CROSSROADS FUND FIRMLY BELIEVES THAT CHANGE IS POSSIBLE WHEN WE POOL OUR RESOURCES

MOVEMENT SUPPORT POOLED FUNDS

Desde nuestra fundación, we have worked with a community of donors and foundation partners to create new models for furthering movements for racial, social, y justicia economica.

If you are interested in supporting one of the funds below or developing a special funding initiative in partnership with Crossroads Fund, please contact Jane Kimondo at at jane@crossroadsfund.org.

Below, please find a list of our current special grant opportunities.

For information about how to apply or if you have any questions, please contact Lizette Garza at lizette@crossroadsfund.org.

WOMEN’S VOICES FUND

The Women’s Voices Fund, a project of Women & Children First Bookstore and a grantee of the Crossroads Fund, raises money to help sustain and develop an ongoing program series focused on women’s lives, ideas, and work. Women & Children First, a unique resource in the Chicago community and the only venue to offer regular programming with such a focus, has provided the sole financial support for this series for over 25 años.

MONICA COSBY FUND

The Monica Cosby Fund is dedicated to supporting women impacted by the carceral state – those in prisons and jails, those leaving incarceration and those navigating the world after incarceration, with a goal of abolishing these systems. The Fund supports organizations working to radically reduce the power of or eradicate institutions, policies and practices that are harmful to communities. The Fund prioritizes mutual aid – communities taking care of each other when institutions fail them – as a direct refutation to the carceral system that is steeped in anti-Blackness and punitive practices. In the words of Monica, “mutual aid is celebratory – a celebration of our collective resistance.”

JAMES THINDWA GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING FUND

The James Thindwa Grassroots Organizing Fund disburses annual grants to organizations or activists who engage the critically important issues that drove and inspired James. Every fall for the duration of the fund, Crossroads Fund hosts a Thindwa Symposium, which allows recent grantees and the donor community, activistas, and intellectuals to delve into the issues and intersections that the grantees’ work embraces.

LISA FITTKO INTERNSHIP

The Lisa Fittko Internship at Crossroads Fund was established by the friends of Lisa Fittko, to honor her legacy as a social justice activist. All her life, on two continents, Lisa advocated and worked for social justice and political rights. From her teenage years until she fled Europe in 1941, Lisa worked to oppose fascism. She and her husband helped to lead people out of Nazi-occupied France into Spain.

The Lisa Fittko Internship is a six month, paid internship for a young activist at Crossroads Fund. Lisa Fittko Interns work for 20 hours a week, participating in fundraising and grantmaking activities as well as an individual project that is unique to the intern.