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Heartland Alliance launched the From Poverty to Opportunity Campaign as a practical solution that informs, guides, and develops strategies to reduce poverty and hardship across Illinois. Almost 700,000 people in Illinois are living in extreme poverty with very limited access to basic necessities such as adequate food, clothing, housing, education, and health care.

In the past year over 1,000 individuals and 160 organizations and faith communities have endorsed the Campaign, which is leading the effort to create the legislative Commission on Poverty Eradication in 2008. If you have already endorsed the campaign, thank you for adding your voice to the call to end poverty. If not, please take a moment now to add your name and/or the name of your organization to help build this movement.

The Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership is the only presidential award to honor companies for the exemplary quality of their relationships with employees and communities.

Stay in School partners with United Way of Metropolitan Chicago, B.U.I.L.D. Inc., Centers for New Horizons, Youth Guidance and Chicago Public Schools to deliver sustainable, local academic programs in high-risk communities.

Here is a roundup of some of the most recent health and human services news affecting the Chicagoland region. News of the week is compiled from various daily, weekly and regional publications.

Hate crimes rise 8 percent

Report urges more outreach to Latino immigrants in suburbs

What Americans spend on care for elderly parents

Teens do better given Alternatives

Push for more minorities on boards

Poor marks for Chicago schools

Report urges open access to records for adult adoptees