October 15, 2025
Event Recap City Club Chicago: Rethinking How We Measure Impact
At the City Club of Chicago on October 15, leaders from philanthropy, academia, and Chicago's nonprofit community came together for a timely conversation:
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November 7, 2025
Chicago Beyond Releases New Report Showing Holistic Safety Practices Improve Safety in Jails and Prisons
November 7, 2025
At its second National Justice Convening, Chicago Beyond, a national philanthropic organization addressing systemic inequity by backing solutions led by t
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August 26, 2025
Fund for Shared Insight: How Chicago Beyond’s Leader in Residence Model Shifts Power to Community
Fund for Shared Insight recently wrote a new insights piece on Chicago Beyond’s work. Published August 26, 2025 Jeanine Valrie Logan is a busy midwife
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September 9, 2024
NCFP: Using the Mirror Tool to Minimize Unconscious Bias in Grantmaking and Fund Leaders Closest to the Issues
In the first three years of Chicago Beyond's existence, only 14 percent of our multi-year grants were directed toward BIPOC-led organizations and only 4 pe
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June 20, 2024
Hall Pass Break Podcast: Interview with Liz Dozier
Our Founder and CEO Liz Dozier recently spoke with Ms. Mac of Hall Pass Break podcast on June 19, 2024. Together they spoke about Liz’s journey from her
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March 19, 2024
NBA Foundation and Chicago Beyond Launch $1 Million Hyperlocal Initiative to Support Nonprofits Driving Economic Opportunity for Black Youth
The NBA Foundation and Chicago Beyond today announced a new $1 million collaboration to support Black-led nonprofit organizations that are advancing enrich
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December 14, 2023
Decision-Making Tools: Trust-Based Philanthropy Project
Trust-Based Philanthropy Project included our Mirror Tool in their collection of decision-making resources for funders. The Mirror Tool is designed to supp
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October 24, 2023
Slowing Down in Service of Impact
Lever for Change Unconscious bias is a powerful, subtle force shaping our lives, from daily choices to life-changing decisions. It stems from our brain's n
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October 12, 2023
Healing-Centered Funding for Systems Change
The Stanford Social Innovation Review published Chicago Beyond's perspective on how philanthropy can drive effective systems change through Healing-Cente
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September 19, 2023
Chicago Beyond Unveils Commitment to Action to Catalyze $5M Investment in Black Maternal Health Fellows Program at Clinton Global Initiative 2023 Meeting
Today, Chicago Beyond, a philanthropic organization that works to ensure all young people and community members are free to live full lives, unveiled it wi
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December 7, 2022
Chicago Beyond Takes a Community-Led Approach to Youth Equity
Inside Philanthropy – In a series on the many forms of family philanthropy, Inside Philanthropy interviews Liz Dozier about Chicago Beyond’s equitable
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September 16, 2022
What is Trauma-Informed Funding?
In this episode of "It's Not Your Money," Capital Collaborative Senior Advisor Jessamyn Shams-Lau talks with Chicago Beyond's Shruti Jayaraman, to discuss
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August 18, 2022
Chicago Beyond Names Dr. Maurice Swinney Chief Innovation Officer
Chicago Beyond, an impact investor that works to ensure all young people have the opportunity to live a free and full life, today announced that Dr. Mauric
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