Giving Season 2022: 3 Ways You Can Support the Chicago Region

The Illinois Immigration Funders Collaborative (IFC)

The Illinois Immigration Funders Collaborative (IFC) is a collaborative fund that provides grant dollars to organizations serving immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. IFC focuses its funding on three areas: urgent immediate needs, legal assistance for individuals, and advocacy and organizing to advance immigrant rights and justice.

Donations to IFC will provide grant funding to nonprofit partners providing essential services to growing immigrant and refugee communities in the region, helping them feel safe, supported, and welcomed.  

Unity Fund

Unity Fund has awarded more than $14 million in grants to hundreds of nonprofits that provide individuals and families with clothing, workforce development, emergency food, health and wellness, housing and legal services. By donating, support restores stability for people in crisis by helping them access services instrumental to their self-sufficiency.

We Rise Together: For an Equitable & Just Recovery

We Rise Together is a funders collaborative working with community members to respond to the urgent economic needs of Black and Latinx communities, supporting a stronger region for all.

Contributions to We Rise Together will focus on key priorities, including spurring community-led real estate development in disinvested neighborhoods, strengthening Black and Latinx businesses, and increasing employment opportunities.