$1,500,000
2021 • 1 year • Equitable Recovery
The Crossroads Fund (Crossroads) supports community organizations working on issues of racial, social, and economic justice in the Chicago metropolitan area. It creates relationships between donors, grantees, grassroots organizations, and community members. Its work transforms unjust conditions, institutions, and policies to create greater equality and opportunity for all. With this award, Crossroads supports the Chicago Racial Justice Pooled Fund, which helps to build movements and collective power to dismantle racist systems, structures, and institutions.
$20,000
2021 • 8 months • Journalism & Media
The Crossroads Fund is a conduit for community-led philanthropic efforts. The Chicago Independent Media Alliance (CIMA) joint annual campaign is a project of the Crossroads Fund. The campaign seeks to raise the visibility of, and public support for, independent media outlets in the Chicago region. Forty-three members of CIMA will participate in an individual donor fundraising effort between May and June 2021. This grant will contribute to a pooled fund, comprised of grants from major donors and local foundations. The pooled fund will match the amounts raised by individual outlets. The intended outcome of the project is to build the fundraising capacity of small and independent media outlets and to increase financial resources for such organizations.
$300,000
2020 • 2 years • Equitable Recovery
Crossroads Fund supports community organizations working on issues of racial, social, and economic justice in the Chicago area. The organization creates relationships between donors, grantees, grassroots groups, and community members. Its work transforms unjust conditions, institutions, and policies to create greater equality and opportunity for all. The award supports the establishment of a network of technologists and community organizers in Chicago working to challenge surveillance practices and ensure historically marginalized people and communities play a meaningful role in the governance of new and emerging technologies.
$225,000
2020 • 1 year • Chicago Commitment
Crossroads Fund (Crossroads) is a public foundation that supports community organizations working on issues of racial, social, and economic justice in the Chicago area. It creates relationships between donors, grantees, grassroots groups and community members. Its work transforms unjust conditions, institutions, and policies to create greater equality and opportunity for all. This award supports two capacity building programs at Crossroads: the Capacity Building Initiative, and Cultivate: Women of Color in Leadership.
$500,000
2020 • 1 year • Equitable Recovery
The Crossroads Fund supports community organizations working on issues of racial, social, and economic justice in the Chicago area. It creates relationships between donors, grantees, grassroots groups, and community members. Its work transforms unjust conditions, institutions, and policies to create greater equality and opportunity for all. The Crossroads Fund hosts the Chicago Racial Justice Pooled Fund. The Fund addresses the needs of grassroots organizing groups responding to the impact of COVID-19 and the civil unrest that arose after the murder of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
$225,000
2020 • 3 years • Chicago Commitment
Circles and Ciphers, a project of the Crossroads Fund, is a hip-hop infused restorative justice organization led by and for young people impacted by violence. It offers arts-based peace circles for young men, women of color, incarcerated youth, and community members. It also provides restorative justice education opportunities to universities, high schools, and community organizations. With this institutional support award, Circles and Ciphers makes investments in strategic planning and implementation and establishes a budget stabilization fund.
$10,000
2020 • 7 months • Technology in the Public Interest
Crossroads Fund supports community organizations working on issues of racial, social, and economic justice in the Chicago area. It creates relationships between donors, grantees, grassroots groups, and community members. Its work transforms unjust conditions, institutions, and policies to create greater equality and opportunity for all. With this award, Crossroads Fund incubates and convenes community-led organizations and technologists with expertise to develop a coalition to address the use of invasive surveillance technologies.
$35,000
2020 • 3 months • Chicago Commitment
Crossroads Fund supports community organizations working on issues of racial, social, and economic justice in the Chicago area. It creates relationships between donors, grantees, grassroots groups, and community members. Its work transforms unjust conditions, institutions, and policies to create greater equality and opportunity for all. With this award, Crossroads Fund supports and administers three funder collaboratives in response to COVID-19 related concerns.
$225,000
2019 • 1 year • Chicago Commitment
Crossroads Fund (Crossroads) supports community organizations working on issues of racial, social, and economic justice in the Chicago area. It creates relationships between donors, grantees, grassroots groups, and community members. Its work transforms unjust conditions, institutions, and policies to create greater equality and opportunity for all. This award supports two capacity building programs at Crossroads: the Capacity Building Initiative, and Cultivate: Women of Color in Leadership.
$35,000
2019 • 6 months • Chicago Commitment
The Crossroads Fund is a public foundation supporting grassroots movements for racial, social, and economic justice. In 2019, Crossroads Fund's long-serving executive director retires and its program director steps into the executive director role. With this award, Crossroads Fund provides executive coaching and leadership trainings to the new executive director. It also provides trainings for its board and staff in successfully managing the leadership transition.
$250,000
2018 • 1 year 8 months • Chicago Commitment
Crossroads Fund (Crossroads) supports community organizations working on issues of racial, social, and economic justice in the Chicago area. It creates relationships between donors, grantees, grassroots groups, and community members. Its work transforms unjust conditions, institutions, and policies to create greater equality and opportunity for all. This award supports two capacity building programs at Crossroads: the Capacity Building Initiative, and Cultivate: Women of Color in Leadership.
$75,000
2017 • 1 year • Chicago Commitment
Crossroads Fund supports community organizations working on issues of racial, social, and economic justice in the Chicago area. In partnership with Woods Fund Chicago, Chicago Community Trust, and Chicago Foundation for Women, the Crossroads Fund supports a program called Cultivate: Women of Color in Leadership. The program, which is in its fifth year, offers coaching, relationship building, and skill development to cohorts of community leaders. This award supports the programmatic and administrative costs associated with the program, revisions to its curriculum, and a strategic planning process.
$50,000
2017 • 4 months • Chicago Commitment
Crossroads Fund supports community organizations working on the issues of racial, social, and economic justice in the Chicago area. Crossroads Fund in partnership with Woods Fund Chicago, Chicago Community Trust, and Chicago Foundation for Women supports a program that is designed to strengthen women leaders of color in Chicago. The program (Cultivate: Women of Color in Leadership), which is in its fifth year, offers coaching, relationship building, and skill development to cohorts of community leaders. With this award, Crossroads Fund commissions an evaluation to document the impact of the model, and to strengthen and grow the program. The evaluation process includes a meeting of Cultivate alumae to review findings and develop future programming informed by the evalution results, which will be shared broadly.
$20,000
2001 • 1 year
In support of the Critical Response Fund, which makes grants to Chicago-area organizations working to defend civil rights and combat racism and hate crimes.
$250,000
1998 • 2 years
To support a capacity-building initiative to provide financial and technical assistance to emerging community-based groups (over two years).
$150,000
1997 • 1 year
To support a five-year capacity-building initiative.
$98,000
1996 • 1 year
To support a five-year plan to enhance the fund's ability to attract donors and to expand its grantmaking activities.
$94,000
1994 • 1 year
To support a planning process to increase philanthropic capacity.
$1,000
1992 • 1 year
To support the conference "Walking On: Organizing Beyond the Quincentennial."