Life Shop Warriors ventured down south to visit Legends Farm – a farm affiliated with Windy City Harvest of the Chicago Botanic Gardens. Windy City Harvest’s largest farm is a 2-plus acre site that serves as an incubator for small farm businesses independently...
Opportunity Knocks is an official charity partner of the Bank of America Chicago Marathon!! Runners will be fundraising for Opportunity Knocks as they train to run 26.2 miles on October 7, 2018. We are excited to introduce you to Jenny, one of our dedicated team...
(Click Image to view and download full version of brochure) Registration for the OK After Opps Fall Season, Sessions 1 & 2 is now open! See descriptions of activities being offered below. Please use the form on this page to register for either or both of these...
Warriors had another fun-filled After Opps session in Summer 1! Check it out! Mondays: The Swimming group had some summer fun enjoying the pool, water-slides, structured activities, and sunshine at the Forest Park Aquatic Center. Cartoon Club explored the world of...
Sunday, August 16th, 2018 was a prominent milestone in the history of Opportunity Knocks and our social enterprises. We worked alongside the culinary masters at The Heritage in Forest Park to create the very first Warrior Harvest Dinner. The evening’s Warrior...
Pounds of produce harvested from the OK Farm this season. Things have been busy at the OK Farm. Life Shop and After Opps Warriors have been picking, planting, and pruning vegetables that are used in our Life Shop and After Opps programs, as well as Warrior Catering...
Warriors had another fun-filled After Opps session in Spring 2! Check it out! Mondays: The Preserving group learned how to preserve produce through fermentation. They also prepared and sampled a variety of pickled foods including Knock-Out Pickles, pickled asparagus,...
(Click Image to view and download full version of brochure) Registration for the OK After Opps Summer Season, Sessions 1 & 2 is now open! See descriptions of activities being offered below. Please use the form on this page to register for either or both of these...
pounds of produce harvested during Spring 2 Session. The veggies are poppin’ on the OK Farm! After Opps Spring 2 finished the session strong with a harvest of 51 pounds of produce. Crops harvested included spring veggies such as spinach, radishes, a variety of...
The Warrior Star Initiative (WSI) is a partnership program between Opportunity Knocks and the Dominican University Psychology and Nutrition Departments which launched in Fall 2017 and was based on a program run through our friends at the Trinity Volunteer Corps....
