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    Welcome

Over 10 years ago, our founder Audrey Wright faced the terrible tragedy of losing a son to a violent crime.  Through the power of her healing of the loss of her son, Audrey put this non-profit organization together.  She believed that her son’s death was not an end, but a beginning, a beginning of a way to spread a message of hope to others for a life beyond crime.  This message was that you have a life beyond what you have been told, and that I am here to help you find a way beyond a life of crime and over come life journeys with disabilities.

Our Offering

Gordies currently offers developmental training, for special needs such as: grooming, dressing, toiletry skills as well as eating and communication skills. Gordies offers industrial sewing, janitorial, and screen printing, carpentry and HVAC.

With new additions for lifestyle redirection coming to Gordie’s all the time, you can be sure to find many life changing programs such as parenting, substance abuse, and youth mentor and counseling programs.  The value behind this program can be measured by the importance of just how powerful it can be to take a gun out of someone’s hand and replacing it with a tool they will use more often and for greater purposes.  Gordie’s prime beliefs rest in the power behind this message and what it can be for the individual who receives our services at the Gordie’s location here in the heart of the Englewood community of Chicago.

Pushing for a community with lower crime rates, more job opportunities, and overall a better community for those in it, is a goal worth fighting for.  Join us in this fight and reach out to a community that needs you.  Become a light to others and dive into this website.  It is with your help that Gordie’s can continue its mission.

     Our Mission

              OUR TEAM

Audrey Wright                           
 CEO/Founder                                                                                                                
  Mrs. Audrey Wright is CEO and
 Founder of Gordies Foundation.
 Mrs. Wright is certified with the 
 Illinois State Board of Education 
 and is the licensed owner of
 Gordie's Barber School.
                                                  
 
Jeffery Porter
 Excutive director
 
 Jeffery Porter is the excutive
 director at Gordies. He oversees
 all programs and assists in the
 evolution at Gordies.
 
 
 
To be determined...

 Adminstrative Assistant

 

 Gordies Admistrative
 Representative. They provide
 Gordies with structure,
 organization, and they also keep
 record of all in house programs.
 
 
Tierra Williams

 Direct Support Professional

 

 

 Tierra Williams is the DSP for Gordies.

 She is hands on with our clients

 directly. Her great spirit and

 enthusiam adds to our team.

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