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Grantee News and Updates
As part of our new strategic direction the Woods Fund will post news and updates from our grantee organizations in an effort to connect grantees with each other to learn and stay informed about grantee partnership activities.
Fiscal Systems Basics
2003 Ralph M. Martire, Executive Director, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability
This is a document that explains how the Illinois State and Federal Tax Systems work, how they are different from each other, how the Federal System impacts the State System, and how the Illinois Tax System can be reformed.
Funding a Quality Education
CENTER FOR TAX AND BUDGET ACCOUNTABILITY
This document identifies how funding impacts the delivery of public education, and how reforming the funding process can help improve the quality of education delivered in low-income and rural areas.
Funding a Quality Education Requires Fiscal Reform Report
Website for Affordable Housing Program
CHICAGO MUTUAL HOUSING NETWORK
The new regional web site for affordable housing resources is an appropriate site for both practitioners as well as low and moderate-income households looking for affordable housing resources in metropolitan Chicago.
This site is designed by the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission and funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Link to Chicago Area Housing Website
This site from the Fannie Mae Foundation is designed to post research on afforable housing issues from around the United States
"Reconnecting Youth"
2003, Alternative Schools Network
A document frames the burgeoning problem of out-of-school, out-of-work youth which features analysis of data for Chicago, Illinois and the United States drawn from the work of "A Nation At-Risk" by Andy Sum and Neeta Fogg of Northeastern University.
"Defining and Redirecting A School to Prison Pipeline"
2004, Johanna Wald and Daniel Losen, Civil Right's Project at Harvard University
Paper presented at the 2004 Midwest Conference on the Dropout Crisis: Assessing the Problem and Confronting the Challenge, which examines the link between zero tolerance policies, drop-out rates and the rates of incarcerations for inner-city minority youth.
Defining and Redirecting A School to Prison Pipeline Paper
Chicago Job Council
ILLINOIS 2003 - WORKFORCE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: INVESTING IN THE FUTURE OF ILLINOIS
2003, Chicago Jobs Council
This report assists policymakers and other stakeholders in making strategic investments to meet the needs of Illinois' job seekers, workers. It includes a funding streams map that represents a snapshot of the workforce development funding that was available for Illinois in FY02.
CJC Funding Stream Map - Printable Version
"FROM SAFETY NET TO SELF-SUFFICIENCY"
2003, Chicago Jobs Council
A proposal that details the research and rationale behind the "mixed-strategy" approach for TANF, Food Stamp, and other employment and training programs that holds promise as a highly effective means to increasing employment and earnings, reducing welfare receipt, and sustaining that success over time."From Safety Net to Self-Sufficiency Proposal
MAKING THE PIECES FIT: A PLAN FOR ENSURING A PROSPEROUS ILLINOIS"
2004, Chicago Jobs Council and Women Employed Institute
A comprehensive analysis of the state's workforce and economic outcomes provides the Governor and the General Assembly a roadmap for investing limited resources to produce the greatest returns for Illinois families and the state's economy. The report illustrates why prosperity is elusive for working families in Illinois.
Chicago Urban League
THE VICIOUS CIRCLE: RACE, PRISONS, JOBS AND COMMUNITY IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS AND THE NATION
2002, Paul Street, Vice President for Research and Planning, Chicago Urban League
This is a seminal analysis of the racial disparities in incarceration and the consequences on urban African American communities with particular focus on Chicago, which was commissioned by the Woods Fund of Chicago.
"COLOUR OF OPPORTUNITY: RACE, PLACE, POLICY AND LABOUR MARKET INEQUALITY IN THE CHICAGO METROPOLITAN AREA"
2003, Paul Street, Vice President for Research and Planning, Chicago Urban League
Using testing research done in conjunction with Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago, this report documents the continuing relevance of race and racism for understanding racial labor market and related socioeconomic inequality in the Chicago area, demonstrates the policy-based nature of the special and the skills labor market gaps, and examines the critical, underestimated employment barrier created by prison and criminal records.
"Policy Advocacy: Notes for Grantmakers"
2004, Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
The Spring 2004 edition of a newsletter for Grantmakers that includes information that illustrates the effectiveness of advocacy in building solutions to various problems that hold people in poverty.
Policy Advocacy: Notes for Grantmakers
Women Employed Institute
"MAPPING A FUTURE FOR ILLINOIS' ECONOMY AND FAMILIES: A PLAN TO INVEST IN FINANCIAL AID FOR LOW INCOME STUDENTS"
2004, Rachel Unruh, Toni Henle, Sharon Barry, and Anne Ladky of Women Employed Institute
This report examines recent trends in the Monetary Award Program, Illinois' state supported financial aid grant for low-income students. It explores the current and future impacts of program cust on Illinois' economy and families, offering recommendations and alternatives for policymakers.
OPENING OPPORTUNITIES: A VISION FOR THE FUTURE"
2004, Rachel Unruh, Toni Henle, Sharon Barry and Anne Ladky of Women Employed Institute
To commemorate its 30th Anniversary, the Women Employed Institute prepared this report which describes the concerns of low-wage working women and why opening opportunities and ensuring advancement to family-supporting wages for low-income women is the most important challenge facing advocates for economic equity today.
Opening Opportunities: A Vision for the Future
"CHA Reform at Horner Homes a housing model"
2004, Rita McLennon, William Wilen, Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
An editorial published in the Chicago Tribune Voice of the People column March 22, 2004, from the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law that talks about public housing redevelopment how the Chicago Housing Authority's Horner Homes is a national model
Chicago Tribune Voice of the People Column
