| Public Charge
On September 22, 2018 the Department of Homeland Security announced a radical change to the "public charge" rule that would prevent immigrants who utilize government health, nutrition, housing, and other assistance from gaining green cards or sponsoring family members to join them in the United States. Attend a training hosted by SWOP and Holy Cross Hospital to learn about and discuss the changes to the "public charge" rule. Space is limited, so an RSVP is required. Please RSVP here.
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Last week, 18 alumni of Cultivate: Women of Color Leadership participated in a week-long training with the Rockwood Leadership Institute, a nationally recognized transformative leadership development program that aims to grow and nourish a network of social change leaders across movements in the United States. Woods Fund is honored to partner with the Chicago Community Trust, the Chicago Foundation for Women, Crossroads Fund, and the MacArthur Foundation in developing women of color leaders.
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| THIS JUST IN...!
Amazon is raising its minimum wage to $15 an hour for all US employees, including part-time and seasonal workers. The raise goes into effect November 1, 2018, and impacts over 350,000 workers. With consistently negative media reports on Amazon warehouse workers raising public concerns, this wage increase is seen by some as a "public relations victory."
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| The Women of Woods Fund ChicagoSeptember is my month to curate or write a blog; I have been struggling with what to share. There are so many important issues at the forefront, startling new realities, and a lot of really compelling narratives and voices in the blogosphere. Within this context from my vantage point at a grantmaking foundation - what could I possibly add? What do I have to share that hasn’t been shared, or isn’t already being shared? So, I decided to provide some insight into WHO Woods Fund is - beyond our grantmaking, beyond our guidelines and core principles, and beyond what you see on our team’s “who we are” website. I can share with you a look into who powers this foundation from the inside: our staff team.
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Richard Rothstein discusses and signs The Color of Law in Chicago and WheatonIn this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided as the result of individual prejudices, personal choices to live in same-race neighborhoods, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law uncovers a forgotten history of how racially explicit policies of federal, state, and local governments created the patterns of residential segregation that persist to this day. The Color of Law concludes that because residential segregation was created by government action in violation of the constitution, we are obligated to remedy it.
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| New Funder Toolkit -- Divest/Invest: From Criminalization to Thriving CommunitiesExplore this intersectional resource exposing the connections between mass criminalization and housing, education, health, transportation, food security, jobs, and more. NFG’s Funder for Justice created this toolkit website because they believe our collective investments in these issues will fail if we do not also proactively work to divest this nation’s resources from criminalization. Learn more at https://divest.nfg.org/.
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| Fall 2018 GranteesCommunity Organizing - Chicago Community and Workers Rights
- Hana Center
- Healing to Action*
- Lawndale Christian Development Corporation*
- Mujeres Latinas En Accion
- Pilsen Alliance
- United Taxidrivers Community Council
Public Policy Advocacy - Center for Tax and Budget Accountability
- Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice
- Chicago Jobs Council
- Faith in Place*
- Illinois Asset Building Group
- Illinois Partners for Human Services
- John Howard Association
- Women Employed
Intersection - Brighton Park Neighborhood Council
- Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America
- Enlace Chicago
- First Defense Legal Aid
- The People's Lobby Education Institute
- Process Center for Independent Living
- Supportive Housing Providers Association
- Transformative Justice Law Project*
- Warehouse Workers for Justice
- Westside Health Authority
- Workers Center for Racial Justice
Arts and Social Justice - Albany Park Theater Project
- Circles and Ciphers
*New grantee
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Thousands of hotel workers from 26 hotels across Chicago stopped working on September 7...
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| #ILGive for #GivingTuesday Registration is Open Through October 24#ILGive for #GivingTuesday is Illinois' official GivingTuesday campaign. As part of Forefront's work in attracting investment to the sector - they developed ILGive to raise money for Illinois communities, invite new donors to charitable giving, and increase awareness about local nonprofits.
Register you nonprofit today at ILGIve.com, and take advantage of Giving Tuesday supports.
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