Rizal Community Center - Filipino American Council of Greater Chicago

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About Rizal Community Center - Filipino American Council of Greater Chicago

The Rizal Community Center is more than a building. It's a revitalized way of thinking about who we are and how we engage with our community, our neighborhood, and our city. Our presence in the global diaspora. It is a welcoming, dynamic place for people of all backgrounds to come together, to foster bridging, appreciation, and understanding of the Filipino and Filipino American experiences in Chicago and our place in American society, as well as intersections with diverse cultures.

In 2017, the Filipino American Council of Greater Chicago embarked in transformative change and opened the Rizal Community Center to our broader communities. The Rizal Community Center will be a welcoming place for our Filipino American, Filipino, and broader communities - to come together, to share, and to celebrate our vibrant, diverse connections.

The Rizal Community Center is located in the Graceland West community of the Lakeview neighborhood. Our Rizal Center will also serve as a hub for our neighbors and local community organizations.

The Filipino American Council of Greater Chicago is guided by the Filipino tradition of bayanihan “community”, welcoming others, and is committed to American ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and inquiry. Our mission is to nurure within our community an understanding and commitment toward advancing a more just, equitable, and sustainable society. We are dedicated to building an inclusive, dynamic place for people of all backgrounds to come together and participate in cultural experiences that nourish by inspiring learning and dialogue; foster bridging, appreciation, and understanding; celebrate intersections with diverse communities and our rightful place in pluralistic American society. We do this through relevant programming in arts and culture, civic engagement, public policy, community education, and Filipino life; equity development; meaningful service to promote environmental stewardship, to respond to climate change, to alleviate food insecurity; and to empower people to be stewards for the future.