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More than 100 Years at Gads Hill Center

2001: Prestigious BP Leader Award presented to Gads Hill for its work in collaboration with the Chicago Department of Environment to provide environmental education and a green environment for the Gads Hill community.

2002: Gads Hill Child Care Center opens in collaboration with the Sinai Community Institute. Head Start, child care, and after school programs are offered at the new Center in the North Lawndale community of Chicago.

2002: Teen Connection Computer Lab opens to provide teens with access to computer technology, the Internet, and tutorials to prepare them for college. Teen Connection is a unique college preparatory program offered to young people of AVERAGE potential, the first of its kind in the community.

2002: EcoFamilia, Gads Hill's award-winning environmental education program, begins, furthering the Center's commitment to involving the people of our community in the protection of the environment for the benefit of future generations.

2003: Gads Hill partners with Center for Neighborhood Technology in Wireless Fidelity pilot project, providing wireless internet signals and computers to ten families living near the Center.

2003: Gads Hill computer labs become Community Technology Centers, providing technology training and access to program participants and the community.

2003: Child Care Center evolves into complete Family Resource Center, offering child development programs for infants and toddlers, pre-schoolers, a full kindergarten and our Club Learn after-school enrichment program.

2004: The Chicago Botanic Gardens collaborates with Gads Hill Center on Primero La Ciencia, an urban environmental science camp for 7th-9th graders. The new program is awarded one of six National Leadership Awards from The United States Institute for Museum and Library Services.

2004: Chief Executive Officer Barbara Castellán is awarded Mujeres Latinas en Acción Maria ‘Maruca’ Martinez Community Service Award for her work in the community and Gads Hill Center AND is the recipient of the North Lawndale Employment Network's 2004 Creating a Community That Works Award.

2005: Gads Hill Center wins the Alford-Axelson Award for Nonprofit Managerial Excellence from the Axelson Center for Nonprofit Management at North Park University.

2006: Pilot in collaboration with Chicago Public Schools and Department of Children and Youth Services takes Club Learn into the public schools.

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