2008 Grantees

Crossroads Fund is honored to announce that in 2008 we gave grants to 67 groups. These organizations are using innovative methods to address the root causes of social injustice in Chicago communities. Stay tuned for a more detailed list, including descriptions of their work!

Actor Slash Model project

Affinity Community Services

African Textile Magazine

Anti-Corruption Center

Beyond Today

Beyondmedia Education

Black Men & Black Boys Initiative

Blocks Together

Cabrini Green Chapter of the Hip Hop Congress

Campaign to End the Death Penalty/Death Row Shuffle Tour

Center for Immigrant Resources & Community Arts (CIRCA)

Centro de Trabajadores Unidos: Immigrant Workers Project

Chicago Area Friends of SNCC

Chicago Books to Women in Prison

Chicago County Fair/TAMMS Year Ten

Chicago Girls' Coalition

Chicago Honey Co-op

Chicago Independent Radio Project (CHIRP)

Chicago Interfaith Committee on Worker Issues

Chicago Metropolitan Sanctuary Alliance

Chicago Palestine Film Festival

Chicago Workers Collaborative

Chicagoans Against War and Injustice

Christian Peace Makers

Citizen Advocacy Center

Citizens Alert

Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine (CJPIP)

First Defense Legal Aid

Global Girls

Harold! The Book Project

Illinois Safe Schools Alliance

Immigrant Nation

Kelly High School Students for Social Justice

Korean American Resource and Cultural Center (KRCC)

Lakeview Action Coalition

Latino Union

Little Village Environmental Justice Organization

Metropolitan Area Group for Igniting Civilization (MAGIC)

National Boricua Human Rights Network

NextSteps NFP

Nuestra Voz

Oak Park Coalition for Truth and Justice: Clearwater Project

Project CQY Chicago

Restaurant Opportunities Center of Chicago (ROC-Chicago)

Revolushunary Strippa Musik Mixtape

Rogers Park Young Women’s Action Team

San Lucas Workers Center

Secular Jewish Community and School of Oak Park

SITY Ollin

Son de Las Barricadas: Art and Resistance in Oaxaca, Mexico

Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP)

Southwest Youth Collaborative

Spoke Digital Films

Stillpoint Theater Collective

ThickRoutes Performance Collage

United African Organization

United Taxidrivers Community Council

Warehoused Prisoners: Longterm Prisoner Policy Project

Waukegan Leadership Council

We the People Media

WE-ACTx

West Town Bikes

Wiley Resource Center

Women's Voices Fund

Yellow Wing Productions

Young Women's Empowerment Project

Youth Pride Center
 

Grantees from Previous Years