Initiatives that empower workers, businesses and civic leaders to advance our mission
Our Priorities and Goals
The Funder Alliance’s strategic plan sets top-level goals that break down its mission into more specific issues where the Funder Alliance can set clear objectives:
Types of Initiatives We Support
The Funder Alliance supports three types of initiatives to advance its goals and objectives:
Learning Community
The Funder Alliance produces an ongoing series of convenings on a variety of topics within workforce development. Topics include important policy updates, innovative initiatives and research from local partners, key trends in workforce development, and more. Register once to receive invitations to all upcoming Learning Community sessions.
Initiatives We Support
Chicagoland Healthcare Workforce Collaborative
The Chicagoland Healthcare Workforce Collaborative (CHWC) unites employers and industry [...]
Early Childhood Workforce Partnership
A thriving early childhood workforce is needed for children and [...]
Employment Social Enterprises
An Employment Social Enterprise (ESE) is a mission-oriented business that [...]
Pro Path Fund
The Pro Path Fund is a funder collaborative established in [...]
Past Initiatives
Apprenticeship 2020
Apprenticeship 2020 is a new $3.2M fund to accelerate efforts [...]
Calumet Manufacturing Industry Sector Partnership
When the Funder Alliance started in 2012 it inherited an [...]
Chicagoland Equitable Recovery Corps
The COVID-19 crisis has catalyzed an urgent need for large-scale [...]
Financial Services Pipeline
The Financial Services Pipeline (FSP) initiative is a partnership that [...]
Obama Building Equity Fund
In the spring of 2017, the Obama family made [...]
Raise the Floor Alliance
Since 2013, the Funder Alliance has invested in the worker [...]
Reimagine Retail
Reimagine Retail Chicagoland is a collaborative workforce development initiative funded [...]
The Genesis Movement
The Genesis Movement developed from a collaboration between the Funder [...]
Work-Based Learning Information Sessions
The Funder Alliance produces an on-going series of information sessions on a variety of work-based learning programs. The four initial sessions were co-hosted with College and Career Access, Persistence and Success (CCAPS) and included an introduction to our Apprenticeship 2020 fund, Boot Camps 101, Expanding Diversity and Increasing Equity in Trades Apprenticeships and Policies in our local Apprenticeship system.
Expanding Diversity and Equity in Trad Apprenticeship
Apprenticeship 2020 Introduction
Boot Camp 101
Policies in Apprenticeships
