Advancing Racial Equity In Philanthropy, Non-Profit, and Fundraising
Advancing Racial Equity In Philanthropy, Non-Profit, and Fundraising
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For twenty years, the Breakin’ It Down conference has been met with success and has attracted nearly 3,600 participants. The BID conference engages diverse nonprofit and fundraising professionals and volunteers in empowering conversations about the present state and future of the nonprofit, philanthropic, and fundraising sector and its impact on under-recognized, under-represented and underserved communities in the Chicago area. Since 2003, it has been at the forefront of empowering discourse, mobilizing, and information-sharing with a racial equity lens. It brings together seasoned and emerging nonprofit professionals and administrators, academics, community activists, students, and other stakeholders who serve under-represented and underserved communities, with experts and distinguished philanthropic, nonprofit, and community leaders for a day of speakers, plenary panels, workshops, and professional speed networking with funders.
This important event uses an interactive agenda that focuses on key challenges in the field, recognizing and encouraging professional excellence, promoting professional opportunity through equitable access, networking and collaboration, and exploring best practices and different sustainability strategies. Participants leave with an increased understanding of a substantive range of pertinent issues and an increased ability to be agents of change in our field.
The Breakin' It Down conference will take place on Friday, October 25, 2024. This year, the conference theme is "Rooted in Purpose."
BID offers flexible sponsorship and partnership options to align with your objectives. We can tailor a package according to your needs and budget.
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Breakin' It Down Planning Committee
PRE-CONFERENCE
ZOOM: Preparing for Speed Networking With Funders
10/16 and 10/17
Registration
Tea, Coffee, and Morning Breads on Arrival
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Lobby
Welcome
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM
Welcome and Introductions
Opening Remarks
Auditorium
Plenary: A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE FEARLESS FUND
9:30 AM - 10:40 AM
Auditorium
Break
10:40 AM - 10:50 AM
Workshop Sessions (Concurrent)
10:50 AM - 12:00 PM
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Lunch and Breakin' It Down Awards Ceremony
12: 15 PM - 1:45 PM
Halls B & C
Break
1:45 PM -2:00 PM
Speed Networking With Funders
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Opening Remarks
Closing Remarks
*Please note that agenda and schedule are subject to change.
Each year the Breakin' It Down Annual Conference Committee brings individuals to our conference who focus on areas of nonprofit, philanthropy, and fundraising. We are very pleased for 2024 to present our participants with distinguished industry and community leaders.
Noor Jones-Bey , PhD
Director of National Resource Center
Mujeres Latinas en Accion
Noor Jones-Bey is a transdisciplinary educator, researcher and artist from the Bay Area, CA with over fifteen of experience working within the field of education. As a scholar and practitioner deeply interested in the liminal spaces between theory and practice, Noor has extensive experience designing humanizing programming and curriculum that is responsive and relevant to global and local communities. Noor currently serves as an equity and design consultant, providing technical assistance to a variety of professionals, organizations, and universities nationwide. Noor earned her Ph.D. in Urban Education and her M.A. in Sociology of Education from New York University and her B.A. in American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Noor’s interests range across disciplines from sociology, education, Black and Native studies, and visual culture to examine issues of liminality, identity, space and power as they relate to education. Her dissertation work examines intergenerational knowledge of Black womxn and girls navigating in and out of schools. In her spare time, she loves to cook, dance, run marathons, travel, and stir up good vibes
Networking skills have never been more crucial to ensure success for nonprofit fund development professionals, including those serving traditionally under-represented and underserved communities. At the Speed Networking with Funders, take advantage of the opportunity to meet philanthropic leaders for approximately 20 minutes and learn about the foundation's funding priorities, parameters and grant application review process, and then move on to connect with the next philanthropic leader. There will be three "meet and greet" rounds formatted in a small group setting. We encourage participants to prepare two to three questions they would like to ask and bring with them to the session. Nonprofit and fundraising professionals of all backgrounds are encouraged to attend the 2024 BID event!
The "Speed Networking with Funders" has been an overwhelmingly popular element at our BID events featuring area funders, which enable an introduction quick enough for participants to meet philanthropic leaders, but long enough for each session to be valuable. In order to achieve this meaningful goal, the BID Conference has a Non-Solicitation Policy.
Chicago Foundation for Women invests in women and girls as catalysts, building strong communities for all. Since 1985, Chicago Foundation for Women (CFW) has been a leader in the movement to achieve basic rights and equal opportunities, investing in women and girls as catalysts building stronger communities for all. Today, more than 37 years later, CFW continues to be the only organization in the region to take a comprehensive approach to understand and address the issues impacting Chicago-area women and girls. CFW works with a community of socially-minded investors who share our passion for improving the lives of women and girls, ensuring that every dollar they give achieves maximum impact. Thanks to these partners, CFW invests in the future of emerging organizations through leadership development and support in building sustainable nonprofit infrastructure. As a result, two-thirds of nonprofits for which CFW was the first institutional or ‘seed’ funder are still thriving 10 years after receiving their first CFW grant.
Focus Areas: Expanding Economic Security, Ensuring Freedom from Violence, and Enhancing Access to Health Services
Types of Support: General Operating, Capacity-Building, Project
Chicago Funders Together to End Homelessness
Chicago Funders Together to End Homelessness is a collaborative of more than 40 philanthropic partners learning and aligning resources around a shared strategy to prevent and end homelessness. Through its grantmaking efforts and convening power, CFTEH promotes equitable housing policy, aligns public and private sector resources, and shifts power to communities most impacted by homelessness.
