What We Do
Englewood First Responders (EFR) is an organization driven to serve the community of Englewood in Chicago, IL through providing community support and outreach services. EFR strives to improve the quality of life for individuals, families, youth and cherished seniors. EFR works with at-risk youth and young adults to help diminish violence and disturbances in the community as well as allowing those at-risk a chance to give back to the community through their daily community walk throughs, weekly community cleanups, and annual Back to School, Christmas, and Thanksgiving giveaways. EFR also gathers the means to provide clothing, food, household items and monetary assistance for seniors, expecting mothers, and all other individuals in need. With providing job opportunities, mentoring, after school and weekend programs for young men and women, EFR has opened the doors for enhancing and expanding the lives and contributions of the future generation through any means necessary.
We come together as a whole and a family to make a change and a difference in the Englewood community as we strive towards peace. We are looking to diminsh the gun violence in our community, we want to provide hope and freedom for everyone.
We are making a vow today to make a difference! We are here to be and give that hope that things can get better! We are here to ensure that everyone experiences that freedom that the law speaks of! We are here to make and ensure all receive Justice and Peace in our society!
EFR in the community
“These are our streets and our neighborhoods, it’s time for us to take action now! We have pondered long and hard, and we have come to the conclusion that no one else can stop the gun violence but the people in our communities.”
“Everyone can be great because anyone can serve! You do not need a college degree to serve. You d not have to make the subject and verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace; a soul generated by love. ”— Mayor of Englewood
EFR Giveaways
Provided over 10,000 families with meals and clothing items
Annual Back to School Giveaway
Annual Turkey Giveaway
Annual Christmas Toy Drive
Monthly meal giveaways
Daily community walk-throughs
Weekly community cleanups (including snow, garbage, and lawn care)
Set up garbage cans in the community to prevent littering
Created 40+ jobs for youth and young adults in the community
Created an After School and Weekend Program for youth ages 6-13
Annual March for Peace
Collaborated with CityKey to provide CityKeyIDs to the community