The mission of &Rise is to empower women to be the ultimate versions of themselves no matter what adversities they've faced. Our vision is to serve a million women and help them heal and thrive after trauma and abuse.

The African American Coalition of Kane County's mission is to educate the communities of Kane County and globally about the African American heritage and promote positive cultural interaction, leadership, financial-economic empowerment building respect for family, spirituality, justice, and integrity

Alternatives is an anti-racist, anti-oppression organization who inspires young people to create a just future.

A Step Ahead Chess is a Nonprofit organization committed to enriching the lives of youth with chess lessons beyond the board.

We are dedicated to creating the next generation of problem solvers, critical thinkers and future leaders.

We provide chess lessons, chess tournaments and chess exploration trips, proving the game of game of chess is the great equalizer.

Bright Star Community Outreach exists to be a hub that addresses challenges in underserved, underdeveloped, and under-resourced communities by utilizing our T&T (trauma and training) and C&C (community conversations and collaborations) model.

Our mission is to empower residents to share in the responsibility of building community through resource development and collaborative partnerships. We will accomplish our mission by developing innovative performance-based practices and programs to address the need for Violence Prevention, Community Engagement, Economic Development, Education, Healthy Children/Youth and Families.

We envision today’s underserved communities becoming self-sufficient, livable communities for individuals, families, and organizations. Communities strong and nurturing in positive thought and behavior in the home, community and marketplace.

Chicago Cares mobilizes volunteers to build a stronger, more unified Chicago.

Chico Consulting designs relational strategies & learning opportunities that promote dialogue, self-reflection, and relationship building. We guide our partners through a responsive process aimed at transforming individual and institutional practices

Christian Community Health Center’s mission is to provide high quality primary healthcare and related services to the community regardless of the ability to pay, to provide services in a manner which demonstrates, in word and deed, the love of Jesus Christ. My Vision is to bring nonprofit Organizations together and work as a team. We're better together, Unity is the key!

The Community Food Navigator is working towards food sovereignty for the Chicago regional food system. We focus on supporting Black, Brown, and Indigenous growers, educators, and organizers in order to build power, increase system coordination, and tell truthful stories about our food.

Our mission is to advance knowledge through program evaluation that drives positive social change and improve quality of life.

At Consortium Partners, our impact is measured by evidenced-based insights that empower organizations and policymakers to optimize their programs, allocate resources efficiently, and drive meaningful change in communities.

At CTMNB5, our unwavering commitment is to foster thriving, inclusive neighborhoods where individuals and organizations unite to cultivate safety, vibrancy, and well-being for all. We serve as a dynamic catalyst, bridging connections between people and resources, empowering them to achieve their aspirations. Whether you seek to actively engage in community initiatives or require support for your projects, CTMNB5 stands ready to be your dedicated partner, enriching lives and building a harmonious society together.

Defy Ventures is a national nonprofit whose mission is to shift mindsets to give people with criminal histories their best shot at a second chance through entrepreneurship, career readiness, and personal development training programs delivered both in prison and in the community. Defy’s vision is to cut recidivism (return-to-prison) rates in half by leveraging entrepreneurship to increase economic opportunity and transform lives. Defy helps currently and formerly incarcerated people defy the odds in prisons, transitional facilities, and in the community in eight states across the country. Together with the thousands of business executives and leaders in our network, we are helping to shift the conversation and landscape of opportunity for people with criminal histories.

DishRoulette Kitchen (DRK) is a restaurant development center on a mission to provide funding and educational resources to food and beverage entrepreneurs in historically underserved communities as part of our larger commitment to food equity.

Earth’s Remedies (E.R.) connects West Side families, small businesses, and community centers to developmental resources. As a database hub, Earth’s Remedies introduces West Side Youth to careers in Data Analytics, Storytelling, and advocacy. As they conduct their research, youth are also connected to wellness, career readiness, financial literacy, business consultation, health and fitness, and violence prevention resources.

En Las Tablas Performing Arts aims to provide an open, safe, and affirming space where participants can explore their own artistic expression. These experiences are geared toward educating, celebrating, and connecting participants with each other, their culture, their rich artistic history, and the world around them.

