Donors Forum

Donors Forum promotes philanthropy and a strong nonprofit sector in Illinois, and is the premier resource for networking and education, information and knowledge, and leadership on behalf of philanthropy in the state. For more information visit the Donors Forum.

Community Media Workshop (CMW)

Community Media Workshop also continues its mission and reach by providing a range of online blogs and communications platforms for nonprofit communicators and journalists. Journalists looking for more inside resources and story ideas can now subscribe to the Newstips blog as well as from our traditional Newstips.

Community Media Workshop also trains people working on problems to tell their stories to the media, tips sensitive journalists to the importance of these stories, and tries to create better relationships between the media and the diverse communities which make up Chicago and the Midwest.

For more information about the presentations, please visit Community Media Workshop.

Chicago Jobs Council (CJC)

Chicago Jobs Council works with its members to ensure access to employment and career advancement opportunities for people living in poverty. The organization focuses on providing information and assistance in workforce and economic development, education, skills training, job readiness and placement, safety net/work supports, and barriers to employment. To learn more about CJC, please visit Chicago Jobs Council.

Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP)

Metropolitan Chicago will have an additional 2.8 million residents and 1.8 million jobs by 2040, and CMAP is leading the GO TO 2040 planning campaign to develop and implement strategies for addressing this growth’s serious implications on quality of life — including transportation, housing, economic development, open space, the environment, and natural resources. To learn more about CMAP, please visit CMAP.

Chicago Women in Philanthropy

Chicago Women in Philanthropy is a membership organization for professional philanthropic and nonprofit leaders. An advocate promoting programs and influencing issues facing women and girls, CWIP creates public dialogue through relationship building, education and research. Our mission is to increase funding to organizations serving women and girls. To learn more about Chicago Women in Philanthropy, please visit CWIP.

The Lumpkin Foundation

Illinois Resource Net has teamed up with us to host a series of online discussions for nonprofit leaders who are serious about maximizing community impact. To see past discussions and a complete schedule of upcoming ones click here.

The Lumpkin Family Foundation, created in 1953, is a private foundation that provides grants to meritorious nonprofit organizations for the betterment of the community, the nation and the world. We are dedicated to supporting education, preserving and protecting the environment and fostering opportunities for leadership, with special consideration to our heritage in Central Illinois. To learn more about The Lumpkin Foundation, please visit The Lumpkin Foundation.

The Center for Effective Nonprofits (CEN)

The Center for Effective Nonprofits assists, promotes, represents and strengthens community organizations as they improve the quality of life for those they serve. Illinois ResourceNet works with CEN to co-sponsor workshops pertaining to federal funding around the state of Illinois. To learn more about the resources and workshops that CEN offers, please visit The Center for Effective Nonprofits.

Evanston Community Foundation

The Evanston Community Foundation is an organization of neighbors for neighbors. We look at Evanston as a distinctive hub for the North Shore of Chicago.

The foundation is engaged in a long-term major initiative called Communityworks that aims to identify community priorities in the areas of early childhood care and education, workforce training and development, and land use and protection, provide new grant funds in these areas, and evaluate community progress towards objectives. Illinois ResourceNet works with the Foundation to co-sponsor workshops in the area of Evanston. For more information about upcoming workshops and to register click here Workshop brochure 2010-11 or please visit The Evanston Community Foundation.

llinois ResourceNet: A Funding Access Initiative (IRN) held a regional conference at the Ramada Inn, Moline, IL on April 28th, 2011. The event, titled: Collaboration for Collective Impact, focused on collaboration – working locally and countrywide to create functioning networks of community organizations and local units of government that provide services and produce quality grant submissions. It was offered by University of Illinois Extension, Rock Island County with endorsement from the Quad Cities  Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP).