2023 Woods Fund Grantee Partners
Fall 2023 Awards
Community Organizing
Action Now Institute
General operating grant | $40,000
Alianza Leadership Institute d/b/a Alliance of the Southeast
General operating grant | $40,000
Arab American Action Network
General operating grant | $45,000
Blocks Together
General operating grant | $42,500
Brighton Park Neighborhood Council
General operating support | $40,000
Chicago Freedom School*
General operating support | $35,000
Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership NFP*
General operating support | $35,000
Dissenters
General operating grant | $35,000
Healing to Action
General operating grant | $25,000
Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health
General operating grant | $35,000
Immigrant Solidarity DuPage
General operating grant | $35,000
Muslims for Just Futures*
(Fiscal sponsor: Defending Rights and Dissent Inc.)
General operating | $35,000
Mujeres Latinas En Acción
General operating grant | $25,000
Not Me We
General operating grant | $35,000
*=New grantee organization
PUBLIC POLICY ADVOCACY
First Defense Legal Aid
General operating grant | $35,000
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights/IL Asset Building Group
Project support | $30,000
Juvenile Justice Initiative
General operating grant | $35,000
Women Employed
General operating grant | $35,000
INTEGRATED APPROACH: COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND PUBLIC POLICY ADVOCACY
Black Workers Matter
(Fiscal Sponsor Get To Work IL Inc.)
Project support | $30,000
Chicago Community and Workers Rights
(Fiscal sponsor: Universidad Popular)
General operating grant | $35,000
Chicago Workers Collaborative
General operating grant | $43,500
Enlace Chicago
Project support | $40,000
Faith in Place
Project support | $25,000
Hana Center
Project support | $45,000
Illinois Black Advocacy Initiative*
(Fiscal sponsor: Forefront)
General operating grant | $35,000
Inner-City Muslim Action Network
General operating grant | $35,000
Lawndale Christian Development Corporation
General operating | $35,000
Live Free Chicago
General operating grant | $35,000
Logan Square Neighborhood Association a/k/a Palenque LSNA
General operating grant | $40,000
Lucy Parsons Labs
General operating grant | $35,000
Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition and Solidarity
(Fiscal sponsor: HANA Center)
General operating grant | $35,000
Pilsen Alliance
General operating grant | $40,000
Prison +Neighborhood Arts /Education Project
(Fiscal sponsor: NEIU Foundation)
General operating grant | $35,000
Progress Center for Independent Living
General operating grant | $35,000
South Asian American Policy and Research Institute
(Fiscal sponsor: Apna Ghar Inc.)
General operating grant | $15000
Supportive Housing Providers Association
General operating grant | $25,000
The Final 5 Campaign*
(Fiscal sponsor: Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc.)
General operating grant | $35,000
The People's Lobby Education Institute
General operating grant | $25,000
Transformative Justice Law
General operating grant | $35,000
United Congress of Community and Religious Organizations
(Fiscal sponsor: Lugenia Burns Hope Center)
General operating grant | $20,000
Warehouse Workers for Justice
General operating grant | $40,000
Workers Center for Racial Justice
General operating grant | $40,000
Catalyst Fund
Chicago American Indian Community Collaborative
Catalyst Fund Grant | $50,000
G7 Coalition
(Fiscal sponsor Kenwood Oakland Community Organization)
Catalyst Fund Grant | $50,000
Racial Justice Pooled Fund
Racial Justice Pooled Fund
(Fiscal sponsor: Crossroads Fund)
Pooled Fund Grant | $50,000
*=new grantee organization
Spring 2023 Awards
COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment
General operating grant | $35,000
Assata's Daughters
(Fiscal sponsor: Alliance for Global Justice)
General operating grant | $35,000
Brave Space Alliance
General operating grant | $35,000
Black Abolitionist Network
(Fiscal sponsor: Center for Third World Organizing)
General operating grant | $35,000
Centro de Trabajadores Unidos: United Workers' Center
General operating grant | $40,000
Communities United
General operating grant | $45,000
Kenwood Oakland Community Organization
General operating grant | $45,000
Lugenia Burns Hope Center
General operating grant | $40,000
Northwest Side Housing Center d/b/a Northwest Center
General operating grant | $30,000
Raise Your Hand for Illinois Public Education
General operating grant | $45,000
Southwest Organizing Project
General operating grant | $45,000
TARGET Area Development Corporation
General operating grant | $25,000
Truth Racial Healing and Transformation (TRHT) Chicago
(Fiscal sponsor: The Chicago Community Trust)
General operating grant | $35,000
PUBLIC POLICY ADVOCACY
Latino Policy Forum
General operating grant | $45,000
Metropolis Strategies d/b/a Illinois Justice Project
General operating grant | $35,000
Shriver Center on Poverty Law
General operating grant | $40,000
Woodstock Institute
General operating grant | $35,000
INTEGRATED APPROACH: COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND PUBLIC POLICY ADVOCACY
A Long Walk Home, Inc
General operating grant | $35,000
Arise Chicago
General operating grant | $30,000
Asian American Institute d/b/a Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Chicago
General operating grant | $40,000
BYP100 Education Fund
General operating grant | $35,000
Cabrini-Green Legal Aid Clinic, Inc
General operating grant | $40,000
Chicago Coalition for the Homeless
General operating grant | $45,000
Chicago Community Bond Fund
General operating grant | $35,000
Chicago Torture Justice Center
(Fiscal sponsor: Public Health Institute Of Metropolitan Chicago)
General operating grant | $35,000
Chicago United for Equity
General operating grant | $35,000
Community Organizing and Family Issues
General operating grant | $40,000
Community Renewal Society
General operating grant | $35,000
Equity And Transformation
General operating grant | $45,000
GoodKids Madcity Englewood
General operating grant | $35,000
Grassroots Collaborative
General operating grant | $50,000
Housing Action Illinois
General operating grant | $35,000
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights
General operating grant | $50,000
Latino Union Inc. a/k/a Latino Union of Chicago
General operating grant | $40,000
Little Village Environmental Justice Organization
General operating grant | $40,000
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Bluhm Legal Clinic, Children and Family Justice Center
General operating grant | $35,000
Organized Communities Against Deportations
General operating grant | $45,000
Organizing Neighborhoods for Equality: Northside
General operating grant | $45,000
P.A.S.O.-West Suburban Action Project
General operating grant | $40,000
Southside Together Organizing for Power
General operating grant | $40,000
Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation
General operating grant | $40,000
CAPACITY BUILDING
Crossroads Fund
Cultivate: Women of Color Leadership Program
General operating grant | $20,000
CATALYST FUND
Grassroots Alliance for Police Accountability
(Fiscal sponsor: The Chicago Community Foundation)
One-year Catalyst Fund grant | $50,000
People United for Racial Equity in Cannabis
(Fiscal sponsor: Black Roots Alliance)
One-year Catalyst Fund grant | $50,000
Westside Rising
(Fiscal sponsor: BUILD Chicago, Inc)
One-year Catalyst Fund grant | $50,000
MOVEMENT BUILDING
PATHS Chicago Collective
(Fiscal sponsor: Open Collective Foundation)
General operating grant | $100,000