Our educational and artistic philosophy is centered on four pillars: health education, environmental education, culture & Spanish language awareness and Social Emotional Learning. We believe that by teaching our students to care for their bodies, mind, environment and also to feel proud of their culture and their ancestral language; we also help them care for and respect one another and Mother Earth.

Since 1996 Entrepreneurs Academy has developed programming for the Chicago Urban League, Department of Human Services Teen Reach, Chicago Housing Authority, Bethel New Life Church and LifeHouse Group Transitional Living Facility and Recovery Home. We have contributed to the launch of over 1,250 businesses nationwide, trained over 3,700 entrepreneurs, created more than 8,000 jobs, generated over $200 million in revenue, and invented 9 new products. We currently serve the communities on the West Side, South Side and South Suburbs of Chicago.

Our Mission: Provide pathways to entrepreneurship, workforce modernization, and innovation for under-resourced communities of color to create a safer, healthier, and more economically-inclusive world.

Our Vision: To create a thriving entrepreneurial economy in under-resourced communities

Born out of North Lawndale, a vibrant neighborhood located on Chicago’s West Side—Equiticity is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and racial equity movement, operationalizing racial equity by harnessing our collective power through research, advocacy, programs, Community Mobility Rituals, and social enterprises to improve the lives of Black, Brown, and Indigenous people in our society.

At Fields of Dreams Chicago, we are committed to empowering middle school youth in Chicago to realize their full potential as leaders and change-makers in their communities. Our programs provide them with the tools, resources, and support needed to cultivate their innate talents, foster wellness practices, and develop a strong sense of service leadership. By engaging with our initiatives, these youth become catalysts for transformative change, spreading love, joy, and positive impact throughout their neighborhoods and beyond.

Mission: Fields of Dreams Chicago cultivates the innate genius, wellness practices, and service leadership of Chicago middle school youth as they make transformative changes in their neighborhoods and beyond

Vision: We envision a world where the youth are empowered to cultivate transformative community relationships and lead impactful neighborhood actions, infusing their communities with love and joy.

The Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project - Proyecto de Ayuda para Trabajadores del Campo y Jardineros - FLAP's mission is to improve working conditions and opportunities for low-wage workers and their households in the cannery, farming, greenhouse, landscaping, meat, nursery, packinghouse, poultry, restaurants, and snow plowing industries.

FLAP carries out its mission through advocacy, community outreach and education, legal assistance, community legal education, information and referrals, partnering with other organizations to fight human labor trafficking, preventing family separations by helping immigrants secure dual citizenship for their children and facilitating access to technology and cash transfers to very low-wage populations. FLAP provides these services free of charge and without regard to immigration status.

FLAP’s vision is to ensure a good quality of life for Low-wage immigrant workers and their children, keeping them living and working in Illinois, paying local taxes, frequenting local businesses, and attending local schools, instead of leaving the area because they can no longer afford to live here. As most Latines immigrant workers are employed at companies that are part of the food supply chain, without them the chain might break down and their ability to sustain themselves and their families, therefore, affects each of us.

Focus Fairies Mentoring’s mission is to uplift and support women and girls aged 7-18 who have experienced violence and trauma.

Since founding in 2017, we have served 250 girls. Of those who completed the program, 73% reported feeling more confident. In a recent parent survey, 85% of FFM parents rated their overall experience as positive and inspiring. Our girls reported improved conflict resolution skills, with 70% reporting using peaceful resolution strategies in interpersonal conflicts.

The mission of GLMPI is to help African-American girls ages 11-17 critically examine social, cultural, and political ideologies in media, so that they will be able to overcome stigmas and negative stereotypes. We equip them with the tools and strategies to become influential, independent digital storytellers who transform their communities and foster global sisterhood.

Giving Others Dreams G.O.D INC. - is a Direct Re-entry Training and Community Healing Center. Our mission is to empower communities to reduce violence and promote public safety through comprehensive violence intervention and prevention pathways. Pathways that help individuals to live their best lives, where violence ends, and where safety is synonymous with being a well-balanced person. Grounded in five core pillars:, mutual aid, education,public awareness, civic engagement, and holistic support. Providing a safe and supportive space that promotes healing, and self- empowerment to help reduce recidivism rates for women and to end violence in our communities.

