Community & Civic Leadership – Collective Power & Policy Change Grant

The Chicago Community Trust
We bring together generous donors, committed organizations, and caring residents to effect lasting change that moves our entire region forward.
Community & Civic Leadership – Collective Power & Policy Change
This funding opportunity will support organizations and leadership programs that cultivate community and public sector leaders who are ready to advance efforts that build wealth and improve opportunities for all Chicagoans.
Priority Strategies & Activities
This funding opportunity will support organizations or programs that identify, train and promote leaders within all sectors—public, private and nonprofit—at “grassroots” and “grasstops” levels. Organizations that receive grant support under this funding opportunity will train and support the following types of leaders:

• Emerging community leaders that include, but are not limited to, parents, young adults, low-wage workers, community organizers, and early career professionals.
• Established leaders working in nonprofit, civic, policy, or public-serving roles who are no longer considered early career professionals.
• Leaders with lived experience who represent communities most proximate to the issues or have experienced the systems in need of reform first-hand.