Our Teams and Partners

A groundbreaking collaborative of philanthropic stakeholders and researchers representing 25 foundations, public agencies and some private sector entities formed and agreed to voluntarily share data about how investments shifted to respond to the pandemic and what more needs to be done.

CORE TEAM

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PARTNERS

 

The Builders Initiative

Comer Family Foundation

The Coleman Foundation

Chicago Workforce Funders Alliance

Cuore e Mani Foundation

Joyce Foundation

Lefkofsky Family Foundation

Paul M. Angell Family Foundation

Pierce Family Foundation

Polk Bros Foundation

Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation

McCormick Foundation

VNA Foundation

City of Chicago (Office of Equity and Racial Justice and Department of Business Affairs & Consumer Protection)

 RESEARCH TEAM

 

Jennifer Axelrod
Senior Director of Learning
and Impact
The Chicago Community Trust

Carrie Shield
Associate Director,
Data Management
MacArthur Foundation


Kirsten Carroll
Associate Principal
Civic Consulting Alliance


Gillian Knight
Program Associate
Healthy Communities Foundation

Shruti Jayaraman
Director
Chicago Beyond

Laura Walzer
Portfolio Impact Associate
A Better Chicago

Michael Stiehl
Senior Policy Analyst
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago

Daniel Cooper
Research Director
Metropolitan Planning Council

Shawn Kendrick
Manager, Learning and Impact
The Chicago Community Trust

Kimberly Smith
Associate Director
University of Chicago Crime & Education Labs

Angelique Power
President
Former President of the Field Foundation

Emma Landgraf
Senior Manager, Data Strategy
United Way of Metro Chicago

Meegan Dugan Bassett
Fellow
New America Chicago | New America Local

Iván Arenas
Associate Director
UIC Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy

COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE

 

Ann Liu
Design

Danielle Veira
A Better Chicago

Isabelle Cadrot
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago 

Jackie Rodriguez
Healthy Communities Foundation 

Grace Cheung
MacArthur Foundation

Lilly Athamanah
The Chicago Community Trust

Marrianne McMullen
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago

Mandy Burrell Booth
Metropolitan Planning Council

Michelle Morales
Woods Fund Chicago

Nina Alcacio
The Chicago Community Trust

Sabrina L. Miller
Field Foundation

Teresa Myers
The FBRK Impact House