Gutiérrez Berríos & Co. focuses on talking about inclusiveness from the lens of global citizenship. We facilitate events, workshops, and trainings that focus on including the system impacted first.

The Healthy Communities Coalition works to bridge the gap between research and communities. We envision diverse stakeholders working together to transform communities through best practices and community-driven research. Our mission is to decrease health disparities and improve community health through outreach programs, collaborations, research, and support.

The Beyond the Gift Card Community Conversations series is a signature event held monthly through December 2024. Through these conversations, we anticipate community partners will become better informed about the practical implications of research in their work, better prepared to equitably engage in research partnerships, better equipped to create sustainable, community-led interventions, and better positioned to fully fund their work. Visit us online for more information: www.healthycc.us.

Hermosa Neighborhood Association is an advocacy group in Hermosa community that promotes community engagement , youth programs that aims to prevent violence and improve entrepreneurial opportunities to our youth.

The Hustle Mommies nonprofit and brand is a movement designed to empower urban, inner city moms to be leaders in their homes and their communities. We are dedicated to helping urban, inner city moms thrive by providing them resources that will help them become greater as an individuals and moms.

Our programs are focused on five focus areas which are emotional wellness, urban education, inner city gun violence, effective parenting and career/entrepreneurial development where the main goal is help our moms become whole, effective moms that are thriving in their careers and businesses. Some of our programs include our urban education initiative #EducateUS, the gun violence awareness initiative PAINT THE HOOD ORANGE where we are dedicated to curing hood trauma™️ as well as Moms Mean Business program and conference.

In Demand Entertainment’s mission is to bridge the gap between public health and social services organizations and in need, at risk, hard to reach, underserved, vulnerable populations to decrease HIV disparities and increase health equities through community organizing, engagement, and empowerment.

In today’s economic climate, fundraising efficiency is more important than ever, especially as many organizations are asked to do more work with fewer resources. Inspire's development assessments help to uncover the key strategies you can implement today to take advantage of your best fundraising opportunities. We work with you to draft a yearly fundraising calendar, identify and evaluate potential donors, develop cultivation and solicitation strategies, and create plans for donor and volunteer recognition.

Integrated Resources for Educating and Nurturing the Elderly, also known as, I.R.E.N.E., Inc. is a small yet impactful 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that provides senior services and advocacy in the state of Illinois. The organization’s multifaceted programs aim to provide services that will enrich the lives of seniors and their families/caregivers. I.R.E.N.E. offers a multitude of resources that will support seniors by serving, empowering, educating, advocating and collaborating with various sectors in efforts to meet the needs of this underserved population.

With collaboration at the center, Ishti Collective’s purpose is to create a synergistic environment through dance, music, and storytelling where artists engage with the community to generate meaningful dialogue and push the boundaries of their art.

KOCO’s vision is to develop new generations of African American leadership that will build stable, viable, and just communities where opportunity is not denied based on race or economic status.

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.

Kids First Chicago’s mission is to dramatically improve education for Chicago’s children by ensuring their families are the respected authorities on what their kids need and decision-makers in their kids' education. We do this by partnering with families to support them in gaining the resources, access, and voice they need to achieve their vision for their children.

Lace 2 Liberation Inc is a charitable organization committed to alleviating footwear insecurities within Chicago's under-resourced LGBTQIA+ communities. Our mission is to inspire, elevate, and empower by providing suitable shoes and acting as a resource hub for those facing adversities.

The Lawndale Pop-Up Spot is a community museum in a shipping container at Love Blooms Here Plaza in North Lawndale. The Lawndale Pop-Up Spot is an innovative initiative to connect history, art, culture, and nature -- and to be a part of the great efforts taking place in North Lawndale. It is a place for community-created exhibitions, installations, events, and education.

Liberation Journeys equips schools with the tools to forge authentic partnerships with their students, to co-design school culture that centers student voice, identity, and belonging.

