- Area(s) of Focus: Community Health & Civic Life, Economy, Education
- Key Indicator(s): Violent Crime (per 100,000 population), Unemployment Rate (%), Poverty (% of population below poverty line), Households Spending Less than 30% of Household Income on Housing (%), Preschool (% ages 3 and 4 in school)
- State(s): Illinois
Bethel New Life is a non-profit organization based in Chicago, Illinois. Formed by a small 
Lutheran church on the West Side of Chicago in response to the devastation and disinvestment that followed the civil rights riots of the late 1960s, Bethel New Life has been in the business of creating social impact and community change for more than three decades.