Funders and donors have a role in movements, too.
Let’s explore and sharpen this role together.
We are a statewide philanthropic community committed to long-term statewide power.
Together, we put our money, relationships, and institutional influence to work for Illinois communities.
Why We Invest in Organizing
Winning a policy is not the same as changing people’s lives.
Lasting change requires government that can deliver and people with the power to make policies work and keep pushing for more.
Organizing builds that power by developing leaders, strengthening relationships, and moving people to collectively act. Over time, that is how we build a stronger democracy that belongs to all of us.
How We Invest
We fund organizations and help build the conditions for their organizing to last.
$150,000
Average annual investment in each local organization we partner with.
Our model blends flexible funding with coaching, training, cohort programming, and back-office support. This deep work helps organizations develop people, strengthen their practice, and build power that lasts beyond any one campaign. We invest in local organizations so they can win, protect, and expand change, and so local power can grow into something bigger across Illinois.
Find Your Role
Put more of what philanthropy has to work.
Money matters. So do relationships and influence.
In our community, philanthropic members show up as their full selves, not just as representatives of an institution or a source of funding.
Through briefings, socials, and convenings, we learn directly from organizers, build relationships, develop shared strategy, move resources together, and bring new people into our work.
Funding organizing is a team sport. What we can do together is far greater than what any of us can do alone. That is why our philanthropic community brings together foundations, individual donors, philanthropic advisors, and labor unions.
Join us to find the role you want to play in resourcing an Illinois that works for everyone.