$250,000
2018 • 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.
$50,000
2017 • 3 months
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.
$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.
$20,000
2001 • 11 months
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 • What We're Exploring: Cities, Information, and Governance
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 • What We're Exploring: Cities, Information, and Governance
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."