Issue Areas
The Woods Fund is particularly interested in supporting those organizations and initiatives that focus on enabling work and reducing poverty within Chicago's less- advantaged communities. For those organizations seeking funding in the program areas of community organizing, public policy or the intersection of community organizing and public policy, we are also interested in learning how much of your work is concentrated in one of the following issue areas:
- Affordable housing/low-income housing
- Criminal justice reform
- Early childhood education
- Government accountability
- Immigration reform
- Income supports/security
- Juvenile justice
- Neighborhood safety
- Public school reform
- Workers' rights
- Workforce development
- Other