Deadline: January 11, 2023 – Notice of Funding Opportunity
Apply now for grants to start a Community Healing Resource Center pilot project. Go to icjia.illinois.gov/grants/funding for more information.If you need language assistance services, please email LAPRequests@illinois.gov. ICJIA | (312) 793-8550 | icjia.illinois.gov
January 20, 2022 – PODER HQ Ribbon Cutting
March 13, 2023 – Get Cleared Chicago “Seeking Juveniles Adult Family Members”

Get Cleared Chicago “Background-Friendly Chicago” is seeking juveniles, adult, family members w/arrest/conviction backgrounds. Free City Key I.D. Cards. Free Haircut. Free CPD Rap Sheets and Drug Testing.
CivicLab Releases 2021 TIF Report – Record High Numbers!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE More information: Tom Tresser, 312-804-3230, tom@civiclab.us To donate to CivicLab, a Black-led nonprofit, please click here. December 9, 2022 CHICAGO HAD A RECORD HIGH $2.3 BILLION IN PROPERTY TAXES IN TIF ACCOUNTS ON JANUARY 1, 2022 BLACK WARDS CONTRIBUTE MORE AND GET LESS FROM TIFS THAN WHITE WARDS A review of the […]
BACKGROUND-FRIENDLY CHICAGO…CONNECTS EQUITY TO THE LIVES OF “BLACK AND BROWN” CHICAGO” IMPACTED BY INCARCERATION & IMMIGRANT STATUS!
Background Friendly-Chicago, a new initiative of Get Cleared, Chicago, a justice project launched by the Monroe Foundation in 2018 with PNC Bank, held its pilot justice and resource access equity mobilizing engagement in Chicago’s Englewood community on December 2nd, in collaboration with Action Coalition of Englewood, led by Pastor Christopher Raven.
Donate Today – Help Us Continue Our Work!

Consider a contribution to The Monroe Foundation, fiscal agent for “Get Cleared, Illinois”. Help us with our goal to raise $100,000 to end Recidivism.
December 2, 2022 -Background Friendly Chicago Event
Click The Link To Register:http://bit.ly/getcleared1202THE FIRST 50 REGISTERED AND IN LINE AT 9:30 A.M. GET $10 (CASH)!
December 9, 2022 – A Seasonal Interview “Hiring/Resource Day” For “Rap Sheet Day” Participants
October 28, 2022 – Breakin’ It Down Conference
JOIN US! Join us on Friday, October 28, 2022! The Breakin’ It Down conference will return in person at NEIU’s Jacob H. Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies located at 700 East Oakwood Boulevard in Chicago’s historic Bronzeville neighborhood. Launched in 2003, the Breakin’ It Down conference grew out of a desire to engage diverse nonprofit management and fundraising professionals in conversations […]