or even bring them to your classrooms."

Moomah the Magazine is a humorous, irreverent, beautiful place online for parents to discover and share the joys and perils of parenthood.

04/03/2014

8th graders at Courtenay Language Arts Center are hosting a FUN-draiser to raise funds for an anti-puppy mill organization. If you'd like to help them out, with a donation, please contact Leona at [email protected]. Thanks!

04/01/2014

In this activity, students learn that their personal choices regarding single-use plastic do not have to be harmful to people, animals, and the environment. They learn that their choices to REDUCE, REUSE, and RECYCLE can result in a win-win alliance that allows for the most good and causes the least harm.