Liberation Library (LibLib) is a Chicago-based and volunteer-led prison abolition organization that provides books & youth-led magazines to incarcerated young people in Illinois including all five state-run youth prisons and several county juvenile detention centers. We work with impacted young people to support them in developing their imagination, leadership skills, self-determination, and connections with each other and to outside worlds of their choosing, directly resourcing them as they are best positioned to make transformative demands on the systems that cage and police them.

Mano a Mano's mission is to empower immigrant families to become full participants in their community. Our vision

is an integrated community where everyone has access to opportunities and pathways to success.

Metropolitan Family Services is at the heart of Chicago’s city and suburban communities responding to the needs of families. Through 10 major community centers, their related locations and public policy advocacy, Metropolitan serves low-income and working-poor families facing a dynamic and ever-changing environment. As an integral part of each community we serve, we listen, actively participate and lead the way in helping families realize their amazing strength.

MFS' mission is to provide and mobilize the services needed to strengthen families and communities.

MFS' vision is to be widely acknowledged as a major catalyst and resource for promoting family and community strengths.

Minority Health Engagement Advocates is a non profit organization that focuses on advocating, supporting and educating those in low income communities of all diseases of the pancreas, which includes diabetes and sickle cell disease.

Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago’s mission is to create opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen their neighborhoods.

Our work is directly focused on fostering racial equality and helping to close the racial wealth gap.

Our teams work to stabilize and revitalize low and moderate-income communities throughout the greater Chicagoland area and suburbs. We facilitate such revitalization by helping middle-class and working-class families purchase and maintain their own homes. Since 1975, we have recognized the impact of race, income and social status on a person's housing security. NHS works to correct the inequities and end the exploitative practices that create housing insecurity.

NDoula Community Alliance is a movement building organization addressing quality of life gaps within Chicago communities by influencing perceptions and policy to increase access to patient-centered, equitable, integrative healing justice. NDoula works to build a Chicago where all patients and birthing people benefit from informed decision making among a culturally reflective care team. We approach health literacy with a specifically inclusive, trauma informed, and violence prevention lens.

We collaborate to inform health systems and academic spaces on integrative health equity via preceptorship, workshops, and culturally responsive & community participatory research and evaluation. We continue to innovate the use of collaborative arts to foster healing justice. We engage with collective power to partner with other organizations, policy makers, and community stakeholders to get our works accomplished.

At One United Community Inc, we lead the charge in societal transformation, with a renewed focus on uniting and empowering disenfranchised communities for equitable access to health, education, and economic opportunities. Our vision goes beyond aspirations; it is a call to action that underpins our every initiative.

Organic Oneness brings people together to eliminate racism and create healthy communities in Chicago. They convene like-minded individuals and organizations to provide educational, transformational, and service-oriented spaces that foster truth and justice at individual, community, and institutional levels, aiming to change systems for the betterment of Black and Brown communities.

Organic Oneness amplifies the work of artists, scholars, and community leaders to uncover root causes, understand history, eradicate institutional racism, promote individual healing, collective liberation, and understand Earth's health and the interconnectedness to human health.

Organized Communities Against Deportations (OCAD) is an undocumented-led group that organizes against deportations, detention, criminalization, and incarceration, of Black, brown, and immigrant communities in Chicago and surrounding areas. Through grassroots organizing, legal and policy work, direct action, and cross-movement building, we aim to defend our communities, challenge the institutions that target and dehumanize us, and build collective power. We fight alongside families and individuals challenging these systems to create an environment for our communities to thrive, work, and organize with happiness and without fear.

We envision a future without displacement and borders; without incarceration and deportations. A future where people can choose to stay or migrate freely. A future where our bodies will not be commodified or exploited to fulfill quotas, fill cages, and used to generate profit.

Powers Creative Group supports community development, health, and arts organizations led by and for historically marginalized communities.

Restored Hope works with Black and Brown women and girls, offering them tools to assist with living resilient lives.

