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Communities United

Overview
Headquarters: 
Chicago, IL, USA
Size: 
11-50 employees
Founded: 
2000
Annual Budget : 
$1-5M
Populations Served: 
All Populations
About Us
Mission: 

Communities United (CU) is a growing intergenerational grassroots organization that works across communities on issues of education justice, increasing access to affordable and quality healthcare and housing, youth investment, and justice reinvestment. CU’s organizing approach actively engages and develops community and institutional members to advance social, racial, and economic justice. Recently named one of five global awardees of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Racial Equity 2030 Challenge.

Programs: 

Communities United works on various issues such as education justice, increasing access to affordable and quality healthcare and housing, youth investment, and justice reinvestment.

Awards & Accolades: 
Global awardee of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Racial Equity 2030 Challenge
Why Work For Us?: 

As a survivor-led intergenerational racial justice organization, Communities United is committed to working with our communities to amplify the lived experiences of youth and adult leaders to shift public narrative to drive change. Through our Healing Through Justice approach community leaders become active agents of change, and we do this without discrimination based on race, gender, disability, religion, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, or any other status.

industry: 
Nonprofit