Grantees

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2016

Garfield Park Community Council

Community Organizing Support

The Garfield Park Community Council is a community-building organization made up of dedicated residents and allies working together to develop leaders and create opportunities and programs that build a vital Garfield Park community.

2016

Forefront

Membership

Forefront is Illinois’ statewide association representing both grantmakers and nonprofits, as well as their advisors and allies. Our mission is to build a vibrant social impact sector for all the people of Illinois. We provide education, advocacy, thought leadership, and facilitate collective action around issues that are important to our Members and to the sector.

2016

Midwest Academy

Summer Internship Program

The Midwest Academy is a national training institute committed to advancing the struggle for social, economic, and racial justice.

2016

PASO (West Suburban Action Project)

General Operating Support

PASO – West Suburban Action Project is a community-based social justice organization that works to engage community members to address issues that affect them, their families, and neighbors with the mission to build stronger communities where all residents can live dignified lives regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic or immigration status.

2016

Alliance of the Southeast

General Operating Support

ASE represents a breadth of organizations, civic leaders, members, and allies, all committed to reinvesting in the families and neighborhoods of Chicago’s Southeast Side. Together, we are making our communities stronger, safer, healthier and more powerful.

2016

Waukegan to College

Community Organizing Support

We formed in 2009 as a result of a series of listening sessions in Waukegan churches and other local institutions. The sessions — sponsored by Lake County United — highlighted a universal need and urgent priority to help their sons and daughters get to and through college graduation.

2016

Exponent Philanthropy

2016 National Conference Host Committee

To amplify and increase the impact of lean funders by building an inclusive community where they can learn, connect, and collaborate.

2016

Alzheimer’s Foundation of America

in memory of Robert M. Johnson

The mission of the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (AFA) is to provide support, services and education to individuals, families and caregivers affected by Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias nationwide, and fund research for better treatment and a cure.

2016

Brighton Park Neighborhood Council

General Operating Support

Brighton Park Neighborhood Council (BPNC) is a community based, nonprofit organization serving a working class neighborhood on Chicago’s Southwest side.

2014

IL Funders DACA Relief Initiative

Chicago Community Foundation

We Are a Platform for Change that Connects Philanthropy to Impact.

2013

General Operating Support

Chicago Coalition for the Homeless

Since 1980, the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless (CCH) has had a clear mission: “We organize and advocate to prevent and end homelessness, because we believe housing is a human right in a just society.”

2013

General Operating Support

Albany Park Neighborhood Council

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2013

For support of community organizing

Mercy Housing Lakefront

Mercy Housing’s Core Values of respect, justice, and mercy guide everything that we do: from our daily work, to who we partner with and how we serve communities. We believe that housing justice is social justice, which informs our approach to affordable housing, allowing us to help more people and more communities.

2013

Community Organizing Support

Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation

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2013

For support of community organizing

Southside Together Organizing for Power

“Stop is an organization that shows love for the community, we are compassionate and caring. We are a supportive family that works as a team, to motivate and inspire each other, loving each other as chosen family, being honest, building trust together.”

2013

General Operating Support

Logan Square Neighborhood Association

Logan Square Neighborhood Association (LSNA) is a community-based organization advancing diversity, leader development, and models for engagement as the catalysts for social justice.

2013

General Operating Support

Jane Addams Senior Caucus

Jane Addams Senior Caucus is a multiracial, grassroots organization led by concerned seniors in the Chicago metropolitan area.

2013

General Operating Support

Blocks Together

Blocks Together is responding to the needs of the West Humboldt Park and Garfield Park communities by focusing on Community Health, Prevention, Protection, and Planning/Organizing for the long term impact this will have on the families and communities we are working with and supporting.