Serving People with a Mission is a Chicago-based nonprofit organization, committed to the wellbeing of all by providing holistic services that strengthen community, nurture connections, and create positive impacts

At the Sylvester Broome Empowerment Village, our mission is to cultivate leadership capacity. We offer free year-round programming to youth ages 5-17. Our programs include Wellness, Academics, Athletics, and the Arts.

The Chicago Tool Library’s mission is to create new and equitable opportunities for Chicagoans to build, repair, and learn. We do this by offering pay-what-you-can library memberships that grant users barrier-free access to an inventory of thousands of items.

With everything from miter saws and hammer drills to food dehydrators, sewing machines and camping gear, the inventory has something that everyone in Chicago could benefit from. Over 6,500 households, coming from every Chicago zip code, have joined since 2019 and we have already saved our borrowers over $1.5 million in tool purchases and rentals

The Firehouse Dream is a creative arts non profit located in Maywood, IL. We exist to be a safe space for BIPOC creatives (ages 13-22) to thrive in every area of their lives. We do this our 3 interconnected pillars: creative entrepreneurship, financial wellness and mental health.

The Original 64th Street Beach Drummers Inc.’s goal is to achieve cultural awareness and individual refinement by forming a drum circle in different communities, performing and teaching drum playing and rhythms to the genera public, music therapy, protecting senior citizens through community services, and mentoring of children and young adults.

The mission of The Renaissance Collaborative, Inc. (TRC) is to promote self-sufficiency through an innovative and comprehensive network of supportive housing, employment, and educational services. TRC is a Black-led community development organization based in Bronzeville that was formed to save the historic former Wabash Y from demolition and now develops affordable housing and provides supportive services to our residents and community. TRC strives to build healthy communities where all people, regardless of background, have hope for a better future. This hope will then inspire people to set and achieve their goals and share their gifts with others to build a stronger, happier Chicago.

The South Side Jazz Coalition is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to preserving the history and legacy of south side jazz, cultivating safe spaces for free access to live music programs and cultural events, working as an arts agitator with a strong commitment to Chicago artists and providing community service to the underserved population of the South Side of Chicago.

The Village Legal and Community Project mission is to empower the members of our communities. We are a community-based organization providing pro bono and sliding scale legal services and programming addressing economic development and life readiness.

Our vision is to create communities where people have access to justice, students reach high levels of achievement, and our entrepreneurs receive the tools they need to launch and grow strong businesses. This emphasis on access to legal representation, education and economic development helps to create opportunities and stability in our neighborhoods.

Ujimaa Medics are a Black health collective. We spread emergency first response, community care, and survival skills to access health justice and long-term wellness for all Black lives.

We envision a world where Black people are free to practice the principle of ‘Ujima’ (collective work and responsibility) by fostering resilience and a self-determined culture of health within our communities. We will stay ready to protect one another in a more just world.

Umuwi Ethnic Studies (Umuwi), launched in 2023, is dedicated to strengthening, protecting and sustaining ethnic studies in Chicago and Illinois. Umuwi arose in response to organized, well-funded attacks on anti-racist and inclusive educational methods (in particular, Black Studies, gender/sexuality/LGBTQIA+ studies and Critical Race Theory) escalating nationwide and across Illinois.

Our vision is a city where all BIPOC and multiply marginalized young people can see and hear themselves and their communities’ stories of love, joy, resistance and freedom at the center, not the margins, of our classrooms, schools and community spaces. Ethnic studies acknowledges the racist conditions under which BIPOC youth and educators live, labor and learn, and frames structural racism, not BIPOC people, as the problem to be solved. Through education and coalition-building, the cultivation of an ethnic studies movement in Chicago will cultivate belonging and wellness for BIPOC youth, improve educational outcomes, and increase youth and community civic engagement.

Women’s All Points Bulletin (WAPB) is a human rights and community policing social entrepreneurship that seeks to become the premier organization providing services, education and training that will eradicate police violence against women

YogaCare catalyzes the spread of yoga in under-resourced communities to promote health.

We accomplish this by providing customized yoga and wellness programs, employee wellness services, scholarships for community residents to become yoga teachers, and professional development for community-focused yoga teachers.