2023 GRANTEE PARTNERS

Fall 2023 Awards

Community Organizing

Action Now Institute
General operating grant // $40,000 

Alianza Leadership Institute d/b/a Alliance of the Southeast
General operating grant // $40,000 

Arab American Action Network
General operating grant // $45,000 

Blocks Together 
General operating grant // $42,500 

Brighton Park Neighborhood Council 
General operating support // $40,000 

Chicago Freedom School* 
General operating support // $35,000 

Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership NFP* 
General operating support // $35,000 

Dissenters 
General operating grant // $35,000 

Healing to Action 
General operating grant // $25,000 

Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health 
General operating grant // $35,000 

Immigrant Solidarity DuPage 
General operating grant // $35,000 

Muslims for Just Futures* 
(Fiscal sponsor: Defending Rights and Dissent Inc.) 
General operating // $35,000 

Mujeres Latinas En Acción 
General operating grant // $25,000 

Not Me We 
General operating grant // $35,000


Public Policy Advocacy

First Defense Legal Aid
General operating grant // $35,000

Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights/IL Asset Building Group
Project support // $30,000

Juvenile Justice Initiative
General operating grant // $35,000

Women Employed
General operating grant // $35,000


Integrated Approach: Community Organizing and Public Policy Advocacy

Black Workers Matter
(Fiscal Sponsor Get To Work IL Inc.)
Project support // $30,000

Chicago Community and Workers Rights
(Fiscal sponsor: Universidad Popular)
General operating grant // $35,000

Chicago Workers Collaborative
General operating grant // $43,500

Enlace Chicago
Project support // $40,000

Faith in Place
Project support // $25,000

Hana Center
Project support // $45,000

Illinois Black Advocacy Initiative*
(Fiscal sponsor: Forefront)
General operating grant // $35,000

Inner-City Muslim Action Network
General operating grant // $35,000

Lawndale Christian Development Corporation
General operating // $35,000

Live Free Chicago
General operating grant // $35,000

Logan Square Neighborhood Association a/k/a Palenque LSNA
General operating grant // $40,000

Lucy Parsons Labs
General operating grant // $35,000

Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition and Solidarity
(Fiscal sponsor: HANA Center)
General operating grant // $35,000

Pilsen Alliance
General operating grant // $40,000

Prison +Neighborhood Arts /Education Project
(Fiscal sponsor: NEIU Foundation)
General operating grant // $35,000

Progress Center for Independent Living
General operating grant // $35,000

South Asian American Policy and Research Institute
(Fiscal sponsor: Apna Ghar Inc.)
General operating grant // $15,000

Supportive Housing Providers Association
General operating grant // $25,000

The Final 5 Campaign*
(Fiscal sponsor: Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc.)
General operating grant // $35,000

The People's Lobby Education Institute
General operating grant // $25,000

Transformative Justice Law
General operating grant // $35,000

United Congress of Community and Religious Organizations
(Fiscal sponsor: Lugenia Burns Hope Center)
General operating grant // $20,000

Warehouse Workers for Justice
General operating grant // $40,000

Workers Center for Racial Justice
General operating grant // $40,000


Catalyst Fund

Chicago American Indian Community Collaborative
Catalyst Fund Grant // $50,000

G7 Coalition
(Fiscal sponsor Kenwood Oakland Community Organization)
Catalyst Fund Grant // $50,000


Racial Justice Pooled Fund

Racial Justice Pooled Fund
(Fiscal sponsor: Crossroads Fund)
Pooled Fund Grant // $50,000


Spring 2023 Awards

Community Organizing

Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment
General operating grant // $35,000

Assata's Daughters 
(Fiscal sponsor: Alliance for Global Justice)
General operating grant // $35,000

Brave Space Alliance
General operating grant // $35,000

Black Abolitionist Network 
(Fiscal sponsor: Center for Third World Organizing)
General operating grant // $35,000

Centro de Trabajadores Unidos:  United Workers' Center
General operating grant // $40,000

Communities United
General operating grant // $45,000

Kenwood Oakland Community Organization
General operating grant // $45,000

Lugenia Burns Hope Center
General operating grant // $40,000

Northwest Side Housing Center d/b/a Northwest Center
General operating grant // $30,000

Raise Your Hand for Illinois Public Education
General operating grant // $45,000

Southwest Organizing Project
General operating grant // $45,000

TARGET Area Development Corporation
General operating grant // $25,000

Truth Racial Healing and Transformation (TRHT) Chicago
(Fiscal sponsor: The Chicago Community Trust)
General operating grant // $35,000


Public Policy Advocacy

Latino Policy Forum
General operating grant // $45,000

Metropolis Strategies d/b/a Illinois Justice Project
General operating grant // $35,000

Shriver Center on Poverty Law
General operating grant // $40,000

Woodstock Institute
General operating grant // $35,000


Integrated Approach: Community Organizing and Public Policy Advocacy

A Long Walk Home, Inc
General operating grant // $35,000

Arise Chicago
General operating grant // $30,000

Asian American Institute d/b/a Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Chicago
General operating grant // $40,000

BYP100 Education Fund
General operating grant // $35,000

Cabrini-Green Legal Aid Clinic, Inc
General operating grant // $40,000

Chicago Coalition for the Homeless
General operating grant // $45,000

Chicago Community Bond Fund
General operating grant // $35,000

Chicago Torture Justice Center
(Fiscal sponsor: Public Health Institute Of Metropolitan Chicago)
General operating grant // $35,000

Chicago United for Equity
General operating grant // $35,000

Community Organizing and Family Issues
General operating grant // $40,000

Community Renewal Society
General operating grant // $35,000

Equity And Transformation
General operating grant // $45,000

GoodKids Madcity Englewood
General operating grant // $35,000

Grassroots Collaborative
General operating grant // $50,000

Housing Action Illinois
General operating grant // $35,000

Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights
General operating grant // $50,000

Latino Union Inc. a/k/a Latino Union of Chicago
General operating grant // $40,000

Little Village Environmental Justice Organization
General operating grant // $40,000

Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Bluhm Legal Clinic, Children and Family Justice Center
General operating grant // $35,000

Organized Communities Against Deportations
General operating grant // $45,000

Organizing Neighborhoods for Equality: Northside
General operating grant // $45,000

P.A.S.O.-West Suburban Action Project
General operating grant // $40,000

Southside Together Organizing for Power
General operating grant // $40,000

Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation
General operating grant // $40,000


Capacity Building

Crossroads Fund 
Cultivate: Women of Color Leadership Program
General operating grant // $20,000


Catalyst Fund

Grassroots Alliance for Police Accountability
(Fiscal sponsor: The Chicago Community Foundation)
One-year Catalyst Fund grant // $50,000

People United for Racial Equity in Cannabis
(Fiscal sponsor: Black Roots Alliance)
One-year Catalyst Fund grant // $50,000

Westside Rising 
(Fiscal sponsor: BUILD Chicago, Inc)
One-year Catalyst Fund grant // $50,000


Movement Building

PATHS Chicago Collective
(Fiscal sponsor: Open Collective Foundation)
General operating grant // $100,000

*new grantee organization