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Since 2014, Crossroads Fund’s Giving Projects have raised more than $500,000 from over 1,000 donors.

THE 2022 GIVING PROJECT COHORT IS COMMITTING TO RAISE $100,000!

Crossroads Fund is so excited to announce our 2022 Giving Project cohort – a multi-racial, cross-class, intersectional group of 10 people who have committed to fundraise $100,000 to fund movement work in Chicago.

Over the course of six months, this group will have deep personal conversations on race and class, make a monetary donation that is significant to them, fundraise their network through a process of “donor organizing,” and practice participatory grantmaking supporting strategic, necessary, and underfunded social justice organizing work around the city. Since 2014, Crossroads Fund’s Giving Projects have raised more than $871k from 1,697 donors.

Meet the 2022 Giving Project Members

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Past Giving Project Cohorts

Meet our past Giving Project cohorts and see how much they’ve raised in the past years.

Past Cohorts

2021 Giving Project Members

Brock Grenn

Brock Grenn

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Hi! My name is Brock. I’m from Virginia and moved to Chicago about 8 years ago. My life is rooted in abolition, and what we can imagine for ourselves and the earth, and doing this collectively to build a different world. I’m a social worker, community organizer, grassroots fundraiser, cat parent, huge Leo, avid birder. My loved ones who are incarcerated are a massive part of my life, and I am deeply grateful for the communities I exist in fighting for the other world that is possible.

Cat Greim

Cat Greim

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Cat grew up outside of Pittsburgh and has called Chicago home for more than 15 years. They value curiosity, deep listening, and collective work toward a better world. They joined the Giving Project because they’re excited about building community and bringing people into the movement to fund grassroots social justice organizations. Cat works in government technology, helping people access public benefits by building services that are easy to use. They like to spend their time cooking for friends, taking long bike rides, enjoying music, and soaking up every second of summer in Chicago.

Emily Isaacson

Emily Isaacson

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Emily Isaacson, from the Chicago area, got their start organizing as a teenager and has been organizing for over 10 years in various climate justice, electoral, economic justice, youth, and Jewish organizing spaces. For the past three years they’ve been throwing down to win a Green New Deal with the Sunrise Movement. In their free time Emily loves to sing, spend time by the lake (when weather allows), ride their bike, and listen to audiobooks!

Gordon Mayer

Gordon Mayer

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Gordon Mayer works as a writer and storyteller who has been ensuring all stakeholders have a voice in shaping effective and fair policy for more than 20 years. He joined the Giving Project to help support emerging social-justice and arts organizations. He hopes to take lessons he learns from the project in his work with advocacy, human-services and other mission driven groups in Chicago and beyond. Gordon has been a Chicagoan for more than 25 years but admits he used to be from a New York City suburb. Gordon also serves on the board of Hothouse. He lives with his family in Hyde Park.

Harleen Singh

Harleen Singh

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Harleen is the daughter of South Asian immigrants and was born and raised in the suburbs of Illinois. She has over 10 years of experience as an accountant in the private sector, and recently more than 7 years as the Senior Corporate Relations & Events Officer at the Shriver Center on Poverty Law. From a young age, philanthropy and being of service to others has been instilled in her. She stepped into her current role at a crossroads in her career as she was seeking a more purposeful career trajectory and commitment to the greater good.

Megan Moran

Megan Moran

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Originally from the Seattle-area, Megan moved to Chicago nearly 8 years ago to work at the AIDS Foundation of Chicago as a member of the Lutheran Volunteer Corps. Since that formative first year in Chicago, Megan has continued movement work for social justice on a grassroots level, advocating for affordable housing initiatives on the Northwest Side, helping progressive candidates get elected, and organizing in progressive faith-based communities with St. Luke’s Lutheran Church of Logan Square. In her professional life as an arts administrator, she is the Manager of Marketing & Communications at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and previously spent 6 years working in Museum Education & Public Programming. Megan will whole-heartedly nerd out with anyone about plants, baking, cooking, reality TV, sci-fi, or whatever you’re reading/listening to right now. She is excited to be part of the Giving Project this year to make new connections across organizing efforts in Chicago and within the cohort!

Morgan Malatesta

Morgan Malatesta

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Morgan loves to learn and actively seeks collaborative spaces where she can challenge herself & put her values into practice. She is excited to be a part of this Giving Project cohort to be in community with others and fundraise for all of the amazing grassroots, social justice-oriented work going on in Chicago. Morgan currently works for a college-access non profit in the Chicago suburbs and plans to pursue a Master in Social Work at University of Illinois Chicago in the fall. In her free time, you can find her reading, exercising, learning Spanish, and watching reality TV.

Nancy Garcia

Nancy Garcia

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Nancy is the daughter of Mexican immigrants and has been a lifelong resident of Chicago. Growing up in West Humboldt Park, she learned the importance of mutual aid and has since been passionate about using fundraising as a vehicle to redistribute resources and ensuring that BIPOC communities have a voice in philanthropy. She is excited to be a part of the Giving Project and learn more about movement building in Chicago. In her free time, Nancy enjoys reading, listening to true-crime podcasts, and watching horror movies.

Tara Ebrahimi

Tara Ebrahimi

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Tara Ebrahimi has worked in the nonprofit space for more than 10 years, with a focus on grant writing and fundraising. While critical of traditional fundraising structures, Tara believes in the power of the collective to make change—especially at the hyperlocal level. Tara is passionate about mental health and opportunities for individuals with developmental disabilities. Her article A Sister’s Comfort, if Not a Cure, which explores how her brother’s mental illness impacts her Iranian-immigrant family, was published in The New York Times in December 2012 and featured in theTimes’ Modern Love Podcast in March 2019.

Tia Rashke

Tia Rashke

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Tia Rashke is a proud Wisconsinite who is grateful to call Chicago her home for the past three years. Before joining Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors as an Advisory Associate in fall 2021, Tia spent a year living and volunteering in the context of Amate House, “a young-adult service and leadership development program grounded in social justice, faith, and community.” Her experience working for a food pantry, a soup kitchen, an ESL program, and a public policy office now informs her work in philanthropic consulting. Tia is especially passionate about supporting consensus-building, social-emotional health, and restorative justice efforts, as well as any chance to blend her studies in theology and mathematics. She is an avid podcast-listener and nature-lover.

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