Grantees

Grantees

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Southside Together Organizing for Power
  • For support of community organizing
“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.”
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Pilsen Alliance
  • General Operating Support
We have been serving the community for 23 years, uniting and leading the Pilsen community. Pilsen is a community of immigrants, here we decided to join our efforts to create a strong and resilient community in these times of change. We are committed to bringing the best community education tools and programs, our campaigns are direct actions and advocacy initiatives that reflect the popular education philosophy of building social awareness for both collective and personal transformation.
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People for Commuimty Recovery
  • General Operating Support
ONE Northside organizes people from over 100 institutions, as well as individual community residents, from Rogers Park, Edgewater, Uptown, Ravenswood, North Center, Lake View, and Lincoln Park.
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Northwest Side Housing Center
  • Community Organizing Support
Founded in 2003, the Northwest Center identifies and responds to the needs of the community by leveraging resources to improve the economic well-being and quality of life in Belmont Cragin and the surrounding communities.
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Lugenia Burns Hope Center
  • General Operating Support
To develop the civic engagement of residents in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood, and other communities, through education, leadership development, and community organizing.
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Logan Square Neighborhood Association
  • General Operating Support
Logan Square Neighborhood Association (LSNA) is a community-based organization advancing diversity, leader development, and models for engagement as the catalysts for social justice.
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Kenwood-Oakland Community Organization
  • For support of community organizing
Through the sustained engagement of low-income and working families, KOCO develops multi-generational leaders who impact decision-making processes and public policies, improving the quality of life in our local communities.
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Jewish Council on Urban Affairs
  • Government Accountability Project
The Jewish Council on Urban Affairs (JCUA) advances racial and economic justice by bringing together the Chicagoland Jewish community as a powerful force for change.
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Jane Addams Senior Caucus
  • General Operating Support
Jane Addams Senior Caucus is a multiracial, grassroots organization led by concerned seniors in the Chicago metropolitan area.
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  • Community Organizing Support
Access Living
  • Community Organizing Support
Working Family Solidarity
Hana Center is a Chicago-area non-profit organization working to meet the critical needs of Korean, Asian American, and multiethnic immigrant communities and build power toward systemic change.
  • Community Organizing Support
Waukegan to College
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.
  • General Operating Support
The People’s Lobby Education Institute
Action Now Institute (ANI) began operating as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization in April 2010. We have extensive experience in community organizing, a solid network of allies and an experienced staff of organizers, researchers and trainers. Our primary campaigns include quality education for low-income, minority students in Chicago, foreclosure prevention in Cook County, and raising the minimum wage in Illinois.
  • Community Organizing Support
The Hana Center
Hana Center is a Chicago-area non-profit organization working to meet the critical needs of Korean, Asian American, and multiethnic immigrant communities and build power toward systemic change.
  • General Operating Support
The Grassroots Collaborative
Grassroots Collaborative builds power with working families through strategic community-labor organizing, grassroots leadership development, civic engagement, and training.
  • General Operating Support
Southwest Suburban Immigrant Project
Southwest Suburban Immigrant Project is a social impact organization committed to community organizing for the rights of immigrants in Chicago’s southwest suburbs through education, civic engagement, and advocacy.
  • General Operating Support
Southwest Organizing Project
The Southwest Organizing Project’s (SWOP) mission is to build a broad-based organization of Christian, Muslim and Jewish faith institutions, local schools and other institutions in Southwest Chicago, which will enable families to exercise common values, determine their own future and connect with each other to improve life in their neighborhoods.
  • General Operating Support
Southsiders Organized for Unity & Liberation – Copy
SOUL believes that our faith calls us to the fight for justice for all, especially those who have historically been marginalized and oppressed. Our mission is to assist low-income people of color in the Chicago Southland to build power, then subsequently leverage that power to fight for their own interest and liberation.