Focus Areas: Preventing and Ending Homelessness
Types of Support: General Operating, Multi-Year
The Christopher Family Foundation supports nonprofit organizations whose work helps strengthen and sustain strong families and communities. Most organizations we support are in Chicago, with particular emphasis on the Austin neighborhood.
Focus Areas: Education, Employment, Entrepreneurship, and Food Security
Types of Support: Projects, General Operating, Multi-Year, Capacity-Building
Circle of Service Foundation is a private foundation that makes grants to support great organizations to enhance community, opportunity and well-being.
Focus Areas: Community Services, Education, Jewish Community, Medical Research, Violence Reduction, Skilled Construction Trades
Types of Support: General Operting, Multi-Year, Capacity-Building, Project
Conant Family Foundation seeks to shift family philanthropy toward equitable grantmaking, with funding decisions informed and made by those directly impacted.
Focus Areas: Abortion Access, Community Organizing for Racial Justice, and Urban Environmental Justice
Types of Support: Projects, General Operating, and (limited) Capacity-Building
The Lohengrin Foundation is a Chicago-based family foundation established in 1963. While the organizations supported by the Foundation have evolved over the years, the constant has been to invest in programs and initiatives dedicated to advancing racial, social, and economic justice, as well as the arts, education, and human rights in Chicago and around the globe. The Lohengrin Foundation’s mission is to advance equity, opportunity, and justice to eradicate systemic barriers and promote vibrant, safe, and thriving communities. We partner with and invest in organizations that guide transformational programs, advocacy, and policy initiatives to drive social impact and systems change.
Focus Areas: Education Equity (Leadership and Learning, Arts Education, and Educational Opportunity) and Social Justice (Movement Building and Systems Change, Immigrant, Refugee, and Migrant Justice, and Safety and Justice)
Types of Support: General Operating, Multi-Year, Capacity-Building, Project
The Mayer and Morris Kaplan Family Foundation
The Mayer and Morris Kaplan Family Foundation is a multi-generational family foundation inspired by a tradition of Tzedakah, lifelong learning, and a commitment to social justice. We are dedicated to advancing educational opportunities for young people and promoting the sustainability of our natural environment. We focus our efforts in Chicago and in communities in which family members live. Through family engagement and a commitment to lifelong learning, the Foundation strives to improve under-resourced communities by focusing on issues of social justice. Utilizing a rigorous, compassionate, and innovative approach, we endeavor to strengthen our own family as well as families in our communities. Education: We are interested in increasing postsecondary opportunities and life success for first-generation students of color from low-income communities. This includes readiness for and access to college and other postsecondary pathways that lead to a quality career. Environment: We are interested in halting climate change in order to safeguard the health of people, places and the planet. Growing research, smart policy, strategic legal interventions, and bold innovations in education and science offer promise for strong and effective action.
Focus Areas: Education and Environment
Types of Support: General Operating
Polk Bros. Foundation is a private independent foundation dedicated to building and strengthening Chicago's families and communities, especially those most affected by poverty and inequity. The Foundation focuses its work at the intersection of Chicago's most pressing issues to address the complex roots and devastating effects of poverty, challenge inequity, and ensure that all Chicagoans have the opportunity to reach their full potential. Since its founding in 1988, the Foundation has partnered with more than 3,000 Chicago nonprofits to build strong communities and families, increase access to quality education and the arts, improve health, and strengthen organizations and the sectors in which they work. Polk Bros. Foundation is one of the largest funders of Chicago nonprofits, granting more than $25 million to nearly 400 nonprofit partners every year, and managing assets greater than $400 million.
Focus Areas: Strong Communities, Strong Families, Education, Health, Arts Access and Learning, Enhanced Capacity
Types of Support: General Operting, Multi-Year, Capacity-Building, Project, Project
The Wieboldt Foundation was founded in 1921 by William A. and Anna K. Wieboldt with the hope that its grants would support “charities designed to put an end to the need for charity.” Today, the directors of the foundation remain committed to preserving the founders’ charge; which is now reflected in grantmaking and investments intended to empower local neighborhood residents. The central purpose and direction of the foundation is reflected in the following value statement: “Our recognition of community organizing or community action as the foundation’s prime concern is promoted by our conviction that a sense of powerlessness and the apathy and alienation bred of this sense are at the root of many of the ills of our time. We believe that funding those efforts that give people hope that they can exercise a degree of control over their lives and that involve them working together toward jointly defined ends is an important contribution to the resolution of social ills.”
Focus Areas: Community Organization
Types of Support: General Operating
Woods Fund Chicago is a grantmaking foundation committed to the promotion of social, economic, and racial justice through the support of community organizing and public policy advocacy that engages people that are most impacted.
Focus Areas: Community Organizing and Public Policy Advocacy
Types of Support: General Operating, Multi-Year, Capacity-Building
*Participating Foundation list is subject to change without notice.
Lee Ann Eiland, Chair
Juan Calixto
Elaine Lehman
Deanna Phillips
Carlil Pittman
Amira Turner
Athena Williams
Rhea Yap
EMERITUS
Deborah Clark
EX-OFFICIO
Luana Davila
Gil Zamora
VOLUNTEERS
Ashley Mitchell
Richard Tran
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