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Marjorie’s steadfast support allows the Foundation to lead the way to in the fight for equal rights and opportunities for women and girls. We are grateful for Marjorie’s lifelong commitment. August is Black Philanthropy Month, a global celebration of African-descent giving and funding equity.
Feb 6, 2010 · Since 1985, Chicago Foundation for Women has invested more than $45 million through over 4,000 grants, annually impacting 226,000 women, girls, trans, and gender nonbinary individuals across the Chicago region, so they are healthy, safe, and economically secure.
Chicago Foundation for Women (CFW) is a nonprofit grantmaking organization that focuses on creating opportunities and resources for women in the Chicago area. Many Chicago based organizations such as South Side Giving Circle and LBTQ Giving Council further help women that face violence, poverty, and discrimination using the resources from CFW. [2]
In 1984, four leaders of Chicago’s philanthropic community – Marjorie Craig Benton, Sunny Fischer, Iris J. Krieg, and Lucia Woods Lindley – launched a series of planning groups that laid the financial and programmatic groundwork for what would become Chicago Foundation for Women.
Aug 18, 2022 · (CHICAGO, August 18, 2022) – A collaborative that includes Chicago’s most notable family foundations and institutional funders awarded millions of dollars in grant funding to organizations that support and build the capacity of local entrepreneurs from historically disadvantaged and underrepresented communities.
Established in 1985 in IL - In 1984, four women leaders in the Chicago philanthropic community with a shared vision (Marjorie Craig Benton, Sunny Fischer, Iris J. Krieg and Lucia Woods Lindley) brought together a number of collaborators into planning groups that laid the financial and programmatic groundwork for Chicago Foundation for Women.
Oct 13, 2022 · Chicago South Side Birth Center is a non-profit startup that will be an independent, Black midwife-led Birth Center located on the South Side of Chicago. based in: Illinois. www.chicagosouthsidebirthcenter.org. a Birth Justice Initiative grantee partner.
