Making a Difference Honoree, Grace Hou

Chicago Women In Philanthropy has named Woods Fund president Grace Hou their Making a Difference Honoree for 2018! Congratulations, Grace!!!

Discount Foundation Legacy Award Call for Nominations

The Discount Foundation Legacy Award commemorates the legacy of the Foundation’s decades-long history of supporting leading edge organizing in the worker justice arena by annually celebrating an individual who has demonstrated outstanding leadership and contributed significantly to the workers’ rights movement in the United States and/or globally.

To be eligible for the Award, a nominee must be engaged in worker justice, including but not limited to organizing and advocacy related work. Additionally, it is not necessary that nominees work in an organization or institution who mission is to advance worker justice – nominees who volunteer with or identify as member leaders at an organization are encouraged. Click here for more information.

Stopping the Debt Spiral

Mother-leaders of POWER-PAC release new report, "Stopping the Debt Spiral", and call on City of Chicago to Create a Financial Justice Initiative

POWER-PAC mothers and grandmothers surveyed over 300 parents in Illinois and discovered that among the nearly 60% of respondents who live on less than $15,000 per year, debt is a major problem that is keeping families down.

Parents are calling on the City of Chicago to create a Financial Justice Initiative and to do a Financial Justice scan to look at the disparate impacts of city fees and fines on low-income, immigrant, and Chicagoans of color.

You can read the report in full here.

Funding the Unfundable

By Josina Morita, Woods Fund Chicago Board Member

I joined the Woods Fund Board in 2011. I was the youngest board member, and the first board member that was also a grantee. I had spent the last three years building an organization that many called unrealistic, unnecessary and unfundable. I was so excited to have an opportunity to learn more about "the other side." In my mind, philanthropy was this free place where you could fund new ideas, new leaders and new work. You had no funders to please. You *were* the funder. What freedom!

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TRHT Greater Chicago Storytelling Event
April 4, 2018, 3:00 - 7:00, Chicago History Museum
More information is coming soon...!

What We're Reading...

Whitewashed: The African American Opioid Epidemic, The Chicago Urban League

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

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