COREY BROOKS RETURNING TO ROOFTOP CAMPAIGN ON EASTER
After Losing His Mother to Cancer, Southside Pastor Resuming Rooftop Campout in Her Honor
Chicago, IL–On Sunday, April 17, 2022, after officiating his own mother’s funeral on Good Friday and then preaching his Easter Sunday message at New Beginnings Church of Chicago, Project H.O.O.D. founder and executive director Pastor Corey B. Brooks will resume his extended 100 Day Campout Against Violence.
Since November 20, 2021, Brooks spent 121 days camped outside to raise $35million to build the Project H.O.O.D. Leadership and Economic Opportunity Center before traveling to his mother’s bedside on March 21, 2022.
“Before my mother died, she told me to finish what I started. She said she always knew I was safe because we had a community center. The kids in our neighborhood need one too, and that’s why I am doing this. For safe spaces, skills training, and community building.” Pastor Corey Brooks said he is also grateful for the outpouring of love and support his family received during the passing of his mother. “Messages came in from all over. I was really humbled and thankful.”
So far, the extended 100 Day Campout Against Violence has raised over $11million in cash, in-kind gifts, and pledges toward the construction of the Project H.O.O.D. Leadership and Economic Opportunity Center. The campaign has also garnered over 20,000 new donors from across the country. Project H.O.O.D. is using CLA Financial as its accounting firm and it does banking with WinTrust, Chase, and Wells Fargo.
Project H.O.O.D. will now begin Phase 1 of construction, which is the demolition of the existing structure on the far north end of the future site and completing plans with the city of Chicago. The Construction Committee, led by Brooks, has over 100 years of experience in the Chicagoland area and is donating their time and expertise to Project H.O.O.D.
Construction Committee
Project H.O.O.D.
Pastor Corey B. Brooks, Founder & CEO
Brian Alexander, Juris Doctorate, Director
Principal Architect
Negin Moayer, Design Director, BNMO Design and Development
Construction Consultants
Jerome Ebert, Executive Vice President, Trammell Crow Company
Christopher Nikola, Senior Development Manager, Trammell Crow Company
Josh Balonick, Principal, Bluewater Builders, Inc
Don Biernacki, Vice President, Related Midwest
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About Project H.O.O.D. and the 100 Day Campout Against Violence
Project H.O.O.D. is raising $35million to build the Leadership and Economic Opportunity Center that will serve at-risk youth and adults in Chicago. Pastor Corey B. Brooks, founder and Senior Pastor of New Beginnings Church of Chicago and founder and CEO of the not-for-profit Project H.O.O.D. Communities Development Corporation has become a leading voice and presence in the fight against the violence gripping Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods.
He established New Beginnings Church of Chicago in November 2000 in the heart of Chicago’s most dangerous neighborhood and founded Project H.O.O.D. in 2011.
Project H.O.O.D. provides mentorship, skills training, and community for residents on Chicago’s south side with the goal of ending the cycle of poverty, violence, and incarceration by providing alternatives to crime, neglect, and hopelessness.