OUR 2024 IMPACT SUPPORTER
The Monroe Foundation is a publicly supported not-for-profit community and enterprise development intermediary. We seek to educate, link, and fund community development projects within low-income communities in the State of Illinois.
The foundation supports small business start-ups and financing through lending partnerships. Our current supporters are PNC Bank and Marquette Bank.
We also provide small business development seminars through the small business development “Boot Camp” Program, funded by grants.
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Grassroots Newsletter – The Monroe Foundation “Impact Convening on Re-entry, Justice Reform and Policies” Convenes Unheard “Voices” of Change at the Field Foundation Impact House.
Get Cleared, Illinois, the campaign of the Monroe Foundation that works to “Break the Generational Cycle of Recidivism” through organizing, policy action, and civic engagement, convened representatives of community-based re-entry and reform advocacy groups from throughout Illinois whose voices are often unheard of or not invited to tables of discussions on re-entry actions and reforms.
Grassroots Newsletter – Launches 2024 Engaging In “Fair Chances” and “Philanthropic Investment” In Hope!
The Monroe Foundation, now in its 33rd year, launched in 2024 to transform lives impacted by barriers to employment through the REDI Project (Redevelopment Initiative), a workforce readiness project for the formerly incarcerated by first enabling individuals to obtain their Criminal History Reports or “Rap Sheets” from the Chicago Police, and referring them for sealing/expungement and relief options” for employment and entrepreneurship to Cabrini Green Legal Aid.
Grassroots Newsletter – Fall 2023
Get Cleared, Chicago “Rap Sheet Day” Project Empowers Over 200 Black & Brown Individuals Prepare to Access Justice in 2023 Get Cleared
The Field Foundation of Illinois
The Monroe Foundation welcomes The Field Foundation of Illinois
GET CLEARED, CHICAGO’S” BACKGROUND LICENSING “RAP SHEETDAY” PROJECT RECEIVES SUPPORT FROM CITI TO REMOVEARREST/INCARCERATION BARRIERS TO EMPLOYMENT THROUGH THE REDI PROJECT.
Get Cleared, Chicago, the campaign of the Monroe Foundation to “Break the Generational Cycle of Recidivism”, assisted 30 individuals whose records of a past arrest
THE BLACK STAR PROJECT
TEACHES SAVINGS TO CHILDREN/YOUTH WITH
CASH INTHE PIGGY-BANK “GIVE-AWAY
Youth from the Black Star Project and their families began a journey to developing financial literacy and understanding and savings habits, underwritten by who sponsored the presentation of distinctive Black Star Piggy Banks filled with $25 at the first Black Star Piggy Bank Giveaway