MAPSCorps

Founded in 2016, MAPSCorps is a community organisation based in Chicago, United States working on community development, health, children & youth +3 more.

MAPSCorps is a nonprofit based on Chicago's South Side that engages high school and college-age youth as community researchers. Its youth produce and publish high-quality data about local businesses, organisations and community assets, which is publicly available to support community health, well-being and economic vitality. The organisation grew out of the South Side Health and Vitality Studies at the University of Chicago Urban Health Initiative, became an independent nonprofit in 2016, and has run programmes across parts of Chicago, Harlem and the Bronx in New York, Detroit, Niagara Falls, Hawaii and North Carolina. It has joined Northwestern University's Digital Youth Network and is part of the STEAMbassadors programme. The organisation says it has mapped more than 40,000 businesses and organisations and has provided over 3,000 work experiences for local youth since 2016.