Activate Chicago Parents: Informal network of progressive parents, families, caregivers & community activists supporting public education in Chicago and creating a network for rapid response to protect public schools. [IG]
ChiRADS: ChiRADS is an organization of Radical Black & Brown CPS high school students from every corner of Chicago organizing to create an education system & a world that best serves them. [IG]
Communities United: Communities United (CU) is a survivor-led, intergenerational racial justice organization in Chicago. At the heart of CU’s organizing is the development of grassroots leadership to build collective power to achieve racial justice and transformative social change. With this approach, CU focuses on advancing affordable housing, health equity, education justice, youth investment, immigrant rights, and shifting resources from the criminal justice and juvenile justice systems into restorative justice alternatives. [Website] [IG]
Community Organizing & Family Issues (COFI): COFI’s mission is to build the power and voice of parents, primarily mothers and grandmothers from Black and Brown communities, to shape the public decisions that affect their lives and the lives of their families. [Website] [IG]
Grassroots Collaborative: Grassroots Collaborative builds power with working families through strategic community-labor organizing, grassroots leadership development, civic engagement, and training. Their 9 member organizations and 125,000 members, along with an effective and diverse set of ally organizations across movements, create transformative change to win fully funded resources for our public schools, social services, and affordable housing that working families depend on. [Website] [IG]
IL Raise Your Hand: Raise Your Hand for Illinois Public Education engages, informs, and empowers parents to protect and strengthen public education for all children in Chicago and Illinois, eliminate inequities in public schools, and work at the grassroots for the public good that is public education. [Website] [IG]
Illinois Families for Public Schools: ILFPS is a grassroots, non-profit 501c4 advocacy group that represents the interests of Illinois public school families. They are a consistent, regular presence in Springfield for systemic policy change to defend and improve Illinois public schools. [Website] [IG]
Umuwi Ethnic Studies: Our mission is to strengthen, protect and sustain Ethnic Studies in Chicago and Illinois, and we hold a vision where all BIPOC young people can see and hear themselves and their communities’ stories of love, joy, resistance, and freedom at the center, not at the margins, of our classrooms, schools and community spaces. [Website] [IG]
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