Here at Crossroads Fund, we love hearing about the campaigns and victories of our grantees, who are working to build racial, social, and economic justice in Chicago. But we realize that those stories don’t always reach a wider audience, outside of the individuals directly involved with the issue. When our grantees do make it into the news, we know that the headlines often do not examine the complexities of the issues or how the real story is unfolding.That’s why we’re excited about our new website and this blog. Over the next year, we’ll use this site as a forum to present interviews and profiles of our grantees and the movements they are a part of. We will tell these stories through video, audio, photos, interviews, and blog posts. We will create a lot of this content ourselves, and we welcome contributions from our grantees, board members, and guest bloggers.And hard as it is to believe, I will be blogging here as well. That’s right, they’ve forced me onto the internets, where I will periodically try not to go on too long about this and that. All I can say is it sure beats handing out five thousand leaflets! So keep your eyes peeled to the website and our Facebook Page, and contact Rachel@crossroadsfund.org if you have an idea or suggestion for the blog.
