Women's Dignity of Choice
A reentry career-pathways pilot supporting formerly incarcerated women returning to Chicago’s South and West Sides with housing, workforce, childcare, and wraparound support.
Early Investment
Chicago Beyond’s Seeding Fund supports leaders and organizations with their early-stage, current, or emerging work.
These one-time investments are designed to help build, test, and strengthen approaches that are rooted in community and connected to immediate impact. This can include developing capacity, advancing new ideas, expanding existing work, and generating proof points. Seeding Fund investments are between $100,000-$300,000.
Seeding Fund Partners
Kin Support Program Haa Yaitxu Saiani
A culturally based kinship navigator program serving Southeast Alaska kin families outside the foster care system.Learn More
The Marshall Project
A Pulitzer Prize-winning nonprofit newsroom investigating the U.S. criminal justice system through data-driven reporting.Learn More
The RightWay Foundation
A Los Angeles nonprofit supporting transition-age foster youth access mental health services, housing, employment and more.Learn More
Chloé & Maud Foundation
Expanding access to educational programming for young people around the globe in the fields of dance, entrepreneurship, and innovation.Learn More
Foster Care Unplugged
A trauma-informed program that helps young people with foster-care or child-welfare experience heal, build skills, and tell their stories through arts-based programming.Learn More
Foster Nation
A national nonprofit supporting young adults after foster care through mentorship, community connection, and essential resources for self-sufficiency.Learn More
Keiki O Ka ʻĀina
A Hawaii-based nonprofit that provides early childhood support programs, including targeted services for children of incarcerated parents to help maintain stability, connection, and healthy development.Learn More
National Network for Fostering Sibling Connection
A national network advocating to protect sibling relationships for children and youth in foster care through legal protections, training, and systems change.Learn More
Neighborhood Wellness Foundation
A Sacramento-based organization addressing intergenerational trauma and inequities through social, economic, academic, and health supports.Learn More
Alaska Native Birthworkers Community
An Indigenous birthworker network providing free culturally matched pregnancy, birth, and postpartum support for Native families in Alaska.Learn More
birthFUND
A Los Angeles-based maternal health fund expanding access to holistic perinatal and midwifery care through need-based grants and community funding circles.Learn More
