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Center for Economic Progress
Center for Economic Progress is working to build the assets and increase the economic prosperity of working families and individuals throughout Illinois through tax preparation and other asset building strategies. |
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Center for Neighborhood Technology
The Center for Neighborhood Technology works to invent and implement new tools and methods that create livable urban communities. |
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Chicago Area Fair Housing Alliance
The Chicago Area Fair Housing Alliance is an association of private fair housing organizations, governmental bodies, and other concerned groups working to develop and support programs that further fair housing rights and opportunities. |
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Chicago Community Loan Fund
Chicago Community Loan Fund is a Chicago-based CDFI providing low-cost, flexible financing to nonprofit community development organizations for affordable housing, economic/commercial development, andsocial service/nonprofit facility initiatives.
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Citizen Action/Illinois
Citizen Action/Illinois is the state's largest public interest organization leading legislative battles for lower utility rates, fair taxes, affordable and quality health care, insurance and campaign finance reform, and payday loan reform. |
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Chicago Rehab Network
Chicago Rehab Network works to further the development and preservation of safe affordable housing in Chicago, and throughout the state of Illinois by building the capacity of community housing developers through training and technical assistance. |
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Community Investment Corporation
Community Investment Corporation is a not-for-profit mortgage lender that provides financing to buy and rehab multifamily apartment buildings with five units or more in the six-county metropolitan Chicago area. |
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Community Media Workshop
The Community Media Workshop works to encourage the media to tell the stories of the oft-neglected neighborhoods and back streets of Chicago.
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Hull House Small Business Development Unit
Hull House SBDU operates in communities of need on the south and north sides of Chicago to assist in revitalizing local neighborhood economies and improving the overall quality of life by working with new and expanding businesses to access the resour |
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Illinois Facilities Fund
The Illinois Facilities Fund is a statewide nonprofit community development financial institution offering below-market-rate real estate loans, assistance with facilities planning and development, and advocacy in the public policy arena. |
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Latin United Community Housing Association
The Latin United Community Housing Association is Chicago's only Puerto Rican community housing group, created in 1982 and serving the neighborhoods of West Town and Humboldt Park. LUCHA helps tenants and home owners improve their housing optoins |
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Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago
LAF provides provides free legal aid to hundreds of thousands of the most vulnerable women, men, and children in Cook County. |
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Local Initiatives Support Corporation - Chicago
The Local Initiatives Support Corporation is the channel through which Chicago’s private, public and civic sectors provide capital and other resources to support initiatives that stimulate comprehensive community development. |
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Lakefront Supportive Housing
To address the root causes of homelessness, Lakefront Supportive Housing staff and tenants advocate for increasing the supply of affordable housing and for policies that benefit the homeless. |
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Lakeside CDC
Lakeside engages in advocacy at the local, regional, and state level to promote effective policies that lead to the creation and preservation of affordable housing opportunities. Current issues of concern include responsible lending, access to banking and credit, housing and community development policy, and fair housing. |
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National Training and Information Center
NTIC's mission is to build grassroots leadership and strengthen neighborhoods through issue-based community organizing. They work build powerful leadership-driven organizations with the capacity to: identify local issues, develop effective strategies to address the root causes of issues, and create opportunities for the organizational leadership to negotiate with decision-makers. |
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Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago
Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago is a nonprofit organization working to rebuild low- and moderate-income neighborhoods in the city of Chicago that are experiencing deterioration and disinvestment. |
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Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
The Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, a national resource, champions law and policy promoting equal opportunity and support for low-income individuals, families, and communities so that they can escape poverty permanently. |
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Women's Business Development Center
The Women's Business Development Center offers a full-service approach to launching emerging businesses and strengthening existing businesses owned by women in the Chicago area. |
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Women Employed
Women Employed is a leading national advocate for women's economic advancement. Since 1973, Women Employed has fought to outlaw pay discrimination, pregnancy discrimination and sexual harassment and to strengthen federal equal opportunity policies and work/family benefits. |
