Programs
Capacity-building Cohort 
The Chicago Community Trust has made a generous three-year funding commitment to the Wieboldt Foundation’s Capacity Building Organizing Cohort to allow community organizations to address the challenges in their communities while also building lasting power. The Wieboldt Foundation Capacity-building Cohort seeks to provide capacity building support to smaller community organizing focused non-profits in Illinois to strengthen, stabilize and enhance the impact of their community organizing. Capacity building can translate to better equipment, stronger skills, and streamlined operations to maximize impact and effectiveness. The initiative would foster collaboration among a cohort of community organizing groups for the sustainability of the ecosystem.
No more than 10 applicants will be accepted to join cohort
As part of the application and criteria for selection, applicants will be expected to:
- Identify a specific campaign they want to advance through their participation in the cohort;
- Verify 3 consecutive years of existence as a base-building community organization;
- Confirm an organizing budget no greater than $500,000;
- Complete a self-assessment of various organizational capacities;
- Commit at least 5 hours per month to the initiative from the executive director, lead organizer and leader/member for a 12-month period.