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Communities united

Advancing Healing and Justice through Organizing

COMMUNITIES UNITED RECENTLY NAMED AS AN AWARDEE OF THE W.K. KELLOGG FOUNDATION'S RACIAL EQUITY 2030 CHALLENGE!

Learn more about how youth of color will be leading a movement to transform mental health while promoting healing in our communities.

OUR RECENT IMPACTS

COMMUNITY LEADERS AND SURVIVORS JOIN NATIONAL GROUPS TO RELEASE GROUNDBREAKING STUDY ON FUNDING DISPARITIES

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A new national report “Criminalization vs. Care: How the 20 Largest Cities Invest The Public’s Resources”, a collaborative effort between organizations across the country, examine the 2022 budgets of the 20 largest US cities, revealing major disparities in budgeting and directing as much as 10 times more public investment towards the Mass Incarceration System than Systems of Community Care.

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RECENT MEDIA COVERAGE

CHALKBEAT CHICAGO

Youth-led Chicago Initiative Gets $10 Million Grant to Expand Its Reach

For years, Bezaleia “Bezzy” Reed watched her brother Caleb advocate for racial and social justice issue, his life was cut short when he was shot in July 2020, Bezzy joined Communities United to honor her brother, who had been a youth leader at the grassroots organization. The activism helped her heal from her brother’s death. Now, thanks to a $10 million grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the racial justice organization will be able to help thousands more Black and Latino youth in partnership with the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital.

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Lurie Children’s Hospital and Communities United win $10M to transform mental health for youth of color

Over the past year, Communities United and Lurie Children’s moved through a process of multiple levels of review and feedback involving peer applicants and multi-disciplined experts from across the world to bring their plan to scale with a $1 million grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The duo are now the recipients of $10 million by the foundation to turn their plan to practice. The money will be paid out over eight years to coincide with W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s 100th anniversary in 2030.

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO

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Construction Starts At Albany Park Affordable Housing Development Named For Beloved Northwest Side Organizer

The six-story building, named Maria Elena Sifuentes, will include 50 apartments aimed at helping neighbors who might have been priced out of the neighborhood otherwise due to gentrification.

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